Buck Rogers Officially Ended After This Happened

Saying Erin Gray was beautiful is like saying that "the sun is warm". Total understatement.

Star Trek, Logan's Run, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999. All the shows I loved as a kid growing up from the 1970's to today.

My greatest memory about this show was watching it with my dad. Later in life I got him the DVD set and we watched it together before he passed away.

Space Vampire is my all time favorite episode. It scared the crap out of 10 year old me back in the day!

Erin's character softened! That's an understatement. They destroyed the character. They made her into an Ice Cream Lady and remove the chemistry between Gil's and Wilma which was one of the major interest points.

Both Erin Gray and the actress who played Princess Ardala guaranteed that I would be watching every episode. They were breathlessly sexy, and I couldn't get enough of either of them. Also Gil Gerard was perfectly cast as Buck Rogers and exuded the same likeable all American hero personae of Lee Majors. The entire show was just like one giant mirror covered disco ball.

I always liked the opening sequence. And Erin Gray in those catsuits.

This show I couldn't miss, right alongside Battlestar Galactica. The ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica. I wasn't yet a teen when the first season aired.

Certainly a great time to be alive. We'll never see the likes of shows like this again.

I used to watch this and other classic sci-fi as a kid. Never missed an episode. I recently recovered several boxes of old toys from my parents attic to hand to my kids. Amongst the them was a Corgi Buck Rogers Starfighter. As soon as I saw it, it took me back to my 10 year old self. Happy memories.

The 2nd season changed from something unique to a cross between star trek and battlestar galactica. The introduction of the annoying robot crichton, the almost nonexistent wilma dearing, the replacement of dr. huer with the incompetent ship captain were huge obstacles to overcome. The irony is that some of the changes were pretty good, the stories in the 2nd season were actually better and less campy and the introduction of hawk wasn't horrible, however the absence of princess ardalla and the draconian empire was one of the biggest mistakes.

Did anyone else feel in great distress when Hawk's mate got mortally wounded by the talons of his ship? After all, they were the last of their kind. Her death would mean extinction.

I absolutely loved the first season. Erin Gray's "Wilma" was the first female characted that I remembered to be an incredibly strong woman (and I was only 10 years old at the time). I was disappointed with the second season because of Erin's diminished role but it was still a superb show. I actually preferred "Buck Rodgers" to "Battlestar Galactica".

i always wondered as a kid why my father loved this show... as an adult, i understand :)

I've ALWAYS loved this show! Wish they would have had a sequel to it!

Just hearing that theme song makes me want to turn on the big screen and binge watch some episodes! I really enjoyed this show, especially Season 1. My other favorite sci-fi series to watch were Star Trek TOS, Battlestar Galactica and V! 👍🏾😀

I won't say it's my favorite episode, but when I remember watching Buck Rogers at a family friend's house and I was totally into it. Buck was on a planet trying to save a mother and her son from a minotaur. Just as Buck was starting to transform into a minotaur himself, my parents said, "Come on, it's time to go." For 25 years, that episode sat in my brain. How did Buck change back? I needed to know, but back then, there was no way. Years later I found the episode and downloaded it on Limewire. I sat to watch it and as soon as Buck started to transform into the Minotaur, my phone rang, and my roommate had gotten into a wreck and had to have his car towed so once again at the same place I had to leave and rescue him. I have now seen it so it doesn't live in my brain like it did but that episode is the first one I will think of when Buck Rogers is mentioned.

I couldn't agree more! Season 1 was very entertaining even though it wasn't one of the landmark shows of the '70s by a long shot. 1979 was the year that Sigourney Weaver showed us just how bad ass a female lead could be in a sci-fi movie and I think that Erin's character reflected that. Unfortunately, season 2 was a train wreck that just couldn't be put back on the rails and a premature end to what could have something great.

Hehe, I started watching this show when I was a kid (early teens) and I loved it. Erin Grey made me feel kinda funny!

I remember watching this show as a kid, and loving every minute of it. I've been a sci-fi geek for as long as I can remember. Season 2 seemed more like Star Trek, instead of a man displaced in time and using his skills to beat bad guys in the future.