I will allow your convictions... Buck rogers series is truth

I listened to a cover of the theme of this show just yesterday.

I love how every good show has a Grandpa character

Somewhere in my parents’ basement is a Buck Rogers headshot signed by Gil Gerard. I have been waiting 45 years to employ this particular brag. I had begun to lose hope.

Beedy Beedy Beedy (impressed)

I regret to inform you that my dad watched this specifically because Mel Blanc voiced Twiki, so I have in fact seen all of it more than once thanks to the magic of the home video recorder. It is both bad and great.

Voiced who

Oh, YOU know, Twiki. Beedy beedy beedy and so forth.

This was my absolute favorite show as a kid

I’m sorry but no it wasn’t

Dammit, he's right!

Since the guy on the right looks like William S. Burroughs, I want to live in the timeline where this show could've happened.

I used to watch reruns of it with my dad on Syfy back when it was the Sci-Fi Channel. When I went to Dragon Con for the first time a few years ago I got my dad a Gil Gerard autograph.

Beedy beedy beedy it did

Gotta pass through the stargate and then greet Dr. Theopolis & Gary Coleman

I watched this as a young child, and spent literal decades believing it was the original Battlestar Galactica

the opening sequence showing an apocalypse while Buck spun around in cryogenic circles terrified the hell out of me as a little kid but also there was that one disco episode with the light up hula hoops that stuck in my brain

Believe what you want, just tell me where to find that cardigan and DO NOT say the 25th century

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? It was not good. Then again, no TV/movie version of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon has ever been good.

It was a movie, too! 1st episode. Here's the spectacular song-filled opening sequence. youtu.be/BINijYepahA?...

Biddy biddy biddy you're wrong. Be older, Buck.

Tv was a little weird after Star Wars. Everyone tried to capture the magic.

Where's Crighton?

I only rarely got to see it because we couldn't pull in ABC very well most of the time. The only thing I really remember is an episode in which someone was using telekinesis to try to undress Wilma.

I saw it; it was real. The hot girl was also on Silver Spoons.

The Cybermen sure look different in my memories

Okay, there was an episode that featured a disco, and everyone was dancing while holding onto a thick, undulating cable of fiber optic lights. I was mesmerized. Years later, I would judge every Manhattan nightclub against that childhood memory, and they were all found wanting.

Not only existed! There's an entire recurring "RICK & MORTY" supporting character who *only* makes sense in context to it!

Wtf I didn’t think Birdperson needed to make sense! Is there anything else about this character that’s similar other than the obvious?

Mostly just the odd absurdity of an extremely standard Klingon-style "Hardass Taciturn Warrior Guy But Also SPACE!"-character type whose themeing is "Bird, but in a piecemeal way" youtu.be/rQDShFgGzeE?...

Like imagine if the Klingons on TNG had rabbit ears, and flew bunny-shaped ships, and Worf was ALWAYS eating a carrot when we saw him ...but nobody ever commented on this as being noteworthy in and of itself

One of my favorite things I learned recently is that rabbits generally don’t eat carrots; Bugs Bunny in his first cartoon in 1940 was doing a reference to Clark Gable in “It Happened One Night” (1934). Everybody back then got it because that movie was such a monster hit.

I read that a few years ago and started noticing jokes in cartoons past and present that don't (or wouldn't) hit because they are such a niche reference; they're in a category right next to references I've only seen in cartoons like "Limburger smells bad" and "alum makes one's head shrink".

A Whovian enters the chat. At a glance I thought you were referring to the Good and Evil Time Guardians. 😂

A Whovian enters the chat. At a glance I thought you were referring to the Good and Evil Time Guardians. 😂

Huh. Learned something new about Rick & Morty today.

This is a nexus.

We all enjoyed hallucinating it.

“beeedeee beeedeee, Buck” not neeedeeed

It taught me how to eat pussy.

I watched every episode. My cousin took me to the direct-from-the-pilot-video that they released in the movie theaters as if it were an actual motion picture. AND I know the lyrics to the theme song they DIDN'T use for the show. "🎵Far beyond the world I've known...🎵" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINi...

you would

There was a record eh?

They put lyrics to the theme song for the theatrical release.

This is a fever dream. Are we SURE this happened.

Schrodinger's scifi show, it both did and did not depending on the... box or some...thing...

