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Beeree beeree beeree... N times... phew!

"The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William 'Buck' Rogers, are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems and returns Buck Rogers to Earth 500 years later."


The excerpt above is from the introduction of a classic TV program. In 1979 Universal Studios released a motion picture named "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", also it was a series TV based on the original movie released by NBC for two seasons between 1979 and 1981. As usual all this junk came over the "Deep South" to enliven the existence of millions of children whose, eventually, were victimised during the horrible, wasted, hated, and moreover unforgettable 80's.

Gill Gerard played as Captain William Buck Rogers and Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering. A lovely home-made character was the star of this sci-fi series (alright! some people may think it was not a sci-fi series but a cheap comedy) it was TWIKI which sole play was to repeat tirelessly "beeree beeree beere". Amongst the low-tech machinery that joined TWIKI there ware "CRICHTON -a mobile computer unit- which looks like a smashed micro-wave and Dr Theopolis -a non-mobile computer unit which resambles a Fiat 147's front light- that compensated its motionless with an extraordinary artificial intelligence (typical of the 80's).

About Gil Gerard I just want to point that he played Lee Grant's youthful lover in Universal's Airport '77. Mr Gerard is nowadays an avid golfer and still acts time to time.

Likewise Mr Gerard, Mrs Gray is still an active actress and is also remembered for playing an irrelevant character in (also irrelevant) "Friday 13, Jason goes to Hell" (unfortunately Jason did not take Mrs Gray with him...

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thundercomb said…
hey, don't mock my childhood! hehehe. brings back memories of watching reruns during primary school ...

made my day to hear Wish You Were Here.

btw i rather enjoyed Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe, tho that was quite a few years ago now.
10:25 PM
Darko said…
Cool to hear that Marts... but do not sing it to me!... McCullers..well, to be honest it has been really difficult for me to read female writers, the reason still remains unknown for me...

Au revoir!

PS: Ahh! so also you were victimised by the 80's... that explains many things!...(to me).
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