{"id":10004,"date":"2020-01-08T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:15:54","slug":"why-erin-gray-loved-being-in-buck-rogers-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"Why Erin Gray loved being in &#8216;Buck Rogers&#8217; on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?attachment_id=10005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10005\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Erin-Gray-in-Buck-Rogers.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Erin-Gray-in-Buck-Rogers.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Erin-Gray-in-Buck-Rogers-300x224.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2013\u00a0Happy 70th birthday to Erin Gray \u2013 co-star in Ricky Schroder\u2019s long-running Eighties sitcom \u2018Silver Spoons\u2019 and many other TV roles including Col. Wilma Deering in \u2018Buck Rogers in the 25th Century\u2019 \u2026 still busy today, she was always a great interview.<\/p>\n<p>She told me she loved the sci-fi show: \u201cI loved the stunts. I loved having to swing a gun, climb mountains, fight the bad guys.\u201d One of the highlights, she said, was working with Jack Palance on an episode titled \u2018Planet of the Slave Girls\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a child, Jack Palance was always the evil man and here he was the evil Kaleel. I was charging down a corridor to come face-to-face with Jack Palance and I\u2019m supposed to attack him and save the world. I\u2019m going, \u2018I don\u2019t believe this. This is what it\u2019s all about. This is Hollywood.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LONDON \u2013\u00a0Happy 70th birthday to Erin Gray \u2013 co-star in Ricky Schroder\u2019s long-running Eighties sitcom \u2018Silver Spoons\u2019 and many other TV roles including Col. Wilma Deering in \u2018Buck Rogers in the 25th Century\u2019 \u2026 still busy today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=10004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1263,15],"tags":[5076,5077,5075,2348,5078],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memory-lane","category-television","tag-buck-rogers-in-the-25th-century","tag-silver-spoons","tag-erin-gray","tag-jack-palance","tag-ricky-schroder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}