A 12-part Buck Rogers film serial was produced in 1939 by Universal Pictures Company. In this version Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade are involved in a dirigible accident in a remote place. Immediately afterwards they somehow get into suspended animation waiting for rescue. When they are finally discovered and revived, they learn that 500 years have passed. A tyrannical dictator named "Killer Kane" and his henchmen now run the world. Buck and Buddy must now save the world, and they do so with the help of Lieutenant Wilma Deering and Prince Tallen of Saturn. (based on the comic strip); with Buster Crabbe, Jackie Moran, Constance Moore, directed by Ford Beebe & Saul A. Goodkind; screenplay by Norman S. Hall and Ray Trampe.
