“I enjoyed that show and Erin Grey.”
Oh, yes, Erin Gray had it going on... in a big way. Likely was every (straight) American boy’s dream girl c. 1980.
The show sorta lost momentum in the 2nd season when they left New Chicago for more of Star Trek-style new-planet-every-episode kind of thing.
I didn’t think about it until your post, but for me the timing of Buck Rogers in my preteens, followed by Star Trek The Next Generation in my late teens, early twenties, is probably why I enjoyed both shows a lot (aside from TNG’s first season LOL). As a preteen I liked the space adventure and comedic nature of BR. Then later as a teenager who was a stereotypical hobby programmer who got a CS degree and made a career out of it, TNG was very entertaining. At that age I was more interested in the science: the “sci” of sci-fi. TNG had great tech consultants to make sure the science was good (with overtly fantasy stuff thrown in too like space aliens and warp drives).
The brainchild idea of a different producer.
Killed a good series
What Fred Freiberger liked to do.
I liked the William Conrad narration better in the first season better.