Spaceball
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Overview
Summary
- Troy and Dillon arrive in a field on their turbo-cycles.
- A Viper that has been hidden behind an invisibilty screen comes into view, and out climbs Lieutenant Nash, a Colonial Warrior.
- Nash explains he has been ordered by Commander Adama to deliver the Viper to the two. Programmed into its computron are the coordinates of the last known sightings of Xavier.
- Nash offers to look after the children until Troy and Dillon return.
- At UBC broadcasting studios, Mr. Brooks is handing out assignments. Jamie draws the task of covering a camp for underprivileged kids run by Billy Ayers, a former baseball star. Jamie decides to take the Super Scouts there for a day out. Brooks assigns a cameraman named Hal to assist Jamie.
- The kids arrive at the studio, where they show off their skills by dismantling a television camera.
- A cameraman panics when he sees expensive camera in pieces and runs off to find Jamie, but when she returns to investigate, the kids have put it all back together again.
- Meanwhile, Colonel Sydell of the Air Force is again working to try and catch Troy and Dillon.
- Arriving at the baseball camp, Jamie and the kids have a chat with Billy Ayers, who complains that the future of his Little League operation is looking bleak.
- He manages a team scheduled for local playoffs, but all his players down with the flu. Jamie offers up her own kids, but confesses that they don't know the game.
- A baseball rolls toward Starla, and she picks it up to throw it back to its owners. Her throw goes clean over the horizon. Jamie warns the kids once more to make sure to hide their skills.
- Troy and Dillon are headed into space in the Viper Nash left.
- They punch in the coordinates they were given and the engines stop functioning.
- They try to contact Galactica, but as they are explaining the sitation they drift out of radio range.
- Adama dispatches a patrol to find them.
- Dillon decides to go to sleep, while Troy works on attempting to fix the ship. Then Dillon notices that their air is starting to run out.
- The fellow that poses as Lieutenant Nash is in fact Xavier who has changed his appearance using epidermal transformation.
- Jamie is unaware of this and brings Nash (Xavier) along to the baseball game.
- She learns that if the Polecats (which is the name chosen for the SuperScouts team) lose the game, Billy Ayers will go bust, and lose the camp to developers.
- The Super Scouts hide their powers, and soon fall behind in the game.
- Meanwhile, under the bleachers, Xavier rings up Adama and demands amnesty, and the liberty to live wherever and whenever he chooses.
- Adama does not agree, so Xavier threatens to kill the kids. Jamie tries to stop Xavier, but is unsuccessful.
- Colonel Sydell, in the meantime, has come to the game, looking for Troy and Dillon.
- Jamie coaches the kids at half-time and changes her previous instructions, ordering them to use all their skills. Her hope is that the press will swarm all over the winning team, and that will protect the kids from both Xavier and Sydell.
- Troy and Dillon put on spacesuits and go outside the Viper to repair it. The repairs complete, they hurry back to Earth.
- The Polecats meanwhile have turned the tide in the baseball game. Using their super powers they brings the score to even, and then in the closing seconds win the game, saving Billy Ayers' baseball camp.
- Xavier grabs Jamie and heads off to the gym.
- Sydell spies this and confronts Xavier, who pulls out a gun.
- Suddenly, Troy and Dillon arrive on the scene and Xavier runs off.
- In a brief gun battle, Sydell is shot, and Troy and Dillon allow Xavier to escape while they make sure Sydell is alright.
- In the closing sequence, Jamie decides maybe the kids shouldn't play baseball again.
- While they are saying this, Starla picks up a basketball and sinks a 30 foot basket by throwing the ball behind her head.
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Guest Stars
- Allan Miller as Colonel Sydell
- Jeremy Brett as Lieutenant Nash/Xavier
- Trent Dolan as Stratton
- Marla Heasley
- Paul Koslo as Billy
- Bill Molloy as Red
- Bert Rosario as Hal
Writing & Direction
- Written by Frank Lupo, Jeff Freilich, and Glen A. Larson
- Directed by Barry Crane
Production Notes
- Series 1 (1980)
- Production Number: 1.6
- Airdate Order: 6 (of 10)
First Run Air Dates & Releases
- US Airdate: 30 March 1980