Buck Rogers in the 25th Century/Trivia

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• Actor Allusion:
  • Retired Badass "General Gordon", part of the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits brought in to fight an invasion in the second episode, is played by Buster Crabbe -- who of course played both Flash Gordon as well as the original Buck Rogers in the old serials.

General Gordon: "I've been doing that sort of thing since before you were born, Colonel." Buck: "You think so?" General Gordon: "Young man, I know so."

• • In the second season episode "Journey to Oasis", Mark Lenard plays another alien Ambadassador.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Mel Blanc as Twiki (in the first season).
  • William Conrad (Cannon!) as the opening credits narrator.
• The Other Darrin: Bob Elyea as Twiki's voice in the second season. Also, Kane was played by Henry Silva in the pilot movie and by Michael Ansara in the series proper. In both cases, the cast changes came with a personality change. Twiki became more grumpy and cantankerous. Kane became honorable and dutybound.
• Prop Recycling: The Earth starfighters were a draft design for the Colonial Vipers from Battlestar Galactica; Buck's shuttle Ranger 3 and the stock footage of New Chicago were recycled from Galactica's "Terra" arc. At one point in the Pilot movie, a closeup of the Earth starfighter's joystick is identical to the 3-button joysticks in Galactica (later episodes used a different joystick prop).
• The Red Stapler: Erin Gray was rather flattered to learn that her role as the fearless Col. Wilma Deering was an inspiration for some female fans to join the military.
• Shout-Out:
  • In the episode "A Dream of Jennifer", the intercom can be heard paging Norrin Radd as Buck is arriving, and Captain Christopher Pike a short time later.
  • The second season has the character Admiral Asimov, as well as the assertion that Twiki and Crichton are equipped with positronic brains. Lampshaded by Crichton -- see "Three Laws"-Compliant on the main page.
  • In one episode Buck tells a flight instructor, "If you call that "interfering", there's something wrong with your Funk & Wagnalls!" Which is a five-hundred-year-old pop-culture reference (no doubt incomprehensible to the instructor) to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and one of their Catch Phrases, "Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!"
  • And of course General Gordon, as noted in Actor Allusion, above.