'Planet of the Slave Girls' by Steve Greenberg, Aubrey Solomon and Cory Applebaum

Gil Gerard (Captain William ‘Buck’ Rogers), Erin Gray (Colonel Wilma Deering), Tim O'Connor (Doctor Elias Huer), Felix Silla (Twiki), Mel Blanc (Voice of Twiki), Eric Server (Voice of Doctor Theopolis), William Conrad (Narrator), David Groh (Major Duke Danton), Roddy McDowall (Governor Siroyan), Brianne Leary, (Ryma), Macdonald Carey (Doctor Mallory), Karen Carlson (Stella Warden), Michael Mullins (Regis Saroyan), Buster Crabbe (Brigadier Gordon), Jack Palance (Kaleel), Sheila DeWindt (Major Fields), Robert Dowdell (Galen), Diane Markoff (Female Pilot), Don Marshall (Julio), Michael Masters (Worker), Don Maxwell (Guard), June Whitley Taylor (Woman)

Earth’s Defense Directorate is seriously compromised when its Starfighter squadron falls ill after eating poisoned food discs. Buck, Wilma and Wilma's ex-boyfriend, flight instructor Major Duke Danton, set off for the planet Vistula, where the food shipment originated from; they trace the tainted consignment to a charismatic religious leader named Kaleel, who has been selling slave labour to Vistula’s governor, Siroyan. Kaleel has also amassed his own fleet of spaceships, which he plans to use to attack the defenceless planet Earth. Buck, Wilma and Danton attempt to put a stop to Kaleel’s scheme, but then the villain captures Wilma and imprisons her in his mountain fortress. Can Buck and Danton find a way to rescue their friend and stop Kaleel’s invasion fleet before it reaches Earth..?


Directed by Michael Caffey
Executive Producer Glen A. Larson

TX (US): 27th September, 1979

Notes:
*Featuring Captain William ‘Buck’ Rogers, Colonel Wilma Deering, Doctor Elias Huer, Doctor Theopolis and Twiki

*Alternate title: 'Flight to Sorceror's Mountain'

*The story was first transmitted as a two-hour television movie; for later repeats, the story was split into two episodes

*Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, who plays Brigadier Gordon, played Flash Gordon and later Buck Rogers in the original Republic serials of the 1930s - 1940s