Buck Rogers (1939)
Buck Rogers
1939A 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.
Seasons & Episode
Having escaped death during the crash of his airship. Buck and his crew survive by using a strange suspended animation gas. Awakened 500 years later by scientists he finds the earth under the rule of gangsters like Killer Kane. The only chance is to seek help from another planet.
Buck delivers a war pact from Prince Tallen to Killer Kane.
BUDDY WADE escapes from Kane's Council Chambers where he has gone in search of his friends Wilma Deering and Buck Rogers. MAKING his way along the palace terrace Buddy encounters Wilma and together enter the dynamo room, relieve Buck of his amnesia helmet, restoring him to consciousness.
ENTERING the control room, Buck and Marshall Kragg discover Carson, a Kane Lieutenant, operating the Hidden City gates. BEFORE Kragg can close the gates, two ships of Kane's squadron get through, but their crews are soon captured. BUCK and Buddy go to Saturn to enlist their Allies for a final drive against the outlaw forces of the earth.
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.