@@02WIFE The BSG reboot seems to have drawn somewhat on Galactica 1980 for inspiration. G80 had humanoid Cylons, which showed up after the Colonial fleet hadn't seen Cylons in decades, and who also had much more advanced tech. Much like the BSG reboot. But yeah, as an eight-year-old kid in 1978 I couldn't get enough of the original.
@@markwaldron8954 Even though I can see the deficiencies of this original BSG, especially in the visuals, and it is a bit campy, I still love it. I watched Galactica 1980 once and loathed it, and have no interest in the newest remake after reading up and watching some clips.
The 70's Battlestar Galactica is actually a true story with some details kept hidden. The whole crew made it to earth and secretly assimilated into our society. One of the pilots even opened up a coffee business.
@@Sejen77 damn i don’t get this one. Apollo and Adama? Doctor and cop? Solving crimes? What do you mean? I am European, may be I don’t know the series?
Movies and TV shows of the early 80s were replete with stories of nearly missed or even complete destruction in an attempt to sway the minds of Presidents. The Day After, a Mini-Series, was said to have sparked the US President's hawkish attitudes and move the world away from Nuclear Armageddon.
@@oscarsiri2763 Thanks I guess, hope this time it ends faster and again with freedom having the upper hand...I am too old to be worried about atomic apocalypse.
You have to admire Lorne Greene being able to deliver those lines with such gravity. I loved the show as a 12-year-old, but I look at it as a 53 year old and I wince, and I admire Pa Cartwright for being able to say that stuff with a straight face!
He did have years of practice saying melodramatic lines on Bonaza - he was a real pro, delivering year after year on one of the longest running tv shows
Yeah, except those missiles were said to be nuclear of some type lol. Like its some old term. Then the explosions were seen of low yield. If I was Starbuck, be would be getting the Hell out of there and staying stationary near Galactica.
They're looking dated today, of course, but compared to other scifi of the time they hold up impressively well... I mean, I'd watch a series with these effects released today, under the assumption it's low budget maybe but I figure I'd enjoy it nonetheless.
"You've just put the fear of God into them for heaven's sakes don't tell them how you did it." Love that line, it's later in this episode but I still remember it.
Yes I am brother. What was great for me being young is how easy Starbuck rolled from this great show right into face in the a-team. TV was so much better then when one had to have an imagination!
Nearly old enough, but I still remember the crazy MAD strategy. I was 13 during the infamous 1983 incident. Arguably, we wouldn't be here now if things had turned differently back then.
Turns out the "Star Wars" missile defense turned into a free, world wide GPS system. He did something that Nikola Tesla dreamed of, and Control Freaks everywhere hated. A free service to everybody!
Battlestar Galactica was a really interesting and well crafted show in the 70s, with engaging plots of survival and aircraft carrier warfare in space. It helped that it had very good special effects for the time, outstanding acting with old school serious actors in the main cast and as guests, and an Oscar-worthy original soundtrack. Sadly it only lasted two seasons due its high cost of production for a TV show. I always wondered if revival of the idea as it was originally conceived, and not like the early 2000s soap opera in space attempt, would succeed these days, with current budgets for streaming TV shows. Richard Hatch, who convincingly plays Captain Apollo in this show, tried many times to revive the show with the same look and feel before his passing.
I’ve often wondered that too. I’m probably one of the few people that doesn’t like the reboot version. I’ve heard it said that TOS wouldn’t survive these days if it was brought back as is. Ditch the campy cheesy stories disguised as sci fi, ignore the Galactica 80 version with its super children, and bring back the version similar to the one Richard Hatch showed in 1999. Do it more like a “next generation“ type series. It probably would be too positive and upbeat for today’s audiences Who seem more interested in zombies, murders, political correctness, ghosts, and sex.
Glen A Larson producer did this series and many others during his career. Glen was a Mormon and much of the lore in Battlestar Galactica was based on his faith as inspiration. The Cylons Red scanner light was used on another series he produced later Knight Rider including the scan sound the turbo boost sound is the same as the Viper launch sound. The ships that were in Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century were the 1st concepts for the Vipers. There was alot of recycling and nods to other shows Larson worked on.
I've always enjoyed this show. It's the perfect humor of the times. "Oh yeah, we nearly destroyed ourselves, but after reviewing our satellite visual data, we found out a passing alien ship dropped by and destroyed our missiles before just moving on. The biggest thing to pull us together like...ever!"
@@penningtonknickernacker921 If you listen, there's the sound of the Viper laser firing that doesn't show visually. I put it off as Starbuck fired at one of the missiles as it passed for good measure. ;)
Agreed. I love this show; it’s in one of my all time favorites. But even so, this episode rates at the bottom of 1970s logic. And so it’s my least favorite of the series. Nothing makes a lot of sense here; it’s like a completely different show.
@@penningtonknickernacker921 The lone ranger and gunsmoke had posse horses running around a curve in the road for " go to town " , ";go to next town " , " chase bad guys " , " here they come "
@@dirkstarbuck6126 I never did get the logic that, after finding a Human world with reasonably advanced technology they just leave after stopping them from blowing themselves up just to find "Earth". Surely "Terra" is a better option as a new homeworld than, as we see in the aborted second season 2 Earth is. I dont think they warn the Terrans about the Cylons either.
I completely forgot that the angel dude in this episode was Devon Miles from Nightrider. Starbuck we have replaced your Viper with the new Knight Industries 12000. It has the galaxies most advanced AI and can jump 25 cars with almost no damage to the frame.
@@ReconViper1 Oh man I completely forgot about that. I realized something recently when watching some of sfdebris videos on BSG. You can tell that it was originally intended to be a series of periodic 2 hour TV movies, before it got flipped at the last minute to a weekly network show. Because you can recognize those original 2 hour scripts. They are the episodes that you remember. Saga of a Star World (the pilot), Lost World of the Gods, The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, The Living Legend, War of the Gods, and Greetings From Earth. These are the episodes that really stand out in your mind. They were the best of the series. They were the ones originally meant to be th e2 hour movies. The rest? The weekly 1 hour 1 shots are all really forgettable. I mean okay the Lone Cylon Gunfighter one maybe stood out for its weirdness. But the only really good story among them was the one episode where the Galactica was on fire. All the rest kind of blend together.
The submarine design of the Galactica was such a novel approach to space battles. BSG and BSG '78 were such brilliantly-crafted series that, while seeming quaint today, really pushed the limits for their time.
Wasn't there a Japanese anime where an old WWII battleship was turned into a spaceship... Somehow., I don't think it was a new idea, just look at the Botany Bay from the 60's era Star Trek.
