Editing Buster Crabbe (section)

===Television===
[[File:Captain gallant full.JPG|thumb|Buster Crabbe with real life son Cullen on ''[[Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion]]'', ca. 1955]]
Crabbe was frequently featured in archival footage in the children's television program, ''[[The Gabby Hayes Show]]''. Prior to his playing "Captain Gallant", Crabbe had hosted the local New York City-based children's film wraparound television series, ''The Buster Crabbe Show''. It was set against the backdrop of a ranch foreman's bunk house and featured Crabbe engaging his viewers with games, stories, craftmaking, hobbies, informational segments, and interviews with guest performers and personalities. This was in-between the reruns of old movie serials, westerns, and comedies. ''The Buster Crabbe Show'' was seen weekday evenings on WOR-TV (Channel 9) in New York City from Monday, March 12, 1951, to Friday, October 3, 1952. The series name was changed to ''Buster's Buddies!'' and returned to the NYC airways on WJZ-TV (Channel 7) (now [[WABC-TV|WABC]]) on Monday, September 21, 1953. The WJZ TV version of the series included a studio audience of kids, becoming more of a kids' variety show. Despite the addition of the studio audience and Crabbe's personality, ''Buster's Buddies!'' was not a hit, and it was canceled on Friday, March 26, 1954.<ref>Info about Crabbe hosting ''The Buster Crabbe Show''/''Buster's Buddies'' can be found in "The NYC Kids Shows Round Up" section of TVParty.Com and in ''Children's Television: The First Thirty Five Years: Live, Taped And Filmed Shows'' by George Woolery, Scarecrow Press, Inc.</ref>

On September 28, 1952, ''Sports Final with Buster Crabbe'' debuted on [[WNBC|WNBT-TV]] in New York City. Crabbe gave updates sports news from 11:15 to 11:20&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time on Sundays.<ref>{{cite news |title=Local Station Activity |url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele24ross/page/n142/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=May 15, 2022 |work=Ross Reports on Television including The Television Index |date=September 21, 1952 |page=3}}</ref>

Crabbe starred in the syndicated television series, ''[[Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion]]'' (1955 to 1957) as Captain Michael Gallant; the adventure series aired on NBC. His real-life son, Cullen Crabbe, appeared in the series as the character "Cuffy Sanders".

Crabbe made regular television appearances, including an episode of the 1979 series ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'', in which he played a retired fighter pilot named "Brigadier Gordon", in honor of Flash Gordon. When Rogers ([[Gil Gerard]]) praises his flying, Gordon replies "I've been doing that sort of thing since before you were born", not realizing Buck was actually born over 500 years earlier. (Indeed, Crabbe first played Buck Rogers in 1939, six years before Gerard's birth.) Rogers responds "You think so?" to which Gordon replies "Young man, I ''know'' so!"

He was also in a TV spot for [[Continental Airlines]], where Crabbe spies himself in an old Flash Gordon short being shown on board: "I think I know that guy. He used to be my idol."