@ It was indeed a great experience. I don’t care how 4K or 8K your TV is, or how great your home audio is - nothing could compare to a massive bucket of popcorn and a theatre that SHOOK, and where you were immersed in “surround sound” before we even knew what it was. In 1978, we were experiencing this technology at a time when homes still had B&W televisions in use.
Some day someone will. The hardest part is the ability to purchase or lease the "Rights" to the Trademarks and Copyrights of BSG for use. If it weren't for overly strict Trademark and Copyrights, there would be many more great tv shows and movies from the 70s, 80s, and even ...... gulp....... the 90s being remade today. Most won't outright sell the trademarks and copyrights and will only lease them with massive restrictions. Imagine paying a buttload of money for the "Rights" to remake a movie, that movie does awesome and is all the rage, but because of the restrictions, you can't make a sequel or turn it into a tv show and then the actual owner of those "Rights", goes ahead and makes a sequel and/or tv show while you get to sit and watch it all happen with very little to no involvement on your part??? That's why so many good shows and movies from back then are mothballed with nothing being done and the excuse is ..... They are considering it but can't get all the right pieces (actors, directors, producers, etc), together at the right time. Which is nothing more than a BS excuse. The BSG spin-off series about the Pegasus in the Glen Larson original BSG Universe nearly happened back in 2020 but got obliterated by the joke that was known as Covid. Now that project is completely dead with all of the costumes, the 3-part pilot (where have we seen that before lol), and the 3 full and 2 partial episodes written for the series now shoved into the studio's dead show closet, most likely for decades to come. Once things got back on track after Covid, all of the contracts with the actors, directors, writers, etc. were expiring/expired and the costs to sign new ones were very prohibitive (official reason given). The REAL reason was the show no longer became financially viable even if it were to succeed because the "Rights" leases needed to be renegotiated and those 'Powers That Be" jacked the price way up as they decided they might consider doing something similar in the "future".
@@thomasjoseph5876 It's my understanding that this is what happened to Lost In Space. Hopefully, Hulu or Netflix or some other entity, will revive BSG like they did LIS.
@@DMSProduktions It was a complete joke as to how it was treated and handled. It literally did more damage to people's lives in how it was handled, than it killed. A large amount of those deaths could have been prevented if several Governors of Blue States hadn't released Covid positive patients back into the Nursing Homes they came from. As a Medical Professional (ER Doc), it is amazing how the Govt disregarded the things we were saying (frontline workers) and instead, followed the recommendations of people like Fauci who hadn't been exposed to frontline care for over a decade and who essentially made poor decisions that kept Covid going and doing the damage it did. Instead of correcting those issues and mistakes, he doubled down on them and lied. So, ya, Covid was a complete joke.
I also saw it at the McLendon triple drive-in by Houston, Texas. Sadly, the drive-in is long gone. If I remember correctly, there were 3 space movies going at the same time also...
Saw it in Sensuround at the Will Rogers in Chicago, Thrice! Yeah, back then you can sit and watch over and over on one ticket. The most memorable part that shook me up was when there was just the blackness of space with the stars and then BOOM as a pair of Vipers blew past from directly behind. The floor shook!
I saw it in the theatre with my older brother at the Brookhurst Loge in Anaheim, California. I recall that the space battles were so loud that it scared me as a small kid. In the same movie house we also saw Bakshi's LOTR and Battle Beyond The Stars.
The 1979 theatrical release wasn't a "pared down" version of the TV pilot, it was the original theatrical version that was released in Canada in summer 1978. They were same prints, in fact. More footage was filmed after the movie was completed, which became part of the 3-hour premiere version. My recollection is that the May 1979 theatrical release was not quite a smash. In the New York area it played for all of three weeks, then a fourth week at a single theater. I also recall reading that "Mission Galactica" only played in the southwest U.S. It didn't come to the northeast at all that I remember. It played on HBO in '80/'81, which is how I saw it.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Yeah, we paid to see it in the theatres, and then re-watched it (with minor changes to the edit- like Baltar not getting killed) when the series premiered in September of that same year. It was really kind of a rip-off.
Was 13yo when Battlestar Galactica premiered. Really loved to watch it back in the 70's. Never saw the movie when it came out but have it on laserdisc.
