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Top Television : TV Shows : "Battlestar Galactica" (1978 Original Series)

 

 

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On the run from a race of robots, human survivors of a brutal war form a ragtag space fleet around the Battlestar Galactica, as they search for the legendary lost colony of Earth.

When the 12 Colonies of Man are all but wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the Battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag human fleet of survivors in search of a mythical planet called Earth! Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict star in the classic TV space opera — one of the most lavish and special effects-intensive series ever telecast.

Note : Battlestar Galactica is the correct spelling, not Battlestar Gallactica as 50% of the web searches reveal.

 

Battlestar Galactica Stars, Actors, Actress, Cast and Crew.

Ed Begley Jr., Dirk Benedict, Terry Carter, John Colicos, John Dullaghan, Dick Durock, David Greenan, Lorne Greene, Jonathan Harris, Richard Hatch, Noah Hathaway, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Maren Jensen, Anne Lockhart, Patrick Macnee, Larry Manetti, George Murdock, Sarah Rush, Laurette Spang, Tony Swartz

Flight Corp. Rigel - Sarah Rush, Flight Officer Omega - David Greenan, Sheba - Anne Lockhart, Imperious Leader - Dick Durock, Imperious Leader (voice) /and Count Iblis - Patrick Macnee, Lucifer - Felix Silla, Lucifer (voice) - Jonathan Harris, Sgt. Greenbean - Ed Begley Jr., Dr. Salik - George Murdock, Dr. Wilker - John Dullaghan
Brie - Janet Louise Johnson, Bojay - Jack Stauffer, Muffit the Daggit - Evie the Chimp.

 

Official Sites

Official Battlestar Galactica website on The SciFi Channel

Professional Resources : IMDb

 

Fan Sites

Kobol: Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Republica
Battlestar Galactica at BuddyTV
 

Episode Guides

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - PART 1
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Richard Colla

The 12 Colonies of Man are all but wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons. Commander Adama and the Battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag human fleet of survivors in search of a mythical planet called Earth. These first three episodes were originally presented as a three-hour premiere subtitled Saga of a Star World. (Original airdate: Sept. 17, 1978)

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - PART 2
Intense radiation and a dengerous mine field threaten an urgent mission to find food and fuel for the crippled Galactica. (Original airdate: Sept. 17, 1978)

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - PART 3
Lured by the gracious Sire Uri, half the fleet lands on the planet Carillon, unaware they are being set up for a Cylon attack. (Original airdate: Sept. 17, 1978)

LOST PLANET OF THE GODS - PART 1
Writers: Glen A. Larson, Don Bellisario
Director: Christian Nyby

Female pilots step into the breach when an unknown virus strikes down the Viper Corps, leaving only Starbuck and Apollo untouched. (Original airdate: Sept. 24, 1978)

LOST PLANET OF THE GODS - PART 2
In search of a clue to the location of Earth, the fleet follows a mysterious pulsating star to Kobol, the lost planet of the gods. There Count Baltar, leader of the Cylons, launches his attack — thwarting Adama and killing Serina, Apollo's fiancee. (Original airdate: Oct. 1, 1978)

THE LOST WARRIOR
Writer: Don Bellisario
Director: Rod Holcomb

A marooned Apollo must defend homesteaders against "Red Eye," a malfunctioning Cylon gunslinger who thinks the local cattle baron is his "Imperious Leader." (Original airdate: Oct. 8, 1978)

THE LONG PATROL
Writer: Don Bellisario
Director: Christian Nyby

While testing out a new ultrafast spaceship, Starbuck loses the ship to a crafty renegade and suddenly finds himself marooned and imprisoned on a mysterious planet where the prisoners serve terms for the crimes of their ancestors. (Original airdate: Oct. 15, 1978)

THE GUN ON ICE PLANET ZERO - PART 1
Writers: Leslie Stevens, Michael Sloan, Don Bellisario
Director: Alan Levi

Convicts and clones join forces with Galactica personnel to disable a tremendous Cylon pulsar cannon that threatens the Galactica from an icy world. (Original airdate: Oct. 22, 1978)

THE GUN ON ICE PLANET ZERO - PART 2
Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer and their polar demolition team lead a desperate attempt to destroy the Cylon cannon. (Original airdate: Oct. 29, 1978)

