Release Message:  Pilot Buck Rogers and his young passenger Buddy crash-land on a mountaintop and are put into suspended animation by a strange gas. They awaken 500 years later to a world taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane.

Description:  Buddy frees Buck from the mass of debris inside the bombed building on the planet Saturn. With Prince Tallen, they succeed in capturing the treacherous Captain Lasca and his men. The Saturnians promise to help in the war against Killer Kane, and Buck and Buddy start back to earth. Deciding to attack from the inside, Buck lands the ship at Kane's palace airdrome. The Saturnians arrive, and in a magnificent air battle, Killer Kane's men are defeated. As a reward, Buck is made marshal of all the nation's planes. Buddy, despite his age, is made brevet lieutenant. At last, Buck and Wilma have time to consider romance.