Buck Rogers In The 25th Century Episodes Of Dr Quinn

Nostalgia is a tricky thing because on one hand, it can fill your mind with fond memories of bygone days, while on the other, it could be lying its merry butt off and playing you for the fool and in the case of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Series, it's a definite case of the latter. As I watched in vague horror, my thoughts wandered as to how I could somehow time travel back a quarter-century to warn the wee lad version of myself that this stuff was going to rot my mind and leave me barely cogent enough to review these shows in the future.

He appeared as the recurring character Professor Carlson in the television comedy. Dynasty, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, St. Elsewhere, Hotel and 1985's. Role of Judge Webster in several episodes of the television series Dr.

(Somewhere in Hollywood, some producer has just read this and is calling a network to pitch a show that's a 'mix of Quantum Leap, Tru Calling and Frequency. I call it Listen To Me, I'm You!' But I digress&#Array;) Created by veteran television producer Glen A.

Larson, hot after the success of Battlestar Galactica, the show was designed as a campy - I think this was deliberate - update of the old comic book and Saturday matinee hero of the same name. Telling the story of Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers, who after blasting off on a deep space mission in the far-off year of 1987, is flash-frozen by mysterious forces in the Necessary Premise Zone and then recovered and thawed out 500 years later to have adventures that showed that while his lengthy slumber had no ill-effect on his brain, the audience's would be turned into mush.

Buck is played by future Battle of the Network Stars regular Gil Gerard, a genially handsome actor who probably appealed to those frightened by the blatant sexual magnetism of Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors. He's like a big cheddar log whose performance veers from shot to shot from being a charming goofball to stern-faced bland seriousness that makes you think he should be in a movie-of-the-week about an evil executive who molests his teenage daughter. As the sole representative of the pre-Holocaust Earth, his job was to speak great wisdom to the dolts of the future about tolerance, manual control of weapons systems and slang talk. He's like Will Riker's Disco Daddy. A post-modeling career/pre- Silver Spoons Erin Gray co-starred as Col.

Wilma Deering, commander of the Earth Defense Forces by day and traveling spokeswoman for iridescent jumpsuits by night. Her schizoid-written character lurches from butch authoritarian Ice Queen to easily-impressed school girl who desperately grins at every dumb bon mot that issues from Buck's lips like she's selling tooth polish. The Buck Rogers DVD Menu. Xbox 360 boot disc v 2.4 download free download. This being a post- Star Wars show meant that they needed some robot sidekicks and Larson came up with the Master Blaster tag-team combo of Dr. Theopolis and Twiki. Dr Theopolis was a member of the Computer Council that run the Earth for the stupid humans who looked like a gag clock bought at Spencer's Gifts.

Lacking legs, he was carried by the 'ambiquad' (read: midget robot) Twiki (Felix Silla) on a string around his neck - start picturing Mini-C3PO channeling Flavor Flav and you'll be up to speed. Twiki was voiced predominantly by the legendary Mel Blanc, prefacing his lines with an annoying 'beedee-beedee-beedee' preface. When the voice changed on a quarter of the episodes, no explanation was given and the effect is like having Darth Vader sound like Richard Simmons for the end of Empire and the beginning of Jedi. The supposed head of this gang is Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor) who seemed to be in charge of fretting and wondering what 'hot dog' meant.

I'm assuming that the former Peyton Place star went home and drank heavily after every day on the set. Does she make you horny, baby? Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Roddy McDowell, the original Buck Rogers (and Flash Gordon) Buster Crabbe, Peter Graves, Markie Post and more appear in the first half-dozen episodes alone! Jack Palance's freak-out of a performance as a religious cult leader in Planet of the Slave Girls made me appreciate the sweet mercies of our Lord that he was able to go on and win an Oscar. (Or maybe I just went to bed. I was feeling woozy&#Array;) A wise-cracking Jamie Lee Curtis, just past Halloween, appeared as an Unchained Woman, a woman Buck breaks out of prison while chased by the robotic guard through the desert.

( Trading Places couldn't come soon enough.).