Yes I was in the UK when it was released in the film theatres . I was a kid then, and thought it was fantastic. It gave me the shakes then and still gives me the shakes now! lol
My aunt worked in a cinema so I went to watch all the BSG theatrical releases along with the Buck Rogers in the 25th century film and other sci-fi fare such as Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
I saw _Spacehunter_ in a Drive-in theater... in 3-D!! All I really remember about it was Molly Ringwald was _adorable,_ the android lady was _HOT_ and Michael Ironside was completely unrecognizable with all the makeup and prosthesis as OverDog!
Sorry to say, I didn't see any of the Galactica films in the theater. That would have been amazing! But, now I have a 70" screen and I am getting the Blu-Ray of the original series (still have it on regular DVD), so I think that might come close to the theater experience. I did have the original movie on VHS. Great video, Collectica! It took me a while to get to it this time.
Hehe I remember the promo for the first movie here in New Zealand. Never got to see it in theatre but did see the mission galactica movie when it came here in ... 1980? Thanks for the video.
Saw this in England in 1979. The slogan said, "Out does STAR WARS." It certainly didn't do that, but made for enjoyable viewing for kids desperate for anything sci-fi. We also saw Mission Galactica, shown once as a Sunday matinee. We enjoyed it. We also saw Buck Rogers with Gil Gerrard at the cinema. We got the Buck Rogers series on the TV quite quickly, but Galactica did not show for several years. When I did eventually see it, I was very disappointed with the stories. I much preferred other TV shows of that era like Space 1999. Galactica was certainly more entertaining than Blakes 7.
So cool that you got to see all of these films at the theater. GL was never happy with BSGs first season and blamed a lot of it on the rushed schedule the show faced.
@battlestarcollectica7106 They were certainly great days. They were most impressive on the big screen. Around that time, a few sci-fi TV shows were released at the cinema by splicing 2 episodes together. Space 1999 had 2 films released. I used to get Starlog magazine at the time. This told me what I needed to know about current and upcoming films and shows. I still have many, including one that contained a Galactica S1 episode guide. We never got Galactica 1980 until many years later. This was most disappointing and almost unwatchable, apart from the Return of Starbuck.
I was around that same age when it first came out, in quick succesive years I got a largest dose of Sci-Fi films in British cinema's like the ABC and the Classic in Birkenhead which firstly for me began with Capricorn One, then Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and then the Big One in Star Wars in December of 1977 which was itself quickly followed by Superman, The Warlords of Atlantis, Star trek: The Motion Picture, The Black Hole, Moonraker, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, The Humanoid, Battle Beyond the Stars, and The Empire Strikes Back and Flash Gordon all before we finally got Superman II, Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tron, Return of the Jedi, Superman III, Dune, 2010: The Year We Make Contact and finally The Last Starfighter. After those films I finally started to feel less like a child and more a teen with an attitude to sustain and an ego to uphold and I stopped going to the cinema to watch Sci Fi films and anything I did watch around then and onward would always be on VHS, you know, looking at that list and remembering those films in the pictures as a kid I see that I lived my childhood in most coolest of times possible.
@wirralnomad I can't argue with that or that list. I saw most of them. My favourite post STAR WARS film was Raiders of the Lost Ark. I also recall The Humanoid with Richard Keil. Another Sunday matinee. Great days, indeed. Deluged in sci-fi. Great days indeed.
I was born in '70 and don't remember knowing as a kid that BSG, or Buck Rogers for that matter, had theatrical releases. Of course I remember going to see Star Wars and King Kong was huge back then.
I saw Battlestar Galactica twice at the cinema here in the UK (I was 10). I then finally saw Mission Galactica on home video in 1981 ( it didn’t get a wide release at the cinemas in the UK coz if it had I’d have gone!) The posters for both films were fantastic! I also collected the 132 topps card set which I still have to this day, as well as the poster magazines, annuals (including the Mission Galactica one!) , the storybook, the photo novel and eventually all the novels. The TV series wasn’t broadcast in our region so had to wait years before that landed. It had such potential…
“Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack” was certainly a worthy sequel to the theatrical BSG movie. I purchased it on VHS tape the day it was released (pre-order!). I had just gotten my own VCP (it played tapes, but had no “record” capability). Life was GOOD.
