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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Olympiad
episode 1.17
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, Nicolas Coster, Judith Chapman, Barney McFadden, Paul Mantee, Elgin Baylor, Anthony Davis, Thomas Henderson, Carlos Palomino, Jerry Quarry, Bob Seagren, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), Paul Coufos, John A. Zee
written by Craig Buck, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by J.J. Johnson, visual effects supervisor: Chuck Arrigo
TV-series
Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) is invited to the Olympic Games, which
apparently is still a thing in the 2400s, and it's not long before he
stumbles upon lovely Lara (Judith Chapman), a space sleigh racer, who
tells him about her boyfriend Jorex (Barney McFadden), athlete from an
autocratically run planet who wants to defect to earth, and of course Buck
agrees to help immediately and even calls in his best friend and colleague
Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) for help - because there is one problem and
that's that Jorex has a bomb implanted in his brain that's controlled by
his minder Alaric (Nicolas Coster). So Wilma dresses up as a pleasure
woman, seduces and drugs Alaric and steals the detonator - thing is, the
detonator can't be disarmed, so she returns it so Alaric won't get
suspicious. But suspicious he gets anyhow, and soon enough he and his
right hand Karl (Paul Mantee) abduct Lara - but of course Buck saves her
in no time, and he and his companions make up a plan how to get Jorex away
from the games without anybody noticing and out of reach of the detonator
before Alaric can use it: They sneak him into Lara's space sleigh, and
during her race she makes her getaway to be picked up by Buck's spaceship.
And of course, there's a happy ending. A really underwhelming
episode, and mostly out of budgetary reasons, as what's shown never lives
up to the story's demand - and as a result the whole Olympic games are
just two dozens of athletes in a medium sized gymnasium, much of the
action just takes place in nondescript hallwaysthe "futuristic"
sports presented are mostly silly, but not in a campy but a childish way,
while on a narrative level this episode has little to make it in any way
special - or interesting even. Sure, there's a certain nostalgia-factor to
this one, but little more.
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