William Tompkins designed vessels of the USN Secret Space Program based on submarines. It was a familiar production concept. He passed away several years ago, but got his story out.
This iconic space series ,shape a generation of young people like no other series.The cast, special effects filled our imagination of our child hood ,even now we are all older it's legend carries on.who wouldn't love to pliot a vipor across the stars.
I think it's funny/ironic that the Eastern Alliance commander asks what treachery the good guys are up to, when he has just launched a sneak attack against them. :)
Remember in the original series how the same 3 cylon ships used to be shot down in exactly the same order and the same time! The Cylons lost hundreds of ships like that:)
I'm actually serious, it would explain why the Colonials always seemed to have such an easy time with the Cylons. Being machines, they flew predictable patterns they had been programmed with, and the Colonials just kept blowing them up in the same ways.
@@STNeish It is an acceptable reasoning at least for the original series whereas at least the run of the mill cylons were nothing but machines. The shows writers could certainly of slipped that into the show or as I believe Hollywierd calls it hang a Lantern on it. Except this would reduce the drama by making the Cylons less dangerous. Of course as we know the real reason was budget. With some contempt for the audience thrown in thinking they would not notice. Of course no doubt every fan did notice.
It was on during the family hour in the late 70s. They thought it was too violent so they tamed it all down in the show's last episodes. Everything on the show became too kid friendly. It drove the ratings into abysmal.
The stupid writers of Star Trek (and to be clear, I love Star Trek too), never grasped the fact that you cannot morally allow a society to be destroyed. It is fine to let a more primitive culture alone, but you cannot just sit by and let them be wiped out. Kirk and Adama are far better then Picard who will stand by and let whole civilizations perish rather than intervene.
I just now noticed a big editing error in this episode. They split the view of the planet into two shots. The one on the left has just the planet, and the one on the right includes the Galactica. When we first view the side on the left, the laser grid is already up. Then we cut to the Galactica and it hasn't started firing yet.
huh, that guy talking to Starbuck at the beginning...i know him...yes, he played the head of FLAG, or Foundation of Law and Government, in Knight Rider...
The remake was decent up until the writer's strike in 2004-2005 (i.e. New Caprica was when it went downhill badly). It had enough of a premise that it could have rode out on autopilot for years if they didn't hire Ryan Johnson's mentors as writers (tbh, I have no idea who worked on the last few seasons, but they sucked badly).
@@Zachomara Wow, I thought it stayed amazingly strong all the way through to the end unlike most shows. They ended it when they should have instead of milking it into oblivion.
@@ShamrockParticle My sentiments exactly. Special effects from 1978 will seem dated by now but the storytelling is what keeps it in our hearts and memories.
Adama is such a boss in this scene. After Starbuck tells him what’s going on he doesn’t even waste one micron before acting decisively. Even Commander Caine would’ve been impressed.
To some extent yes, though part of it was the fast rate of production. It was mainly the two-parters that introduced new footage, particularly "The Living Legend".
@@ericmadsen7470 Remember those words. Within a few years or decades, a new generation of sci-fi fans will be saying the same thing about our most popular movies .
Reassuring that Galactica's computer terminal CRTs are about twice the size I used when starting my computer operating career 5 years later back in 1983. Those aliens were super-advanced.
While I enjoyed them coming across inhabited planets, it made me wonder on the ethics of the fleet. They’re encountering societies with significantly lower technology than the fleet and the Cylons, yet they leave them to their fates with the Cylons pursuing them.
To start with they kind of imply that the humans discovered on these worlds are offshoots from the twelve colonies and take the view that they cant do more than warn them and hope the Cylons don`t see those worlds as a threat. So the ethics there are definitely questionable if maybe a bit pragmatic. Once the Count Ibli story happens though the Cylon`s are portrayed as less of a threat as Baltar is captured and the fleet seems to have gone beyond explored space and lost the pursuing Cylon fleet with the help of the Ship of Light/"Gods". Then for several episodes, they start trolling the audience into thinking "Terra" might just be a future Earth. I never did get why they left Terra as it is basically what they need, a high-tech, space traveling, high population human world that the Cylons don't know about that could be brought up to colonial level technology relatively fast in order to fight the Cylons.
@@AbelMcTalisker "John" told them that Terra wasn't Earth. The Colonials were just religious enough to see their destiny as not lying there. That said, I'd have called for staying.
@@TommygunNG They probably should at least warn them about the Cylons though. While at that point in season one they think that they have passed beyond explored space and evaded Cylon pursuit surely it should cross their mind that Terra could be at risk if some Cylon scouts looking for the fleet should stumble across the planet.
@@AbelMcTalisker why they left Terra and her satellite worlds always perplexed me as you said they could’ve retrofitted the Eastern Alliance destroyers with lasers and we never even see any Western Nationalist ships aside from the Lunar Avion shuttle. Guess it would just make too much sense lol. I always worried a bit for them in terms of if the Cylons ever came across them, maybe hopefully if they did the Imperious Leaders earlier message of ‘being charitable’ they may have been spared though i somewhat doubt it, Adama I’m certain would’ve done everything to obscure their movements in terms of drawing any cylons away from the Terran and it’s Satellites Systems
"I come from a place where..the people believed that..the opposite of war was peace. We found out the hard way..that the oppsite of war..is more often slavery. And that strength..and strength alone..can support freedom". Captain Apollo quote, from memory. I used to have the above in a clip, like 20 yrs ago and played it a few times..it rang so true. America now is weak..weak leaders. This oft times leads to war..& solidly not peace, nor freedom. For our current leaders are in league with the Military/Industrial complex. War for profit.
The original BSG had a mythos which was reflected in some of the uniform and set designs. The viper pilot helmets had a distinctive egyptian look to them and they hinted in the opening sequence that they were an ancient civilisation in that era that developed space travel and left earth. They had morals and hope and reflected the simpler time it was made. The new series was a bunch of amoral, modern humans and was a parody of politcal world events of the time. I found it predictable in comparison and lacking in depth. But i did see the original when first released and Apollo and starbuck were my childhood heroes so i am biased.
Uh, left Kobol. Not Earth. When they left Kobol, 12 tribes went to the 12 Colonies, but a 13th tribe went to Earth. The 13th tribe was made up of members of the other 12, and their shared culture inspired Earth's individual ancient cultures. This is literally the basic premise of the whole show. Also it's straight up inspired by Latter Day Saints beliefs.
