Some footage was taken from "Battlestar Galactica" (1978), along with many props. This was the pilot for the TV series that followed ("Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979)). When no network chose to air it, the film debuted in theaters. The Buck Rogers theme features lyrics that were not used for the TV series. It has been noted that these lyrics seem to parallel plot developments in the later Buck Rogers-inspired series "Farscape" (1999). Douglas Rain (the ...[Read Story ]