Airdate:
11/29/79
Princess Ardala is back – and she
wants Buck in the worst way – and I do mean the worst way. How about
threatening to destroy all of New Chicago, or earth for that matter, unless she
can have the studly spaceman, with perfect genes and all, completely to herself.
Buck tries to find the ex-Draconian who knows the layout of the weapons system
so the Directorate can thwart the evil plans, but he needs to play along until
Huer and Deering can send him the plans. In the end, he relies on a
quid-pro-quo with one of Ardala’s fighting thugs (whose life Buck spared) to
get out alive – so he can return to kick some more Draconian butt!
Sexplot Pamela Hensley (whose
contract must require that she wear a glittering bikini top in every scene)
returns as Ardala. Not necessarily that they needed her, given the show has no
problem filling its weekly quota of cleavage, abs and skin-tight uniforms, but
few beauties can chew the scenery like she can. Best metaphor involves Ardala’s
future marital plans with Buck, which includes a collar he must wear that she
has the prerogative of shrinking down to half its normal size if he were to
displease her. The target demographic of 13-year old boys probably didn’t get
this, but the second largest demographic – married men aged 35-50 – know it all
too well.
DO NOT miss the roller disco
scene during the Directorate’s first meeting with Ardala. Funny how every other
kind of music, except disco, survived the great holocaust. Of course, for some
that’s not only similarity it has to cockroaches.
PS: Tell me that new guy who plays Kane is not a dead ringer for Tony Orlando!
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