Hostile species Buck met included the Tiger Men of Mars, the dwarf-like Asterites of the Asteroid belt, and giant robots called Mekkanos.[7]. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Latest Episode: Buck Rogers 1947-03-28 - xx) The Last Show | Uploaded: Nov 3, 2014. Original series daily comic strip stories, Original series Sunday comic strip stories, Original series Sunday "Sub-Strip" story guide, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Buck Rogers Battle for the 25th Century, High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Buck_Rogers_comic_strips&oldid=1097455969, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, D001 "Meeting the Mongols" (1/7/29 to 7/5/29) (Series I, Strips 1 to 155), D002 "Capturing the Mongol Emperor" (7/6/29 to 10/9/29) (Series I, Strips 156 to 237), D003 "Pact of Perpetual Peace" (10/10/29 to 11/26/29) (Series I, Strips 238 to 278), D004 "Defeat of the Mongol Rebels" (11/27/29 to 1/21/30) (Series I, Strips 279 to 326), D005 "Tiger Men of Mars" (1/22/30 to 5/21/30) (Series I, Strips 327 to 429) -, D006 "Land of the Golden People" (5/22/30 to 8/23/30) (Series I, Strips 430 to 510), D007 "Synthetic Gold Plot" (8/25/30 to 11/15/30) (Series I, Strips 511 to 582), D008 "In the City Below the Sea" (11/17/30 to 5/11/31) (Series I, Strips 583 to 733), D009 "Mystery of the Atlantian Gold Ships" (5/12/31 to 8/15/31) (Series I, Strips 734 to 816), D010 "On the Planetoid Eros" (8/17/31 to 12/2/31) (Series I, Strips 817 to 909), D011 "On the Moons of Saturn" (12/3/31 to 5/14/32) (Series I, Strips 910 to 1050), D012 "Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet" (5/16/32 to 8/29/32) (Series I, Strips 1051 to 1141), D013 "Asterite Invaders" (8/30/32 to 2/24/33) (Series I, Strips 1142 to 1295), D014 "The Great Wolves of Jupiter" (2/25/33 to 6/22/33) (Series I, Strips 1296 to 1396), D015 "In the City of Floating Globes" (6/23/33 to 9/1/33) (Series I, Strips 1397 to 1457), D016 "Depth Men of Jupiter" (9/2/33 to 11/8/33) (Series I, Strips 1458 to 1515), D017 "Tika of the Tidegates" (11/9/33 to 1/20/34) (Series I, Strips 1516 to 1578), D018 "Doom Comet" (1/22/34 to 5/5/34) (Series II, Strips 1 to 90), D019 "Rebuilding the World" (5/7/34 to 9/1/34) (Series II, Strips 91 to 192), D020 "Planetoid Plot" (9/3/34 to 2/19/35) (Series II, Strips 193 to 338), D021 "Rescue of King Innaldo" (2/20/35 to 5/11/35) (Series II, Strips 339 to 408), D022 "Prisoners on Uranus" (5/13/35 to 12/16/35) (Series II, Strips 409 to 595), D023 "Liquid Light" (12/17/35 to 2/19/36) (Series II, Strips 596 to 651), D024 "Mummies of Ceres" (2/20/36 to 4/15/36) (Series II, Strips 652 to 698), D025 "Palladian Space Pirates" (4/16/36 to 12/4/36) (Series II, Strips 699 to 899), D026 "Princess Elthana of Venus Visits Earth" (12/5/36 to 3/20/37) (Series II, Strips 900 to 990), D027 "Interplanetary War With Venus" (3/22/37 to 11/13/37) (Series III, Strips 1 to 204), D028 "Wokkie and the Novans" (11/15/37 to 4/8/38) (Series III, Strips 205 to 329), D029 "The Fiend of Space" (4/9/38 to 8/19/38) (Series III, Strips 330 to 443), D030 "Overturned World" (8/20/38 to 12/2/38) (Series III, Strips 444 to 533), D031 "Martian War Threat" (12/3/38 to 7/31/39) (Series III, Strips 534 to 739), D032 "The Super-Dwarf of Space" (8/1/39 to 3/23/40) (Series III, Strips 740 to 774; Series IV, Strips 1 to 168), D033 "Forgotten Earth Colony" (3/25/40 to 6/20/40) (Series IV, Strips 169 to 180; Series V, Strips 1 to 64), D034 "Thrown Back 500 Years" (6/21/40 to 3/24/41) (Series V, Strips 65 to 301), D035 "Goddess of Stygia" (3/25/41 to 10/11/41) (Series V, Strips 302 to 474), D036 "Martians Invade Jupiter" (10/13/41 