Okay, let's go way back from the 80's to the 1930's and Buster Crabbe as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1AHjN27xU
Anthony "Buck" Rogers first taste of action was during the Great War, when he served as a U.S. Air Service support pilot. After the war ended, he had no idea just how long it would be before his next taste of action.
Following his military service Buck started working as a surveyor in Pennsylvania. He was down a mine in 1919 when a cave-in occured, and was trapped. The cave-in released a pocket of a strange, radioactive gas, which placed the surveyor into a state of suspended animation. It would be five hundred years before he awoke.
Buck was understandably disorientated by his experience, and things weren't helped when the first person he met after he recovered tried to shoot him. Wilma Deering was hunting for outlaws, and figured the bizarre looking man in front of her must be one of her quarry. Luckily for Buck she tripped oer a root, and he was able to grab her ray gun. He then managed to win her confidence by killing the very men she had been tracking. Wilma explained to him how the world had changed. The Mongol hordes now threatened to take over the entire civilised world.
Buck returned with Wilma to the spectacular and futuristic cities with their air cars and synthetic foods. Being a man of action from a more primitive age, he soon found his niche in the military fighting the Mongols, swiftly rising to the rank of Captain, then becoming a secret agent, an intelligence officer and finally the head of the Rocket Rangers. Throughout this time Wilma remains his closest ally, although he also makes the acquaintance of the genius Dr. Huer, who acts as his advisor in this strange new world. Together they spend decades battling the Mongols, led by the malevolent Killer Kane and the beautiful but evil Ardala.
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