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Every time rock band Andromeda (Nancy Frangione, Jesse D. Goins, Leonard Lightfoot) transmit one of their live sets from music satelite Musicworld, all youths watching go absolutely bonkers and on a crime spree - but the effect of the music quickly wears off. So the Earth Defense Council sends up Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard), his little robot friend Twiki (Felix Silla, voiced by Mel Blanc) and portable supercomputer Dr. Theopolis (voiced by Eric Server) to investigate - under the cover that Buck is to present Andromeda's first galaxy-wide show. Now Andromeda's manager/producer Mangros (Jerry Orbach) leaves no stone unturned to make life difficult for Buck, which naturally sets Buck more and more on the right track, that Andromeda's performances carry subliminal messages that make those under 30 go bonkers. A talk with the band convinces Buck though that they're not the ones to blame but unwilling pawns in a game played by Mangros. And just before their live transmission, Mangros locks up Andromeda and Buck, figuring he can just as well use some pre-recorded performance - which he does, and of course, the young audience goes wild all over the galaxy, at the climax of which Mangros goes on screen himself trying to launch a youth revolt - but by that time, Buck and Andromeda have freed themselves, and Twiki shows them a way to the control room through the sewers, and there they remove the little gadget that sends the subliminal message, upon which all youths immediately turn normal and laugh about that old man on the screen talking about galaxy domination ...

Now even if Buck calls Andromeda's music "good old rock'n'roll", it's really more of a funk/disco hybrid - and it's not at all bad, either, provided one is into late 70s/early 80s music with a futuristic twang that's kind of cute from today's point of view. As are of course Andromeda's pseudo-futuristic outfits that from today's point of view are weirdly nostalgic. That all said, the episode as a whole is pretty much tired routine, especially since everything that Buck tries to figure out is crystal clear to the audience from the beginning, so basically the excitement of the story is reduced to the main characters running up and down some corridors and doing the occasional fistfight, interrupted by occasional musical performances. Some fun still mind you, just nothing at all special.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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