To celebrate the fully restored Blu-ray release of the cult classic sci-fi show BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY, we’re giving 6 lucky readers the chance to win themselves ‘THE COMPLETE SERIES’ BOX SET courtesy of the fantastic folks at FABULOUS FILMS!
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question:
Q: Which famous voice-artist provided the dialogue for Buck Rogers’ shiny sidekick, Twiki?
E-mail you answer, along with your address details, to [email protected] labelled BUCK ROGERS COMP before midnight on Sunday September 9th.
To find out more about this incredible Boxset, read on for full details…
Sit back and enjoy all 33 episodes across 2 seasons of this timeless sci-fi classic, now fully restored and in Hi-Definition. Following the success of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, Glen A. Larson developed Buck Rogers in the 25th Century for television. Props, costumes, effects shots and sets from Battlestar Galactica (1978), which was still in production at the time, were recycled for the series.
The series ran for two seasons in America from 1979 – 1981. ITV began showing Buck Rogers on 30th August 1980. It was in the same Saturday timeslot that the BBC began screening season 18 of Doctor Who. Due to Buck Rogers’ popularity, Doctor Who’s ratings fell from a series high of 16.1 million to a low of 3.7 million – the lowest ratings in the programme’s history. This prompted the BBC to move Doctor Who to a weekday evening slot. The BBC began airing repeats of Buck Rogers on BBC Two in 1989 and again in 1995-96.
Synopsis: The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America’s deep space probes. Aboard this small starship is a lone astronaut, Captain William Buck Rogers. In a freak mishap Ranger 3 and its pilot are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support system and returns Buck Rogers back to Earth 500 years later. He is forced to readjust to a new world and its people – who blame his generation for a nuclear holocaust which left the earth a radioactive wasteland. Buck is soon enlisted to help save the Earth from an alien threat, working with Colonel Wilma Deering and a robot-droid known as Twiki. They roam space and planets to welcome back the lost and dispossessed.
Twiki was mainly played by Felix Silla and voiced by Mel Blanc. Felix Silla also played “Cousin Itt” in The Addams Family. Mel Blanc, was an American voice actor who voiced pretty much every cartoon character you can think of including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and the Tasmanian Devil.
Cast: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley (Season 1), Tim O’Connor (Season 1), Felix Silla, Mel Blanc, Eric Server (Season 1), Thom Christopher (Season 2), Jay Garner (Season 2), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Season 2).
Extras: ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’- Theatrical version of the pilot episode ‘Awakening’, feature Length version of ’Flight of the War Witch’, syndicated 2 Part Version in Hi-Definition of ‘Journey to the Oasis’.
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