Every great action-adventure hero is a rip-off of someone else. Captain Kirk was Gene Roddenberry’s riff on Horatio Hornblower. James Bond was Bulldog Drummond with better taste in booze. One of the ...

One of the signature shows of the era was the campy sci-fi adventure Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which followed its ...

The original hero of space opera is up for debate. Chronologically, most would claim that John Carter, of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novels, starting with A Princess of Mars (1912), is the beginning of the ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has won out in spirited bidding for the ’30s comicstrip “Flash Gordon,” negotiating with Hearst for the rights to make a live-action film. Breck Eisner (“Sahara”) is ...

When Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from Glen A. Larson, creator of Battlestar Galactica) blasted onto NBC in 1979, it was the perfect mix of post-Star Wars excitement and good old-fashioned sci-fi ...