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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

This, the first episode in the new 1939 series of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, opens in the capital city of 25th century America, Niagara. We find Buck in Dr. Huer’s laboratory with Wilma Deering. Buck has just been hypnotized by Dr Huer’s Electro-Hypnotic Ray. He is lying asleep under the Electro-Hypno-Mentalophone. This device will allow someone to hear what a person is thinking by putting what they are thinking on a speaker.

To explain how the Electro-Hypno-Mentalophone works to Wilma, Dr. Huer demonstrates by asking Buck to tell them how he came to the 25th century.

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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

Since the Buck Rogers In The 25th Century radio shows were aired over 80 years ago only a few of the episodes are now available. The episodes I list below is only of the shows I actually have and is not intended to be a complete episode guide for the Buck Rogers In The 25th Century radio series.

1932-1936 Series
Unfortunately none of the shows from the 1932-1936 series exists to my knowledge. Of course if anyone knows the whereabouts of any shows from this series please contact me with information on how to obtain these shows.

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Cast of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In 1932, the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century radio program, notable as the first science fiction program on radio, hit the airwaves. It was broadcast four times a week for 15 years, from 1932 through 1947.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was first heard 07 November 1932 on CBS as a five times a week series. For the whole story we must go back to the 7th of January 1929, when Armageddon 2419 was first published as a newspaper comic authored by Philip Nowlan for the National Newspaper Syndicate, John F. Dille Company. Dick Calkins, a prominent cartoonists of the time did the illustrations. The first character to be starred in the series of short stories was called Anthony Rogers. The story of Anthony Rogers starts just after World War I had ended. Being out of the service, Buck finds a job as a surveyor who is to survey a crumbling mine. During his visit, he notices that the air around is pungent and the rocks were aglow. Suddenly the mine collapses and leaves Buck in a state of suspended animation. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the year 2419 right in the middle of a war.

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