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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - A Dream of Jennifer
episode 1.18
USA 1980
produced by
Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by Larry Stewart
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Paul Koslo, Gino Conforti, Mary Woronov, Anne Lockhart, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Cameron Young, Shawn Michaels, Dennis Haysbert, Marsha Mercant, Mitchel Evans
written by Michael Bryant (= Alan Brennert), based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by John Cacavas, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series
Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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At a space port, Buck (Gil Gerard) stumbles upon a woman who looks
exactly like his girlfriend from the 20th century, Jennifer (Anne
Lockhart), and even if he knows it's impossible this woman actually is
Jennifer, he gets some time off to, well, stalk her - and it's
frighteningly easy for him to get all the necessary information on her,
and now it's off for Buck to former New Orleans to wander the streets
looking for her - and eventually he finds her even, and she finds him
charming, even despite his stalker tendencies, and even though she of
course isn't Jennifer. What Buck of course doesn't know, Jennifer - or
rather Leila, her real name - is actually working for some evil alien race
who need a pilot like Buck to destroy a shipment of weapons going to their
enemy. Now Buck would of course never do that, but the aliens, led by
Commander Reeve (Paul Koslo) and Nola (Mary Woronov) threaten to kill
Leila - reason enough for Buck apparently to change his mind. So he flies
up there, enters the freighter he's to destroy, and meets none other than
his friend Wilma (Erin Gray). Together they think up a plan to fake the
freighter's destruction, then Buck returns to New Orleans to free Leila,
but of course the aliens prove treacherous, and ultimately, Leila, who has
of course fallen in love with Buck for real, is allowed to die a heroine's
death saving Buck, who then saves the day once again ... The
premise of this episode is just too silly to make this work even one bit.
Add to this underwhelming aliens (their thing is they have their heads
painted red), a relative lack of effects work and a disappointing
representation of future New Orleans (represented by a crappy matte
painting and streetlife consisting of decidedly 20th century street
performers), and you're left with a tired piece of science fiction TV that
doesn't even score highly on the nostalgia charts.
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