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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Season 2

13 episodes Premiered Jan 15, 1981 Updated Oct 8, 2026
Previously on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Season 1.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (10): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Time of the Hawk (1)

Jan 15, 1981 · 60 min

Buck, Wilma, and Twiki set off into deep space aboard the Searcher, a starship on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth -- humans who fled to the stars after a nuclear holocau

S2·E2 Core

Time of the Hawk (2)

Jan 15, 1981 · 60 min

Buck, Wilma, and Twiki set off into deep space aboard the Searcher, a starship on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth -- humans who fled to the stars after a nuclear holocau

S2·E3 Core

Journey to Oasis (1)

Jan 22, 1981 · 60 min

Hawk's first mission among the humans is to join Buck, Wilma, and Dr. Goodfellow in escorting Ambassador Duvoe to a peace conference that could avert a terrible galactic war. Crisi

S2·E4 Core

Journey to Oasis (2)

Jan 22, 1981 · 60 min

Hawk's first mission among the humans is to join Buck, Wilma, and Dr. Goodfellow in escorting Ambassador Duvoe to a peace conference that could avert a terrible galactic war. Crisi

S2·E5 Core

The Guardians

Jan 29, 1981 · 60 min

Buck finds himself entrusted with a bizarre glowing green box when he and Hawk find an old man near death on a remote planet. Back on the Searcher, the box creates a series of biza

S2·E6 Core

Mark of the Saurian

Feb 5, 1981 · 60 min

The Saurians plot to destroy the Searcher and start a galactic war by infiltrating the starship and a space station in human disguise. Only Buck, who has contracted a strange virus

S2·E7 Core

The Golden Man

Feb 19, 1981 · 60 min

The Searcher rescues a gold-skinned boy from an escape capsule in an asteroid field. When the ship collides with one of the asteroids, the boy displays his powers of molecular alte

S2·E8 Core

The Crystals

Mar 5, 1981 · 60 min

Buck, Wilma, and Hawk are confronted with a bizarre riddle on an alien planet they are exploring for crystals to power the Searcher. Part of the riddle is the connection between a

S2·E9 Core

The Satyr

Mar 12, 1981 · 60 min

Buck and Twiki come across the survivors of a failed colony, a young widow and her son. The woman tells Buck that the other colonists all fled the planet as the result of a plague.

S2·E10 Core

Shgoratchx!

Mar 19, 1981 · 60 min

Buck is ordered to explore a derelict spaceship that the Searcher encounters, and finds it filled with solar bombs and crewed by seven little men. They are escorted back to the Sea

S2·E11 Core

The Hand of the Goral

Mar 26, 1981 · 60 min

Buck, Wilma, and Hawk explore a strange planet and come across the wreckage of a spacecraft and its lone survivor. He is taken back to the Searcher by Wilma, while Buck and Hawk co

S2·E12 Mytharc

Testimony of a Traitor

Apr 9, 1981 · 60 min

An ancient videotape is discovered that proves that Buck was involved in the nuclear holocaust that nearly destroyed the Earth hundreds of years before. Commissioner Bergstrom conv

S2·E13 Mytharc

The Dorian Secret

Apr 16, 1981 · 60 min

Buck and Hawk are sent to pick up the survivors of a planetary disaster and transport them to a new home. Before departing, Buck rescues a young woman from a group of Dorian thugs.

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