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A native of lillie Rock, Gil Ge rard was driving a cab in
New York wh en he wa s singled out fo r a role in LOile Story.
During the ne xt few years. he did most of hi s acting in tele
vision comme rcials- some four hu ndred of th em. Then came a
leading role in the daytime TV se ries, Th e Doctors. Mea nwh ile,
Gerard form ed his own produ ctio n company in pa rtnersh ip
with a wri ter.produce r. co-aut hored a sc reenplay ca lled /-Iooch
and filliled il . He co-s ta rr ed with Yve tte MiJllieux in TIle Ran-
som o f Alice an d pla yed Lee Grant 's lover in Airport '77. A
guest shot in Little '·Iouse 0 11 th e Prairie imp ressed produce r·
star Mi chael Landon wh o cast him in the lead ing ro le in a
TV m ov ie. Killillg Stolle.
One of tho se rare sc reen stars who grew up in th e heart
of Los Ang eles. Pamela Ilensicy attended the Ar gy le Academy
and then won an audition with the wo rld famou s Royal Aca-
demy of Dr amatic -Art s in London. After three years of in ten
sive theatrical train ing. shc felt she was at last ready to chal
le nge he r home town. Hensley soon appeared in such dramatic
TV se rics as Columbo , Ma cmillan and Wife, McCloud and The
Rock ford Files. She starred as James Caan's Ii ve· in love r in the
fUlUr istic fan tasy Rollerball. prod uced by onnan Jewison.Before Buck Rogers ca me Doc SO ilage, in which she was an
exotic Indian maiden wh o saved th e hero's life.
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Born and rai sed in Honolu lu , Erin Gray moved with her
fam il y to Cal iforni a when she was eight ycars o ld . She was fif.
(een when a chance meet ing with Nina Blanchard. head of aile
of Holl ywood's (OP model :Ige nt.:ics. convinced her of whal she
wa lll ed to do in life, Mov ing to . ew York she became one of
(h e town's most so ught after model s. TV view ers encount ered
her cOlllm ercials fo r Brec k. Ma x Fa ctor . Clairol. Ca may Soap
and RC Cola and a classic spot for English Leather cologne.
Bctwccn modcli ng assignmcllt s. shc studicd aCli ng. She ap·
peured on such scries as Police Story and Gibbsl1lle and co·
starrcd as a tough.m indcd rcporter in Ir win Shaw 's Hvcning in
By zan tium.
Ilorn to Basque· lta lian pa ren ts in Brook lyn, New York.
Henry Sil va quit public sc hool to attend drama cl asses at th e
age of 13. Wh en the Actors Studio sto ged A liai/ul 0/ Raill. it
cam c to Broadway with Henry Silva in a key role. In Holl y·
wood. he playcd a sll ccession of heav ies in fillil s includi ng Th e
Bravados. Green Man sions. Oceans Eleven. Th e Manchurian
Candidate and Johnny Cool. An Italian produce r made Henry
an offer and he moved hi s famil y overseas. A spa ghctli wc stern.
71,e Hills Run Red, made Silva popular in Spain, ltalY, Germany
and France. Re turning to th e United States. he co·s tarred wit hFrank Si natra in Con tract 0 11 Cherry Street, then signed on as
Buck Roge rs' ev il adversary.
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Best known to television viewers as Elliott Carson in the
TV se ries Peyton Place, Tim O'Connor began his acting career
with the Goodman Memo rial Theatre in Chicago just afte r
Wo rld War II. He appemed frequently on telev ision in the f1f-
ti es on the U1Iited States Steel !-Iollr and be came a main stay of
the Family Classics series. starring in such procltu : tions as The
Three Mu sketeers and A Tale of Two Cities. O'Connor has settled in Santa Mon ica and established himself as one of fillll
dom's most versati le performers. Recent film credit s have in-
cluded Illheels, Th e Man with the Power, Tailgwl1ler Joe and
Murder in Peyton Place . a TV special wh ich reunit ed him with
lIlany of his o l ~ in the original show.
