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Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) and Hawk (Thom Christopher) are sent to inspect a derelict spaceship and find it populated by a crew of little people (Tommy Madden, John Edward Allen, Tony Cox, Billy Curtis, Harry Monty, Spencer Russell, Charles Sector) who are on a centures-long mission to dispose of a bunch of quickly destabilizing bombs, and since the bombs in their present form are starting to emit radiation, Buck and Hawk take them all with them to the Searcher and have the little people's ship towed via tractor ray. Problem is, the new guests have a talent to get into trouble, and thus at one point almost destroy the ship, then damage the brain of super-robot Crichton (voiced by Jeff David), develop the hots for Wilma Deering (Erin Grey) in a pretty sleazy way, and ultimately have the ship hit by a meteor, damaging its controls so that it heads for a nearby sun. The only one who could help now is Crichton, but as he's damaged, diminuitive robot Twiki (Felix Silla, voiced by Mel Blanc) offers to have his brain transplanted into Crichton to help out. That works, and now that the ship's saved, the little people are allowed to undo the damage on Crichton's brain and restart Twiki via telepathy, a talent that comes natural to their race.

Now if you're looking for political correctness, go somewhere else, as there are many things in this episode you couldn't do anymore today, and for good reason. That said though, this is a more comedic episode, and intentionally so, with many jokes actually hitting the mark, from the outset that the little people are six generals and a private (Tony Cox), who to avoid confusion never listens to any of their orders, to quite a bit of sexual innuendo (one of the aspects that would be a no-no today). Also, the coimedy actually works in the context of the series that sure has its fair share of ridiculousness in its "serious" episodes. So if you watch it without listening to today's sentiments that weren't in place back when, you'll probably find it very amusing.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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