Airdate: 4/13/80
A Viper patrol strikes and cripples a Cylon ship, where it
plummets to earth, about 60 miles north of NYC. Troy and Dillon, believing it
to be the Viper, fly cross country from LA, thrawting a hijacking the the
process but arousing suspicion of their identities when they land. They just
miss the Cylons, who are led by an evil-intentioned human named Andromus, whose
devious plan is to find a powerful transmitter with which he can signal back to
the Cylons his wherabouts and begin the invasion of earth. Just his luck – they
are picked up by some Halloween revelers on their way to a party hosted by the
general manager of a radio station. Troy and Dillon are in hot pursuit, but
they themselves are pursued by the FBI, Air Force and state police.
Fun opener of a two-parter finally gets the Cylons back in
the game, and the show’s tongue-in-cheek tone, of course, arranges it to be
Halloween for their would-be dramatic entrance. Odd that the main Cylon
villain, Andromus, is another rogue human; don’t these tin men have baddies of
their own kind? It’s definitely a hoot, though, to notice how just about everything that happens during Troy and
Dillon’s cross-country flight segment would be impossible or improbable in
today’s post 9-11 era. Equally is seeing Lara Parker as Vampira in the show’s
last scene, anlong with William Daniels as a clown, whose given the show’s best
lines of dialogue.
Rating: ***
Rating: ***
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