Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Yes

Was very very hot

First crush.

It was the future, as imagined in the disco era of the 1970s.

Princess Ardala was fierce!

He was so cute. Luckily he and Connie Selleca spawned.

R5- She kind of looks like a DOLLED UP version of Mary Ellen from The Waltons

Ardala was super campy and sexy.

Hmph. The series was hit-and-miss, mostly miss. To me, the only worthwhile episodes were 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧, with Jamie Lee Curtis, and 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐀 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐏𝐭𝐬 𝟏&𝟐, with Frank Gorshin. But best of all was 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞!

If you never saw another episode of 'Buck Rogers,' that was the one to see!

Loved it as a child but it's largely unwatchable now. Boringly plotted, generic espionage plots, reused effects. Princess Ardala was fabulous though.

Correction to R9 - 'The Plot To Kill A City,' not 'destroy.'

The original series from 1938 started airing last Saturday on TCM will the incredibly hot Buster Crabbe.

Oops

I remember when Wilma was sexually attacked by dwarves.

Carlo Hesser as a human-hawk hybrid gave me some feelings.

I had a crush on Gil Gerard.

The son is gorgeous. Those eyes!

The opening and the closing music were the best part of the show. It was a crappy show in 1980 even to my 14 year old self.

Battle Star Galactica (1978) which premiered a year earlier had a late 1970's disco-ish aesthetic to it but was still a better show than Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.

Biddi-biddi-biddi

Thirsty-ass whores

Gil Gerard had a paunch on him from the beginning. He was fitted with restraining under garments to hold in his gut. Puny arms also.

It's funny what passed for "hot" in those days. Lee Majors, Gil Gerard, Burt Reynolds and other out of shape men with beer bellies and double chins who looked perpetually hungover. But they were hunky sex symbols back then.

Yes, early crush of mine. Very sexy guy. A lot of his Buck Rogers costumes, wow! really close fitting, hugging his big, sexy ass. Not to mention his balls. Surprised he didn't have a Tom Selleck size career. Anyway, gorgeous guy.

Pamela Hensley was gorgeous. After Buck Rogers she co-starred on Matt Houston, then retired from acting and disappeared.

The boyfriend and I rewatched these over the past year on Tubi. Fun to watch if you don't take them seriously. They never really explained why they shifted the action from Earth to a space ship and dumped two of main characters. I never thought Hawk added much to the series.

Twiki the penis headed robot was a little much.

[quote]Pamela Hensley was gorgeous. After Buck Rogers she co-starred on Matt Houston, then retired from acting and disappeared.

She married super-producer E. Duke Vincent.

No need to work when you are rolling in Spelling type dough.

Just ask Candy.

Twiki was a little twink whore. Biddi, biddi, biddi indeed.

R21- They were all very MANLY and had natural manly bods but I would not say that someone like Lee Majors or Gil Gerard were overweight at all

In this photo Lee Majors has big bones but he has a totally flat stomach.

Gil Gerard was later in a short-lived sitcom called Sidekicks. He played a cop teamed up with a young, Asian, karate kid. At age 13ish, I loved it (and I loved Gil). 🍆💦💦💦

I loved him all over again when he posted a few years ago that he wouldn't eat at Chick-fil-A because of their anti-gay stance.

Gil looked like a big fat old man a few yrs ago

Gil was so sexy.

The double episode with Julie Newmar was my fave. When she screamed as she burnt to death I got a massive thrill. I'd impatiently wait for that moment in reruns.

The closing was nice.

I liked the opening and closing themes also.

I watched the movie/pilot in the theater and the theme song at the beginning was the best part, if you ignore the nasty women rolling around.

Lol R36, there were so many things wrong with that trailer.

The rocket they showed launching, didn't look anything like the ship that Buck Rogers was in.

And after 500 years being frozen, his bodily functions would have ceased to function in that severe cold. And he still would have aged, so he would have been DEAD in space.

But, um... okay. Whatever.

God how I miss the 70s and 80s. Great time to be a kid.

I much preferred the porno movie "Fuck Rogers."

R38- The late 1970's was the last moment in time when the USA was truly WEALTHY. Our manufacturing began to fall apart beginning in 1980 and with it our high standard of living.

R40 is a riot at parties. ("Bring the realist!")

I was too old to be watching it, but I never missed an episode because I had a strong need to see Gil Gerard.

R41- You're a regular RIOT Alice!

Buck Rogers is one of those shows you liked as a kid but it's unwatchable when you're an adult. Really, really bad show.

Buck gets his pecs out.

Tubi has taught me that many of the programs five -year -old me enjoyed were terrible. I have fond memories of enjoying Buck Rogers (as well as The Greatest American Hero, among others) yet I was only able to get through the pilot before giving up.

Erin Gray and Connie Sellecca were still gorgeous, yet their beauty was not enough to keep me watching that dreck.

In other news, I can watch old Columbo episodes over and over and over again....

With the huge and unexpected success of Star Wars, everybody else in Hollywood wanted to cash in so sci-fi projects were hastily greenlit, and most of them were pretty bad and borrowed heavily from Star Wars. George Lucas actually sued the makers of Battlestar Galactica for ripping off several elements of SW, and Buck Rogers also ripped off SW, i.e. that stupid robot that looked like a big silver penis.

It's funny what passed for "hot" in those days. Lee Majors, Gil Gerard, Burt Reynolds and other out of shape men with beer bellies and double chins who looked perpetually hungover. But they were hunky sex symbols back then.” R 21

Yep agreed . The guys then looked real. Now they look like Ken dolls. Know which ones I prefer

They looked like real out of shape slobs.

There was nothing "out of shape" about Gil Gerard back in the day. He had the body of a real man. A real sexy man.

But, time is such a cruel bitch.

Gil Gerard had a total dad bod, thick and flabby.

Met Gil back in the late 90s at those comic shows they used to do at the Shrine every month or so.

Really nice guy. Very unassuming. He wasn't getting much business so I chatted him up awhile and told him as a kid I loved the show (yep...my fave was the Space Vampire to which he replied, "Mine, too"). Said he adored Wilma and the rest of the cast...especially guest stars Pamela, Julie Newmar, Dorothy Stratten...but Gary Coleman was "a little asshole." I asked about Sidekicks since I loved that one too and he said it was fun and a nice paycheck but never expected it to last since it was a "Karate Kid rip-off." But he fondly remembered the kid, Ernie.

R50- He's turned into an out of shape OLD MAN

just what ALL gay men fear

I loved the episode where Dorothy Stratton was terrorised on a cruise ship by a bipolar lesbian.

Dorothy was so excited to have a speaking role on a network show, she had a party the night it aired, but was quickly humiliated when her scenes began, and her voice had been dubbed by someone else. Poor girl.

Was she dubbed? i never knew that.

Do I remember right that Miss Betty Buckley and Gil had a fling?

R57- Miss Betty Buckley is STRICTLY a Carpet Muncher.

R58 = Sally Field

Did Betty munch Sally's field?

No one's sexier than Duck Dodgers.

Dorothy's voice was dubbed by Anne Lockhart who was Sheba in Battlestar Galactica.

That is one of those old series you liked when you were young, but once your reached a certain age and were far more discerning you feel sad for the actors who were forced to work in such schlock. But for the money most of those people probably drove home from the set every day thinking "I'll never be taken seriously as an actor if I keep doing crap like this".