From Montreal. Canada. Joseph Wisema n came to
Broadway in the 1930's. where he was critically hailed for per-
fo rmances in Shake speare' s King Lear, Clifford Odet s' Go /den
Boy and Chekhov's Uncle Va1lya. Am ong hi s most moving
charac ter portra its wa s the fath er in the award·winning New
York sta ge ve rsion of The Diary of Alllle Frank. Wiseman ha s
been see n in numerous film s. including Detective Slory star
ring Kirk Dougla s. Vi va Zapata with 1arlon Brando, Th e Gar-
mem Jungle. The Nig ht Th ey Raided Min sky's, The Valac"i
Papers and Th e Apprelllices"ip of Duddy Kravitz, whichbrought him back 10 hi s na tive Ca nada for a co-starring role
with Richa rd Dre y fu ss.
Rai sed in a small villagc out side Romc. Felix Silla trained
a c ircus pcrformcr and toured with thc Rin gling Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey Show. His t<J lcllt s :lS OJ bareback rider.
trapeze 'Irlis l tlnd tumbler brought him to Ho ll ywood where
he becamc a Stu ll tman, start ing with the fi lm A Ticklish Allair.
His best known rolcs arc t.he mi nia ture Hit ler wh o menaced
George Segal in Th e Black Bird and Cousin It t 011 the TV series.
The Addams Family. He has doubled - often for chi ldren - in
Th e Towering Inferno, Th e lIindenberg and Bafl/es lar Galae-
tica. He frequentl y appear s with his own mu sical combo. The
Ori ginal Harm onica Band .
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Historivol notes-,..;.
The production of Buck R ogers recalls the birth of science fict ion's most celebrated he ,o almoS! fifty years ago.
Bu ck Rogers was inspired by J ohn P. Dille , head of the Nat iona l Newspaper Syndicate which pub lished some of
Am e rica's most popular comic sTrjps during the 1920' s. Convin ced that t e Su nday funnies-were fall ing behind the
times. he hired short story writer Philip Nowlan and 3(tisfR i chard Ca lkin s to crea te a new, futuri stic str ip.
Nowlan adapted his ownSanta sy Armageddon 2419 to the PLoject, bu t Calkins at nrst held ou t \or an idea he
liked better , an adventure se rial set in prehistoric times. Calkins fina1ly re ented and Bu ck Rogers made his ini tial
appearance on January 7 , I n 9. On March 3Q,.J930, anot ll! rSunday ver,sio ofJJ.upk Rogers began. The strip fea tured
Buddy Deering, Wilma' s brolller, and Alura, a y o u ~ prin ces a I t ' T h e : s u n d a y : : v e l s i Q n , w hile signed by artist
Calk in s, wa s actually drawn by hi s assi stantsJ{usseli Keato'n. an aer J93'3y witti. RiehaI! :-.ney Yager,Within a few
years, th e exploit s of the time-traveli,ng hero were featured il l 400 Americ ln' n wspapers and undreds more ab road,
through translation into 18 foreign languages. 1:::::::::- ,
The fir st Blick Rogers radio show aired on No vember 7, J932 and Dnlversa l produced the fir st widely see n Bu ckRogers movie as a twelve chapter serial starrin,g ex -Olympic medalist Larry "Buster" Crabbe in 193 9 , In the se rial Buck
awakens in th e Arctic after five hundred years of sleep, He teams up with Wilma Deering and Dr. Huer to conquer Ki ller
Kane, Actually, Buck R ogers first appeared on film in a movie short p r e ~ a r e d for department slores under the direction
of Dr. Harlan Tarbell. The ftlm premiered at tne Chicago World's Fair in J934. In the flIJll\ Bu ck and his companion
Buddy are sent into suspended animation due to a dose of Nirvana gas from a disab led'balloo
It is es tima ted that Bu ck R ogers has fascinated 1110re than fourbiUion enthu siasts around lhe world since Calkins
and owlan collaborated on the fir st str ip, One more item for trivia buffs is the hero 's (cal name, Phil Nowlan uriginally
dubbed him An thony ,Rogers, but re-christened him "Bu ck" before the str ip wa s launched when publisher Dill e asked
for a more virile image.
