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Director

Daniel Haller, Various

Release Date(s)

1979-1981 (August 17, 2016 – 8/26 via Amazon U.S.)

Film/Program Grade: B+
Video Grade: B
Audio Grade: B
Extras Grade: B-

Yet another slap dash, bare-bones TV release. “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century – The Complete Series” comes in a now typical, cheaply made box with some nice artwork painted on it.

Review

[Editor’s Note: Though this is listed as a Region B Blu-ray release, I’ve confirmed that the discs are, in fact, ALL REGION. They should play fine on any U.S. Blu-ray player.]

I have to tell you, I’ve had a great deal of fun, these past couple of days, reviewing this new Blu-ray set from Madman Entertainment. It’s been years since I’ve last watched Buck Rogers in the 25th Century on DVD, and the opportunity to revisit the series on Blu-ray has conjured up great memories. Frankly, I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed seeing this show on NBC back in the day. But all you need to do is pop in any Season One episode on disc and watch the show’s classic opening credit sequence, which features that great voice-over narration by actor William Conrad and Stu Phillips’ iconic theme music (mixing orchestration with disco/lounge rock riffs), and you’ll be instantly reminded of the fact that Buck Rogers represents the best of 1970s TV science fiction in all of its cheesy glory.

I’ll talk discs in a moment, but first a refresher…

In the year 1987, NASA launched the last of its deep space probes, commanded by Captain William “Buck” Rogers (Gil Gerard). During the mission, Buck suddenly encountered strange forces that resulted in his ship being thrown off course and his body being perfectly frozen in suspended animation. 500 years later, Buck’s ship is rescued from deep space and he’s revived in perfect health.. to a world that’s changed more than he could ever have imagined. Earth has been devastated by war and the surviving humans now live in domed cities, protected by Colonel Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) and her Earth Directorate space forces. When Buck returns, the Directorate is negotiating with the Draconian Empire for badly needed supplies (as Earth can no longer sustain itself). Secretly, however, the Draconians’ Princess Ardala (Pamela Hensley) and her henchmen plan to attack and take over the planet. Only Buck sees through their subterfuge, yet Wilma thinks he’s a spy for the Draconians and is reluctant to trust him.

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century began as a plan for a series of TV movies, but the first one was strong enough that Universal released it theatrically before it aired on NBC. This led to a 2-season run on the network starting in 1979. All of the film’s major cast members returned for the TV series’ first season (including Mel Blanc as the voice of Buck’s robot assistant, Twiki), which saw Buck trying to adjust to life in the future while continuing to work with Wilma and the Directorate to protect Earth against the Draconians. The first season is generally good, and features a number of great guest appearances and cameos, including the likes of Frank Gorshin, Roddy McDowall, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cesar Romero, Peter Graves, Woody Strode, Gary Coleman, Richard Moll, Jerry Orbach, Ray Walston, Julie Newmar, and Jack Palance, as well as the man who played both Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the original 1930 film serials, the legendary Larry “Buster” Crabbe. Unfortunately, low ratings, a diminished production budget, and a new series producer led to many changes for the show’s disastrously bad second season, which is ultimately notable only for the addition of Wilfrid Hyde-White and Thom Christopher (as Hawk) to the cast, as well as additional guest appearances that included Sid Haig, William Sylvester (who you may know as Heywood Floyd from 2001: A Space Odyssey), and Mark Leonard (Sarek of Star Trek fame).

Thirty-seven years later, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is finally available on Blu-ray Disc in true HD, not from Universal Studios Home Entertainment but rather from Madman Entertainment (a company that produces titles for release in Australia and New Zealand). As such, there are a few things that are important to say that up front about this release.

First, Madman had very limited resources available to them when producing this set. All they had to work with were Universal’s recent HD scans of the syndication masters for each episode in the series. The theatrical film elements have not been scanned in HD by the studio, which means the HD version of the 2-part pilot, Awakening, (a.k.a. the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century film) is the TV version (more on that in a minute). Second, it’s important to note while these are true HD elements, Universal hasn’t done any kind of dirt removal, color timing, or other digital remastering to them. So while Madman has done a bit of work on them, you’re still going to see some dust, dirt, and other print artifacts from time to time. Most importantly, however, while this set is listed as a Region B release, I have confirmed that the discs are, in fact, ALL REGION. They should work on any Blu-ray player, which is great news for U.S. and international fans of the series alike.

All that said, these episodes look way better in 1080p HD (at the correct original 1.33:1 TV aspect ratio) than I ever expected them too. I’ve watched four of this set’s discs in their entirety now, and sampled the rest of the episodes. I can tell you that the colors are vibrant (especially once you get into the series proper), there’s abundant detail visible, and contrast is excellent with nicely-detailed shadows. There’s modest grain visible and some of the effects shots and title sequences can look a little optically soft, but really this image is impressive and is a great improvement over Universal’s previous DVD release. Let’s put it this way: There’s enough new detail present in the image that, in a few shots (filmed in the desert for the episode The Planet of the Slave Girls) you can actually see a military transport plane flying low to the horizon behind the actors – something that viewers would never have noticed in SD analog. The audio for all of the episodes is available in uncompressed 2.0 LPCM mono, and the original tracks sound surprisingly full and nice. Clarity is generally very good and to the extent that there’s ever muffled dialogue or distortion it was certainly present in the original TV audio too. There are no subtitles, but there is one additional audio option that actually counts as a bonus feature (so more on that in a minute as well).

Madman’s set includes both seasons of the series encased in a pair of multi-disc keep cases (Season One includes 5 Blu-rays, while Season Two includes 3 BDs). Their content breaks down thusly:

Season One, Disc One includes the feature-length TV version of the 2-part Awakening pilot and the feature-length TV version of the 2-part Planet of the Slave Girls (both HD and in 1.33:1 original aspect ratio). You also get the feature film version of Awakening (upscaled to HD from 1.33:1 aspect SD PAL). The disc also includes the following extras: The ending credits from Awakening, Part One and opening to Awakening, Part Two (in HD – the portion removed to allow the presentation of Awakening as a feature film), the series’ opening title sequence in HD without actor William Conrad’s voice-over narration (in HD), and both the series opening and closing titles without credit text – just the visuals (again in HD). Finally, that additional audio option I mentioned: You get a music and effects-only track for both versions of Awakening