@@TheWonderRabbit I was raised mormon and was about 16 when this aired. There was a bunch of mormon theology injected into the entire series and unless one was very mormon, one would miss the nuances of that theology. The show runner Glen A Larson was a faithful member of that particular religion.
I think it's tough to compare TOS to the new Battlestar series. The original show was aimed at kids. The new show was aimed at adults. This didn't make either one better--just different. Both suffered from budget problems but each show dealt with it differently but still in an annoying fashion. TOS kept re-showing the same battle footage over and over and over again episode after episode. Even as a kid, I thought it was stupid (but I still liked the show) The new show replaced action with soap opera to save money. Overall, I think both shows were good but very different.
Man, that show was so cheesy even though I loved it. The 1960's era square plastic panel buttons in a 1970's TV show spacecraft of the future and the flimsy-looking "riveted" canopy of the Viper made me laugh. And the booster button marked "Turbo". EVERYONE wanted a miracle-making turbocharger in their car back then, and everything else was getting that buzzword printed on it. Remember "turbo buttons" on IBM PC's? I'm sure they put a rotating turbine and compressor in the computer case, right? ;-) And "Starbuck"? c'mon. Though it's true that Luke Skywalker's name was originally "Starhopper" in early screenplay writes of "The Star Wars" (eventually shortened to just Star Wars). Such fun. You really had to dumb-down to enjoy Battlestar, but that was true of Star Wars (sound in space?) and most television shows back then too. We did, and we loved them all. Lorne Greene was the bright spot of that movie too.
Yeah, the 'turbo' always confused me. With those small fuel capacity thrust engines, the turbo would be used up in the first move. Plus, to break the atmosphere, you would need to save the turbo fuel for that. I was 7 and knew that!
Spoilers for season... 3? 4? idr They had a pretty solid nod to this episode on that first not-quite Earth that was bombed to rubble and irc, radioactive.
The whole point of this show was that Galactica protected the last remnants of mankind, but almost weekly they encountered other planets full of them. This one had billions! Made no sense.
your premise is in error......the 12 tribes, capricans, taurons, geminons, arellon, sagittarans, etc etc all were 12 tribes of the known humans. There was a 13th tribe that left into deep space long ago and they populated space w/o being directly known......also in the original first few episodes the humans you did encounter were distant colonies because they used the same syntax i.e. microns, daggets, yarin etc.....as the show progresses you meet up with humanity that does not speak their lingo but are more like the us from Earth.
@@jamesb3843 After they reached Earth and saw how primitive we were, they should have gone back to Terra. After all, while still primitive compared to the Galactica, the Terrans were still more advanced than Earth in the 1980s.
They were the last remnants of the 13 colonies (known mankind) and as they fled in search of mythical Earth, they encountered lots of smaller groups, which they left hoping that the Cylons would ignore them in their pursuit of the fleet
When it was canceled I was a big fan, and read Starlog magazine, also was part of the letter writing campaign to bring it back.. the campaign worked.. but Galactica 1980 was not what we wanted... actors had moved on, different writers.. But I enlisted in 1980, after training was assigned to the 90th Strategic Missile Wing, 90th SPG, 90th SPS, Charlie Flight..... ground security for all the base and nuclear assets.. so there is a bit of irony for me and this episode... But thankfully, we made it through the Cold War without killing each other.. Thank you Mr. Reagan.. my CIC..
@@Shanbo26 The only part of Space 1999 that I liked was the actor Barry Morse (probably best known as Lt. Gerard in "The Fugitive" TV series). However, even with him in it, I couldn't stand the show. (I've forgotten details, but remember specifically the painfully over-the-top acting by Barbara Bain and sometimes Martin Landau.)
What amazes me on this story is it never gets to the reality. Sure the sides confused will discuss peace. But some people in the one side know what happened. And the other side did have their returned ship / crew. The net result is the aggressive party will eventually realize what stopped the missles, and the same decisions that led to the launch will occur again. Unless their glorious leaders have "accidents" lol.
1:55 This was actually a major special effects cock-up. Larson intended for the standard laser cannons of the _Galactica_ to destroy the missiles. But instead of animating little laser beams streaking towards the Terran missiles, the special effects department used this big green energy field effect because they misunderstood what Larson meant by the _Galactica_ shooting down all the missiles with her lasers. There was no time to change back to Larson's original intent.
I recall watching this episode when i was a kid, and it looked so close to the political news of the time, when the chance of a nuclear war didnt seem very far away
Interesting that the original Battlestar Galactica had laser weaponry, while Ronald D. Moore's version of the ship had guns and missiles, but no directed energy weapons.
@@NordRheinWestfale My favorite scene in that entire series was when that lady had to jump between spaceships during an emergency and did not even have a space suit and had to do it without a space suit and she survived. It really is possible to survive briefly in space without a suit (maybe not healthy). I love it in science fiction when a person is realistically shown surviving in space briefly with no suit (Superman does not count!). Its also possible to survive briefly on Mars with no space suit if all you have to do is run a few feet from one airlock to another.
Did anyone else catch the 'green energy' field at 01:55, that 'surrounded' the planet Terra, well before the Galactica had actually fired its missle destroying energy beam?
I wonder if I am the only one to have ever picked up this error. John tells Starbuck "In about 3 minutes..." But the Colonials don't go by minutes. They go by microns.
This was MY battlestar galactica as a child. When i watched the episode where they explained how starbuck was lost at first I'm like ok then it dawned on me he will die alone on a deserted planet with a rewired good cylon. I was like 6 and When i realized how my favorite character dies I cried lol.
I always thought he lived and the angelic beings knowing he was a good man took him in to their society. I just can’t bring myself to think he died. Not a fitting end to Starbuck
He was rescued and became an angelic angel. Glen Larson's son released unused manuscripts his dad wrote if there was a second season of Galactica 1980. There was an episode called "Wheel of Fire" where Starbuck returned and help Troy and Dillion in the episode.
The Galactica bridge was really incredible, especially when you consider the time that this was made. So much of it was functional. All of the computers, displays, etc., actually worked. The effects were not added afterward. Unfortunately the special effects of the Vipers, battles, explosions, etc., were increasingly recycled as the series went on. No CGI back then and all of those shots were very expensive to create.
I’ve never understood who said we should turn out all the regular lights and turn on red lights so we can’t completely see what the crap we are doing while being attacked.
Poor Apollo, thinking he was going to die in an inferno in 15 seconds on a primitive world. Just on blind luck, Starbuck managed to find his ship/ get airborne and call the Galactica. Too bad their personal communicators only had 20 mi range and couldn't call the Galactica directly.