THE MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Christian Nyby

On a mission to secure food for the fleet, Starbuck is tricked into becoming sheriff on an agro colony — a job complicated by marauding, swinelike aliens known as the Borays, and an amourous Siress with her eye on Adama. (Original airdate: Nov. 12, 1978)

THE YOUNG LORDS
Writers: Don Bellisario, Frank Lupo, Paul Playdon
Director: Don Bellisario

Starbuck is marooned on a world where the Cylons have wiped out most of the adult population, leaving tribes of children in charge. He must lead them in a daring raid to free their father from the Cylons. (Original airdate: Nov. 19, 1978)

THE LIVING LEGEND - PART 1
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Vince Edwards

Adama engages in a fierce conflict with the hot-blooded Commander Cain of the Battlestar Pegasus, long assumed destroyed. Adama's cautious leadership falls into doubt in comparison to Cain's more confrontational style. (Original airdate: Nov. 26, 1978)

THE LIVING LEGEND - PART 2
Surrounded by Cylon warships, Commander Adama reluctantly joins forces with the foolhardy Cain in a desperate surprise counterattack. (Original airdate: Dec. 3, 1978)

FIRE IN SPACE
Writers: James Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
Director: Christian Nyby

Commander Adama is critically injured when Cylon warriors carry out a kamikaze mission against the Galactica, causing a raging inferno aboard the ship. (Original airdate: Dec. 17, 1978)

WAR OF THE GODS - PART 1
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Daniel Haller

While Starbuck, Apollo and Sheba search for missing pilots, they find the mysterious Count Iblis. Charismatic and gifted with mental powers, he entices the Galactica's people, including Sheba, with promises of a successful end to their search for Earth. (Original airdate: Jan. 14, 1979)

WAR OF THE GODS - PART 2
At first thrilled that a mysterious stranger on board will lead them to Earth, the Galactica leaders discover their benefactor is the evil Prince of Darkness. (Original airdate: Jan. 21, 1979)

THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES
Writer: Don Bellisario
Director: Rod Holcomb

Film legend Fred Astaire plays Chameleon, a con-artist on the run from a group of humorless nomads, the Borillian Nomen. He masquerades as Starbuck's long-lost father — and may indeed be. (Original airdate: Jan. 28, 1979)

MURDER ON THE RISING STAR
Writers: Don Bellisario, James Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
Director: Rod Holcomb

Apollo uncovers a blackmail operation and finds his own life in great danger as he races against time to clear Starbuck, who has been accused of murdering a fellow Viper pilot. (Original airdate: Feb. 18, 1979)

GREETINGS FROM EARTH - PART 1
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Ahmet Lateef

Apollo and Starbuck intercept a cryogenic sleeper ship they believe may be from Earth. The inhabitants say they're from a planet called Terra, and warn of the pursuit of the tyranical Eastern Alliance. Originally broadcast as a two-hour special. (Original airdate: Feb. 25, 1979)

GREETINGS FROM EARTH - PART 2
Apollo, Starbuck and Cassiopea return a family of six to the planet Paradeen, but their enemies track them there. Adding to the danger, Starbuck gets lost exploring an underground city. (Original airdate: Feb. 25, 1979)

BALTAR'S ESCAPE
Writer: Don Bellisario
Director: Winrich Kolbe

The imprisoned Baltar leads a deadly revolt and takes hostages with the aid of the Borellian prisoners and the Alliance Enforcers. (Original airdate: March 11, 1979)

EXPERIMENT IN TERRA
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Rod Holcomb

The Beings of Light from "War of the Gods" enlist Apollo in an attempt to save Terra from nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Eastern Alliance. (Original airdate: March 18, 1979)

TAKE THE CELESTRA
Teleplay: James Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
Story: David A. Arthur, David G. Phinney, James Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
Director: Daniel Haller

Starbuck's rekindled romance with his old love Aurora takes a back seat when he and Apollo become embroiled in a life-or-death struggle for control of the battlestar Celestra, ruled by the iron-fisted Commander Kronus. (Original airdate: April 1, 1979)