"Mission Galactica" was never seen in theatres in the US. It was shown elsewhere around the world. I remember seeing a VHS copies of "Mission" and "Conquest of Earth" in video stores. We only got the edited version of the pilot in USA theatres, following the cancellation of "BG" on ABC. After "Galactica 1980," Universal released 12 telemovies for local stations, which were basically two episodes combined as one movie.
@@-Bean "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" was not a movie. That was the title of Richard Hatch's self-produced, presentation reel. He released a trailer only to show Universal executives to get their interest in starting a new continuing BSG series with the original cast. The trailer was only played it at conventions to the public (it was never meant to be seen online, but it has been popping up on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/OxDFdxT06d4/видео.html). Apparently, Hatch shot enough footage for a 30-minute showcase, but it was never completed and nobody has seen it.
@@Sidewalkstvshow ugh, got my titles confused... Your right, 'The Second Coming' was something else entirely. The showed a 'second BSG' move here titled 'Battlestar Galactica: The Cylon Attack' and had posters for a while that BSG-III subtitled "Conquest of the Earth" was "coming soon"; however, that never happened. The 2nd move was only in 3 theaters in the Chicago Land area . I remember the 2nd move being simply a re-edit of TV episodes 'Fire in Space' and 'The Living Legend' with emphasis of the appearance of 'Battlestar Pegasus' being commanded by Commander Cain (actor Lloyd Bridges), who is also Lieutenant Sheba father. The Will Rogers Theater did show a lot of test-edit early movie runs that differed from the official release, this theater was within 2 blocks walking distance from my house and the owner frequently let me in for free when I walked over there by myself (he remarked making more money off me playing video games and eating popcorn then he would from the ticket admission price)
@@-Bean Thanks for the info. I didn't realized it has any theatrical showing of "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" in the US. It wasn't nationwide like the pilot film.
As a kid in the USA, I saw the Battlestar Galactica movie. I was so surprised and confused because I was expecting a new movie, and instead it was the same as the first few episodes of the TV show that I had already watched, with a few differences. But I still enjoyed watching it in the movie theater because I liked the show so much.
Yes, I saw "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" & "Battlestar Galactica" in theaters & both in Sensurround. The funny thing is I didn't feel ripped off even though I knew (after the fact) I was essentially watching episodes of the show on the big screen. Hats off to Universal for being able to pull this stunt 3 times & get away with it. You would have of thought after the first film there was no way audiences would fall for it again & again. But happily we did.
This infuriates me to no end. MGtCA had that really nice opening scene of the Galactica and the feet flying over head. I wonder if that was a planned but late shot from Dykstra's group that never made it into the premier and Television, or one from Universal Heartland after he left. Thanks for the vid.
I saw the first movie when it hit theaters. Having it in surround sound made it awesome especially when the Galactica did fly bys and everyone in the building felt it when Carrilon exploded. 😊
Talking of movies, are Universal even aware of all the BSG'78 references in Steven Spielberg's *Ready Player One,* with *absolutely no* Remake Series references whatsoever? Aech has a model Galactica, Viper, and Thunderfighter (used in Buck Rogers but developed for BSG'78), plus a *full size* Viper at the back of the garage, and main character Parzival uses a BSG'78 laser pistol *all throughout* the climactic battle! 🔫
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Hopefully this doesn't become TL:DR. For Buck Rogers, when the theatrical movie became a TV pilot, they dropped the music-video opening credits sequence (with Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley moving about sensually in bikinis to a lyrical version of what world become the weekly opening theme song... with more tempo). A PG level curse word was edited out when Buck fights Tigerman in the Draconia's hangar bay. There was a scene where Emperor Draco chews out Commander Kane that was dropped from the tv pilot conversion, but it did remain in the Gold Key comics adaptation. Those are the changes I can remember.🙂
@@librarian66 I used to have the Gold Key comic adaptation of Pt2 of the movie.... those Draconian marauders in the comic looked nothing like the marauders in the movie/show.
My understanding was that Universal Studios released BSG as the movie outside the US as “The Saga of Star World” the Summer before the series was released in the US on TV. And I was there!
I was not aware of Mission Galactica theatrical being released in the US. I did watch Saga in the theater 2-3 times in Sensurround that audio engineer the late Peter Berkos built the sound file for the theatrical release with the massive Sherwin Vega speakers that was notorious for wrecking walls inside and outside the theater. Peter was also the creator of the voice for the Cylon that my local buddy Joe cracked the Cylon voice code secret.