to 2/6/43) (Series VI, Strips 1 to 414), D037 "Mechanical Bloodhound" (2/8/43 to 7/10/43) (Series VI, Strips 415 to 546), D038 "Monkeymen of Planet X" (7/12/43 to 1/29/44) (Series VII, Strips 1 to 180), D039 "Hollow Planetoid" (1/31/44 to 7/22/44) (Series VIII, Strips 1 to 150), D040 "Plastic Percy" (7/24/44 to 12/2/44) (Series VIII, Strips 151 to 264), D041 "Planets, Incorporated" (12/4/44 to 2/24/45) (Series VIII, Strips 265 to 336), D042 "Explosive Light" (2/26/45 to 6/19/45) (Series IX, Strips 1 to 98), D043 "Time Retracto Swindle" (6/20/45 to 10/13/45) (Series IX, Strips 99 to 102; Series X, Strips 1 to 96), D044 "Brain Ray Threat" (10/15/45 to 5/6/46) (Series XI, Strips 1 to 102; Series XII, Strips 1 to 73), D045 "Kane's Double vs. the Atomites" (5/7/46 to 2/1/47) (Series XII, Strips 73-A/74 to 192), D046 "Wanted For Murder" (2/3/47 to 12/27/47), D047 "Dr. Modar of Saturn" (12/29/47 to 12/10/48), D048 "Lost Planet of Thor" (12/11/48 to 8/25/49), D049 "Vulcan Trouble-Shooter" (8/26/49 to 1/13/51), D051 "Asteroid "Z"" (7/4/51 to 10/20/51), D052 "Stolen Space Fortress" (10/22/51 to 1/8/52), D053 "Operation Survival" (1/9/52 to 9/16/52), D054 "Operation Vanish" (9/17/52 to 2/12/53), D055 "Octopus of Space" (2/13/53 to 6/2/53), D056 "Dogfight on the Moon" (6/3/53 to 9/19/53), D057 "Rocketship Graveyard" (9/21/53 to 2/10/54), D058 "Space Tide" (2/11/54 to 12/22/54), D059 "Arctic Bubble Men" (12/23/54 to 6/28/55), D061 "Great Tog Mystery" (2/16/56 to 8/14/56), D062 "Black Swan's Volcano Protection" (8/15/56 to 11/2/56), D063 "Pleiadite War Machine" (11/3/56 to 4/17/57), D064 "Star of Mars" (4/18/57 to 8/6/57), D065 "Abduction of Princess Elthana" (8/7/57 to 10/31/57), D066 "Death Sphere" (11/1/57 to 1/10/58), D067 "Eternal Youth" (1/11/58 to 7/10/58), D068 "Hydro-X Bomb Threat" (7/11/58 to 9/11/58), D069 "Trouble at the Great Moon Fair" (9/12/58 to 12/12/58), D070 "Threat to the Space Mirror" (12/13/58 to 4/23/59), D071 "Rebels of Uras" (4/24/59 to 8/20/59), D072 "Stolen Zero-Bomb Formula" (8/21/59 to 12/15/59), D073 "Greetings to Earth From Elektrum" (12/16/59 to 4/7/60), D074 "Revolt of the Dwarf Princess" (4/8/60 to 7/7/60), D075 "Caltechium Heist" (7/8/60 to 10/15/60), D076 "Episode on Starrock" (10/17/60 to 2/9/61), D077 "Miss Solar System Beauty Pageant" (2/10/61 to 5/20/61), D078 "Mysticus Metallicus" (5/22/61 to 8/22/61), D079 "Defective Super Alloy" (8/23/61 to 11/30/61), D080 "Missing Scientists" (12/1/61 to 3/2/62), D081 "Poison Epidemic" (3/3/62 to 5/26/62), D082 "Planetary Peace Brigade" (5/28/62 to 8/24/62), D083 "Undersea Station" (8/25/62 to 12/13/62), D084 "Advertising Scheme" (12/14/62 to 2/23/63), D086 "Operation Crop Failure" (5/6/63 to 7/18/63), D087 "Penal Asteroid" (7/19/63 to 9/28/63), D088 "Million-Dollar Crooner" (9/30/63 to 12/11/63), D089 "Bullet of Light" (12/12/63 to 2/19/64), D091 "Martian Trojan Horse" (4/27/64 to 6/27/64), D092 "Project Baby Boy" (6/29/64 to 10/2/64), D093 "Venusian Jury Duty" (10/3/64 to 12/12/64), D094 "Blackmail Decoy" (12/14/64 to 2/18/65), D095 "Tactical Exercises" (2/19/65 to 5/1/65), D096 "Poisoned Food Shipment" (5/3/65 to 7/8/65), D097 "Space Gypsies" (7/9/65 to 10/1/65), D098 "Space Race Treachery" (10/2/65 to 12/8/65), D099 "False Reputation" (12/9/65 to 2/21/66), D100 "Broken Cease-Fire" (2/22/66 to 4/25/66), D101 "Fashion Pirates" (4/26/66 to 6/24/66), D102 "Visitors From Ophiuchus" (6/25/66 to 8/30/66), D103 "Reunion on Titan" (8/31/66 to 12/9/66), D104 "Cosmic Fever" (12/10/66 to 2/24/67), D105 "Underground Menace" (2/25/67 to 5/13/67), D106 "The Land of Goldie Silver" (5/15/67 to 7/8/67), Part 1 "Escape From Ceres" (4/16/36 to 5/29/36) (Series