Brother Future
| S - | Ep - | 1999/03/31 |
| TV Movie | 103 min | |
| FAN SF | USA | |
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
Brother to Brother
| Film | - min | |
Brows Held High
Primer
| S 2 | Ep 7 | 2012/05/05 |
| TV Series Episode | 20 min | |
| COM | USA | |
Our favorite citizen takes a look at a boring, low-budget film about the lives of two engineers who build something of a time machine, and has a run-in with a few of his clones.
Bu Bu Jing Xin
| S - | Ep - | 2005// |
| Novel | - min | |
| China | ||
made into TV Series Scarlet Heart Startling by Each Step, also known as Bubu Jingxin (Chinese: ), is the debut novel of Chinese writer Tong Hua. Originally published serially online in 2005 on Jinjiang Original Network ( ), it was later published by Ocean Press ( ), National Press ( ), Huashan Arts Press ( ), Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House ( ), and Yeren Culture Publishing ( ). Tong Hua revised the novel in 2009 and 2011. The latest edition contained an additional 30,000 word epilogue.[1]
Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust
| 2007/02/10 | ||
| Film | 116 min | |
| COM SF | Japan | |
Japan is in dreadful economic trouble. The government hatches a bizarre plan - they approach bar hostess Mayumi whose mother invented a time machine and vanished in 1990 trying to prevent the decision that led to the current crisis. Now they want Mayumi to go back to 1990, find her mother and save the country from financial ruin. When a brilliant female researcher accidentally turns an ordinary washing machine into a time machine, the Japanese government convinces her to travel back to 1990 and prevent the announcement of landmark fiscal policy that triggered the nation's economic demise. But the mission hits a snag when the researcher disappears, forcing the government to send her estranged daughter, Mayumi - a debt-ridden bar hostess and the only other person the time machine will accept - back in time to find out what happened. Mayumi arrives at the peak of Japan's "bubble" economy and finds a society obsessed with material wealth and profligate spending. With her warnings of impending doom falling on deaf ears, Mayumi's frustrated efforts to find her mother suggest some kind of conspiracy at work at the highest levels of government. Her own future and that of Japan itself begins to hinge on her ability to recruit the help of one man: the same finance bureaucrat who sent her through time. The problem is, he's 17 years younger and completely unreliable.
Buck Rogers
| S - | Ep - | 1929/01/07 |
| Comic | - min | |
| USA | ||
Born in 1898, Rogers is a veteran of the Great War (World War I) and by 1927 is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating reports of unusual phenomena reported in abandoned coal mines near Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. On December 15, there is a cave-in while he is in one of the lower levels of a mine. Exposed to radioactive gas, Rogers falls into "a state of suspended animation, free from the ravages of catabolic processes, and without any apparent effect on physical or mental faculties". Rogers remains in suspended animation for 492 years. Rogers awakens in 2419.
Buck Rogers
12 Amazing Thrill Thronged Chapters!
| S - | Ep - | 1939/04/11 |
| Serial | 237 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
A pilot and his young passenger crash-land on a mountaintop and are put into suspended animation by a strange gas. They awake 500 years later to discover that the Earth is now ruled by a tyrannical despot called Killer Kane, and they lead a fight to overthrow him. Preserved in a state of suspended animation for 500 years by the Nirvano gas in the gondola of their dirigible wrecked in the arctic ice wastes, Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe) and Buddy (Jackie Moran) are rescued by scientists in the year 2500 to find the world under the despotic rule of Killer Kane (Anthony Warde) and his super gangsters. Using an arsenal of fantastic weapons created in Dr. Huer's (C. Montague Shaw) clandestine laboratory, the group attempts to seek aid from the planet Saturn to oust the tyrannical ruler only to find that his henchmen have already taken over control of the Prince of Saturn. After several harrowing adventures with the Zugg men, Buck and Buddy return to Earth only to be shot down, imprisoned and finally rescued to participate in a spectacular air battle to wrest control of the Universe from the sinister intergalactic despot. Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Buck Rogers
Tomorrow's World
| S 1 | Ep 1 | 1939/04/11 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
A giant dirigible, piloted by Buck Rogers and Buddy crashes on an icy Arctic mountain. A strange "Nirvano" gas in their gondola preserves the flyers in a state of suspended animation for 500 years. Rescued and revived by a group of scientists they discover that the world has been conquered by Killer Kane and a horde of super gangsters. Taken to the Hidden City, they meet Wilma Deering and Dr. Huer and agree to help them wipe out Kane. Huer has invented spaceships, de-gravity belts, invisible ray machines, atom chambers, ray guns, and other strange and powerful weapons to resist Kane. Buck, Wilma, and Buddy to Saturn in their spaceship to enlist the aid of the Saturnians. Bobmbed by one of Kane's pilots, their craft explodes just as they reach Saturn,
Buck Rogers
Tragedy on Saturn
| S 1 | Ep 2 | 1939/04/18 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Using their de-gravity belts, Buck, Buddy, and Wilma make a safe landing on Saturn after their ship has been bombed by Killer Kane's, men who have followed them. In a pitched battle Buck and his friends are captured by Captain Lasca. Both groups are captured in turn by the Saturnians, who take them to the great council of the wise for judgment and sentencing. Here, Lasca convinces the rulers that Killer Kane is a just and kindly monarch. Only fast action permits Buck and his party to escape prison and return to earth in one of Lasca's spaceships. Entering the gates of Hidden City in their strange craft, Buck's ship is crushed as the gates close upon it and all the occupants are apparently killed.