The Illost famous of the technical marvel s in the Buck R ogers storie s, oth er than rocketships, were the flying belt s
and di sintegrators, Since the creation of the comic strip, both have approached sc ientifit reality, The ro cket flying belt
un derwent its first sa tisfactory te st in 196 1 at Niaga ra Falls Airport. The toy di sin tegra, ors,whi ch appear today in the
Buck Rogers exhibit in the National Air and Space Mu seum. seem close to actuality consider ing th e recent deve lop
ments in lase r tec hnology,
BUCK ROGERS the firs/days 1929
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Cllara0te.r notesBuck Rogers
A cl ean -cut , daring hero, Buck Rogers is all alert , self-reliant youth originally from the twentieth cen tury. While
surveying an abandoned mine wh ich caved in 0 11 him , Bu ck succumbs to the vapors of a radioactive gas. l1e s th rown
mt o a stat e of suspended anll1131100 and awakens fi ve hundred years later mto a new, unfamiliar world. Whlie not a
sup er- hero lik e Batman or ST erman.Bu ck ISex tremel y Ulle llige nt lind charismatk. He is loved by many wom en In theco urse of the strip , mcJudin ilma Deenn g, Flame D' Amou r, Thavia of Venus, Tiki of Eldonia and Doctor Merberec
of Venus. .
i l m a DeeringI , '.
A co mbatant yet f,minine citizen of the centu ry, Wi lma Dee ring is a beautiful, slender, blue·eyed
lieutenant in the Earth 's ipace-age army, Wilma is th e supreme example o f th e strong ye t vulnerable woman . l-fer home
town is Mountain City . She is suspicious of Buck at ii rst but eventually grows to Jove him. In the comic st r ip, she is
loved by many men is occasiona lly kidnal?ped or rans'llgured in to a e a t 1 1 s afue. She was kissed by Bu ck less
than ten times in the of the strip .
Kill er Kane
The Illost n ' n . , ~ c " " villain in the galaxy , Killer Kane combines a credible mi x-ture of trai torous qualit ies. Some
time in the past , was a re spec ted member of th e army and Wilma's SUitor, bes ides. After defecting fr om the
arm y, Kane grows hate Wilma when she and Bu ck involved . Kane js killed three times in the course of the
strip. He always several epi sodes later. As ev il as he is, Kane fosters a love for Princess Ardala.
Princess Ardala
An unpred' temptress, Princess is a shap ely brun ette who is treache rous and evil. Conspi ring with
Killer Kane, the !l- ;n r p « is totally untrustwor thy and will often d ece ive her aJlies. She tries to dominate Kill er Kan e but
"HEN I EMEQGEDFQ()M THE MINE\,oIHEQE , 11"'0 LAININ A STAT{suSPENDED ANI-MATION IT WAS TOFI NO /l ~ T P A N u e v-oRLO.
I StOOD IN AVAST F()QEST ANO
A GIRL SOt.OU:R.SAILING THROUGHTHE AIQ,JCRASHEDAT MY ...Ef T UN -
CONSCIOUS
her way. She longs for Buck though sh e only infrequently acknowledges th ose fee lings. Known as
or iginal stri p, she appears in unu suaJ places in fantastic gu ises: as Quee n o f ES lar ia on Ve nus or
Monk ey Men on Planet X.
Do ctor Hu er
" "nstelp o f th e twenty-fifth century. Doc tor Hu er is a sc ient ist with almost super-hu man int ellige nce. He is
President and active ly seeks the company of Buck and Wilma as well. Huer's powe rs are de sired by
he is often prey to abduction effort s by remote controlled robot s. In one epi sode of the strip , Doc tor
of th e Nine Moons of Saturn. Hi s chief accomp lishmen ts, however, are his invent ions, which in
metal that w ill not dent ; in lertron , matter tha t falls upward ; the electro-hypno tic test chair ; ultra
the nucleonic o sc illator.
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Film not0s"The most beautIful sound il l my li fe
was . . . a folded newspaper kiting {"rough the
summer air alld landing 0 11 my [ ro l l I porch.
'" lepr OU I, eyes blazing, mouth gasping
for breath. hands seizing 01 the paper . . . so
that the hUllgry soul of Olle of Wauk egan, IIl i·nois' /ines t small ;lIlel/eels could feed upon
Bu ck Rogers."
