The Buck Rogers movie stole back from Flash Gordon Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon, the OTHER big space hero, and Buck Rogers rival. Luckily, Buster played both of them. But in terms of specific ...

Seventy-five years ago, on April 15, 1950, ABC launched the first Buck Rogers TV series, which, technically, was a reboot. This simply because the more famous Buster Crabbe-led Buck Rogers movie ...

The strip became so popular that in 1939 it led to a wildly successful 12 part serial starring Buster Crabbe. Between the strips, serial and later comic books Buck Rogers became as known to every ...

Not only that, but the 1939 “Buck Rogers: 12 part serial starring Buster Crabbe was, along with the “Flash Gordon” serials from the same era, a major influence on “Star Wars.” ...

Predator & more Buck Rogers has been around for a very long time. First appearing in a comic strip in the late 1920s, actor Buster Crabbe starred in the first big screen adaptation in a 12-part ...

former Olympic swimmer Buster Crabbe starred in a Saturday morning serial film in 1939. Forty years later, Crabbe had a cameo role as Brigadier Gordon alongside Gerard in the "Buck Rogers in the ...

Soon, toys, radio plays, comic books and a movie serial starring Buster Crabbe followed. The last time Rogers was prominently onscreen was in the late 1970s with NBC’s short-lived series Buck ...

Soon, toys, radio plays, comic books, and a movie serial starring Buster Crabbe followed. In 1979, NBC produced a short-lived but fondly-remembered series titled Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ...

Constance Moore, 84, the singer-actress who starred in a string of World War II-era movie musicals and gained cult-film status as Buster Crabbe's co-star in the 1939 "Buck Rogers" serial ...

Buster Crabbe, left, won an Olympic gold medal in swimming in 1932 and starred as Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon in the movies. In this photo from 1970, Crabbe congratulates Lafayette native ...

Not only that, but the 1939 “Buck Rogers: 12 part serial starring Buster Crabbe was, along with the “Flash Gordon” serials from the same era, a major influence on “Star Wars.” ...