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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Escape from Wedded Bliss
episode 1.10
USA 1979
produced by Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by David Moessinger
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Pamela Hensley, Michael Ansara, Alfred Ryder, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), H.B. Haggerty, Elaine Nista, Tracy Miller, Nancy Morris, Gary Stang
story by Anne Collins, screenplay by Anne Collins, Alan Brennert, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by J.J. Johnson, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A floating pyramid is threatening earth, an all-powerful super weapon
that cannot be destroyed. Now this weapon was deployed by the Draconians,
but Princess Ardala (Pamela Hensley) - see the pilot
episode - agrees to spare earth if Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) is
handed over to her. Buck agrees to this, but not before conferring with a
Draconian exile he has once helped, Garedon (Alfred Ryder), one of the
designers of Princess Ardala's mothership, who provides Buck and company
with blueprints to the ship. So Buck travels up to the Princess's ship,
has a nice evening with her, drugs her, scouts around, is caught - and has
to fight Ardala's bodyguard Tigerman (H.B. Haggerty) as part of the
wedding ritual. Buck defeats Tigerman but refuses to kill him. Then during
the actual wedding ceremony Buck escapes by throwing a black bomb, he
makes it to the weapons control room, blows up the pyramid, and as he's
cornered by the Draconians, Tigerman saves his life, and Buck manages to
make it back to earth ... Michael Ansara plays Ardala's right-hand man
Kane, taking the role over from Henry Silva. An all too
simplistic episode that gives its twists away almost too eagerly while
relying too much on fairy-tale logic - which makes it some fun for all the
wrong reasons of course, but not enough to make it great (for all the
wrong reasons). And quite honestly, some of the effects work is pretty
shoddy, while Twiki once again proves to be one of the most annoying robot
sidekicks, even if I'm by and large a fan of Mel Blanc.
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