Space Vampire

Space Vampire
Season 1, Episode 14
Air date	January 3, 1980
Written by	Kathleen Barnes David Wise
Directed by	Larry Stewart
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"Space Vampire" is the fourteenth episode of the 1st season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Plot

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Synopsis

What appears to be a deserted derelict spaceship crashes into an orbiting space station named Theta that Buck and Wilma are on. Buck checks out the ship and finds the remains of the crew, whom he learns were killed by a vampire-like creature known as the Vorvon. Buck doesn't realize that the Vorvon is still present until personnel aboard the space station – including Wilma – begin to be taken over by the strange creature, who can control the wills of other beings.

Notes

• Christopher Stone would later go on to play Bill Neill in the 1981 horror film The Howling.
• This pulls a lot from Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel Dracula: One of the crew (who is hunting a creature) is named Helsing and the spaceship is the Demeter.
• There is a logic error: Twiki sees the footage of the drone with Buck, so why can his memory units be checked to confirm Buck's story?

Cast

*Gil Gerard as Capt. William "Buck" Rogers

• Erin Gray as Col. Wilma Deering
• Tim O'Connor as Dr. Elias Huer
• Christopher Stone as Space Station Commander Royko
• Nicholas Hormann as the Vorvon
• Lincoln Kilpatrick as Dr. Ecbar
• Patty Maloney as Twiki
• Mel Blanc as Voice of Twiki
• David Moses as Technician
• Phil Hoover as Helson
• Jeannie Fitzsimmons as Freighter Captain
• William Conrad as Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
• Eric Server as Voice of Dr. Theopolis (uncredited)

*Directed by Larry Stewart

Written by Kathleen Barnes and David Wise

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

Music by Robert Prince

Cinematography by Ben Colman

Film Editor - George Potter

Casting - Phil Benjamin

Art Directors - Hub Braden and 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

*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

Anne Collins - Story Consultant

External links

• Space Vampire at IMDb
• Space Vampire at NBC.com