That's science fi c tion writer Ray Bradbury's fo nd
reco llec tion of Bu ck Rogers, the daily comic strip which
fa sci nated hundreds of millions of readers, in fift y countries
and 18 languages, during a forty year span. Bu ck made hi s fir st
appeara nce in 1929, a lime wh.en comm ercial air traffic was
limited to a few thou sand we ll -heeled travelers and when the
thought of se ndin g a rocke t th rough space or a moving picture
through th e air was pure fantasy. But as America's first pop
ular space hero, he se t the tone fo r a new kind of adventure to
come and predicted many of the scientific marvels we tak e for
granted today, from hi gh speed computers to nuclea r weapons.
In th e original Buck Rogers. the hero was an ex ·Air
Force pilot who was sent to survey an aband oned mine shaft
out side Pitt sburgh . Ove rcome by a stra nge, nox ious gas, he
spent five hl!.ndred yea rs in a state of suspended animation.
"That was "a'" fanciful idea, without any real va lidity ," says
Leslie Stevens, a filmmaker with a lifelong int eres t in sc ience .
" We took an approach which is ju st as imaginative, maybe
more so, bu t sci entifically feasible."
In thi s adve nture , Bu ck is an American ast ronaut , circa
1987 , piloting NASA's final deep space probe . Wh en he sa ils
through a showe r of meteori te s, both he and hi s li fe suppor tsystem s are frozen solid while hi s craft is th row n of f it s
trajectory at incred ible speed.
" Acco rding to Einstein, nothing can exceed the speed
of light beca use at th at poin t , matt er becomes ene rgy," ex
plains Steven s. " But as you approach light speed, time moves
faster fo r you th an it does fo r your environment.
"That's why o nly a few month s go by for Bu ck whi le
some five hundred yea rs elapse on Earth. Scie nti sts have
observed the same phenom enon in the stud y of sub-atomic
particles, w hich move so fast th at they exist in a different
time frame and their ma ss chan ges. When they hit the speed
of light , they ex plode infinitely, which is the basis for the
atomic bomb ."
Once hav ing found a logical way for Buck to leapfro g
five ceIlturies. an even mo re fasci nati ng prob lem confront ed
th e produce rs. Wh at would socie ty be like in the distan t
futu re? Th eir an swers were execut ed by a slllall army of spe ·
cialists including visual effec ts creators Dave Garber and
Waync Smi th , se t deco rator Rich Reams, ar t director Paul
Pete rs and cos tum e designe r Jean-Pierre Dorleac.
Th e c it y of the future is governed by computcrs and pro ·
lee ted by an invisib le for ce field which keeps ou t sueh enemies
as the barbaric Dr<lco nians. When Buck returns to Ea rth, the
Draconians have sued fo r pea ce and an historic summit meet
ing is about to take place.
I ·
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The chronology enab led the filmmakers to give Bu ck Rogers two contra sting appearances. The city of the future
is a gleaming realm of glass and po lished metal , where electronic gadgets do mu ch of the wo rk and even make the laws
.. It 's an Oz- like city where pure scie nce is king," says Garber. On e sequence was filmed in the lobby of the Bonaventu re
Hotel in Los Angeles. a sleek se lling where pa rts o f Fanrastic } ourlley were milled.
Art directo r Paul Peter s based his costum e designs for 25 th century Eart h on th ose of Edwardian Eng land.
Produce r Stevens had wa nte d to indicate a culture th at was morally rigid. The dresses and uniforms have hi gh collars
and long sleeves to sugges t a represse d men tality. Ant ique furniture is scattered throughout the sleek, futur istic se t to
sugges t an ea rlier era before the nuclear holocau st.
The Dra conian empire, in cont ras t , is se nsuou s and prim itive. Stevens and Peters com pared Prin cess Arda la and
her kingdom to th e Mongols that conquered Europe centuries ago. The make -up reflects thi s war-like mood . Draconians
hav e tattooed faces, occasiona l metal eyes, necklaces of tee th and claw s and also helmets similar to those of sa murai
warriors.
