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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - The Hand of the Goral
episode 2.11
USA 1981
produced by
John G. Stephens, John Mantley (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by David G. Phinney
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Thom Christopher, Jay Garner, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Fujioka, William Bryant, Peter Kastner, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc (voice), Dennis Haysbert, Michael Horsley, Jeff David (voice)
written by Francis Moss, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by Stu Phillips, 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), Wilma (Erin Gray) and Hawk (Thom Christopher)
go down to the Planet of Death to have a look around, and when they find a
crash pilot, Reardon (Peter Kastner), conveniently placed in their way,
it's decided that Wilma takes him up to the Searcher while Buck and Hawk
continue their survey. After having found an ancient but deserted city but
otherwise nothing of particular interest, they return to the Searcher,
they find pretty much everybody changed in character, even the robots, and
figure they have to be not on the real ship but a fake. And everybody on
the ship they confront with this disintegrates. Then Buck and Hawk figure
Wilma's also a fake, and ultimately she disintegrates, too. Meanwhile, the
real Searcher is caught in some kind of tractor beam emanating from the
Planet of Death, so Buck and Hawk go down to meet the "Hand of
Goral" (John Fujioka), apparently some guardian being the planet's
former inhabitants have left behind. He reveals to Buck and Hawk they have
to solve a riddle to set the Searcher free, but when Buck gets a little
cross, the Hand disintegrates as well, Buck and Hawk return to the
Searcher and conclude that Reardon must be a saboteur, capture him - upon
which he disintegrates - and the Searcher is released from the tractor
beam, and everything ends happily. In a way, this is an outer
space sci-fi mystery, which in theory is a pretty good idea, and indeed,
this episode does show some potential. But over all, the writing's just
too clumsy, too all over the place and too inconclusive to actually work,
as if nobody had put any real thought into this as long as it checks all
the boxes in regards to series requirements and runs for less than 50
minutes (without commercials). It's a missed opportunity, really. Could
have been really good, but as it is it's just nostalgic TV camp.
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