THE HAND OF GOD
Writer: Don Bellisario
Director: Don Bellisario

Weary of evading their relentless Cylon pursuers, Apollo and Starbuck sneak aboard a Cylon basestar to lead the Galactica crew in a last-ditch effort to end the Cylon threat forever. (Original airdate: April 29, 1979)

 

Episode Guides 1980 - Battlestar Galactica

CAST

Commander Adama . . . . . . LORNE GREENE
Colonel Boomer . . . . . . HERB JEFFERSON JR.
Lieutenant Troy . . . . . . KENT McCORD
Lieutenant Dillon . . . . . . BARRY VAN DYKE
Jaime Hamilton . . . . . . ROBYN DOUGLASS
Dr. Zee . . . . . . ROBBIE RIST (episodes 1-3)
PATRICK STUART (episodes 4-10)


Galactica Discovers Earth (Part 1)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Sidney Hayers

After thirty years of travel, the Galactica finally locates and reaches Earth — but it's the year 1980, when the planet's technology is not advanced enough to help defeat the Cylons. Adama orders the Galactica away, to prevent the Cylons from locating Earth, and sends his grandson Boxey (now Captain Troy) and Lieutenant Dillon to the planet to locate Professor Mortinson, a man they hope can help them speed up Earth's technological development. But Xavier, one of the Council of Twelve, believes more drastic steps should be taken. He uses a time-travel device built by 14-year-old genius Dr. Zee to go to Earth's past — specifically high-tech Nazi Germany during WWII — intending to advance its technology rapidly. (Original Airdate: Jan. 27, 1980)

Galactica Discovers Earth (Part 2)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Sidney Hayers

Xavier time-travels to Nazi Germany, intending to give the Germans advanced technology in order to boost the planet's modern-day tech level. Troy, Dillon and reporter Jamie Hamilton must stop him from changing the past. (Original Airdate: Feb. 3, 1980)

Galactica Discovers Earth (Part 3)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Sidney Hayers

Troy, Dillon, and Jaime attempt to capture Xavier, who has returned to modern-day Earth to reclaim his Viper. (Original Airdate: Feb. 10, 1980)

The Super Scouts (Part 1)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Vince Edwards

After a Cylon surprise attack, Adama sends the fleet's children (disguised as "Super Scouts") with Troy and Dillon to Earth, where they enlist Jamie's aid to protect the kids. (Original Airdate: March 16, 1980)

The Super Scouts (Part 2)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Several of the children get sick after drinking polluted water. Troy, Dillon, Jamie work to shut down the chemical plant responsible for the contamination. (Original Airdate: March 23, 1980)

Spaceball
Writers: Frank Lupo, Jeff Freilich, Glen A. Larson
Director: Barry Crane

The renegade Xavier returns, sabotaging Troy and Dillon's Viper and attempting to kidnap the Galactica children, whom Jamie has taken to play at a baseball camp where she's doing a story. (Original Airdate: March 30, 1980)

The Night the Cylons Landed (Part1)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

The Cylon Empire has created a new version of the Cylons, a humanoid android. On Halloween, one of these new models, Andromus, crashlands near New York City with a regular Cylon. The two seek a radio station where they can contact the rest of the Cylon fleet, while Troy and Dillon try to stop them as well as save a child trapped in a fire. (Original Airdate: April 13, 1980)

The Night the Cylons Landed (Part 2)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Barry Crane

The Cylon android attempts to take over a radio station so he can send a message to his Base Star. Troy and Dillon chase after him, hoping to stop him before the Cylon Empire finds out about Earth. (Original Airdate: April 20, 1980)

Space Croppers
Writer: Robert L. McCullough
Director: Daniel Haller

The Cylons attack Galactica again, this time destroying the Agroships. Troy and Dillon head to Earth for food, and wind up partnering with a farmer struggling to resist a local tyrant. (Original Airdate: April 27, 1980)

The Return of Starbuck
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Ron Satlof

Dr. Zee reveals to Adama a dream he had about a warrior whom Adama recongizes as Lieutenant Starbuck, who was lost 14 years ago in a Cylon attack. Zee goes on to describe Starbuck's crash landing on a barren planet, where he built himself a Cylon companion from scavenged parts and befriended a pregnant woman who'd arrived there in time to give birth. (Original Airdate: May 4, 1980)
 

Related Links

Official Battlestar Galactica website on The SciFi Channel
 


 

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