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List of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episodes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16203573 ↗
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science-fiction and adventure series produced by Universal Studios and ran on NBC from September 20, 1979 to April 16, 1981. It first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on August 30, 1980.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1981, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, Buck and Rogers is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episodes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.