@mediterranea-1 yes, that's correct. Sensaround. Saw a few movies using it such as Midway and King Kong. But, Galactica was best. Metal theater seats shuddering during Viper launch.
Oh, Mission Galactica was a film I remember going to see for a lot of reasons; back then we had no telephone, and I got to the cinema (about a mile from my house) only to find it started about 45 minutes later than advertised. In those days you did your best to let your parents know where you were and how long you were going to be (that's how I was raised anyhow), and I couldn't raise our next door neighbour on her phone, so I ran (yes ran) all the way home to let mum know the film was late, then had to run all the way back to the cinema (I'd already bought my ticket) to see the film; made it just in time. Great film but when you watch the series you realise it was a mish-mash of different episodes.
the other episode connected to this was fire in the sky when the Cylons made a suicide attack. Remember watching this movie on HBO and loved it and tried to find it on video or DVD. I watched the three episode turned movie at the theater just before that was superman2 was out where I went only a few seen superman2 in the seats and then it was the opposite with Galactica on a few seats were empty and the crowd cheered.
I saw the Battlestar Galactica movie version in the UK in 1979 and Mission Galactica The Cylon Attack 2 years later. It's where most UK kids knew Battlestar Galactica - Conquest of the Earth saw short while later. For reasons unknown, the series wasn't shown until 1984, and by then, buzz had gone.
In the theatrical releases, they re-used the same FX/space battle shots that were used and re-used over and over in the series. They could have added new space combat scenes to draw in fans who had already seen the pilot and Living Legend, but they were too cheap to do even that.
I saw this movie at a real nice theater in Century City Los Angeles. The sensurround was pretty cool as you can feel the ships low rumble as they went by.
I remember watching _Saga_ when it released in theaters in Palm Springs, CA. I never saw the other two until I found them at a Blockbuster, many, many years later.
As originally planned, Battlestar Galactica should have been a series of TV Movies instead of a series. Then it would have been must-see tv when it was on maybe four times a year instead of people getting tired of it as a weekly series. Plus the writing could have been better if it were movies instead. Now, I find out it could have become theater movies. That would have saved the whole project and given fans what we all wanted. However, the production company wanted a TV series and nothing else. Shame on them.
The first time I ever saw anything Galactica was on homemade VHS tapes a neighbor had made. Actually, he said he converted everything over to VHS from something called Beta which when he described it sounded like a smaller version of VHS tapes lol. When he originally recorded it he left all the commercials and everything in it so it was like watching a tv show with bad reception because it was the old rabbit ears antennas back then, I guess. Despite that, it didn't stop me from enjoying it and becoming a fan. I do remember watching it several years later on cable tv and the difference between the 2 was amazing. I never saw the movie and in fact, I never heard about it until I started watching your YT channel lol.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I had looked it up one time on the internet and they called it a smaller version of VHS, superior in recording and playing quality to VHS but being smaller and because of a different form of technology, it didn't have the capacity to play the longer shows and movies that VHS did. Had it been able to match VHS in that respect, there would have been no VHS. Keep in mind, I didn't see a "decent" (cable tv) version of BSG until later in the 90s LOL.
There are x3 theatrical films, x12 TV movies (albeit one of which doubles as a theatrical, so x11 really), *and* Galactica Discovers Earth, which was shown in the UK as a TV movie. That's x15 films... and Universal is just sitting on them. Admittedly, while some are edited together quite nicely, others are mashed together poorly, but with modern editing techniques and overdubs would be easy to fix. (Starbuck's return from Planet Starbuck could be fabricated from Athena spotting his Viper-beacon in The Long Patrol and bridge crew cheering from The Living Legend.) Universal could easily remaster them... but they'd rather leave money on the table! "Launch When Ready!" 🚀
@@battlestarcollectica7106 was the third movie the one where they return to Earth and those two guys from the BSG fleet go on a 'fish out of water' adventure dealing with Redneck bikers etc ?
When I was a kid in the 90s I saw all of the original tv series Once. In the 00s I was in a shop and I remember seeing the DVD for for second one cylon attack and reading the back of it. It did say it was a movie made from episodes. Since then I have seen the og show more times but I'm not sure I've seen the actual movie versions.