II, Strips 700 to 737), Part 2 "Mission to Pallas" (5/30/36 to 9/17/36) (Series II, Strips 738 to 832), Part 3 "Interplanetary War" (9/18/36 to 12/4/36) (Series II, Strips 833 to 899), Part 1 "Behind Martian Lines" (10/13/41 to 11/19/42) (Series VI, Strips 1 to 346), Part 2 "Capture of Madwolf Hetlah" (11/20/42 to 2/6/43) (Series VI, Strips 347 to 414), Part 1 "The Founding of Port Buck Rogers" (8/26/49 to 6/24/50), Part 2 "Invasion of the Zot Mogs" (6/26/50 to 1/13/51), Part 1 "Plot to Seize Washington" (1/9/52 to 5/1/52), Part 2 "Mysterious Death-Cloud" (5/2/52 to 7/3/52), Part 3 "The Red Robes" (7/4/52 to 9/16/52), Part 1 "The Quadri-Thrust" (2/11/54 to 4/17/54), Part 2 "Maid of Mercury" (4/19/54 to 6/1/54), Part 3 "Black Swan and Cygnet" (6/2/54 to 12/22/54), Part 1 "Escape From the Amazon" (6/29/55 to 10/6/55), Part 2 "Baby Genius" (10/7/55 to 2/15/56), S01 "Golden Princess of Mars" (3/30/30 to 6/15/30) (Series I, Strips 1 to 12), S02 "Fish Men of Planet X" (6/22/30 to 9/7/30) (Series I, Strips 13 to 24), S03 "Mysterious Saturnian" (9/14/30 to 11/30/30) (Series I, Strips 25 to 36), S04 "Marooned on Venus" (12/7/30 to 7/12/31) (Series I, Strips 37 to 68), S05 "Land of Mystery" (7/19/31 to 10/25/31) (Series I, Strips 69 to 83), S06 "Prisoners of Alpha Centaurians" (11/1/31 to 1/24/32) (Series I, Strips 84 to 96), S07 "Attacked by Mercurians" (1/31/32 to 8/7/32) (Series I, Strips 97 to 124), S08 "Remaking Ancient Aster" (8/14/32 to 11/27/32) (Series I, Strips 125 to 140), S09 "Locket of Madness" (12/4/32 to 2/26/33) (Series I, Strips 141 to 153), S10 "Prophet of the Fire Demon" (3/5/33 to 5/21/33) (Series I, Strips 154 to 165), S11 "Enslaving the Giants" (5/28/33 to 12/10/33) (Series I, Strips 166 to 194), S12 "Amazons of Venus" (12/17/33 to 5/6/34) (Series I, Strips 195 to 215), S13 "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" (5/13/34 to 10/21/34) (Series I, Strips 216 to 239), S14 "Mekkanos of Planet Vulcan" (10/28/34 to 1/6/35) (Series I, Strips 240 to 250), S15 "Exploring the Water Moon of Mercury" (1/13/35 to 3/17/35) (Series I, Strips 251 to 260), S16 "Fleeing the Long Night" (3/24/35 to 6/2/35) (Series I, Strips 261 to 271), S17 "Masked Sky Pirates" (6/9/35 to 12/15/35) (Series I, Strips 272 to 299), S18 "Menace of Mura" (12/22/35 to 8/16/36) (Series I, Strips 300 to 334), S19 "Invaders From a Dying World" (8/23/36 to 11/15/36) (Series I, Strips 335 to 347), S20 "The Mind of Minds" (11/22/36 to 1/17/37) (Series I, Strips 348 to 356), S21 "Wilma to the Rescue" (1/24/37 to 4/25/37) (Series I, Strips 357 to 370), S22 "War With Venus" (5/2/37 to 10/10/37) (Series I, Strips 371 to 394), S23 "Mysterious New World" (10/17/37 to 6/5/38) (Series I, Strips 395 to 428), S24 "Secret City of Mechanical Men" (6/12/38 to 9/18/38) (Series I, Strips 429 to 443), S25 "Earth Shifts on Axis" (9/25/38 to 12/18/38) (Series I, Strips 444 to 456), S26 "Martian Invasion of Earth" (12/25/38 to 10/20/40) (Series I, Strips 457 to 552), S27 "N.E.L.D.A. Buck Rogers - Golden Princes of Mars (Sunday Newspaper Strip # 1) 1930 4. 102, Publisher There were only a few expansion modules created for High-Adventure Cliffhangers. Now rather than defending Earth, Buck and Wilma were aboard the deep-space exploration vessel Searcher on a mission to track down the lost colonies of humanity. So, for instance, while there are several Calvin and Hobbes compilations out there, the complete collection in the boxed set is a cut above the rest. Nowlan published several novellas including Armageddon 2419 A.D., published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. The early strips were numbered rather than dated, and