Buck Rogers in the 25th Century The Complete Series

After hearing that Gil Gerard had passed away, I got to thinking about those series I loved to watch as a youngster and Buck Rogers was one of them. I actually had a heavily edited version of the pilot episode on Super 8mm film, but I couldn't resist getting this box set and ,although I haven't watched it all yet, how the memories come flooding back. The picture quality is great and it was obvious, that, like Battlestar Galactica, a lot of money was spent on production of this series, as the sets and special effects are top notch for the time. You have to be of a certain age to appreciate it, but if like me, you love nostalgia and want to watch something that doesn't offend, then buy it and enjoy.

Nice box set, there's the original opening credits that I'm not surprised made it to air. They have all episodes plus the ones put out as a double story. Although the ladies are scantily dressed they are still in command.

Classic movie was good for the price

Probably a set best reserved for core fans or the highly curious but for a slice of late 70’s science fiction it’s not a total waste of money. The HD remastering isn’t likely as painstaking as, say, the work done on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ a few years back but it remains a huge improvement over standard definition and in actual fact, the special and visual effects largely aren’t ‘bad’, they’re just of the time the series was made. It clearly was an expensive show for its time and they were trying to do some complicated visuals on a TV budget. The concept is easy enough - Captain Buck Rogers, a space pilot from 1987 is accidentally frozen in his starship and blown into a wide orbit which returns him to Earth in 2491 long after nuclear war has devastated the planet and human society has been rebuilt. Encountering Colonel Wilma Deering and co-operating with her on various missions, Buck has to learn to exist 500 years out of his own time. That is, when Princess Ardala of the powerful Draconian Empire isn’t trying to destroy the Earth so she can get her hands on him............ Story wise season 1 is pretty all over the place, veering from the enjoyable to the patently ridiculous but it colourful and fun. Season 2 reboots the show’s concept and cast into an uneasy blend of original ‘Star Trek’ and original ‘Battlestar Galactica’ as Buck and Wilma leave Earth and join the Searcher spacecraft looking for lost tribes of Earth’s nuclear past. However, it has to be said that it does try to be less silly and a bit more serious than season 1. It’s not entirely successful at doing so though and as the series was cancelled midway through production of the second season there’s no proper finale either. As has been noted, there are no real extras apart from the inclusion of the non HD theatrical version of the original pilot (which in my opinion is better than the television pilot although the different material in the television version better sets up the first season, so it’s a toss up between them) and syndicated non HD versions of ‘Flight of the War Witch’ from season 1 and season 2’s ‘Journey to Oasis’. It’s a real shame no effort was made to include anything at all as there must be plenty to talk about given the series history.

Brilliant DVD box set. Now I can watch the episodes that I missed when it was first broadcast on tv. The pilot movie is very good.

i watched this in my younger days and thoroughly enjoyed the series. this dvd set is excellent well worth the money spent.

Recommended series.

I had this set on DVD and i decided to buy it on bluray because i wanted to see if the picture quality was better than the previous DVD box set; I wasnt disapapointed one bit,the picture qulaity is far better than the DVD set and i liked it very much indeed; I highly reccommend fans of these seriesto rush out and buy this bluray box set asap!!

Menos que no tuviera audio o subtitulos en Castellano... Todo lo demás me gustó. Aunque por la falta de dichos audios y subtitulos, se podía haber rebajado el precio en compensación.

Op jonge leeftijd was dit een van mijn favoriete series.. mag niet ontbreken. Dvd's van goede kwaliteit.. en nog steeds even geweldig om opnieuw re bekijken.

Due stelle per la consegna. Pacco strappato e custodie dei blu ray rotte. I dischi sembrano ok ma ho dovuto spendere altri soldi per delle custodie da tre dischi nuove.

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