About 10 years ago the Battlestar Galactica movie played at the Egyptian Theater here in L.A.. It was a 1979 vintage print, in Sensurround. I had forgotten just how pointless Sensurround was. In this instance, it basically was a loud rumbling that permeated throughout the film, even in the vacuum of space. At times it drowned out the dialog. Pretty hilarious.
I live in Perth Australia and I'm pretty sure we got the movie before the series. Not sure how long it was but I didn't even know as a kid there was a series until it aired. I do remember being very excited about both movies when they came out. I remember waiting in the cinema foyer for the next session of BSG to start and hearing the sensurround booming through the doors. I remember being so excited.
Thanks for sharing that great memory! I was excited as well. The build up/hype here in America was intense! I can remember taking too my friends during the summer of 1978 about this new thing called BSG!
I saw Mission in UK theatres on a double bill with the Buck Rogers movie in 1980. I had no idea Galactica was a TV series at the time. I also saw Conquest of the Earth in the cinema, a year or so later. We eventually got the TV series a couple of years later.
@battlestarcollectica7106 It was certainly confusing as to why we suddenly had a new set of lead actors. And no indication in the film that it was set decades later and Kent McCord played a grown up Boxey, as that was cut. Also the trailer was misleading, as we thought the Cylons would attack earth. But that was just a projection in the final film.
In the german speaking area BATTLESTAR GALACTICA as well as BUCK ROGERS were a theatrical experience. The media treated them as movies and there was no hint of their TV counterparts. I saw all 4 movies in the cinema back then and while not as 'big' as STAR WARS they worked very well at the big screen. It was completely unthinkable that Special Effekts of that calibre would be done for television! The series themselves just made it as late as 1986 on our TV screens here.😟
Wow! That is amazing. BSG is very popular in your country right now. I did an episode where all of the novels were rereleased in your country last year and no where else! Very cool!!
I saw the original theatrical version released before the series premiere. It was re-released after the end of the series run, though I didn't see it. I have a Blue-ray version that doesn't match the theatrical version I saw. No aliens in the casino, but Baltar is still executed. I had Mission Galactica on video. The Cylon fighters had a different sound when they flew. Also, the Fire In Space episode was shoe-horned in. There was Galactica 1980 video Galactica Discovers Earth with a few episodes jammed together.
I watched it at a drive-in paired with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The sound for Star Trek was messed up for the first few scenes, but not Galactica. Fortunately, they replayed Star Trek, and we stayed long enough to hear what we missed before heading home.
Saw Mission Galactica The Cylon Attack in Melbourne Australia from memory it was only at the cinemas for a shorter time than the original BSG. As a kid still thought it was great. Still an Anne Lockhart fan today!
I got to see the original Battlestar Galactica movie in Sensurround at The Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in 2013, with Glen Larson in attendance. He told the story of how he came up with BSG back in the 60's when the original Star Trek was airing and took questions from the audience after the show. He was pretty frail. He had someone there to help him stand up and walk.
I was living in Puerto Rico when "Mission Galactica" was released; and, I thought it was the coolest flick to watch since S.T. & S.W. combined. BSG was never broadcast in the commonwealth, probably because nobody thought of dubbing the series in Spanish; but, BSG the movie was shown subtitled and in "Sensoround". Still, ABC saw greenbacks instead of a potential show that may have broadened certain horizons of its mythos. If you're lucky enough to have a VHS copy of Mission Galactica in excellent condition and a fully functional VCR... watch it whenever you want, but do so sparingly.
Mission Galactic I know was release in VHS in Australia because as a kid we rented it. I don’t recall the movie being released but possibly I was too young to remember if it was.
Saw Battlestar Galactica at the theater but the Cylon Attack was not released in theaters in the USA as far as I know. It did come out on video tape in the USA tho.
