Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Satyr

Universal City: Glen Larson Production, 1980. Draft script for the seventh episode of the second season of the 1979-1981 NBC television series, which aired on March 12, 1981.

Based on the 1929-1967 comic strip character created by Philip Francis Nowlan. Developed for television by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, the NBC science fiction series ran for two seasons and 32 episodes, and premiered on September 20, 1979, ending on April 16, 1981. The series' two hour premiere was released as a made-for-TV movie and released theatrically in March 1979.

The twentieth century astronaut Buck Rogers emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation in the twenty-fifth century and becomes Earth's greatest hero. In this episode, Buck, while exploring the planet Arcadis for a lost human colony, is bitten by a satyr-like being, and soon begins transforming into one himself, and must fight the transformation to help a family escape the planet.

Front wrapper integral with title page, dated July 14, 1980, with credits for screenwriters Paul Schneider and Margaret Schneider. 65 leaves, with last page of text numbered 63. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

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