Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Gil Gerard stars as the space explorer who has a terrible accident in space in 1987, gets put into suspended animation and wakes up on earth in 2491! He learns that the Earth was united following a devastating nuclear war in 1988, and is now under the protection of the Earth Defense Forces, headquartered in New Chicago. The latest threat to Earth comes from the spaceborne armies of the planet Draconia, who are planning an invasion. Trivia fans might like to know that in this series his name was William "Buck" Rogers, but his original name in the novels penned by Philip Francis Nowlen was Anthony.