There were toys and posters, sir. Also, random bit: Back in my youth, when I did summer theater, our lead actor's agent was married to Erin Gray, and she would drop by after performances, and I would have to do my best to be cool and not freak out being around Col. Wilma Deering.

I had these weird plastic ship toys that were white and I don't remember if it was a game or they were supposed to be painted or what.

I’m getting the impression from the replies that seeing her in real life would make a lot of people’s days.

I personally knowvat least one person for whom it did.

I remember that the lyrics were used once or twice on the show. Because I don't know how else I would have heard them. I remember watching straight through to the credits after that to see if they would play the lyrics version again.

Beedee beedee beedee if it helps, Beedee beedee beedee they took care to include Beedee beedee beedee authentic robot speech. Beedee beedee beedee can you believe it now Buck?

Daniel that’s clearly Dr. Who. You’re gonna get your ass kicked at that comic convention!

How dare you disrespect Twiki

I met Gil Gerard's daughter once. She confirmed he was the guy from Buck Rogers.

I definitely have this toy somewhere

Oh, I 1000% hallucinated this shit. No way it was real.

I can hear the robot. Can’t forget the bird man, either.

I still do a reasonably good Twiki impression.

His “party pooper” was a minor scandal in the household

I see this picture and the very first thing that comes to mind is “beedy beedy”.

It has the greatest moment in television history that’s stuck in my head for around 40 years: youtu.be/MhazahKZhOU?...

In those pre-VCR days, I would sometimes record audio versions of TV shows onto cassette tape. For some reason, I felt the episode guest starring Gary Coleman was worthy of such archiving. It mysteriously went missing when I kept demanding my parents play it in the car during a road trip.

Buck welcomed us all into 2025, surely you remember. bsky.app/profile/mike...

What I don't remember is Erin Gray's Wilma Deering ever dressing like a space flight attendant.

Ah, so you never saw season 2.

I only remember the bird guy, cleverly named Hawk, and how they went on a Battlestar Galactica "search space for our people" thing. By then I was probably more into The Dukes of Hazzard.

Season 2 was like a whole different show/fever dream

Doctor Theopolis is missing from this photo

He was missing from the whole season

true, but we got Hawk and Koori - Admittedly a step down from Varek and Space Vampires, but still fun!

Sure he is.

Are you at all familiar with Vovoron the Space Vampire?

One of my top 3 favourite space vampires!

oh - I have to know the other two?!

Sure!

Mathilda May is easily the best!!

No thank you

I turned 6 as this thing showed up on the scene. Just the right age to be bowled over by shiny space TV show knock off of Star Wars.

I have some very specific and very private sense memories about Erin Gray that lead me to believe otherwise

Also with that robot they could have called it Small Blunder

There’s a solid Buck Rogers joke in S2E1 of The Venture Brothers.

Erin Grey was my first TV crush.

Not only did it exist, it was the single greatest resource for underclad women on TV AND THE COMPETITION WAS INTENSE.

The space vampire was something else

He looks like he got to pick his own bar mitzvah theme

I was born in ‘83, this show was never syndicated in Chicago that I’m aware of, I never heard anyone speak of it until the Eltingville Club made one of its characters’ tics that he talked like the robot. I’ve seen clips since but they could be from anything. Very skeptical.

Born in '62. It does feel like a bad dream. This opening of the theatrical release version only amplifies that feeling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINi...

Many many bonus point for Erin Gray's crazy hair-shake.

Wanna livestream the pilot? The intro will change you.

I would like in on this. Born in ‘75 but saw little of this because my family thought it beneath Star Trek, I think.

They may have been disappointed by my childhood love of Knight Rider and Automan.

They released the pilot in theaters when I was a kid. I KNOW IT WAS REAL.

I saw the pilot in a theater and watched the show off and on as a kid. A few years ago, MeTV would show it on their "sci-fi Saturday nights" and I watched both of its seasons pretty much in full that way.

I fully missed it too. No idea about any of it.

so mad at you for posting the inferior second season

and not even including hawk. Maybe YOU don't exist.

You don't deserve to see a sweat-drenched Erin Gray crawl through an airduct, or Pamela Hensley try to seduce our man, Buck. You don't deserve to hear Mel Blanc say, "Beedy-beedy-beedy What's up, Buck?" And you absolutely don't deserve the feathered skullcap of Hawk.

