When Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from Glen A. Larson, creator of Battlestar Galactica) blasted onto NBC in 1979, it was ...

Following the success of Star Wars in 1977, production studios saw science-fiction as a potential goldmine. So it was inevitable that NBC brought Buck Rogers in the 25th Century to TV screens in the ...

In the wake of “Star Wars” fame, Universal Studios began developing a new science-fiction adventure program. The pilot for Glen A. Larson’s 1978 science-fiction series “Battlestar Galactica” was ...

The “difficult second season” issue faced by science-fiction shows in particular is usually caused by the same two issues. The network receives a better (i.e., more profitable) response from the ...

Gil Gerard was born on Jan. 23, 1943, in Little Rock, Arkansas. For school he attended a seminary before graduating from a ...

There are two kinds of people in this world: People who think good science fiction is only good because it’s serious, and people who think good science fiction is sometimes bad. Enter: Buck Rogers in ...