Time of the Hawk

Episode aired Jan 15, 1981
TV-14
1h

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

252

YOUR RATING

Thom Christopher and BarBara Luna in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki embark on a journey through the galaxy as members of the spaceship Searcher, which is on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth who escaped the plane... Read allBuck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki embark on a journey through the galaxy as members of the spaceship Searcher, which is on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth who escaped the planet in the wake of a devastating nuclear holocaust. Meanwhile, proud half-man, half-bird bei... Read allBuck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki embark on a journey through the galaxy as members of the spaceship Searcher, which is on a mission to find the lost tribes of Earth who escaped the planet in the wake of a devastating nuclear holocaust. Meanwhile, proud half-man, half-bird being Hawk returns home and finds his people slaughtered by human pirates and angrily promise... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

252

YOUR RATING

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7belanger75

Tepid episode bland new series regular

The episode is not that great. It was part of star Gil Gerard's desire to make the show less violent in its second season. He's still there, beauty Erin Gray returns as Wilma. There is now less violence ( no actually showing Hawk's kind getting killed or him killing others), less humor and Buck is now more accustomed to the 25th century-- he uses far less 20th century slang and makes fewer curious observations about life in century 25. Oh and the two characters are now on a giant ship cruising deep through space. They no longer fight space battles in one-man ships unlike the previous season.

About Hawk being dynamic-- in what way? He committed tremendous ( again unseen) acts of retaliatory violence. The actor ( with the weird spelling of Tom) is so pancake-flat in the part he brought the show down. He obviously did not want to play this silly looking deadly character and was bound by some, say, studio contract.

Beauty and sex symbol Barbara Luna is also in this but she horribly does not look that great here and she is wasted. She should have played an earth woman on the series. Would have been way greater.

2condorman-1

Boring episodes

I just don't agree with the comment of "cosmowarriorzero". These episodes were totally boring with very slow actions and characters who are always speaking too much, it is like never ending!

Anyway, I can understand the comments and themes referred in these episodes can bring their emotional parts. But it is just too much!

Note : to see Hawk and Koori wearing that kind of helmet made with feathers is just really funny! Buck Rogers is a TV series which makes you feel nostalgia by the way the actors plays and the look (Erin Gray is particularly style). Buck Rogers is totally "vintage" today, that's why it has a cool potential.

7claudio_carvalho

New Season, New Environment

The half-bird Hawk returns home in planet Throm with his wife Koori and finds his family and friends slaughtered by human pirates and promises to his god that he will kill every human he finds. Meanwhile, Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering and Twiki leave Earth to work in the spaceship Searcher that is looking for people that left Earth before the nuclear holocaust. When they see a derelict freighter in the space, Buck and Wilma find all the crew dead and the captain tells them that Hawk was the attacker. Buck leaves the Searcher to seek out Hawk and bring him to human justice. But the proud Hawk does not recognize the human justice and has a showdown with Buck.

"Time of the Hawk" is the first episode of the Second Season of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". Now Buck, Wilma and Twiki left New Chicago; Dr. Huer and Dr. Theopolis left the show; and Twiki changed his voice and does not chirp anymore. New characters have joined the show, including the boring Dr. Goodfellow and the interesting Hawk. However, there are no beautiful guest starlets in this first episode. The plot of "Time of the Hawk" is good and Thom Christopher seems to be a good actor. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Time of the Hawk"

9phuckad

One of the best episodes

I honestly think this is one of the best-written and -acted episodes in the series. Buck and Hawk forge a bond during their travel through harsh environment trying to save Koori. Hawk is sort of similar to an American Indian and has his own honor and nobility. Thom really owned the character and I have fond memories of watching the show back in the day. I can recommend checking out the blu-ray edition, it's remastered and pretty much movie-theater quality, well worth the investment. The show may benefit from a reboot at some point, but ZOMG Erin Gray is just ridiculously hot. It would be hard to find an actress that impresses me as much as she did unless they were able to get Vanessa Kirby for the role.

BA_Harrison

Everybody's heard about the bird.

Pt. 2 of Time of the Hawk sees Buck and Hawk teaming together to try and save Koori, the bird-man's wife, after she is wounded during a space-battle between the two men. The truce lasts until they get the woman to a healer (who is unable to save her life), after which the pair partake in a bout of fisticuffs atop a rock.

Eventually, Wilma arrives to escort Buck and Hawk (who have been rendered unconscious by the benevolent healer) to The Searcher where the bird-man must face trial for his deeds.

A satisfactory finalé to this first tale in the second season sees a fair amount of decent action (the fight scene on the rock is well choreographed and looks suitably dangerous), one of Gerard's best performances of the series, as Buck makes an emotional plea to the Galactic court to try and save Hawk's life, and Thom Christopher becoming a permanent fixture of the (short lived) show.

And there's no annoying know-it-all, tin-can Chrichton, or crap-voiced Twiki to ruin this part either.

Trivia
On the Searcher's hull, below its name, is the Latin motto "per ardua ad astra". That means "through adversity to the stars" and is the official motto of the Royal Air Forces of England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Goofs
Dr. Goodfellow tells Colonel Deering that Easter Island is "near Tahiti". Easter Island is 2,600 miles away from Tahiti.

Quotes
Twiki: Crichton, you are ordered to the bridge at once.
Crichton: I have asked you on several occasions, Twiki, not to give me orders. You are not a human.
Twiki: But I was...
Admiral Efram Asimov: [impatiently] You listen to me, kettle belly: this is Admiral Asimov. You get up here to the bridge now!
Crichton: Oh, very well, Admiral. By robotic law conceived by some distant and overweening ancestor of yours, also named Asimov, I am obliged to obey your commands. However, this is an appalling inconvenience.
Admiral Efram Asimov: Move!
Crichton: I am en route. Anger is a destructive emotion, by which robots fortunately are not afflicted.
Admiral Efram Asimov: Goodfellow, you built that irritating pile of junk. Can't you build some respect for authority into him?
Dr. Goodfellow: I'm afraid not, Admiral. It appears that Crichton doesn't believe I constructed him.
Admiral Efram Asimov: He doesn't what?
Dr. Goodfellow: [chuckles] He finds it inconceivable that anything human had a hand in his creation.
Admiral Efram Asimov: I don't think I believe what I'm hearing.
Dr. Goodfellow: Well, his life span is virtually unlimited; his factual knowledge far exceeds that of any of us; and he is, I'm afraid, just a trifle contemptuous of human frailties, to which he's not subject.
[Buck snickers]
Admiral Efram Asimov: [scowls] You find that funny, Rogers?
Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: Sorry, Admiral.
Admiral Efram Asimov: Now look here, Goodfellow, if that ridiculous lamppost doesn't believe that humans made him, who, in the name of Theseus does he think did?
Dr. Goodfellow: Well, he hasn't quite decided that yet. But his speculations are, to say the least, provocative.
Admiral Efram Asimov: [sarcastically] I'll just bet they are.
[Crichton appears on the bridge]
Crichton: [clears his throat] Crichton is here.
Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers: [sarcastically] Hallelujah.