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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Buck's Duel to the Death
episode 1.20
USA 1980
produced by Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by Bob Bender
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, William Smith, Keith Andes, Elizabeth Stack, Edward Power, Fred Sadoff, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Robert Lussier, Stephanie Blackmore, Heidi Bohay, Francisco Lagueruela, Douglas R. Bruce, Bill Baker
written by Rob Gilmer, 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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Planet Katar is ruled by the tyrant Trebor (William Smith), but there's
a legend that one day he'll be defeated by a 500 year old man. Now the
Prime Minister Darius (Keith Andes) obviously hasn't thought about
overthrowing the Trebor until he kidnaps Darius's daughter Maya (Heidi
Bohay) to become part of his harem. Then he remembers that on earth there
is a man who's 500 years old, Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard), and lures him to
Katar under a pretense. Buck initially doesn't want to have anything to do
with a Katarian revolution, but then he hears Maya's lovely sister Vione
(Elizabeth Stack) cry over Maya's fate and changes his mind. He and Darius
and a small group of soldiers lead a raid on the Trebor's low security
palace to kill the Trebor and free his harem girls, and while they fail to
kill the Trebor because the Trebor can control electricity, at least the
girls are freed. Furiously the Trebor goes after Darius and Buck, and
ultimately Buck has to go against the Trebor one-on-one. Now it has to be
mentioned here, electricity is a concept unheard of in the 25th century,
but Buck from the 20th century knows quite a bit about it, so he has
fitted his robot Twiki (Felix Silla, voiced by Mel Blanc) with an
electrical transformer, so when the Trebor shoots his electric charge at
Buck, Buck reroutes it to Twiki, and Twiki shoots it back at the Trebor,
rendering him powerless - and just like that, the revolution is won ... Now
William Smith, B-movie mainstay, sure makes a fun villain, and there are
moments of camp as well as wacky science in this one, so at least this
one's some fun to watch, but in all this one shows how the series has
already tired towards the tail end of its first season: Most of its action
is reduced to characters running up and down corridors, and while some
matte paintings look impressive at least, the special effects paired with
them do entirely less so. And really, when early in the episode, the
Trebor fights a death match against a gladiator, this is an almost
hilariously tired affair. In all, still good for a few nostalgic chuckles,
but little more.
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