A Blast for Buck

A Blast for Buck
Season 1, Episode 16
Air date	January 17, 1980
Teleplay by	Richard Nelson
Story by	John Gaynor
Directed by	David G. Phinney
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"A Blast for Buck" is the sixteenth episode of the 1st season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

==Plot==

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Synopsis

A communication probe arrives in Dr. Huer's office, and delivers a strange riddle: "A man out of old Earth's past, has the key to the next and the last; but you won't solve this riddle, till the end is the middle, and Terran sands disappear with a blast." The future survival of Earth depends on whether or not mind probes used on Buck can solve the riddle. Searching for a solution, Buck recounts his previous adventures since his arrival on 25th Century Earth.

==Notes==

• This episode includes clips from the following episodes: "Planet of the Slave Girls", "Vegas in Space", "The Plot to Kill a City, Part I", "Return of the Fighting 69th", "Unchained Woman", "Planet of the Amazon Women", "Cosmic Whiz Kid", "Escape from Wedded Bliss" and "Cruise Ship to the Stars".
• Although transmitted afterwards, this episode features linking scenes which are set about a week before the events in the previous episode.

Cast

• Gil Gerard as Capt. William "Buck" Rogers
• Erin Gray as Col. Wilma Deering
• Tim O'Connor as Dr. Elias Huer
• Gary Coleman as Hieronymous Fox
• Patty Maloney as Twiki
• Mel Blanc as Voice of Twiki
• Ana Alicia as Felina Redding (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Elizabeth Allen as Roxanne Trent (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Michael Ansara as Kane (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Victor Argo as Rafael Argus (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Kimberly Beck as Alison Michaels (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Tara Buckman as Majel (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Karen Carlson as Stella Warden (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Juanin Clay as Major Marla Landers (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• William Conrad as Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
• Buster Crabbe as Brigadier Gordon (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Jamie Lee Curtis as Jen Burton (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Nancy DeCarl as Sherese (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Michael DeLano as Malary Pantera (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Robert Dowdell as Galen (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Ann Dusenberry as Ariela Dyne (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Eddie Firestone as Corporal M.K. Schultz (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Lester Fletcher as M.D. Toman (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Sean Garrison as Flight Controller (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Frank Gorshin as Seton Kellogg (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Peter Graves as Major Noah Cooper (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• H.B. Haggerty as Tigerman (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Pamela Hensley as Princess Ardala (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Walter Hunter as Hugo (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Anthony James as Varek (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Richard Lynch as Morgan Velosi (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Leigh McCloskey as Jalor Davin (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Trisha Noble as Sabrina (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Jack Palance as Kaleel (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Albert Popwell as Koren (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• John Quade as Jolen Quince (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Robert Quarry as Commander Corliss (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Jay Robinson as Cassius Thorne (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Melody Rogers as Lt. Dia Cyrton (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Eric Server as Voice of Dr. Theopolis (uncredited)
• Pamela Susan Shoop as Tangie (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Teddi Siddall as Linea (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Felix Silla as Twiki (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• K.T. Stevens as Lt. Twain (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Dorothy Stratten as Miss Cosmos (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Woody Strode as Sgt. "Big Red" MacMurthy (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Dan Sturkie as Eli Twain (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Ray Walston as Roderick Zale (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Katherine Wiberg as Alicia (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Sheila Wills as Major Fields (uncredited) (Archive Footage)
• Joseph Wiseman as Carl Morphus (uncredited) (Archive Footage)

Directed by David G. Phinney

Teleplay by Richard Nelson

Story by John Gaynor

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

Cinematography by Ben Colman

Film Editor - Leon Ortiz-Gil

Casting - Phil Benjamin

Art Director - Fred Luff, III

Set Decorator - Frank Lombardo

Costume Designer - Al Lehman

Harker Wade - Unit Production Manager

Bob Bender - 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

• A Blast for Buck at IMDb
• A Blast for Buck at NBC.com