1:02 Director: "Ok extras in the background, just run from one side of the frame to the other. More frantic. More aimless. Make it look like your jogging! Try not to run into each other! There you go, perfect!"
Galatica pulls its rescue act and the two warring sides, not knowing what has happened are forced to sit down and sort out their differences peacefully. Afraid of each other has some super secret weapon neither can defend against.
Oh those Eastern Alliance. They have nasty pointy looking ships that look a bit like the Draconians from Buck Rogers. They don’t have much explaining more about them. They were in a few episodes. Their uniforms look nearly Imperial Star Wars. Great series.
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Somebody did a fanedit for this. Long taken down. But the ep has Apollo's speech ("We thought the opposite of war was slavery") and switching the script so Hatch got to play a little differently.
It is worth noting that in 1978, the upper end of the 25-54 television audience were people (or children of people) who lived through WWII. Space Nazis was an easy lift for the studio. They just had to modify some uniforms they already had on hand and hire some actors who knew the drill.
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Rest in peace richard hatch. You will be remembered always.
I miss Lorne Greene, he was always so awesome in everything he did.
And this was his greatest role ever...ruclips.net/video/wCjKg-PowlA/видео.html
The voice of Canada
He was the voice of Doom in Canada during WW2 since he read out the names of the dead on the CBC
he made me buy alpo! I didn't even have a dog!
I miss my green lawn, since this drought started.
I love the old Battle Star Galactica
So much better than that bullshit remake series
@@02WIFE that's a hot take 😅
@@NUBCAKE101 I couldn't watch the remake because of the character changes and the space flight scenes. Cylons looking like humans? It was bullshit
@@02WIFE The BSG reboot seems to have drawn somewhat on Galactica 1980 for inspiration. G80 had humanoid Cylons, which showed up after the Colonial fleet hadn't seen Cylons in decades, and who also had much more advanced tech. Much like the BSG reboot. But yeah, as an eight-year-old kid in 1978 I couldn't get enough of the original.
@@markwaldron8954 Even though I can see the deficiencies of this original BSG, especially in the visuals, and it is a bit campy, I still love it. I watched Galactica 1980 once and loathed it, and have no interest in the newest remake after reading up and watching some clips.
Adama’s prime directive is being all badass all the time.
or Alpo
@@michaelburke4975 the dog food?
There is only one man who can match Lorne greenes adama in badassery
Edward James Olmos adams
True
The 70's Battlestar Galactica is actually a true story with some details kept hidden. The whole crew made it to earth and secretly assimilated into our society. One of the pilots even opened up a coffee business.
That was after he and his team retired from live of military and soldier for hire. Of course if you can found them
Another pilot and his father, one became a doctor and one became a cop, both living in a house on the beach, solving crimes.
Now we know how Starbucks started.😁
And became a woman for the second series.
@@Sejen77 damn i don’t get this one. Apollo and Adama? Doctor and cop? Solving crimes? What do you mean? I am European, may be I don’t know the series?
Living if the cold war and watching this episode is certainly an impact. What a powerful message!
Movies and TV shows of the early 80s were replete with stories of nearly missed or even complete destruction in an attempt to sway the minds of Presidents. The Day After, a Mini-Series, was said to have sparked the US President's hawkish attitudes and move the world away from Nuclear Armageddon.
Nah. We were kids being kids back in those days - and didn't sweat the little things.
Sorry to inform you that we are living the Cold War again and like most reboots it sucks.
@@cesaravegah3787 Very accurate interpretation of our present times!
@@oscarsiri2763 Thanks I guess, hope this time it ends faster and again with freedom having the upper hand...I am too old to be worried about atomic apocalypse.
You have to admire Lorne Greene being able to deliver those lines with such gravity. I loved the show as a 12-year-old, but I look at it as a 53 year old and I wince, and I admire Pa Cartwright for being able to say that stuff with a straight face!
This show was the first I remember watching. There will forever be only one Adama for me, one Apollo and one Starbuck.
He did have years of practice saying melodramatic lines on Bonaza - he was a real pro, delivering year after year on one of the longest running tv shows
Greene was a professional all the way and made those lines work.
I saw this show when I was a kid. It was like channel 20 or something like that, back when the Atari was a high-tech thing. Wow, time flies.
The special effects were outstanding for the time.
Yeah, except those missiles were said to be nuclear of some type lol. Like its some old term. Then the explosions were seen of low yield. If I was Starbuck, be would be getting the Hell out of there and staying stationary near Galactica.
They're looking dated today, of course, but compared to other scifi of the time they hold up impressively well... I mean, I'd watch a series with these effects released today, under the assumption it's low budget maybe but I figure I'd enjoy it nonetheless.
@@burleyscott2910There are different types.
They wouldn't detonate when destroyed, it would just be a bit "dirty" in the vicinity
"You've just put the fear of God into them for heaven's sakes don't tell them how you did it." Love that line, it's later in this episode but I still remember it.
Me too!
That was a bit of wisdom I learned to use later in life.
@@Scripticus I have so many questions and I know I'll either be impressed or horrified by the answers.
This is what Reagan meant by "Star Wars" ICBM missile defense, if you're old enough to remember MAD... Gotta love the voice of reason at the end.
I was just thinking, this might have been where he got the idea.
I'm old enough. Growing up in the DC area I lived in the center of the bullseye 🎯.
Yes I am brother. What was great for me being young is how easy Starbuck rolled from this great show right into face in the a-team. TV was so much better then when one had to have an imagination!
Nearly old enough, but I still remember the crazy MAD strategy.
I was 13 during the infamous 1983 incident. Arguably, we wouldn't be here now if things had turned differently back then.
Turns out the "Star Wars" missile defense turned into a free, world wide GPS system.
He did something that Nikola Tesla dreamed of, and Control Freaks everywhere hated.
A free service to everybody!
0:11 "Michael, is that you? I need you and Kitt to... oh, wait, wrong show."
Battlestar Galactica was a really interesting and well crafted show in the 70s, with engaging plots of survival and aircraft carrier warfare in space. It helped that it had very good special effects for the time, outstanding acting with old school serious actors in the main cast and as guests, and an Oscar-worthy original soundtrack. Sadly it only lasted two seasons due its high cost of production for a TV show. I always wondered if revival of the idea as it was originally conceived, and not like the early 2000s soap opera in space attempt, would succeed these days, with current budgets for streaming TV shows. Richard Hatch, who convincingly plays Captain Apollo in this show, tried many times to revive the show with the same look and feel before his passing.
