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Twiki was played mainly by Felix Silla and voiced mainly by Mel Blanc (who voiced Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers in spoofs of the early Buck Rogers and other science-fiction serials) using a gruff voice very similar to the one he used for Barnyard Dawg. Twiki became Buck's comic sidekick and communicated with an electronic noise that sounded like ...
The Buck Rogers rocket pistol that had started it all 20 years earlier had been overtaken by the real world bazooka. "Space guns" in general and "rayguns" in particular only gained in prestige as the Cold War "space race" began and interest in "The Buck Rogers Stuff" was renewed, but it was no longer enough to offer a futuristic cap or pop gun ...
His best-known roles include Litvak, the maniacal, miniature Hitler who menaces George Segal in film The Black Bird (his favorite role). He was also responsible for the physical performance of the robot Twiki in the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, [3] a role for which the voice was supplied by Mel Blanc or Bob Elyea.
Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki have been assigned aboard the spaceship Searcher which is on a mission to explore the galaxy and contact lost tribes of men who left Earth after the apocalyptic war. Elsewhere, a humanoid birdman named Hawk returns home and finds his people slaughtered by a band of human pirates and he angrily vows to kill ...
After spending most of two seasons voicing the diminutive robot Twiki in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blanc's last major original character was Heathcliff, who he voiced from 1980 to 1988. In the live-action film Strange Brew (1983), Blanc voiced the father of Bob and Doug McKenzie, at the request of comedian Rick Moranis.
Buck Rogers (serial) Buck Rogers (TV series) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (film) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) List of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episodes; Buck Rogers XXVC; Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future; Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday; Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
Rogers first appeared as Anthony Rogers in the August 1928 issue of the seminal science fiction magazine “Amazing Stories,” in a novella titled “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” by Philip Francis Nowlan.
TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, [2] typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal. Users can create wiki pages using the TWiki Markup Language, and developers can extend wiki application functionality with plugins .