every so often the numbering was restarted, creating a new strip numbering "series". The Collected Works of Buck Rogers (Revised Edition) (published by Chelsea House Publishers, 1977) Buck Rogers (published by Club Anni Trenta, 1980 to 1992) Issues 1 to 52 Classic Adventure Strips (published by Dragon Lady Press, 1987) Issue 10 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (published by Quick Fox, 1981) . Both tin toys are in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. These materials are stored offsite and require additional time for retrieval. Between 1953 and the mid-1970s, this film serial was edited into three distinct feature film versions.[6]. [36], The XZ-31 Rocket Pistol, was the first of six toy guns manufactured over the next two decades by Daisy, which had an exclusive contract with John Dille, then head of the National Newspaper Syndicate of America, for all Buck Rogers toys. Just like Buck Rogers. 19STPB03164 was dismissed with prejudice on July 11, 2019. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. He encounters a cosmic gas cloud and is frozen, only to be revived in the year 2491! Enter the era of the plastic battery-powered flashlight raygun. While Buck Rogers came to fame due to the long-running comic strip, which spawned a movie serial, spinoff items, comic books, and the later TV show and movie, the character first appeared in the pulp magazines. To add to the complexity, different newspapers ran the strips on different days sometimes several months apart from each other. I gave it to a friend for a Christmas pre-, Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2008. [5][38] Stemming from this, a phrase in common use before 1950 was "that crazy Buck Rogers stuff" in regards to what they viewed as fantastical literature.[39]. Directors Ford Beebe Saul A. Goodkind Writers Norman S. Hall (screenplay) Ray Trampe (screenplay) Dick Calkins (based on the comic strip by) Stars Learn more. (Kem Dibbs went on to have a long acting career in film and television.). (Links to 1302 images of the Buck Rogers comic strips are at the bottom of this introduction.). Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. [6][25] One episode of the show survives today. UPDATED 6/6/2022. This toy, and its successor, the Norton-Honer Super Sonic Ray Gun, was featured prominently in the actual Buck Rogers newspaper strips of the time, many of which concluded with a secret message in a Morse Code variant called the Rocket Rangers International Code, the key to which was available only by sending as self-addressed stamped envelope to the newspaper syndicate or the "cheat sheet" included in the package with the toy. At the beginning of 1980, a few months after the show debuted, Gottlieb came out with a Buck Rogers pinball machine to commemorate the resurgence of the franchise. Also onboard was Thom Christopher playing the role of Hawk, a stoic birdman in search of other members of his ancient race. National Newspaper Service president John F. Dille saw a potential comic stripwith one small change. It centered around Captain William Anthony "Buck" Rogers, played by Gil Gerard, a pilot, whose spacecraft malfunctions and Rogers is accidentally. Published Dec 1979 by Whitman . A 35mm print of the film was discovered by the filmmaker's granddaughter, donated to UCLA's film and television archive, restruck and subsequently posted to the web. 1024, The program was later rescheduled to Tuesday at 7 p.m., where it ran against the popular Texaco Star Theatre hosted by Milton Berle. On Jan. 7, 1929, "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.," the first science fiction comic strip, debuted. Media Release Hermes Press continues its definitive reprint collection of the vintage Buck Rogers daily comic strip with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: the Complete Newspaper Dailies-Volume 5, 1935-1936.Americans were well steeped in the Great Depression when these strips came out, but that didn't keep writer Philip Nowlan or artist Dick Calkins from challenging the troubles of a . 