I used to own the paperback novel of the movie when it first came out which had a cover showing the picture seen here at 00:01:42 which was a picture that always fascinated me when I was little back in 1979/1980 or whenever BSG was released into cinema's all over the UK. Now what got me at that time was the nose tip with it being a flat hexigon shaped nose tip as opposed to the downward sloping rectangle shaped nose tip, now as I grew up and occassionally saw that picture again from time to time I could explain it within my own mind as it basically just being concept artwork like Ralph McQuarrie's concept artwork for the X-Wing fighter that looked more like those seen in the Disney trilogy with wider semi-circular intakes on the wing root mounted engines as opposed to the slimmer fully circular ones we actually got to see in the final filmed scenes of Star Wars, ESB and also in RotJ. But in recent years I have been wondering about the possibility of this model of not so much being just a simple concept drawing, but that it could in fact be a much older model of Viper than the one we got in the original 1970's movie and tv series, the problem being that in the movie and tv series the Colonial Viper we see is accepted within cannon as being the Mk I (Starhound/Star Hound) and so it could only realistically be a Mk I Viper protoype that didn't see full production with full production of the Viper series of fighter craft beginning once potential failures and shortcomings had been amended with changes to the design, or, the model that we see with the hexigon nose tip is a particular model from a previous series of fighter craft that the Viper was designed and built to succeed. Now the Viper Mk I Starhound was supposedly noted as being the direct replacement fighter craft for the previous fighter craft that was called the Scorpion (although I have heard it called the Scorpion Mk I which begs the question "what happened to the Mk II onwards and if their wasn't one then why would it be called the Scorpion Mk I rather than just being called the Scorpion), but we already have a Scorpion fully designed and built for all to see and it looks nothing like the Viper with the hexigonal nose tip. So what could this hexigonal nosed Viper type of fighter be if it was retroactively introduced as a Viper type of predecessor? I wouldn't exactly go along with it being a predecessor to the Scorpion as it wouldn't make sense to go from one design to a very similar third design via a second design that is so very different from both of the others in so many ways, and it's at this precise point that I think that maybe it could go like this... ...prior to the Viper Mk I and it's predecessor the Scorpion Mk I there was another series that served as a multi-role craft, let's say something like a craft that has to be used for both ground attack and as a fighter craft but due to having multiple roles to fill the series was more of a Jack of all trades and a Master of none. I mean that as in it was ok at performing both roles, but it was not great at either and often found itself out performed by enemy fighter craft, therefore the roles were separated into two distinct requirements to be filled by two distinct craft. One such craft without the requirements to serve as a fighter craft could be developed into an out and out light bomber for ground attack duties as well as for bombing run duties against enemy bases and basestars. The other craft being designed to be an all out interceptor and fighter craft that could also be used as a much more effective escort craft for both light bombers and shuttle craft which were both more susceptible to attack from enemy fighters, the former could I suppose be seen to be the Scorpion light ground attack bomber and the latter being the out and out full pedigree fighter craft we all know and love in the Colonial Viper. I would really love to see someone that makes these types of videos about BSG just make at least one single individual video that is all about the Hexigonal Nosed Viper and nothing but the Hexigonal Nosed Viper, but at this point I do believe that we now need a new name for it , especially now that it could be seen as a totally different craft altogether from the Viper/Scorpio series' of craft that has both a background development history and service history/record that is totally independent from the Colonial Viper Mk I and the Colonial Scorpion Mk I which would also explain why we had a Scorpion Mk I but not a Scorpion Mk II as at the time of the beginning of the Cylon War both the Scorpion series and the Viper Series were still only in their first incarnations respectively with the un-named Hexigonal Nosed Viper variant having not long been taken out of service of the military of the Colonies. I'm just going to call this craft by a name of a predatory creature known to Ancient Egyptian Mythology due to the obvious link to Ancient Egypt that we see everywhere in the original series and movie, and so I think I shall name this craft the "Colonial Griffin" and from Google here is a description of a Griffin:- The Griffin:- In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Griffin was a powerful, regal, and protective creature that was associated with the Sun God: Appearance:- The Griffin was a hybrid of a lion and an eagle, with the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion, and the wings, front talons, and head of an eagle. Symbolism:- The Griffin represented power, wealth, courage, prestige, protection, vigilance, wisdom, justice, fidelity, and boldness. I can see the "Griffin" name fitting the Hexigonal Nosed