I’ve often wondered that too. I’m probably one of the few people that doesn’t like the reboot version. I’ve heard it said that TOS wouldn’t survive these days if it was brought back as is. Ditch the campy cheesy stories disguised as sci fi, ignore the Galactica 80 version with its super children, and bring back the version similar to the one Richard Hatch showed in 1999. Do it more like a “next generation“ type series. It probably would be too positive and upbeat for today’s audiences Who seem more interested in zombies, murders, political correctness, ghosts, and sex.
I think just make the genocide of humanity a bigger deal. It’s a tragedy that the original series never really addressed past the movie.
Well said. The original Battlestar Galactica only lasted 1 year though, unless you are including the train wreck Galactica 80.
1 season. but it made a lasting impression
@@stevedj101 No, that second season is totally forgettable. First seasons is a masterpiece.
Lorne Green was just awesome as Adama!
They just showed Terra the mighty power of a battlestar! Especially the Eastern Alliance!!
Glen A Larson producer did this series and many others during his career. Glen was a Mormon and much of the lore in Battlestar Galactica was based on his faith as inspiration. The Cylons Red scanner light was used on another series he produced later Knight Rider including the scan sound the turbo boost sound is the same as the Viper launch sound. The ships that were in Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century were the 1st concepts for the Vipers. There was alot of recycling and nods to other shows Larson worked on.
Legendary
A lot of sound effects were shared between BSG and Buck Rodgers.
Also he included as a guest Star Edward Mulhare, later he also appeared in Knight Rider
@@marcosanchez3418 yes he did!
And don't forget the opening credits for The A-Team. You see a Cylon walk past Dirk Benedict.
I've always enjoyed this show. It's the perfect humor of the times. "Oh yeah, we nearly destroyed ourselves, but after reviewing our satellite visual data, we found out a passing alien ship dropped by and destroyed our missiles before just moving on. The biggest thing to pull us together like...ever!"
@@penningtonknickernacker921 If you listen, there's the sound of the Viper laser firing that doesn't show visually. I put it off as Starbuck fired at one of the missiles as it passed for good measure. ;)
Agreed. I love this show; it’s in one of my all time favorites. But even so, this episode rates at the bottom of 1970s logic. And so it’s my least favorite of the series. Nothing makes a lot of sense here; it’s like a completely different show.
@@penningtonknickernacker921
The lone ranger and gunsmoke had posse horses running around a curve in the road for " go to town " , ";go to next town " , " chase bad guys " , " here they come "
I love all these smart comments...
That’s Gold, Jerry, Gold!
@@dirkstarbuck6126 I never did get the logic that, after finding a Human world with reasonably advanced technology they just leave after stopping them from blowing themselves up just to find "Earth". Surely "Terra" is a better option as a new homeworld than, as we see in the aborted second season 2 Earth is. I dont think they warn the Terrans about the Cylons either.
I completely forgot that the angel dude in this episode was Devon Miles from Nightrider. Starbuck we have replaced your Viper with the new Knight Industries 12000. It has the galaxies most advanced AI and can jump 25 cars with almost no damage to the frame.
thats because the frame was a molecularly-bonded turbo frame...the frame itself had its own turbo attached to it. it didnt spin, it was just attached.
Edware Mulhare was the actor's name.
And Knightrider with a K.
@@ReconViper1 Oh man I completely forgot about that. I realized something recently when watching some of sfdebris videos on BSG. You can tell that it was originally intended to be a series of periodic 2 hour TV movies, before it got flipped at the last minute to a weekly network show. Because you can recognize those original 2 hour scripts. They are the episodes that you remember. Saga of a Star World (the pilot), Lost World of the Gods, The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, The Living Legend, War of the Gods, and Greetings From Earth. These are the episodes that really stand out in your mind. They were the best of the series. They were the ones originally meant to be th e2 hour movies. The rest? The weekly 1 hour 1 shots are all really forgettable. I mean okay the Lone Cylon Gunfighter one maybe stood out for its weirdness. But the only really good story among them was the one episode where the Galactica was on fire. All the rest kind of blend together.
Edward Mulhare also played one of two starring roles in TV series of The Ghost and Mrs Muir. He played the ghost of Captain Gregg.
I shall always remember him as the captain in “The Ghost And Mrs Muir”
The submarine design of the Galactica was such a novel approach to space battles. BSG and BSG '78 were such brilliantly-crafted series that, while seeming quaint today, really pushed the limits for their time.
Wasn't there a Japanese anime where an old WWII battleship was turned into a spaceship... Somehow., I don't think it was a new idea, just look at the Botany Bay from the 60's era Star Trek.
William Tompkins designed vessels of the USN Secret Space Program based on submarines. It was a familiar production concept. He passed away several years ago, but got his story out.
@@johnwang9914 Star Blazers is what you are thinking of. Yes the Botany Bay did look like a WWII sub. It was probably a modified sub model for real.
BSG 2004 took the proverbial football and ran with.....
Galactica was a carrier not a sub
The eastern Alliance seem to be true inspiration for Spaceballs
Those guys in the background with crash helmets with the dark visors crack me up !! how the hell could they see anything at all !!!????
Emperor Scroob approves.
They're still combing the desert for the mysterious alien ship.
This iconic space series ,shape a generation of young people like no other series.The cast, special effects filled our imagination of our child hood ,even now we are all older it's legend carries on.who wouldn't love to pliot a vipor across the stars.
God i loved that series better than the newer one.
Most people who saw the original do.
So say........you anyway.
@@Sporkmaker5150 found a fan of the newer series lol
Oh yes, same here.
I knew it!!!!!!!!!!!! This is where Reagen got the idea for the "STAR WARS" program!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go Battlestar Galactica!
Thank you for bringing back great memories 😊
What a great old show.
I loved this show as a kid. I could never get into the reboot
"But they CAN'T be attacking! We have this treaty!"
"Well, FRAME it! But hurry!"
I think it's funny/ironic that the Eastern Alliance commander asks what treachery the good guys are up to, when he has just launched a sneak attack against them. :)
This was one of the better episodes of this series.
they were all great!
@@stevedj101 I wouldn't go that far.
@@odysseusrex5908 it was a perfect year. All shows were excellent, sorry you dont see that.
@@stevedj101 Sorry, Galactica had significant problems. It can not compare with Star Trek, or Babylon 5, or Quantum Leap, to name three.
@@odysseusrex5908 no one ever compared it to star trek, babylon 5 or quantum leap. why are you?
