Plot; Buck infiltrates an underground prison to free a young woman who can implicate her former boyfriend and a high ranking official in an intergalactic criminal operation.
All of the 'Buck Rogers' staples are here. Cheap sets. Bad matte paintings. A hirsute Gil Gerard in a skin tight outfit that looks like someone trying to pull a sock over a bowling ball. But what sets this one apart is an appearance by none other than Jamie Lee Curtis! Coming almost a year to the day after her star making turn in John Carpenter's horror classic 'Halloween', I'm a bit surprised, but pleasantly so, to see her slumming it in a guest starring role on 'Buck Rogers'. As you would expect, she takes a pedestrian role and makes it jog, if not exactly run. And she looks fabulous doing it.
But the real star of this episode may be character actor Bert Rosario as the wonderfully named Sergio Sanwiler. He really sinks his teeth into his role as a slimy hustler, helping this to be one of the more generically entertaining episodes of the series thus far.
All of the 'Buck Rogers' staples are here. Cheap sets. Bad matte paintings. A hirsute Gil Gerard in a skin tight outfit that looks like someone trying to pull a sock over a bowling ball. But what sets this one apart is an appearance by none other than Jamie Lee Curtis! Coming almost a year to the day after her star making turn in John Carpenter's horror classic 'Halloween', I'm a bit surprised, but pleasantly so, to see her slumming it in a guest starring role on 'Buck Rogers'. As you would expect, she takes a pedestrian role and makes it jog, if not exactly run. And she looks fabulous doing it.
But the real star of this episode may be character actor Bert Rosario as the wonderfully named Sergio Sanwiler. He really sinks his teeth into his role as a slimy hustler, helping this to be one of the more generically entertaining episodes of the series thus far.