He milks the latest scientific advances, translating them into his own special Buck Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay fever to sexual impotence and cancer.

* Arcologies appear in the Buck Rogers XXVC RPG, particularly on ravaged Earth where they have replaced many former metropolitan centers.

Starting in the early 1930s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Captain Easy, Buck Rogers, Tarzan and The Adventures of Tintin.

Among her notable television credits are Capitol ( as Kimberly Beck-Hilton ), Fantasy Island, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( as one side of a Jekyll-and-Hyde character, whose counterpart was played by Trisha Noble ), Westwind, Dynasty, Lucas Tanner and Peyton Place ( as the character Kim Schuster ).

* In Buck Rogers in the 25th Century science-fiction TV series, in the 2-part episode " The Plot To Kill A City ", the villains have to knock down a door made entirely out of neutronium.

Having been inspired by science fiction heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Bradbury began to publish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938.

The 1928 publication of Philip Nolan's original Buck Rogers story, Armageddon 2419, in Amazing Stories was a landmark event.

This story led to comic strips featuring Buck Rogers ( 1929 ), Brick Bradford ( 1933 ), and Flash Gordon ( 1934 ).

ABC attempted to cash in on the burgeoning television science fiction market with a small screen version of Buck Rogers in 1950, but failed within months.

This led to the production of shows including Logan's Run then there was Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Battlestar Galactica ( 1978 – 1980 ).

Models have been an essential tool in science fiction television since the beginning, when Buck Rogers took flight in spark-scattering spaceships wheeling across a matte backdrop sky.

* Glen A. Larson, creator of Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Galactica 1980, and Knight Rider

* February 1 – Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers ( b. 1888 )

* Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character ( d. 1940 )

* November 7 – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century debuts on American radio.

The original dual-in-line package was invented by Bryant " Buck " Rogers in 1964 while working for Fairchild Semiconductor.

* Some of the sound effects used in the series originated from Universal Television's Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

* Buck Rogers comic strip-originally just repulsor beams ; tractors appeared by 1970s

* Gil Gerard, American, actor and star of " Buck Rogers "

Curtis also appeared in the science fiction series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and an early episode of The Drew Carey Show.

Through her family, she personally held the rights to the Buck Rogers license and encouraged TSR to produce Buck Rogers games and novels.

Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.

He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde.

At first it was just Roy and Buck, and later on the entire cast joined in.

Universal Pictures ' Abbott and Costello came out with the first feature film on the subject Buck Privates and followed it with the team In The Navy and in the United States Army Air Corps to Keep ' Em Flying.

( The first two belonged to Wendy Carlos and Buck Owens.

Fred DeLuca borrowed $ 1, 000 from family friend Peter Buck, to start his first sandwich shop on August 28, 1965.

( 1969 was also the year that Jack Buck divorced his first wife Alyce Larson-who he had married in 1948 and had six children with-and married his second wife, Carole Lintzenich, who gave birth to their son Joe Buck in the same year ).

Buck called Chicago Bears games in his first two CBS seasons, then switched to Dallas Cowboys games, including the famous " Ice Bowl " championship game in 1967.

Ironically, in 1970 ABC's Roone Arledge had asked via telephone about Buck's interests in becoming the first television play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football, but because of personal animosity surrounding his previous stint with the network, Buck wouldn't return their phone call.

Video Replay on the scoreboard at Busch Stadium shown on the 5th anniversary of the 9 / 11 attacks of Buck reading his For America poem at Busch Memorial Stadium before the first Cardinals game after the 9 / 11 attacks.

Buck wrote a poem named For America that he read at the first Cardinals game after the 9 / 11 attacks to describe his opinion and the general opinion, regarding defeating terrorism, of Americans after September 11.

Other dogs featured on the list were Lassie ( first ), Eddie ( fifth ), Snoopy ( sixth ), Scooby-Doo ( 13th ), Rin Tin Tin ( 14th ), Max ( 20th ), Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog ( 24th ), Buck ( 29th ), Chipper ( 44th ), and Tiger ( 50th ).

In addition to winning various national and regional awards, Chattanooga was the profile city of the August 2007 edition of US Airways Magazine, Volkswagen announced the construction of its first U. S. auto plant in over three decades, the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant, in July 2008, Chattanooga was ranked 8th out of America's 100 largest metro areas for the best " Bang For Your Buck " city, according to Forbes magazine, which measured overall affordability, housing rates, and more, in December 2009, and got the first one gigabit a second Internet service in the United States in September 2010 through the city-owned utility of EPB, among other major events.

An over-anxious guardian angel ( Buck Henry ) on his first assignment plucks Joe out of his body early in the mistaken belief that his death is imminent, and Pendleton arrives in the afterlife.

During this time the area that is now Grandville was populated at first by mills that used the Buck Creek to power its mills.

The first was a sewage plant to take care of issues from the state in regards to dumping it in the Buck Creek and Grand River.

Marion, the county seat of McDowell County, was planned and built on land selected by the first McDowell County Commissioners on March 14, 1844 at the Historic Carson House on Buck Creek.

Associated with Christian Buck was another pioneer by the name of Ove Oveson who operated the first store.

They performed as 10, 000 Maniacs for the first time on Labor Day, September 7, 1981, with a line-up of Merchant, Lombardo, Buck, Drew, Gustafson, and Tim Edborg on drums.

The first time he played with the band was December 12, 1998 on the song " These Are Days ", while Buck was away from the band.

Buck Trent became the first nationally known star to open a morning show.

East Wind: West Wind is a novel written by Pearl S. Buck in 1929, her first.