762, It could, therefore, be used as a pretend raygun but also as an actual Morse Code signal device. Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories as Anthony Rogers. Additionally, the Evening Gazette wasn't published on the Fourth of July national holidays and the Gazette skipped strips scheduled to be published on those dates to avoid falling further behind. A 12-part Buck Rogers serial film was produced in 1939 by Universal Pictures Company. E.T. The novels include: The first Buck Rogers toys appeared in 1933, four years after the newspaper strip debuted and a year after the radio show first aired. The surviving episode states it originated from ABC in New York, casting some doubt on the Chicago WENR-TV claims. It was in connection with the organization of this team effort that the name of the hero was changed from "Anthony Rogers" to the snappier, "Buck Rogers". Buck Rogers was initially syndicated to 47 newspapers. She wore it out she rode it so much. , Hardcover Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013, The book was in excellent shape. Please try again. Collection newspapers_miscellaneous; newspapers Language English Buck Rogers Newspaper Strips, and Short Stories: 1. The first of these was Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century (1953), which was directed by Chuck Jones. The strip became so. 1261 and When the series returned in early 1981, its core format had been revised. Perhaps as the show was remounted, the base of operations changed. Buck Rogers's name has become proverbial in such expressions as "Buck Rogers outfit" for a protective suit that looks like a space suit. 1268. A tyrannical dictator named Killer Kane and his henchmen now run the world. 316, Buck Rogers is an adventure series about a modern man (mining engineer in the 1920s, astronaut in The '70s) who is put in suspended animation, wakes up in the 25th century, and then spends his time as a hero in space.. Has been seen in various media Pulp Magazine, Comic Book and comic strips, film serials, role-playing games, video games, radio, movie and TV series all stemming from the . The new Buck lasted four years, ending on Christmas Day 1983 by Cary Bates and Jack Sparling. ), Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2013. (4/22/62 to 7/22/62), S70 "Googie and Carol" (7/29/62 to 10/14/62), S71 "Space Survival Kit" (10/21/62 to 1/6/63), S72 "Huk's Hostage" (1/13/63 to 3/31/63), S73 "The Old Toymaker" (4/7/63 to 6/30/63), S74 "Heart Central" (7/7/63 to 9/29/63), S75 "Exploring Transient-101" (10/6/63 to 1/5/64), S77 "Interplanetary Olympic Games" (3/29/64 to 7/5/64), S78 "Slippery Circus Clown" (7/12/64 to 9/27/64), S79 "Alfie the Inventive Genius" (10/4/64 to 12/27/64), S81 "Big Game Hunt" (3/28/65 to 6/13/65), Part 1 "Captured by Tigermen" (Series I, Strips 457 to 480), Part 2 "The Island of Doom" (Series I, Strips 481 to 506), Part 3 "Flight of the Ghost Ship" (Series I, Strips 507 to 538), Part 4 "The Red Ray" (Series I, Strips 539 to 552), Part 1 "Hydro" (Series I, Strips 573 to 581), Part 2 "Scorpia" (Series I, Strips 582 to 597), Part 3 "Arcto" (Series I, Strips 598 to 600, Series II, Strips 1 to 6), Part 4 "Hexxo" (Series II, Strips 7 to 20), Part 1 "Through the