Viper craft perfectly in such a scenario that I have described here, what with it being a bomber it has strength and it flies so the Half Lion and Half Eagle description fits perfectly with the originally intended purpose/role of the Colonial Griffin, but it proved to be less effective in both roles than any craft that was designed specifically to serve only one of those two roles and so it very quickly became obsolete earlier in it's service life and it was immediately recognised by the Colonial forces and by extension by the Colonial Governments and Leaders that the Griffin would need to be replaced as soon as was viably possible. "Come On People, please add some more detail to this Colonial Griffin Strike Attack Fighter Craft"! Please give this craft some history, give it a back story too, and please justify its existence in what some of us class as iconic BSG artwork by giving this Griffin some "purpose in Life"! And Please Battlestar Collectica, please make a video about the backstory of the Colonial Griffin from all of the details that I have already provided along with the expanded back story and "design, development and service history" of this particular BSG craft that has so far gone completely neglected for the last 46 years since it first appeared on book covers and on merch and in concept art back in 1978.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Thank you so very very much, I really do believe that there is a place in BSG Lore for this particular series and model of craft, and that this particular model of craft deserves to finally take it place "officially" within thte cannon lore of the older original franchise after 46 years of being right there for us all to see but never ever having had any official acknowledgement. Also, it could "also" be adopted and adpated for use within the reboot franchise' cannon lore too, although my main priority is to see to it that it gains full official recognition within the original movie/tv series franchise first and foremost as that is exactly where it's depiction (within the picture shown in this video) lies for all to see. Would you by any chance be willing to delve into such a craft and create such a video dedicated to the Colonnial Griffin at all? It would not only be nice to see, it would also be a great project containing content that is worthy of attention by a vast fanbase and I'm sure that with a video like yours based off of an idea like mine could very much project itself massively within the fanbase and who knows, together we could actually change one small part of BSG Cannon Lore for the best and forever.
In the U.S. it was on TV first, then the movie came out. Imagine my surprise when I went to the movies and it was the same premiere episode that was on TV!
I remember the telemovie of Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack premiering on HBO, and then decades later finding a used copy of it (along with the telemovie version of Galactica 1980's pilot) at a local magazine store) on VHS. Can't say I've ever heard of MG:TCA being a theatrical release, unless it was in nations other than the 🇺🇸 (similar to how Lucasfilm's "The Ewok Adventure" in the mid 80s was a made for TV movie, but got limited theatrical rise in other countries)
It was released in the US for a very short period of time (did not do well because fans knew it was nothing new). It did much better overseas where Galactica was still unknown to many.
@battlestarcollectica7106 Yeah. This was still at a time when all the major film distributors wanted their own Star Wars, too.... and lots of people that may not have been fans of Galactica probably saw it as nothing more than a Star Wars knock off.... and as you pointed out, for those who were fans, it was a rehash of old material spliced together... nothing new. I just remember, as a kid, thinking it was cool seeing Galactica on HBO with its really boomy sound over a regular, monaural tv speaker. Remember that? How movies on HBO sounded louder than in network tv? (No doubt trying to compress the stereo audio...or in Galactica's case, the Sensurround effect... of a lot of big screen movies through that small mono tv speaker. Dolby System/Dolby Stereo was not quite mainstream yet... whereas nowadays, practically every movie of every genre is Dolby encoded or DTS)
I saw the movie version of the pilot, in theaters, paired with Buck Rogers in Sensurround. I also own an old rental video tape of Misssion Galactica, The Cylon Attack.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 @battlestarcollectica7106 The ABC Sunday Night Movie event of the pilot, Saga Of A Star World, was a 3 hour event with commercials, clocking at 2 hours and 13 minutes without. The theater cut was edited down to 2 hours 5 minutes. That's the version you get when you just buy the movie. Also, Baltar is executed by the Imperious Leader in the theater cut. He spares him in the TV series so he can continue to menace the good guys. They obviously shot the scene 2 ways.
I don't remember it that way. I remember it being a 2 part series on tv and then released in the theaters to capitalize on the success of #Starwars. The difference in the TV Version and Theatrical release was that in the movie version Baltar was beheaded, in the series he was spared. Another thing I remembered was people comparing #BSG and #StarWars because there were similarities in the ship designs. John Dykstra did special effects on both projects.
Your right. It first appeared as a 3 hour pilot and the issued as a movie after the show was cancelled. Universal had no faith in it and the movies success stunned them!
