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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Mark of the Saurian
episode 2.6
USA 1981
produced by John G. Stephens, John Mantley (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by Barry Crane
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Linden Chiles, Vernon Weddle, Kim Hamilton, Paul Carr, Felix Silla, Bob Elyea (voice), Stacy Keach sr, Barry Cahill, Alex Hyde-White, Alan Hunt, Frank Parker, Andrea Pike, Jeff David (voice)
written by Francis Moss, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by Herbert D. Woods, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson, David Jones
TV-series Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) has fallen sick - and that seems to make him
the only one who sees a green aura around Ambassador Cabot (Linden Chiles)
and his entourage. And under extreme pain, he can actually see them as
Saurians, evil lizard people who have only recently lost their war against
humankind. We, the audience, know of course that Buck's completely on the
money, but everybody on their starship the Searcher thinks the fever makes
him hallucinate. Buck makes one attempt after the next to convince the
others, but he's only making a bigger and bigger fool out of himself -
until the Ambassadors right hand man Dr. Moray (Vernon Weddle) injects
Buck with a serum that makes his visions go away. Meanwhile though, the
Searcher goes off course and heads for the Delta Quadrant where the
Saurians in disguise want to detroy earth's defense system to turn their
defeat in the war into a victory. But then, just in time, Buck turns down
the temperature in the Searcher, causing the Saurians to immediately
hibernate and return to their natural appearance, and humankind is saved
once again by Buck Rogers. A ship-bound episode that simply
can't escape a certain repetitiveness - but on the other hand the suspense
is running high almost throughout, and there are some interesting twists
in this one. Plus, Linden Chiles and Vernon Weddle make for good
soft-spoken villains. In all, maybe nothing super-special, but actually
one of the better, more entertaining episodes of the series for sure.
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