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[ 21 ] Space Rockers
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| Season: | 1 |
| Date Aired U.S.: | Thursday, February 21, 1980 |
| Writer(s): | Chris Bunch and Allan Cole |
| Director: | Guy Magar |
 Episode Synopsis
 "The evil Lars Mangros plans to broadcast a signal with the next performance of his rock group, Andromeda, that will cause the youth of the galaxy to riot. Buck invades Musicworld, where Mangros broadcasts his concerts, in attempt to stop the madman from destroying the galactic capitals."
 "Buck becomes involved with a futuristic rock group named Andromeda when a series of riots break out at all of their concerts. Buck's investigation finds that the band's manager, Lars Mangros, has been secretly encoding the group's music with behavior-altering sounds that create the riots. Buck is forced to convince Andromeda not to play at galactic-wide broadcast from the space station Musicworld, to prevent Mangros from causing chaos throughout the galaxy."
Guest Cast
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Cirus (Leonard Lightfoot)
Member of the music group Andromeda. Cirus played a percussion type instrument. The group did not believe that their manager, Lars Mangros, could be involved a plot to control the youth of the galaxy.
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Elaine (Cynthia Lake)
Teen under the influence of Andromeda's music who unknowingly stole Buck Rogers' starfighter
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Joanna (Judy Landers)
Love interest of Lars Mangros aboard the Musicworld complex. Under the influence of Andromeda's music, she attacked Buck Rogers.
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Karana (Nancy Frangione)
Member of the music group Andromeda. Karana played an electric guitar type instrument. The group did not believe that their manager, Lars Mangros, could be involved a plot to control the youth of the galaxy.
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Lars Mangros (Jerry Orbach)
Music group promoter and administrator of the Musicworld Complex, an abandoned military orbital fortress outside the jurisdiction of the Defense Directorate. Mangros planned to control the galaxy's youth by using an ion transmitter to send a piggyback signal on the broadcast of the musical group Andromeda. It was discovered that a 55% surge in youth crimes occured within minutes of the broadcast.
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Mark (Jeff Harlan)
Teen under the influence of Andromeda's music who unknowingly stole Buck Rogers' starfighter
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Rambeau (Jesse D. Goins)
Member of the music group Andromeda. Rambeau played a synthesizer type instrument. The group did not believe that their manager, Lars Mangros, could be involved a plot to control the youth of the galaxy.
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Tarkas (Paul LeClair)
Directorate Agent posing as a sound technician for the music group Andromeda. Tarkas had discovered a link between violent youth outbreaks and the music being broadcast from the floating Musicworld station.
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Yarot (Richard Moll)
Henchman of Lars Mangros on Musicworld. Yarot assisted Mangros with his plot to control the youth of the galaxy via an ion transmiiter. The transmiiter piggybacked a signal onto the broadcasts of the music group Andromeda.
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Reviewer: Mark Weller
Submitted: August 12, 2002
It may be 500 years later, but evil record company execs are still out to rule the universe - as is the case with Jerry Orbach (of Law and Order fame) as Lars Mangros, the manager of the hot interstellar rock band Andromeda! Another Night Court alum is featured - this time, Richard Moll, and one of the Landers sisters shows up but I forget which one. A fun romp, "Space Rockers" at times verges on self-parody as this script seems to try and follow the template of prior episodes of Buck Rogers. Interestingly, if you play Andromeda's music backwards you'll find it tells you to go out and buy more disco glow ropes.
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Reviewer: Susan Kite
Submitted: October 22, 2003
If I were ranking the first season episodes, I think this one would be somewhat above Blast for Buck. This was a less than rivetting episode, in fact I thought it gimmicky and very self-deprecating.
Buck must have started the 25th century rock and roll fad when he changed the (as Wilma put it in the movie, "disgusting") music at the reception for Ardala, because by this episode, everyone is enjoying rock and roll, and lookig forward to the upcoming concert by the group Andromeda. The one problem.... the group's manager has placed subliminal mind altering programs into the music that cause chaos wherever the group goes.
There were some good moments here, especially for Twiki, and I loved Buck's open shirts (sorry, different point of reference here....) The way they tripped up the bad guy (Jerry Orbach) at the end was pretty well done. However, I kept wondering if I had missed something-- why wasn't Buck affected by that music when he was showing the rock group how their manager was affecting listeners minds?
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Reviewer: Scott
Submitted: June 24, 2005
This is, hands down, one of the worst episodes of ANY television series of all time! The plot is so insulting, the disco stuff abominable, the hynotic suggestion idea lame-o, and the acting horrific! I actually used this episode one time when I had had a fight with a friend, and he was stuck at my house without a car, forced him to watch "Space Rockers," true story. I had the car, so he was stuck at my house, so I had him watch this stinker after we had been fighting. He was a lot nicer to me after it was over!
Remember this folks: If your wife ticks you off or buddy, make 'em watch Space Rockers! It's worse than watching Lawrence Welk re-runs or the O.J.
trial over again!
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