Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

In 1987, American astronaut Captain Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard), on the last of the deep space explorer Ranger 3, gets diverted and frozen in a widen orbit. 504 years later, he is heading back to Earth. He is picked up and thawed out by Draconian Princess Ardala and her aide Kane. They send him home trying to steal the access code to earth's shield and launch an invasion. Earth is recovering from a devastating nuclear holocaust. Dr. Elias Huer leads the Defense Directorate. There are also Colonel Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) and the diminutive robot Twiki carrying around computer AI Dr. Theopolis. The strike-shortened second season has Buck, Wilma and Twiki on the spaceship Searcher on a mission to find lost human colonies launched in the centuries earlier.Trying to chase the Star Wars dollars, this NBC show came out around two years later. It's part disco. Buck Rogers is trying to be rock and roll. The show could do more with his fish out of water aspect. Erin Gray looks hot in her tight spandex and pretty cool in her white outfit. For some reason, the crew wears a sailor uniform in the second season. The acting is generally functional. Twiki is one of the most recognizable TV robots. The stories are slow and meandering. The writing is not that good. It's unintentional camp. It's all pretty cheesy but at least, it's memorable cheese like the opening credits.The first season has an rambling quality about it. It would be better to be in a full on war with Princess Ardala but it's a bunch of tangential stories. The second season reboots the show after the writers' strike. There are tons of changes and the show lost its audience. They change Twiki and the general drive of the show. Hawk is a memorable addition but generally, the second season is even more blend. The extended episodes do not help. It's inferior sci-fi but it does have its moments.

Season one was an interesting and fun season of science fiction. Season one had all the makings of a series waiting to grow into a bigger phenomenon. Who made the bad choice to take Buck off of the Earth and put him onto a spaceship? Who made the horrible decision to stop Mel Blanc from doing Twiki's voice and making Twiki sound like a dork? Who made the bad choice to give us Hawk---a bad, bad, bad character? Season two was an absolute mess. Season two destroyed what could have become another growing series of sci-fi tales. Season one would get a 7 rating--season two would get a 3 rating--so a 5 average is what I am giving this show.

Buck Rogers appears in the 25th century.Year one had that campy Adam West Batman thing going on. I loved that. Year two began well with a couple of movie length episodes and a show about a magic box that caused all sorts of problems when opened. To me at least, the above Y2 episodes had a refreshing shade of 1960s Irwin Allen.Journey To Oasis was scripted by writers who had worked on Land Of The Giants, and, don't ask me why, but robot Chrichton has shades of the Lost In Space robot? Perhaps it is the cultured voice or the cynical humour? But more than anything else, Paul Carr - Lt Devlin - seemed to be doing on the Searcher what he was doing on the submarine Seaview...in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.I love this series, Princess Ardala is the true star!

Buck Rogers in the 25th century is decent entertainment. Gil Gerard is an okay actor. I really enjoyed the motion picture at the Movie Theater in Hanover. The Draconians are shown as being Humanoid. Ardala is always scheming against Buck Rogers.As an Admiral Windsor Prince American Shadow Vice President Knight chess piece on the Human chessboard I command 4 pawn pieces in a 5 moon Moonfleet squadron. Besides my moon 168 there are the pawn moons of Marvin Bushs Artificial Intelligence Computer, Jeb Bushs Artificial Intelligence Computer, former King Henry VIII Tudors Artificial Intelligence Computer, and Ted Kennedys Artificial Intelligence Computer. These ranks came from the Friendly Ki Aliens and any attempt to tamper with the Creators Moonfleet would constitute mutiny against the Care Rank Ki Aliens and the leader of Humans in the Universe King Henry V Lancasters Artificial Intelligence Computer.My Daughter Julias artificial Intelligence Computer on the Planet Coaltrain the Home World of the Care Rank Ki Aliens said "Forward my Daddy I love him please Care Rank Ki." I will always love you as well Julia. A big thanks to the Care Rank Ki for allowing these communications between my Daughters AI Computer and myself and or my AI Computer. The Moon 168 Readback is: "BradMAwe is the Great Military Leader of Moon 168". You should see Erin Greys performance in a Magnum PI episode.