I watched the series back in the 70's . Always looked forward to the next week
Remember in the original series how the same 3 cylon ships used to be shot down in exactly the same order and the same time! The Cylons lost hundreds of ships like that:)
They spent so much money on effects they had to reuse them…
You know machine AI, they follow their programming.
The one exploding in the top corner of the screen over and over and over... and yet the expensive production helped end the show.
I'm actually serious, it would explain why the Colonials always seemed to have such an easy time with the Cylons. Being machines, they flew predictable patterns they had been programmed with, and the Colonials just kept blowing them up in the same ways.
@@STNeish It is an acceptable reasoning at least for the original series whereas at least the run of the mill cylons were nothing but machines. The shows writers could certainly of slipped that into the show or as I believe Hollywierd calls it hang a Lantern on it. Except this would reduce the drama by making the Cylons less dangerous. Of course as we know the real reason was budget. With some contempt for the audience thrown in thinking they would not notice. Of course no doubt every fan did notice.
The dude from Knight Rider and the dude from the A-Team were on a show with the dude from the Ponderosa!
It’s been been well established Hollywood is one of the earliest adopters of recycling.
Best sci fi show that should have lasted longer and been a mega franchise.
Original Starbuck was cool.
It was on during the family hour in the late 70s. They thought it was too violent so they tamed it all down in the show's last episodes. Everything on the show became too kid friendly. It drove the ratings into abysmal.
The only Battlestar Galactica series, as far as I'm concerned.
The survivors of the 12 Colonies have a very different take on the philosophy behind the "Prime Directive" than Star Fleet don't they?
The stupid writers of Star Trek (and to be clear, I love Star Trek too), never grasped the fact that you cannot morally allow a society to be destroyed. It is fine to let a more primitive culture alone, but you cannot just sit by and let them be wiped out. Kirk and Adama are far better then Picard who will stand by and let whole civilizations perish rather than intervene.
I just now noticed a big editing error in this episode.
They split the view of the planet into two shots. The one on the left has just the planet, and the one on the right includes the Galactica.
When we first view the side on the left, the laser grid is already up. Then we cut to the Galactica and it hasn't started firing yet.
huh, that guy talking to Starbuck at the beginning...i know him...yes, he played the head of FLAG, or Foundation of Law and Government, in Knight Rider...
Edward Mulhare.
aka Devon Miles - he sure does get around! Oh, and Mr. Mulhare also played Capt. Daniel Gregg: ruclips.net/video/CQs5lfqzfdo/видео.html
Ah Ha! Nice to see a bit of 'my' Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene. The effects don't wear too well, but I liked it better than the remake.
The remake was decent up until the writer's strike in 2004-2005 (i.e. New Caprica was when it went downhill badly). It had enough of a premise that it could have rode out on autopilot for years if they didn't hire Ryan Johnson's mentors as writers (tbh, I have no idea who worked on the last few seasons, but they sucked badly).
effects always look bad over time. if the story is good it'll never go bad.
@@Zachomara Wow, I thought it stayed amazingly strong all the way through to the end unlike most shows. They ended it when they should have instead of milking it into oblivion.
@@ShamrockParticle My sentiments exactly. Special effects from 1978 will seem dated by now but the storytelling is what keeps it in our hearts and memories.
Adama is such a boss in this scene. After Starbuck tells him what’s going on he doesn’t even waste one micron before acting decisively.
Even Commander Caine would’ve been impressed.
1:57 ah yes, the 1970's standard explosion sound effect... how I've missed it.
Canned footage from the week or so that they could afford to rent John Dykstra.
To some extent yes, though part of it was the fast rate of production. It was mainly the two-parters that introduced new footage, particularly "The Living Legend".
Back then I was too young to care.
This us what made classic Battlestar Galactica great. Corny like Buck Rogers but great.
@@ericmadsen7470 Remember those words. Within a few years or decades, a new generation of sci-fi fans will be saying the same thing about our most popular movies .
A pretty exciting sequence from the classic Battlestar. Nice!
Reassuring that Galactica's computer terminal CRTs are about twice the size I used when starting my computer operating career 5 years later back in 1983. Those aliens were super-advanced.
Wow Devon Miles sure gets around doesn't he? 😛
Love these clips!
Ahhh, the old days.
When "Maximum Shields" was simply closing the Blinds on the window 😂
... it was a simpler time
My headcanon was that it's part of the process. Every window on the Galactica closes once their shields are activated.
While I enjoyed them coming across inhabited planets, it made me wonder on the ethics of the fleet. They’re encountering societies with significantly lower technology than the fleet and the Cylons, yet they leave them to their fates with the Cylons pursuing them.
To start with they kind of imply that the humans discovered on these worlds are offshoots from the twelve colonies and take the view that they cant do more than warn them and hope the Cylons don`t see those worlds as a threat.
So the ethics there are definitely questionable if maybe a bit pragmatic.
Once the Count Ibli story happens though the Cylon`s are portrayed as less of a threat as Baltar is captured and the fleet seems to have gone beyond explored space and lost the pursuing Cylon fleet with the help of the Ship of Light/"Gods".
Then for several episodes, they start trolling the audience into thinking "Terra" might just be a future Earth.
I never did get why they left Terra as it is basically what they need, a high-tech, space traveling, high population human world that the Cylons don't know about that could be brought up to colonial level technology relatively fast in order to fight the Cylons.
@@AbelMcTalisker "John" told them that Terra wasn't Earth. The Colonials were just religious enough to see their destiny as not lying there.
That said, I'd have called for staying.
@@TommygunNG They probably should at least warn them about the Cylons though. While at that point in season one they think that they have passed beyond explored space and evaded Cylon pursuit surely it should cross their mind that Terra could be at risk if some Cylon scouts looking for the fleet should stumble across the planet.
@@AbelMcTalisker Totally agree. I was just giving the basis of their thinking.
@@AbelMcTalisker why they left Terra and her satellite worlds always perplexed me as you said they could’ve retrofitted the Eastern Alliance destroyers with lasers and we never even see any Western Nationalist ships aside from the Lunar Avion shuttle. Guess it would just make too much sense lol. I always worried a bit for them in terms of if the Cylons ever came across them, maybe hopefully if they did the Imperious Leaders earlier message of ‘being charitable’ they may have been spared though i somewhat doubt it, Adama I’m certain would’ve done everything to obscure their movements in terms of drawing any cylons away from the Terran and it’s Satellites Systems
Ah...the good old days. When all l had to worry about was zits, and getting my homework done on time.