Did the robot really talk like that every time I would not have been able to stay friends with that robot

I was almost 20 when the show aired and I never thought it was good. I basically mentioned the best parts in my previous tweet. But I don't think you whiny spoiled entitled kids today have a say in criticizing the scraps we have to feed off of... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCb...

Seriously, young nerds don't understand the scraps we fed upon to keep the geek light alive.

I was born like three years after this! I was firmly in the scrap zone! My kingpin was John Rhys Davies!

The violin I would be playing for you is so small I can't even find it!

He did, indeed. It was glorious.

i have a little action figure of that robot somewhere

I’d like a Wilma Deering or Princess Ardala action figure, I can tell you that!

Season 1 he carried Dr Theopolis around his neck like Flavor Flav, who could talk computer to him.

Yeah, his clock was the "intelligence" he was the servant. As far as the mythos goes. Though he came into his own, to some degree, later

they used to show it in syndication in NY when I was a kid (channel 11 I think) and I wish it didn’t exist

Mandela Effect perhaps…

I was born in 81 and I think I was aware of the robot and its horrible catchphrase/sound, but nothing else about it.

I was a tween when this first aired (I saw the movie at a drive-in) and let me tell you Erin Gray was every straight young boy’s dream.

So THIS is how I learn you haven't listened to my podcast.

Bucky.

He's onto us, fellas. Call the whole prank off

Fuck, I made this box set for nothing!

Oh, but it did exist. And it got weird in season 2 after a long delay (the 1980 Writer's Guild strike).

I was in Chicagoland and I absolutely saw this show. I remember Erin Grey and the Beedee-beedee-Beedee of that robot. I can’t tell you what channel it was on, but I can tell you Erin Grey wore an absurdly slinky spacesuit.

I was a Star Wars addicted 8 year old when it first aired so I watched the SHIT out of that show even though I knew it probably sucked. One of my friends had *all* the toys, even this freaking thing:

It had to have been high budget for the time and I'm pretty sure was nationally aired on NBC. You were born a decade late to have actually run into it in primetime.

You didn't watch this after your parents pruned your dinner from the spaghetti trees?

But it had an end theme that sounded like it was sung by a high school student at a spring concert! youtu.be/W_z_WOC4IZs?...

Which Doctor is this?

I'm Gen X and can confirm that this show most certainly did not exist. You're thinking of the Star Wars ripoff starting Lorne Greene, which also did not exist

The lorne Greene one had the robotic bear

The what

Can confirm. And Boxy was his name-o.

Take this down. This is awful.

I will resist, this is glorious.

dirty socialites, too!!!

Ah, Erin Gray. It was Silver Spoons that first put her on my radar, but then I discovered this show.

the pilot had a theatrical release - the montage where time passes while buck is in suspended animation left deep psychological marks

LOL. This was rebroadcast on UK TV (which we had access to from Ireland) ALL THE TIME in the 80’s. Some lifelong ..um..enthusiasms started right there.

Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century.

Fair. I loved it & can't bring myself to re-watch it now because really, wtf

Hawk!

Hold up wait is this what Rick and Morty is riffing on

😮😮😮

A property I’m literally writing for right now but did not know this

You’re doing Rick and Morty? Bring a pear into the room and see if Marder will eat it.

Yes totally what does this mean

He’s afraid of them. Or was. This was around… 2009, I think. It’s been a long-ass time.

Ohhh okay I’m caught up I’m writing the comic it’s a solitary lifestyle with no fruit welcome

Crossed paths with Marder and Rosell on a pilot long long ago. The fruit thing started as a quirk, then became a room bit, then they wrote it as a Charlie gag on Always Sunny.

Apparently!

I should know this stuff. But I already know *so much stuff.*

Yo! That's Birdperson.

The Erin Grey evolution from 2001 space station stewardess to spandex cat suit was formative to many in my generation.

Bidididididididididi

Eyes up here, Twiki

Looney Tunes did it better, anyway. Though given what we’ve seen of AI, Tweaky was a good name for the ‘bot.

I once wrote a sketch for a UCB class that was a Buck Rogers parody. It was met by a room full of blank stares, including the teacher, because the show is completely gone from the culture’s memories. Absolute humiliation. bsky.app/profile/drkt...

Watchoo eedeebeedeeing about?