There were a few problems unique to the produ cti on of Buck Rogers. Wilma Deerin g is a blonde and Erin Gray,
wh o portrays Wilm a, is a brunette. Her hair wa s dyed ove r and over again to achi eve the right loo k. Th e midgets , in side
heav y robot costume s. would occasionall y have to stop and take o ff the ir costumes to avoid fainting from the hea t.
It took a wealt h of spa ce-age technology to film Buck Rogers. Most chall engi ng we re th e aerial dogfight s wh ich
special effects men Dave Garber and Way ne Sm itl"Lchoreograp hed with th e aid of a Hewlett ·Packard "45" comput er.
Indiv idual movements of dozens of miniature spa cecrart we re fir st trac ke d on comput er tape. The co mputer th en
co ntrolled th e cameras wh ich made the ships see m to loop, pitch, dive, ya w and co llide at in credible speed and fi re lase r
blasts with un err ing accuracy.
Am ong the ot her demands of the aerial seq uences wa s th e constru ct ion of scores or fly ing spaceships. including
Buck's Ranger II I space shuttle , the Dr aco nian mo th er ship. the pira te marauders and the starfighters under Wilma 's
command . " Al most every ship wa s constructed tw ice:' says Dave Garber. " On e versio n was a sca le model whi ch could
be ma de to move lik e a real ship ror the dogfight sce nes. Th e o th er wa s a rull-s ize mock·up with electroni c working
pa rt s which wa s bu ilt at the studio."
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Prindples
Guidelines 1929-79
Th e fo ll ow ing Buck Roge rs credo was estab lished at the
strip's inceptio n and faithfu lly adhe red to for th e 38 years
of its existence as a powerful fo rce in American life .
l. Bu ck Rogers rea lism was to be based on th e sc ientifica lly
possible and probable. Scientific develo pments depicted were
tu give the impression thai hypotheses being theorized in the
20 th century were coming to fr uition in th e 25th century.
2 . Buck Rogers was to portray scie nce and edu cat ion in a
po sitive manner. Th e st rip's secondary lead characte r, Doc
tor Hue f, wa s to be a friend ly, helpful sC ien tist/edu cato r.
Youngsters didn' t need bu lging mu scles to succeed. Wh at
they needed wa s a bone·deep respect for learning and mat ters of the mind.
3. Buck Rogers was to cany no heavy.handed social mes
sage . Th e s trip wa s to be non-political and non-discrimina .
tory. Women were to be presented as the respe cted equals
of men. Ea rth men we re to be p ictured as eage r to cooper
ate with the Mart ians, Venusians o r the inh abi tant s of any
ot her planet.
4. Th e importance of the female sex wa s to be under
scored . Wilma Deering, a lieuten ant , appea red in th e first
day's release on Janua ry 7. 1929 , and shared 1110S1 of
Bu ck's advelllures on an equal footing. Oth er women, such
as Elth ana of Venus and Amara o f Deos, had sta rrin g parIs.
5. Buck Rogers wa s to be basica lly adventure and ent er
tainment. All der ring-do was to represent the age·old can.
n ict between good and ev il ; between avaric ious self.seeke rs
and peacemakers. Th ere was to be enough sof:-pedalcd roo
mance to hook tee n-agers and adult s. bu t no prolonged kisses.
Did ad herence to th is credo payoff? Emphat ically . The adven tu res of Bu ck Rogers as depicted in a long runn ing com·
ic strip , book s. radio serials and olllhc movie sc reen. inspired
a genera tion of Am er ican s 10 se riously consider th e possi
bi lities of space tra ve l and atom ic ene rgy. We a lready have,
here in th e latter quarter of th e 20th century , atomic
energy , telev ision, la se r beams and more th an a hund red
other development s emph asized or pro phesied in the fea ture.
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Glen A. Larson
Executive Producer and Co -Writer
One of loda y's mosl prolifi c sc reenwriters. Glen A.
Larson began hi s career in a musica l group, The Four Preps.
