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Post by profh0011 on Jul 2, 2024 16:38:44 GMT
Did anyone have the CORGI Toys version of The Buck Roger's Starfighter?
NO. But... I got all the Mego action figures, and, I still have the Mego Buck Roger Starfighter jet toy on display sitting on top of one of my stereo speakers on the other side of the room. It's been there for DECADES, still intact!
I've also got the Mego "Land Rover" toy, but never cared for that as much, so it's on the shelf in my closet.
Crazy thing just occured to me... that Land Rover was first used in the BR pilot, BEFORE being re-used on BG. (But of course, BG aired first.)
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Post by Bud_Brewster on Jul 30, 2024 23:15:36 GMT
It's a bit ironic that the second season of Buck Rogers was marred by the producer's misguided efforts to make the series more like Star Trek, right down to putting Erin Gray in a cute little mini dress.
But in the most recent episode of Star Trek Continues, entitled Embrace the Winds, Erin Gray plays Commodore Gray (a nod to her fans), wearing the traditional TOS mini dress.
Although I was glade Ms Gray was contributed to the noble efforts of the Star Trek Continues project, I would have preferred it if she'd worn something more formal. The TOS mini dresses looked just fine on the shapely young ladies that appeared in the series (back when miniskirts were all the rage), but they were never intended for ladies of advanced years.
That's just a sad fact of life, folks. But we love Ms Gray none the less.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 15, 2024 15:45:04 GMT
Someone has found what is apparently, at the moment, the ONLY known recording of an episode of the 1950 BUCK ROGERS tv series!
Clearly, as with many early live TV series, this was done on virtually no budget, and formatted like a live stage play. But what I find amazing is, of the 3 different live-action versions of BUCK ROGERS I've seen, this is the only one that actually used the costumes & ray gun design from the newspaper strip. (And those costumes were very clunky!) So they were authentic to what they could afford to be.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 15, 2024 16:06:09 GMT
Must confess I have more fondness for Daffy Duck these days. from 1953 !!!!!
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