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Summary: buck rogers a great show but has pronlems
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i bought buck rogers and i went thru 4 box sets
and discs 4 and 5 wont play at all
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Summary: Been wait'n a long time for this...
Review: Any Buck Rogers released on DVD Period is good enough but the entire series! Aw-SUM! The first season is packed with guest stars, but don't let others tell you not to watch the second, it is also good and a tad more believeable. This is a blast! I watched as a kid and enjoy it just as much now.(The DVD version) Every episode is uncut, unlike the malicious sci-fi channel version which was mutalated by idiots for air time of thier lame Farscape, and SG1 trailers.(I'll never watch sci-fi channel again!)
If any series needed a DVD release it is this one and unlike the VHS versions which released shows idividually and NONE from the second season, this one has everything except maybe the Pilot TV release but everything else is as it was shown in 1979-81. I really think the Pilot should have been added but I'm still giving it a high fiver!
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Summary: Good 80's Sci Fi TV Entry
Review: Buck Rogers is a Glen Larsen production made after Battlestar Galactica, and in many ways has that similar late-70's post-Star Wars feel to it. Unfortunately, the special effects were not quite up to the same spectacular level as seen on Galactica.Buck Rogers is fun sci fi. Buck is a late 80's kind of guy who's space shuttle was frozen in an accident. Revived, he is now in a post-hollocaust future where nobody trusts him. So Buck sets out to re-introduce disco to these backwards, stuffy inhabitants of future earth. Well, sort of... The theme song for the feature-length movie is fabulous, although the opening credits are a bit odd for a sci fi show (a bunch of disco gals (and Erin Gray) sprawling all over the name "Buck Rogers" and going in for passionate kisses with a semi-conscious Gil Gerard), and it sometimes leaves me wondering who came up with that idea. A shortened, instrumental version of the music was used in subsequent episodes, but I absolutely love the original... "Far beyond this world I've known, far beyond this time..." Great stuff! Quite simply, this is a must have for sci fi fans who like to have fun while they watch (in other words, if you live and breathe dark sci fi like the X-Files and such, this probably is not for you). Other great sci fi shows from this era included the above mentioned Battlestar Galactica (excellent!), Space: 1999 (a curiosity, to say the least), the Black Hole (Disney's attempt to cash in on Star Wars, but more like a throwback to Forbidden Planet. Very uneven. Hard to hate, hard to like), and the often-overlooked movie The Shape of Things to Come (recently released on DVD, this is a very mixed bag. Sometimes feels like Logan's Run, sometimes feels like over-discoed Buck Rogers. Throw in some campy robots and some questionable acting, and you'll know why this one disappeared at the box office. Still, I kind of like it...)
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Summary: classic sci-fi fun
Review: Buck Rogers was a great TV show, especially the first season. It's too bad it took so long to come out on DVD. Technically, there's nothing special about this release - no surround sound and no extras to speak of - all that's there is an episode index with a short summary and the original air date. But this DVD set does include every episode of Buck Rogers ever made. The first season was something special. Some of the episodes were pretty weak plot-wise, but they were generally optimistic (many episodes end with a shot of Buck smiling after another successful mission) and contained pretty consistent tongue-in-cheek humor. Some of them probe Buck's character in how he personally struggles with being a displaced time traveller, but for the most part this is simply sci-fi action entertainment. The first season has a kind of secret-agent-of-the-future setup with Buck serving in the Earth Defense Directorate. His cohorts, played by Tim O'Connor (who Buck casually refers to as "Doc") and Erin Gray (who plays Wilma), are effective companions, but it's often Buck's robot Twiki who comes close to stealing the show. The first season routinely featured space combat, with Buck showing off his 20th century dogfighting skills in his 25th century starfighter. The second season took a different approach, placing Buck on the Searcher, an exploratory vessel that searches the universe for new and/or lost races. So those episodes come across more like Star Trek: The Next Generation than they do the original season of Buck Rogers. The Tim O'Connor character is gone, and the primary new addition is the Hawk. Twiki is still there, but it seems like the real Twiki only for the last half of the second season because of the voice. Twiki's personality seems so connected with the voice of Mel Blanc (of Looney Tunes cartoons fame) by the end of the first season that it doesn't even come across as the same robot when the voice is different in the first half of the second season. The producers apparently realized that, as Twiki played a very minor role during that span. Many of the second season plots were weak - the Searcher premise just didn't work as well as the Earth Defense Directorate one from the original season. That probably helps explain why there wasn't a third season of Buck Rogers sometime after the last episode, which aired in April 1981. And that's too bad, because Buck Rogers had some classic episodes and a nice sci-fi chemistry in the first season, but fortunately it's available now on DVD to relive or to discover for the first time.
