Phillip Francis Nowlan created the character of astronaut and time traveller Buck Rogers in 1928 and later ... Buck was played by Buster Crabbe as a film serial (also famous for playing Flash ...

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 ...

courtesy of Miron Murcury Oakland Olympic swimmer and Hollywood actor Buster Crabbe rose to fame in the 1920s for his athleticism and later as a Hollywood superstar who appeared in over 100 films and ...

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century featured the original ... (Flash Gordon, his most famous imitator, didn't come along until ...

And while ABC might have 2001 film clips for its viewers, CBS planned to have 2001 ‘s author, Arthur Clarke, on hand, along with Sir Francis Chichester, Buster Crabbe (Buck Rogers) and ...

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 ...

but his grandfather was Buster Crabbe, a swimming gold medalist in the 1932 Summer Olympics who later became a movie star (“Tarzan,” “Flash Gordon,” “Buck Rogers”). (Tom Scott hosts ...

who also headlined Hollywood adaptations of the “Tarzan” and “Buck Rogers” comic strips. “Flash Gordon” had a global readership by World War II and influenced sci-fi comics ...