Am ong the tunes he com posed for the quartet were three Gold
Record win ne rs. 26 Miles (Soma Ca talilla j. Big Mall and
Dowli by fi le Sta tion Ti red of cons tant tra ve lin g. he
tried telev ision wri tin g. On e of hi s first sc ripts became <Ill epi .
sude uf TlVelve 0 'Clock High. He sold a scree llpby to th e
se ries If Takes a Thief and SOO I1 became its produ ce r. Afte r a
long assol.:i ation with II Takes a Thief, he left 10 produce seg
lIIents of Men from Shiloh and th en developed Alias Smith
and Jones , McCloud. Th e Six Million-Dollar )\-/011, Swirch,
Quincy , The lIardy Boy s alld Nancy Drew My steries and
Sword o f Jllstice. Larson recently shared credit ror bOlh th c
s(.; rccnpl:Jy and pr odu c tion or Evening in Byz allfiulIl and
l1aff/esfar Galaef iea.
Daniel Haller
Director
Bo rn in Glendale. Ca liro rn ia. Daniel I-taller rece ived hi s
art t raining al th e renowned Chouinard Institute. By chance.
he met di rector Roger Corman in the mid -1950's wh en Cor
man wa s still an unknown . independ ent producer. direc tor.
Corman pe rsu ad ed I-Jailer to become an art director. a re lation·
ship which con ti nued through so me thirt y Corman film s.
Hall er lat er becam e a direc tor unde r Corman's banner, turning
out such film s as Paddy , Ch eckered Flag and DeI/iI 's Angels,
with John Ca ssavetes. In 1971 he moved to television, direct
in g ep iso de s o r K ajak, Owell Mar shall and The Blue Knight, as
wel l as such movies ror televi sion asBlack Beauty and Little Mo.
Hall er lives in th e wes te rn San Fernando Vall ey Ull a r:lIIdl
with hi s ralllily. where he rai ses horses.
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Leslie Stevens
Supervising Producer and Co-Writer
For Broadway, Leslie Stevens wrote the hit comedy
Marriag e-Co-Round , whi ch he later adapted to the scree n and
produced as a starring ve lticle fo r Su san Hayward. He wrote
the sc reenplay The Left-Handed GUl l directed by Arthur Pen n
and sta rring Pau l Newman, Other films which Stevens pro-
duced, dire cted and wrote include lIeroes Island. sta rr ing
James Maso n , and Private Property , starring Warren Oates. Intelev ision he created the Outer Limits series, wh ich he also
wrote, direc ted and superv ised as executive producer. He was
writer, directo r and executive producer of the p il ot fil m and
major episodes of It Takes A Thief and McCloud and wrote
and produced in stallments for the series The Inv isible Mall
and Gemini Mall. Te levision features which he ha s written and
produced included Fer' de Lance and St onestreet.
Ri cha rd Caffey
Producer
A na ti ve of San Francisco, Ri chard Caffey graduated
UCL A with a degree in business administration but headed
st ra igh t for the se t of the sc ience fict ion cla ssic, George Pal's
The t l o f the Wo rlds, where he was assistant direclOr. He
subsequently served as product ion manager on score s of major
movies including A Place ill the Sun and Ce cil B. De Mi lle 's
epic,The Tell Commandments.
As a telev isio n produ ce r, hehelmed such popular se rics as Combat. Jigsaw l a/III and Medi
ca l Cel/ter. Namcd to head MG M's video arm , he was instru-
mental in devcJop ing a succ ess ion of hit shows, incl uding
CHiPs, Logan's RUIl and HolV the West Was WO l . Caffey had
wa nted to do Buck Rogers for years and promptly qu it his
execut ive post at MGM to produ ce the new ve nture.
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Cost"Bu ck Roge rs. .G IL GERARD
Credits
Princess Ard ala .
Wilm a Dee ring
Kane . . .
Doctor Huer .
Draco
Ti gcrm an .
Twiki .
You ng Woman
Supe rviso r
Pil ol . .ComlclOfficer
Tech nicia n .
Guard # 1.
Guard # 2 . .
Office r
Ti gCTll1<1 1l # 2
Wrathe r .
Pil ot # 2.
Pilot #3.
Wingman.
Stuntmcn.
PHIL
Voices.
Producer ...Directed by
Wri tte n by .
Exe cutive Producer .
Supervising Producer .
Director of lIH)lOg"ph)l .
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