Buck Rogers
The Enemy's Stronghold
| S 1 | Ep 3 | 1939/04/25 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
As his rocket ship is about to be crushed between the great gates of the Hidden City, Buck blasts a hole through the floor and his party escapes to earth using degravity belts. Here they are arrested and taken to Dr Huer, scientist general, where they are immediately freed. They report their experiences on the planet Saturn, and plan some way of fighting their enemies. Prince Tallen comes to sign a war pact with Killer Kane, despotic world ruler and Buck and Buddy make a daring trip to Kane's palace to present the agreement. Tallen learns that Kane is a crook and wearing a degravity belt, starts to leave with Buck and Buddy. The guards turn a searchlight on them, and a paralyzing gun which imprisons them helpless in midair as machine gunners load their weapons.
Buck Rogers
The Sky Patrol
| S 1 | Ep 4 | 1939/05/02 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Buddy, who escaped the deadly paralyzing rays that imprison Buck Rogers and Prince Tallen in midair, uses his disintegrating gun to destroy the paralyzing machine, thus saving his friends. In Kane's personal rocket plane, they start back to the Hidden City to report the aid of Saturnians in the war with Killer Kane. Wilma, ignorant of the fact that her friends are riding in Kane's ship, starts to bomb the craft and forces it down into the mountains. As Buck, Buddy and Prince Tallen run for safety among the rocks, a Killer Kane squadraon arrives and explodes the ship apparently killing Buck and his party.
Buck Rogers
The Phantom Plane
| S 1 | Ep 5 | 1939/05/09 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Discovering that Buck (Buster Crabbe), Buddy and Prince Tallen are being bombed by Killer Kane's air-pilots, Wilma turns her rocket ship back and drives the enemy away. She then takes the party to Hidden City, where Tallen signs a war pact to help in the war against Kane. Bad interplanetary radio reception makes it necessary for Buck, Tallen, and Wilma to ride a space-ship to Saturn to confirm the pact. Upon landing on Saturn they find an abandoned Kane ship and enter it in the hope of wrecking the controls. Kane's pilots spring forward and, closing the doors, release poison gas inside which apparently kills the three earth folk as they fall gasping to the floor.
Buck Rogers
The Unknown Command
| S 1 | Ep 6 | 1939/05/16 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Buck, Wilma, and Prince Tallen are rescued from the gas-filled space-ship by Killer Kane's men and taken to the great Saturnian forum. To induce Tallen to do their bidding, they fit him with an electric ray-helmet which makes his mind a blank and transforms him into a human robot who does what he is told. Buck and Wilma are amazed to hear Tallen denounce them and order them imprisoned, and agree to fight with Kane. Grasping Lasca's ray pistol and using Tallen as a shield, Buck and Wilma make their escape in an underground bullet car. To prevent their getting away, Lasca throws a switch which closed a steel door in their path, and toward which their speeding car must crash and kill them all.
