Drago
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Gone to the big 25th century in the sky aged 82.
R.I.P. Gil Gerard
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captain nemo1701
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Just read that, once met his co star Erin Gray. Some people say the show cashed in on Star Wars. Ironically, Lucas based much of SW on Buck rogers & Flash Gordon, the old Buster Crabbe serials. I liked the first series, second went downhill a bit trying to be Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek.
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RIP Gil.
I loved this show. I guess it did cash in on Star Wars in the sense of riding a wave of renewed interest in space opera type scifi. I did remember watching the old black and white serials on a Saturday morning though.
I loved this show. I guess it did cash in on Star Wars in the sense of riding a wave of renewed interest in space opera type scifi. I did remember watching the old black and white serials on a Saturday morning though.
Teenage me is very jealous!
Evil_Breakfast
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This thread is in danger of turning into an Erin Gray appreciation thread.......
Evil_Breakfast
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Remember Jamie Lee Curtis being in an episode as well.
matticus
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Who?!?
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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It was out of the blue. Back in 1997 I went on a Start Trek theme cruise from LA to Mexico. The evening the ship departed, some of the guests were doing autographs at the pre-cruise dinner. She turned up & signed stuff, but wasn't a cruise guest. Never knew why she popped up, but nice to meet her briefly.
Female lead in Buck Rogers, the series which made Gil Gerard famous.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077278/characters/nm0001292/?ref_=tt_cst_c_2
matticus
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Like most TV sci-fi, they couldn't resist hiring some totty for the Dads. This approach often backfired, if the male cast had a tendency to get a little "Handsy":
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
He has been rendered unconscious, and a strange gas preserves him in a suspended animation or coma state. He will awaken and emerge from the mine in 2429 AD, in the midst of another war.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
I thought he got frozen in a shuttle mishap condemning him to a 500 year long orbit?. Unless they changed the Buster Crabbe version, been ages (1970's Saturday morning cinema club) since I saw it.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I’ve gone back to the original book.
Is it just my bad memory or am I thinking of a different programme?
Did that robot have a little face robot that used to hang round it's neck, and one of them talked in bleeps, they were a bit of a double act like C3PO and R2D2?
