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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - A Blast for Buck
episode 1.14
USA 1980
produced by
Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by David G. Phinney
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Gary Coleman, Patty Maloney, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), and in archive footage: Ana Alicia, Michael Ansara, Victor Argo, Kimberly Beck, Tara Buckman, Karen Carlson, Juanin Clay, Buster Crabbe, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy DeCarl, Michael DeLano, Robert Dowdell, Ann Dusenberry, Betty Ellen, Eddie Firestone, Lester Fletcher, Sean Garrison, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, H.B. Haggerty, Pamela Hensley, Walter Hunter, Anthony James, Richard Lynch, Leigh McCloskey, Trisha Noble, Jack Palance, Albert Popwell, John Quade, Robert Quarry, Jay Robinson, Melody Rogers, Pamela Susan Shoop, Teddi Siddall, Felix Silla, K.T. Stevens, Dorothy Stratten, Woody Strode, Dan Sturkie, Ray Walston, Katherine Wiberg, Sheila Wills, Joseph Wiseman
story by John Gaynor, screenplay by Dick Nelson, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series
Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A pod lands right in the main office of the Earth Defense Council,
obviously an alien attack, and it has a riddle imprinted on it that seems
to be directed at Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard). Now Buck, Wilma
Deering (Erin Gray) and Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), robot Twiki (Patty
Maloney, voiced by Mel Blanc) and super computer Dr. Theophilos (voiced by
Eric Server) all try to figure out what the riddle might mean, and who of
their array of baddies could have sent it. Fortunately they have a memory
machine at their disposal which they can use to visualize their
adventures, and Buck, Wilma and even Twiki are connected to it to recount
past adventures - but by manner of exclusion, this still doesn't bring
them even one step closer to the identity of the baddie ... until they
receive a call from their friend, whiz kid Hieronymus Fox (Gary Coleman) [from
the episode Cosmic
Whiz Kid] who admits he has sent the pod to help them
celebrate New Year's Eve - no longer a custom in the 25th century but it
was back in Buck's time. And thus he also teleports some food and
champagne to their office ... Now of course, flashback episodes
to catch up on past episodes of any given series have long been a staple
of television - and even of movie serials long before that -, and if this
one proves one thing it is that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
has had quite an impressive set of guest stars (see above) over its as of
yet first two thirds of a season. And of course, seeing them again is at
least some fun - but this is where the praise ends already, as other than
wowing the audience with past glories, this episode has little to offer,
its story is childish, the way the archive footage is inserted is rather
slapdash, as the flashback clips mostly fail to actually tell a story, are
little more than random sequences from the given episodes, and the film's
resolution is pretty unsatisfying. So definitely not the series' high
point.
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