Buck Rogers
Primitive Urge
| S 1 | Ep 7 | 1939/05/23 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Recovering consciousness after their speeding bullet car crashes into a steel bulkhead, Buck, Wilma, and Tallen return to the high tribunal of Saturn to plead their cause. Tallen has lost the filament-ray helmet that blotted out his mind, and again recognizes Buck and Wilma as his friends. Lasca discovers that the terrible primitive race, known as the the "Zugg" men, have accepted another human robot henchman of Lasca's as their leader and are staging a rebellion. Headed by Lasca and his gangsters they force their way into the forum. Buck smashed the radio set just as Lasca tries to broadcast for Kane to send reinforcements. The angry Zuggs charge Buck and he goes down under a wave of fighting animal-like creatures.
Buck Rogers
Revolt of the Zuggs
| S 1 | Ep 8 | 1939/05/30 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Escaping through a secret door when the Zuggs attack him in the forum, Buck calls the forces of Saturn to battle. Surprising Lasca and his human robot as they are rousing the Zuggs to further warfare, Buck removes the robot helmet and discovers he is a friend. The robot then orders the Zuggs to forget their rebellion and go home in peace. Grateful because Buck has ended the war, the Saturnians then agree to aid him in his battle with Killer Kane. Returning to earth with the good news, Buck is attacked by the enemy. His ship collides head on with another plane and falls dizzily to the ground.
Buck Rogers
Bodies Without Minds
| S 1 | Ep 9 | 1939/06/06 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Righting his rocket ship as it falls dizzily toward earth, Buck makes a safe landing, but he and Wilma are captured and taken to Kane's palace. The Hidden City people believe Buck has been killed, but Buddy Wade refuses to accept the thought. Risking his life to save his friend, he drops from a plane and lands inside Kane's airdome at night. Finding the council chamber in the palace empty, he reads the television machine and locates Buck inside the dynamo room. Buck is wearing a filament-ray helmet that makes him a ehlpless human robot and slave. Just as Buddy starts from the room to free Buck, a guard discovers the boy and shoots him down as he leaps through a window, apparently to his death.
Buck Rogers
Broken Barriers
| S 1 | Ep 10 | 1939/06/13 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
The shot which apparently killed Buddy only stunned him. and he continues on to meet Wilma and help rescue Buck from the ray helmet and slavery in the dynamo room. Together they take one of Kane's ships and return to the Hidden City. One of Kane's spies has stowed away inside the ship and on arrival gains control of the airdrome office. He calls Kane's raiding squadron to bomb the city, and at the fadeout, Buck is knocked out cold just as the first of the raiding bombers arrive.
Buck Rogers
A Prince In Bondage
| S 1 | Ep 11 | 1939/06/20 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Reviving quickly from the blow that knocked him to the floor of the airdrome control room, Buck overpowers Carson and closes the great gates of Hidden City just in time to bar entrance of the first of the enemy bombers. Huer tries unsuccessfully to radio the Saturnians to join them in battle to wipe out the despotic ruler, Killer Kane. Buck and Buddy take their rocket ship to Saturn and find that Lasca has taken Prince Tallen prisoner and is demanding the planet submit to rule by Kane. Buck urges them not to deal with the treacherous Lasca, as Killer Kane's ship start to bomb the city. Buck and Buddy try to escape in the bullet car but a bomb demolishes the roof, burying them in a mass of falling stone and debris.
Buck Rogers
War of the Planets
| S 1 | Ep 12 | 1939/06/27 |
| Serial Episode | 20 min APPR | |
| ADV FAM FAN | USA | |
Buddy frees Buck from the mass of debris inside the bombed building on the planet Saturn. With Prince Tallen, they succeed in capturing the treacherous Captain Lasca and his men. The Saturnians promise to help in the war against Killer Kane, and Buck and Buddy start back to earth. Deciding to attack from the inside, Buck lands the ship at Kane's palace airdrome. The Saturnians arrive, and in a magnificent air battle, Killer Kane's men are defeated. As a reward, Buck is made marshal of all the nation's planes. Buddy, despite his age, is made brevet lieutenant. At last, Buck and Wilma have time to consider romance.