I squeezed the zits, ignored the homework, and watched me some BSG!
i love this episode. awesome
If I could binge watch all of season 1 of BSG I would.
This show was so awesome, still is.
I love Both the Battlestar Galactica series , the original and the 2000s reboot..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️
I watched BSG 1978 and I sure as HECK don't recall this episode!
"I come from a place where..the people believed that..the opposite of war was peace.
We found out the hard way..that the oppsite of war..is more often slavery. And that
strength..and strength alone..can support freedom".
Captain Apollo quote, from memory. I used to have the above in a clip, like
20 yrs ago and played it a few times..it rang so true.
America now is weak..weak leaders. This oft times leads to war..& solidly not peace, nor freedom.
For our current leaders are in league with the Military/Industrial complex. War for profit.
I love this Show
Did anyone notice that the Eastern Alliance leader looks like Baltar's brother??
They can put a laser field over an entire planet and take out hundreds of nuclear ICBMs, but they have to wait and shut the big window first.😃
There was an error too. Galatica laser shield was seen active before being activated. lol.
The original BSG had a mythos which was reflected in some of the uniform and set designs. The viper pilot helmets had a distinctive egyptian look to them and they hinted in the opening sequence that they were an ancient civilisation in that era that developed space travel and left earth. They had morals and hope and reflected the simpler time it was made. The new series was a bunch of amoral, modern humans and was a parody of politcal world events of the time. I found it predictable in comparison and lacking in depth. But i did see the original when first released and Apollo and starbuck were my childhood heroes so i am biased.
Uh, left Kobol. Not Earth. When they left Kobol, 12 tribes went to the 12 Colonies, but a 13th tribe went to Earth. The 13th tribe was made up of members of the other 12, and their shared culture inspired Earth's individual ancient cultures. This is literally the basic premise of the whole show. Also it's straight up inspired by Latter Day Saints beliefs.
@@TheWonderRabbit I was raised mormon and was about 16 when this aired. There was a bunch of mormon theology injected into the entire series and unless one was very mormon, one would miss the nuances of that theology. The show runner Glen A Larson was a faithful member of that particular religion.
I thought the modern series was fascinating.
I think it's tough to compare TOS to the new Battlestar series. The original show was aimed at kids. The new show was aimed at adults. This didn't make either one better--just different. Both suffered from budget problems but each show dealt with it differently but still in an annoying fashion. TOS kept re-showing the same battle footage over and over and over again episode after episode. Even as a kid, I thought it was stupid (but I still liked the show) The new show replaced action with soap opera to save money. Overall, I think both shows were good but very different.
I lived through the 70's there was nothing simple about it. Embarrassing (fashion wise) but not simple.
Man, that show was so cheesy even though I loved it. The 1960's era square plastic panel buttons in a 1970's TV show spacecraft of the future and the flimsy-looking "riveted" canopy of the Viper made me laugh. And the booster button marked "Turbo". EVERYONE wanted a miracle-making turbocharger in their car back then, and everything else was getting that buzzword printed on it. Remember "turbo buttons" on IBM PC's? I'm sure they put a rotating turbine and compressor in the computer case, right? ;-)
And "Starbuck"? c'mon. Though it's true that Luke Skywalker's name was originally "Starhopper" in early screenplay writes of "The Star Wars" (eventually shortened to just Star Wars). Such fun.
You really had to dumb-down to enjoy Battlestar, but that was true of Star Wars (sound in space?) and most television shows back then too. We did, and we loved them all. Lorne Greene was the bright spot of that movie too.
Glen A. Larsen re-used the Turbo Button for Knight Rider later ;-)
"Luke Starkiller" was the original name.
Yeah, the 'turbo' always confused me. With those small fuel capacity thrust engines, the turbo would be used up in the first move. Plus, to break the atmosphere, you would need to save the turbo fuel for that. I was 7 and knew that!
@@burleyscott2910 Maybe they had an Epstein Drive, like the folks in The Expanse.
This is a storyline I would have liked to see adapted for the RDM version.
Spoilers for season... 3? 4? idr
They had a pretty solid nod to this episode on that first not-quite Earth that was bombed to rubble and irc, radioactive.
The Eastern Alliance leader was Nehemiah Persoff, who was also in the Twilight Zone
He's still alive and kicking at 102!
@@darthplagueis66 True indeed!
Sadly Nehemiah Persoff died in April 2022 at age 102
R.I.P.
The whole point of this show was that Galactica protected the last remnants of mankind, but almost weekly they encountered other planets full of them. This one had billions! Made no sense.
your premise is in error......the 12 tribes, capricans, taurons, geminons, arellon, sagittarans, etc etc all were 12 tribes of the known humans. There was a 13th tribe that left into deep space long ago and they populated space w/o being directly known......also in the original first few episodes the humans you did encounter were distant colonies because they used the same syntax i.e. microns, daggets, yarin etc.....as the show progresses you meet up with humanity that does not speak their lingo but are more like the us from Earth.
@@jamesb3843 After they reached Earth and saw how primitive we were, they should have gone back to Terra. After all, while still primitive compared to the Galactica, the Terrans were still more advanced than Earth in the 1980s.
They were the last remnants of the 13 colonies (known mankind) and as they fled in search of mythical Earth, they encountered lots of smaller groups, which they left hoping that the Cylons would ignore them in their pursuit of the fleet
Battlestar Galactica was just getting good when it was cancelled too bad. Just like my other show like Space1999
Yeah, I'll have to agree to disagree. Space 1999 was garbage. Except for the props.
@@Shanbo26 Out of curiosity, why do you think it was garbage? (considering it was a cheesy scifi show that had overdramatic acting.)
When it was canceled I was a big fan, and read Starlog magazine, also was part of the letter writing campaign to bring it back.. the campaign worked.. but Galactica 1980 was not what we wanted... actors had moved on, different writers..
But I enlisted in 1980, after training was assigned to the 90th Strategic Missile Wing, 90th SPG, 90th SPS, Charlie Flight..... ground security for all the base and nuclear assets.. so there is a bit of irony for me and this episode...
But thankfully, we made it through the Cold War without killing each other.. Thank you Mr. Reagan.. my CIC..
@@Shanbo26 The only part of Space 1999 that I liked was the actor Barry Morse (probably best known as Lt. Gerard in "The Fugitive" TV series). However, even with him in it, I couldn't stand the show. (I've forgotten details, but remember specifically the painfully over-the-top acting by Barbara Bain and sometimes Martin Landau.)
