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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Planet of the Amazon Women
episode 1.8
USA 1979
produced by
Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by Philip Leacock
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Ann Dusenberry, Jay Robinson, Anne Jeffreys, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), Antoinette Stella, Wendy Oates, Liberty Godshall, Darrell Zwerling, Teddi Siddall, Wally K. Berns, James Faracci, Sean Garrison, Ron Gans (voice)
written by Michael Richards (= D.C. Fontana), Clayton Richards (= Richard Fontana), based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by Michael Melvoin, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series
Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) is lured to the planet Zantia by two sexy
girls (Liberty Godshall, Teddi Siddall), then captured and sold into
slavery by one Cassius Thorne (Jay Robinson) - as men are a valuable on
Zantia after most of the planet's male population has fallen captives to
warring Ruatha. Buck is sold to Ariela (Ann Dusenberry), daughter of the
Prime Minister (Anne Jeffreys) of Zantia, who unbeknownst to her mother
plans to kidnap a Ruathan ambassador currently on earth for negotiations
and this way force Ruatha to free all of Zantia's men - and Buck plays a
decisive part in her scheme. Now Buck's ok with helping Ariela since it
fits his sense of justice, but when he and Ariela are about to pull
through with it and try to board the ambassador's shuttle, they run into
opposition from none other than Wilma Deering (Erin Gray), who's trying to
guard earth's interests as earth and Ruatha are in negotiations over a
mineral-rich planet - a conundrum though that's soloved when it's found
out that Zantia is even richer on the mineral in question and happy to go
into a partnership with earth, so it all ends happily of course ... Given
this episode deals with high politics, it's a little over-simplistic,
relies a little too much on coincidence, and is at times outright silly.
On top of that, some of the special effects and especially the matte
paintings are rather sloppily executed even for late 70s TV, and little
robot Twiki makes one of his more annoying appearances (and I usually even
like Mel Blanc). It's still fun in a mindless nostalgia sort of way
though, just not terribly good by any measure of the word.
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