New Fantasy: Viewing Like It’s 1979
Spurred on by the popularity of “Star Wars” the networks invested in science fiction and fantasy, delivering the first iteration of “Battlestar Galactica” in 1978 and “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” a year later. “Buck Rogers” imagined that a nuclear holocaust had taken out Earth, but that the human race had ultimately been recreated and put under the protection of the Earth Defense Directorate, a kind of more ambitious Department of Homeland Security.
I guess Buck Rogers gets compared to Apples often…
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“In one room, where a rocketship-like machine straight out of Buck Rogers blankets doughnuts in a blizzard of powdered sugar, Jim Riddell makes the doughnuts, as he has been doing since 1966.”
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“When I grew up, we could only imagine this stuff in a Buck Rogers movie…and here we are, talking on Skype to different countries, emailing photos and having photos on phones. If you told me back then this would be how it was in real-life, I’d never believe it.”
Lord Blood-Rah's Nerve Wrackin' Theatre presents a Buck Rogers / Flash Gordon Double Feature!
Saturday, Sep 10 7:30p to 11:30p at Chouinard Winery, Castro Valley, CA
