Happy Birthday, Buck

Happy Birthday, Buck
Season 1, Episode 15
Air date	January 10, 1980
Written by	Martin Pasco
Directed by	Sigmund Neufeld, Jr.
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"Happy Birthday, Buck" is the fifteenth episode of the 1st season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Plot

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Synopsis

Missing the people and places of his own time, Buck is helped out of his depression by Wilma and Huer, who plan to cheer him up with a surprise birthday party. As a diversion to Buck, he is sent with Raylyn Derren to escort her on a trip to New Detroit with some of Huer's paperwork. Little do they realize that an assassin named Cornell Traeger is waiting for the girl so he can steal Dr. Huer's schedule, and plot to kill him as revenge over a previous encounter.

Cast

*Gil Gerard as Capt. William "Buck" Rogers

• Erin Gray as Col. Wilma Deering
• Tim O'Connor as Dr. Elias Huer
• Morgan Brittany as Raylyn Derren
• Tamara Dobson as Dr. Delora Bayliss
• Peter MacLean as Col. Cornell Traeger
• Felix Silla as Twiki
• Mel Blanc as Voice of Twiki
• Harry Johnson as Carew
• Bruce Wright as Rorvik
• Ernesto Macias as Lt. Garth
• Abraham Alvarez as Security Agent
• Harry Gold as Alien Squadron Leader
• Tom Gagen as Niles
• Clay Alexander as Marsden
• Victoria Woodbeck as Technician
• Gina Gallego as Woman
• William Conrad as Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
• Eric Server as Voice of Dr. Theopolis (uncredited)

*Directed by Sigmund Neufeld, Jr.

Written by Martin Pasko

Produced by Jock Gaynor, Medora Heilbron, Bruce Lansbury, Glen A. Larson, David J. O'Connell and David G. Phinney

Music by J.J. Johnson

Cinematography by Ben Colman

Film Editor - Michael Berman

Casting - Phil Benjamin

Art Directors - Bill Camden and Fred Luff, III

Set Decorator - Joanne MacDougall

Costume Designer - Al Lehman

*Harker Wade - Unit Production Manager

*Frank Crawford - First Assistant Director

Gerald T. Olson - Second Assistant Director

*Jerry Allen - Model Builder

Ted Wilson - Carpenter (uncredited)

*Earl Crain, Jr. - Sound

Dick Wahrman - Sound Effects Editor

*Chuck Arrigo - Special Effects Coordinator (uncredited)

*Peter Anderson - Visual Effects Supervisor: Universal Hartland

David M. Garber - Miniature Effects

Wayne Smith - Miniature Effects

*Gary Armstrong - Assistant Camera

Kenneth Hale - First Assistant Camera

*Barry Downing - Costume Supervisor: Gil Gerard

*Glen A. Larson - Composer: Theme Music

Herbert D. Woods - Music Editor

Johnny Harris - Composer: Theme Music (uncredited)

Stu Phillips - Composer: Theme Music (uncredited)

*Alan Brennert - Story Editor

External links

• Happy Birthday, Buck at IMDb
• Happy Birthday, Buck at NBC.com