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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Twiki is Missing
episode 1.16
USA 1980
produced by
Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by Sigmund Neufeld jr
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Eddie Benton (= Anne-Marie Martin), John P. Ryan, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), David Darlow, Bebe Louie, Eugenia Wright, Ken Letner
written by Jaron Summers, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by Herbert D. Woods, visual effects supervisor: Chuck Arrigo
TV-series
Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Kerk Belzack (John P. Ryan) runs a mining operation on Toros, an
asteroid rich on a certain explosive, but of late the miners start to
revolt asking for better pay. So Belzack figures why not replace them with
robots. Thing is, apparently in the whole galaxy there's only one robot
fit for doing the miners' work, and that's Buck Rogers' Twiki (Felix
Silla, voiced by Mel Blanc). So Belzack sends a trio of ESP-powered
enforcers, the Omniguards - Stella (Eddie Benton), Clare (Bebe Louie) and
Dawn (Eugenia Wright) - to earth to try to buy Twiki off Buck, and when
that doesn't work, they kidnap him. But of course, Buck saves Twiki, so
Belzack decides to kidnap Buck instead, and of course, Twiki comes to the
rescue and is promptly seized by Belzack. It seems the end of the line for
both Buck and Twiki, but Buck has since befriended Omniguard Stella, and
after he has beaten up some guards, who for some reason despite being
armed would never use a weapon on an unarmed man, helps him and Twiki
escape. And en route to earth, Buck also fastens some explosive he has
brought from Toros to an asteroid threatening to hit earth to change its
trajectory. A rather silly episode, really, as its premise
sounds totally far-fetched - basically why would of all robots in the
universe clumsy Twiki be the only one to do a miner's job? And why can't
Twiki just be replicated? And there even are some human miners still in
the 25th century? Then there was the piece on Twiki's rescue mission which
... just came across as odd as there wasn't a discernible plan behind it.
Then there's the guards who never use their weapons and seem to line up
for Buck to beat them up despite grossly outnumbering him. Oh, and of
course the female lead falls for Buck. To put it another way, a horribly
contrived mess, and one that doesn't even stand the test of nostalgia.
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