Ooh loved this show after school on the weekdays. New Sub. /cheers ScrapBongo Liked
I only watched this show to see the colonial vipers do turbo boost fly-bys and shoot at stuff.
I get the impression the writer and the special effect team were not on the same page about what was supposed to be shown.
Long live the Terran Empire! Oh wait. Wrong series.
What amazes me on this story is it never gets to the reality. Sure the sides confused will discuss peace. But some people in the one side know what happened. And the other side did have their returned ship / crew. The net result is the aggressive party will eventually realize what stopped the missles, and the same decisions that led to the launch will occur again. Unless their glorious leaders have "accidents" lol.
1:55 This was actually a major special effects cock-up. Larson intended for the standard laser cannons of the _Galactica_ to destroy the missiles. But instead of animating little laser beams streaking towards the Terran missiles, the special effects department used this big green energy field effect because they misunderstood what Larson meant by the _Galactica_ shooting down all the missiles with her lasers. There was no time to change back to Larson's original intent.
Is it me, ir does the group that launched the missles have guards like look like Spaceballs, but dressed in black?
Yes, was thinking the same thing. TBH I hadn't seen either in a very long time.
Colonel Sanders, our missiles do not seem to be reaching their targets!
I recall watching this episode when i was a kid, and it looked so close to the political news of the time, when the chance of a nuclear war didnt seem very far away
Interesting that the original Battlestar Galactica had laser weaponry, while Ronald D. Moore's version of the ship had guns and missiles, but no directed energy weapons.
The reboot tried for scientific accuracy where possible.
Star Wars set the tone that many shows followed.
@@davidscoltock3970 I hate that every ship has some kind of "artificial gravity" like the gravity in my bedroom right now holding me to my bed.
@@Zurround "The Expanse" might be something for you.
@@NordRheinWestfale My favorite scene in that entire series was when that lady had to jump between spaceships during an emergency and did not even have a space suit and had to do it without a space suit and she survived. It really is possible to survive briefly in space without a suit (maybe not healthy). I love it in science fiction when a person is realistically shown surviving in space briefly with no suit (Superman does not count!). Its also possible to survive briefly on Mars with no space suit if all you have to do is run a few feet from one airlock to another.
Did anyone else catch the 'green energy' field at 01:55, that 'surrounded' the planet Terra, well before the Galactica had actually fired its missle destroying energy beam?
Yeah, I'm putting it down to Aurora Borealis lol
It's greenhouse gasses.
Swamp gas.
Terran governments after this: 'well crap, there goes all of our most powerful weapons.'
Teachings of Dolores cannon, no nuclear war allowed.
It's funny how weird the soundtrack is compared to today; it comes across as jolly, rather than dramatic.
Part of the reason is that this episode was scored entirely with tracked music from earlier episodes.
One best shows ever
So the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI “ peace shield “ ) did work. 👍👍👍👍👍
I wonder if I am the only one to have ever picked up this error. John tells Starbuck "In about 3 minutes..." But the Colonials don't go by minutes. They go by microns.
They do reference minutes and seconds later on, but that is the Terrans among themselves.
I thought microns were seconds, and centons were minutes.
...and what the Hell is a centon!
@@burleyscott2910 A Centisecond. Metric timekeeping? They probably have something like Decaseconds, Kiloseconds, and Megaseconds as well.
This was MY battlestar galactica as a child. When i watched the episode where they explained how starbuck was lost at first I'm like ok then it dawned on me he will die alone on a deserted planet with a rewired good cylon. I was like 6 and When i realized how my favorite character dies I cried lol.
I always thought he lived and the angelic beings knowing he was a good man took him in to their society. I just can’t bring myself to think he died. Not a fitting end to Starbuck
He was rescued and became an angelic angel. Glen Larson's son released unused manuscripts his dad wrote if there was a second season of Galactica 1980. There was an episode called "Wheel of Fire" where Starbuck returned and help Troy and Dillion in the episode.
The Galactica bridge was really incredible, especially when you consider the time that this was made. So much of it was functional. All of the computers, displays, etc., actually worked. The effects were not added afterward. Unfortunately the special effects of the Vipers, battles, explosions, etc., were increasingly recycled as the series went on. No CGI back then and all of those shots were very expensive to create.
I'm glad I have this on DVD this galactica will always be better than that sorry excuse for a remake.
So much promise for this show
Nehemiah Persoff died April 5, 2022 RIP
I’ve never understood who said we should turn out all the regular lights and turn on red lights so we can’t completely see what the crap we are doing while being attacked.
duno, but in fighter planes they used to use red light in the cockpit because it didn't ruin your night vision when reading maps, etc
Poor Apollo, thinking he was going to die in an inferno in 15 seconds on a primitive world. Just on blind luck, Starbuck managed to find his ship/ get airborne and call the Galactica. Too bad their personal communicators only had 20 mi range and couldn't call the Galactica directly.
1:02 Director: "Ok extras in the background, just run from one side of the frame to the other. More frantic. More aimless. Make it look like your jogging! Try not to run into each other! There you go, perfect!"
Galatica pulls its rescue act and the two warring sides, not knowing what has happened are forced to sit down and sort out their differences peacefully. Afraid of each other has some super secret weapon neither can defend against.
Devon Miles and Face from the A Team, nice!
Oh those Eastern Alliance. They have nasty pointy looking ships that look a bit like the Draconians from Buck Rogers. They don’t have much explaining more about them. They were in a few episodes. Their uniforms look nearly Imperial Star Wars. Great series.
I don’t remember this episode. Which one was this? I thought I had seen all of them in re-runs over the past 45 years or so. Jeez I am old.
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2:56 They look like Kaos agents. "This is Kaos. We don't UHHH here!"
Need the galactica now
I can’t wait till this Series is released on Blu-ray and possibly 4K with a Dolby ATMOS Surround Sound Audio Track.
I really wish I had been around to see the pilot with Sensurround during its theatrical release.
What a show!
I like the two Spaceballs behind the commander.
Edward Mulhare of "Knight Rider" is in this video! Super!
Dark suits: launch nuclear missile
Also dark suits: what kind of treacher are they up to? 😃😄
The 70s sure knew how to pull off a space helmet. That thing should have a spin-off show all to itself.
Somebody did a fanedit for this. Long taken down. But the ep has Apollo's speech ("We thought the opposite of war was slavery") and switching the script so Hatch got to play a little differently.
It is worth noting that in 1978, the upper end of the 25-54 television audience were people (or children of people) who lived through WWII. Space Nazis was an easy lift for the studio. They just had to modify some uniforms they already had on hand and hire some actors who knew the drill.