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Summary: A Must See for any SciFi Fan
Review: For the present-day SciFi fan who is used to huge explosions, amazing visual effects, and all those modern conveniences, this movie may be a little slow. But for a fan like me, who grew up on the old films of yester-year, it will be an amazing tale, and well worth your time and money. Anyone who had the extreme pleasure of watching the old TV series will enjoy seeing their favorite actors and villains when they were first introduced. Buck, played by Gil Gerard, is the hunky astronaut from 1987 who is mysteriously frozen, and awakens in the 25th Century. Erin Gray is the gorgeous Wilma, who we may all remember running around in high heels and midrif outfits, while carrying a blazing laser gun. Here, we see Buck's attempts to deal with the loss of everything he knew, and being introduced into the future, where he is still the best pilot around. We get an interesting view into what Earth looks like outside the sanitized buildings of New Chicago. It's truly a good introduction into the struggles Earth is dealing with in future episodes. I will make one concession. The visual effects are just terrible. Watching this film with my youngest sister, we just began to laugh at the tractor beams, close-up shots of ships, and explosions. Definitely not made today. But for the time this was made it's pretty good. And perhaps simply because of the enjoyment it brought so many of us, you can definitely overlook some of the lesser qualities of the film.
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Summary: Great blast from the past
Review: I used to love this show when i was a kid. Now I own it and love it. I gave it four stars because the dvd set has no extras which is really a shame it could have been perfect with a commentary from Gil Gerard or Erin Gray or some behind the scenes footage, something extra.
If you are a fan of sci fi or just like old tv shows then this set is for you.
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Summary: Buck at its Best
Review: I used to watch this show on Thursday nights when I was growing up. It was, and still is a good show. The special effects are good even by today's standards. Universal did a nice job in restoring the audio and video. I have the movie version (included with this set) on VHS and the DVD version is much better.
The second season was too much like "Star Trek", but I liked the additions of Hawk and Dr. Goodfellow.
All the episodes are unedited and there is the same episode guide on every disc showing which episodes are on which disc.
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Summary: My youth has been restored
Review: I was 13 years old when Buck Rogers in The 25th Century hit the theaters in April 79, then on Showtime in July 79 and I was shocked when it hit NBC on Thursday Sept 20, 1979 at 8:00PM I am a fan of sci-fi that has a lot of dog fighting with starfighters and laser guns. We can thank George Lucas for setting the standard with STAR WARS. If it were not for him, there would not be movies and shows like, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, V, Space Above & Beyond, Babylon5, Independence Day, Battle Beyond The Stars, Star Crash, Message From Space, etc. NEED I GO ON? Anyway Buck rogers have bee one of my favorites snice I was a kid and stll is to this day. All I can say that it is about time that it came to DVD. My only disappointment was that the DVD set did not come with the TV version of the movie which had the extra scenes. I would suggest that Universal would re-release the DVD set again with the TV version on it and the theatrical version on a stand alone DVD just like you did with Battlestar Galactica also it would be nice if the DVD set had Special Features of interviews with the cast and crew about how the show has affected their lives.
BOTTOM LINE BUCK ROGERS ROCKS IN MY BOOK
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Summary: Another Awesome Sci-Fi Series comes to DVD!!
Review: I watched "Buck Rogers" as a kid in the 70's and being able to see them again uncut and in broadcast order as when they first aired on NBC is a treat!!! I am only midway through the first year and everything has been great thus far!!
This show really brings back a lot of great memories for me as well.
A great show for any science fiction fans out there. I highly recommend!
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Summary: Buck is Best! Gil is Great!
Review: If you are one of those who takes movies (and anything else) too seriously; one who can't simply enjoy something for what it is - entertainment, then you won't like this movie. If you can "let your hair down," "lighten up" and have a good time while simply enjoying a movie for what it is - entertainment, then you will like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. This was the pilot for the excellent and fun Buck Rogers TV series and was also shown theatrically. How anyone could not like Gil Gerard is beyond me. After buying and watching this movie again, I can not understand why it was not more of a "hit," why Gil did not become more famous and why we did not seem him in many more movies after Buck Rogers. The man had great charisma on screen. Personally, I find Buck Rogers to be every bit as entertaining as all of the Star Wars movies - perhaps because they did not take themselves so seriously with Buck Rogers. It was meant to be fun. I see Buck Rogers as "James Bond Goes To Space." Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers is sly, witty, charming and every bit as talented and handsome as Harrison Ford in the Star Wars movies. Gil Gerard should have been a bigger star. He was incredible and Buck Rogers was meant to be fun - which it was. So, if you want to go back into time (or ahead to the 25th century), do yourself a favor and buy this video (as well as other Buck Rogers videos available via Amazon.com) and enjoy a guilty pleasure. If you are already a Gil Gerard fan or Buck Rogers fan, what are you waiting for? This movie and the other Buck Rogers videos are a treasure in my collection.
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