Buck Rogers
1 season, 37 episodes
| S - | Ep - | 1950// |
| TV Series | 30 min | |
| SF | USA | |
The first version of Buck Rogers to appear on television debuted on ABC on April 15, 1950 and ran until January 30, 1951. There were a total of 36 black and white episodes in all (allowing for a 2-month summer hiatus). No episodes of the show survive today. Its time slot initially was on Saturdays at 6 p.m., and each episode was 30 minutes. The program was later rescheduled to Tuesday at 7 p.m., where it ran against the popular Texaco Star Theatre hosted by Milton Berle.[26] The show was sponsored by Peter Paul candy bars. The producers were trying to emulate the success of DuMont's Captain Video, but the series probably failed as a result of its minuscule budget. The decision to put the show on a summer hiatus for almost two months also undercut efforts to build an audience. The storyline was very faithful to Philip Francis Nowlan's original novel Armageddon 2419 AD, although in the 1950 TV series, Buck Rogers finds himself in the year 2430. Based in a secret lab in a cave behind Niagara Falls (the city of Niagara was now the capital of the world), Buck battles intergalactic troublemakers. Due to the minuscule budget, most of the episodes took place mainly in the secret lab. There were a number of changes to the cast during the series' short duration. Three actors played Buck Rogers in the series: Earl Hammond (who starred as Buck very briefly), Kem Dibbs (whose last appearance in the role was aired on June 3), and Robert Pastene (whose first appearance in the role was aired on June 10). The show apparently went on summer hiatus from around July 7 until the end of August, probably reappearing on the air again around Labor Day with Robert Pastene still in the lead role. (Kem Dibbs went on to have a long acting career in film and television.) Two actresses portrayed Wilma Deering: Eva Marie Saint and Lou Prentis. Two actors would also play Dr. Huer: Harry Southern and Sanford Bickart. Black Barney Wade was played by Harry Kingston. The series was directed by Babette Henry, written by Gene Wyckoff and produced by Joe Cates and Babette Henry. The series was broadcast live from station WENR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Chicago. There are no known surviving kinescopes of this first Buck Rogers television series. THE BUCK ROGERS SPACE KIT! From Chuck Lassen (November, 2002): I do remember watching the 1950 live BUCK ROGERS TV program, though I remember nothing about the plots. I did watch it and remember looking forward to it every week while it lasted. There was a giveaway punch-out BUCK ROGERS "space kit" tied into the TV series. To get it, you had to go with Mom or Dad to the local Sylvania dealer, and listen to a sales pitch on a new Sylvania TV (with HaloLight!). I remember my good old Dad hauling me down to the local showroom to get my BUCK ROGERS kit, and I had a lot of fun with it subsequently. [SpacEditor's note: No wonder; this kit, to judge from surviving ads, had a number of colorfully-printed cardboard sheets, from which you could punch out and assemble the following wonderful array of items: (1) A "space ranger helmet;" (2) a "disentergrator" [sic], a futuristic pistol which could fire small cardboard disks via rubber band propusion; (3) a "space ranger badge;" (4) a "strato-powered space ship," again using rubber band technology; (5) two "interplanetary space phones," which worked via the usual taut string technology; (6) and a "chronoscopic space compass" to wear on the wrist. All this, just for visiting your Sylvania dealer. One presumes Sylvania was the sponsor of this BUCK ROGERS incarnation, although no explicit evidence of this survives.] THE BUCK ROGERS STUDIO SET! From Nancy L. Robison (July,2000): In 1950, when I was in my early teens, I had the privilege of appearing on television in a [local] weekly series. The set for the show was a malt shop. We actors sat around sipping cotton sodas, singing, dancing, and carrying on sparkling repartee with one another about teenage life.... [Eventually we broadcast from] a huge warehouse that had several sets.... On the set next to us... was BUCK ROGERS, a sci-fi program. Buck had wild adventures with aliens and unexplored territories in outer space.... Anyway, Buck had two rocket ships. One was an open cockpit with no sides, so the camera could see the actors better. The other was a whole ship with doors and sides for long shots. Both were made of cardboard and both sat on [wooden] rockers, like a cradle. Neither model moved without assistance from the stage crew, and many times anyone standing around was drafted to help out in the "flying" [effect] for these ships. When there was a particularly heavy, rough ride through a field of meteorites or some such thing, we, from the other sets, were asked to help with rocking the spaceships. "Stand by," the director would whisper into his microphone off-camera. Then, on cue, we would gather on either side of the ship, step up on a seesaw-type thing, and rock the cradle back and forth--- thus travelling into space with Buck Rogers and his sidekick, Lieutentant Wilma Deering!