Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 2 seasons · 37 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-14
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- space battle
- future
- time travel
- extraterrestrial
- robot
- alien invasion
- space opera
- starfighter
- planetary romance
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Thom Christopher
- Mel Blanc
- Eric Server
- Jay Garner
- Felix Silla
- Macdonald Carey
- Sam Jaffe
- Michael Stroka
- Lance LeGault
- David S. Cass Sr.
- William Sylvester
- Directed
- Michael Caffey, Barry Crane, Victor French, Dick Lowry, David G. Phinney, Sigmund Neufeld Jr. & 11 more
- Created
- Glen A. Larson, Leslie Stevens
- Written
- Bruce Lansbury, Norman Hudis, David Chomsky, Chris Bunch, Anne Collins, Alan Brennert & 25 more
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 143 ratings
- Network & studio
- NBC, Universal Television, Glen A. Larson Productions, Bruce Lansbury Productions, John Mantley Productions
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