Door of No Return" (Series II, Strips 21 to 58), Part 2 "The Mission of 99-Zero" (Series II, Strips 59 to 77), Part 3 "Marooned on the Planet of the Rising Sun" (Series II, Strips 78 to 101), Part 4 "Arrival of the Mysterious Sky Wizard" (Series II, Strips 102 to 122), Part 1 "Enslaved in Niarb's Mind Foundry" (Series II, Strips 132 to 143), Part 2 "Treasure Hunting on Llore" (Series II, Strips 144 to 180), Part 1 "Voyage of the Golden Spaceship El Dorado" (Series II, Strips 181 to 216), Part 2 "Trapped on Tantoris" (Series II, Strips 217 to 250), Part 3 "The Terrible Creations of Dr. Nameless" (Series II, Strips 251 to 270), Part 1 "Moon Song's Misfortune" (Series II, Strips 271 to 285), Part 2 "The Ring and Arrow Boys" (Series II, Strips 286 to 302), Part 3 "Enter Commodore Pounce" (Series II, Strips 303 to 321), Part 4 "Dogfight for the Uranium Fields" (Series II, Strips 322 to 357), SS01 "Adventures of Wilma" (11/18/34 to 6/9/35) (Series I, Strips 243 to 272), SS02 "Captain Spear of the Martian Patrol" (6/16/35 to 8/11/35) (Series I, Strips 273 to 281), SS03 "Peril Planet" (8/18/35 to 12/22/35) (Series I, Strips 282 to 300), SS04 "Lost in Space" (12/29/35 to 3/29/36) (Series I, Strips 301 to 314), SS05 "The Flat Planet of Hex" (4/5/36 to 8/2/36) (Series I, Strips 315 to 332), SS06 "The Ghost Planet" (8/9/36 to 9/27/36) (Series I, Strips 333 to 340), SS07 "Black Barney on Earth" (10/4/36 to 11/22/36) (Series I, Strips 341 to 348), SS08 "The Wizard of Zoor" (11/29/36 to 2/28/37) (Series I, Strips 349 to 362), SS09 "Oghpore the Terrible" (3/7/37 to 5/9/37) (Series I, Strips 363 to 372), SS10 "Buzz Brent Calling C-Q" (5/16/37 to 7/4/37) (Series I, Strips 373 to 380), R01 "On the Moon of Madness!" [citation needed], The relations between the artists of the strip (Yager et al.) Buck Rogers In The 25th Century The Complete Collection arrives on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics in a 9-Disc Blu-ray set. The comic strip Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D. debuted in January 1929 (the character of Anthony "Buck" Rogers had first appeared in print a few months previously, in a novella by Phillip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of "Amazing Stories"). Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Plus de 300 pages de bonheur archologique ! Yager also had connections with the Chicago newspaper industry, since his father, Charles Montross Yager, was the publisher of The Modern Miller; Rick Yager was at one time employed to write the "Auntie's Advice" column for his father's newspaper. Buck Rogers (1979 Whitman) #5. A combination of a cave-in and exposure to weird chemicals leaves. Based in a secret lab in a cave behind Niagara Falls (the city of Niagara was now the capital of the world), Buck battles intergalactic troublemakers. Ardala appeared (played by Pamela Hensley), as a Draconian princess supervising her father's armies, with Kane (played by Henry Silva in the film; by Michael Ansara in the series) as her enforcer, a gender reversal of the original characters where Ardala was Killer Kane's sidekick. In The Right Stuff (1983), the film about the United States supersonic test pilots of the 1940s and 1950s and the early days of the United States space program, in one scene, the character of the Air Force Liaison Man tells test pilots Chuck Yeager and Jack Ridley and test pilots and future Mercury Seven astronauts Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton and Gordon Cooper about the need for positive media coverage in order to assure continued government funding for the rocket program, dramatically declaring "no bucksno Buck Rogers!"