Airdate: 2/14/80
Buck swears he sees he girl he
knows at the New Chicago Mall; through a dream we learn that it could be
Jennifer, his girlfriend from the 20th century whom he left to fly
the mission that tore then apart. Determined to find her, he travels to the
“City By the City,” or the new version of New Orleans, and does indeed get a
chance to talk to her. Flattered by his adulation, she’s also a bit heartbroken
as she knows that it’s Jennifer that he sees in her, not her true identity:
Lela, a woman used as bait by the alien race of Kovens to get Buck to suppress
a trade blockade by rebel colonists – the same colonists Wilma and her crew are
coincidentally supporting. Buck manages to forgive Lela’s duplicity long enough
to thwart the mighty Kovens’ plan, but he can’t stop Lela’s death during the
final shootout. In her final words she was glad to be the girl Buck loved, even
if just for a moment.
Gorgeous, doe-eyed Anne Lockhart
shines as here as the molecularly altered Lela (no wonder there’s a website
solely devoted to the babes of Buck
Rogers – what a gallery of looks and talent!).
And lest we forget Mary Woronov, in redface, as the evil Koven named Nola.
Definitely cool to see the flashback dream of Buck in the 1900s – presumably
1987 when he starts his mission but looking a heck of a lot more like the 70s
than the 80s.
And don’t miss the cute-funny
epilogue (does Wikipedia have a name for this yet?) in which Huer gives Buck a
movie (a disc, presumably) with a title something like… mandibles? No, it’s Jaws! and Buck has the final line, “Just
when you thought it was safe to go back to the 20th century!” (Jaws studio Universal also produced Buck).
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