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.
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)
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)
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)
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)