I’ll always remember him as the deus ex machina techie named after the inventor of television from UHF.
RIP, Philo (or whatever they call you on your home planet).
Didn’t he also play the drug runner that Timothy Olyphant (justifiably) shoots in Miami in the opening scene of “Justified”?
Sheesh, it looks like back in July I got on the board with 9 points, and now there is only one remaining Dionne quintuplet. For 5 people with the same birthday they sure have a diversity of death dates.
I just noticed it.
There have already been three. Back in the 1990s.
Sure you had picked the right one? 
Hah! Had’em both!
As a kid I loved Buck Rogers. It did not age well.
I was hoping someone would do an updated remake as good as Battlestar Galactica, but nobody has stepped up. RIP Gil Gerard.
The problem with Buck Rogers is that the original stories were all about the “Yellow Menace”.
Rachael Carpani, ‘NCIS: LA’ and Australian soap star, dies at 45.
USA TODAY and others. Illness related.
Duck Dodgers,on the other hand, is evergreen.
Yeah, but considering how much room a modern writer would have to play around in, making it something that isn’t necessarily a horrific 70’s racist allegory shouldn’t be hard.
That said, I remember watching Buck Rogers as a kid, and I think I only really liked Twiki.
Was that that silly robot always going “beep beep da-deep”? Or the sentient Lite-Brite that he had around his neck?
Twiki was the short humanoid robot that said bidibidi, the round thing was Dr. Theopolis, a member of the Earth computer council.
Brian
That’s right! Thank you.
Madame P. and I have a favorite moment from the TV series. The gang are battling a space vampire, and watch a recording of it attacking an officer on another ship. What made it memorable is the “fact” that vampires are invisible to recording (similar to mirrors), which means the poor actor had to do the entire scene fighting nobody and losing. It was an A for effort, but D for effects moment.
Good trivia question, in the original book, what was Roger’s given name?
As I recall, the tv show intro said he was William “Buck” Rogers. Was his name different in the printed version?