Buck Rogers might just be the most influential sci-fi comic hero ever -- and he's almost entirely disappeared.

Gil Gerard, an actor best known for his title roles in 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' on screens big and small, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 82.

Gil Gerard, the actor best known for playing the eponymous space hero in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” died Tuesday at age 82, his wife announced. “Early this morning Gil – my soulmate – lost his ...

The actor, who played the sci-fi hero for two seasons on NBC from 1979 to 1981, died following a battle with cancer, his wife Janet announced ...

Gil Gerard, also known as Captain William Buck Rogers of the cult television series Buck Rogers, passed away at the age of 82.

Who controls the rights for the pulp sci-fi hero, Buck Rogers? A new story in The Hollywood Reporter has called Buck’s future into question, as Skydance revealed plans to make a new Buck Rogers movie.

Brian K. Vaughan, the comics author behind Y: The Last Man and Saga, has been tapped to pen Legendary’s television adaptation of classic pulp hero Buck Rogers. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Rogers ...

Legendary Pictures maintains it is the rightful owners of the “Buck Rogers” rights following the latest legal threat from the Nowlan Family Trust, who claims they own the rights. Legendary was hit ...

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 ...

Legendary has closed a deal with academy award winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential”) to rewrite the television adaptation of “Buck Rogers,” TheWrap has exclusively learned.