Some lovely images - BSG was seriously shafted by the 'company' but we still got more than anybody else was giving. As a fan - the whole 80 thing is the hardest pill to swallow - but we do still have so much. In the UK my mum took me to see Jaws 2 as a little kiddling - and it showed as a double feature with Battlestar Galactica Final Conquest (I might have got that title wrong) - I was already a fan and had seen the films at the cinema and watched the TV series. So why did this film have none of the original characters in - set at the end of the saga: and boy we were short changed. How was it not advertised? Why was nobody in it - at the time I just didn't understand. They never showed the 80 series in the UK - so it wasn't until years later that I found out the story. That all said - I still love it, the series, the films - even the reboot. Sorry but I just have love and nostalgia - no anger. I loved Star Wars and never saw BSG as a rival or ripoff - just something that was great and extra.
I remember seeing Battlestar Galactica in the theaters here in the USA… I don’t remember anything about Mission Galactica? I loved the tv series and I went out and bought the book based on the movie I saw, and I also bought the DVD of the movie… So I guess I missed out…
According to IMDB, the movie, Battlestar Galactica, was released in 1978, which is what I thought I remembered. I remember seeing it in the theater before the TV show premiered. I always thought that was good marketing.
Your right! A version of it was tested in Canada in 1978. There is a very interesting story as to why Universal did that. The release that became a huge hit was issued in Spring of 1979.
If this was shown at my local theatre I didn't go see it which would have been slightly odd considering my love of sci fi and my dad being the theatre manager. I'd not heard much about the show until it was shown on TV here in mid 1980. This was my first ever VHS video purchase way back in 1982, this and the Mission Galactica VHS release a little later were the only Battlestar Galactica available to me for about a decade.
The two movies were much bigger overseas were the audience had not yet been exposed to BSG. I know that first movie played in my area for over 3 months! I have the newspaper ads to prove it. I miss those days!
Yes I saw mission galactica on cable television, involving the episodes the living legend and fire in space. I know except for the pilot film and the living legend were the only episodes of the original series that feature other battlestars other than galactica.
You'd think in remake happy Hollywood theyd revisit the BSG franchise as a theatrical series. Of course they'd screw it up but, Id love to see a Battlestar in Imax! 😄👍
Cool video! I was almost 13 when the Show came on T.V. I used to watch it every week with my dad, also Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. I did a few Battlestar Galactica vids you might find interesting. I did a vid on the Comics, the 2004 & 2006 Rittenhouse Auto and Costume cards. But my favorite vid I did is of the Battlestar Movie Script. It has some interesting name changes of 2 characters you may not know about! 😁🖖
I didn’t know of the movie until I caught it on tv one time in the early eighties. Having not seen the original show since it first aired this movie felt familiar and kinda off but I watched it anyway, because I wasn’t going to pass up seeing more Battlestar Galactica.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I don't know, I hated it at first but the Star Fury from Babylon 5 has stolen my heart with the HammerHead snubfighter from Space Above and Beyond and BSG Vipers tied for second place..
To be honest, I actually liked the edited together TV movie versions of the show. I mean, obviously the show is better, but I did like when they stuck a couple of episodes together, often in interesting ways. Sadly, nobody seems to have copies of those, and in fact, nobody even seems to remember them. But I would love to see them again.
@battlestarcollectica7106 if they do that I'm there I saw the Dark Crystal again when they re released it epic . The magic of those movies on thoes screens cant bet it.
I only saw these movies on home video but I wonder if those who went to see them in the theater felt deceived thinking they were getting a brand new big screen theatrical BSG story only to quickly realize it was just the TV pilot and a couple of episodes of the series mashed together. At least it was projected on the big screen and was in “Sensurround” which must have been incredible at the time to get a pre-THX auditory surround sound experience.
I must respectfully disagree with a small part of your analysis. IIRC, The first two hour Galactica film based on the pilot episode was released theatrically in Canada ( and perhaps other territories ) ahead of its US network premiere. There was an article in a tabloid paper back in 1978, not long after the ABC TV premiere titled something like “THE MOVIE THEY WON’T LET YOU SEE!”, which revealed some differences between the movie and television versions, including the fact that Baltar was executed in the movie, but was spared in the television cut ( which was the first I’d heard of it ). Also, confusingly, if you listen to commentary from the actors on the pilot episode, one gets the feeling that some scenes ( for example the locker room scene between Dirk Benedict and Maren Jensen ) might have been filmed and added after the original theatrical cut was made, to fill out the three hour running time. I don’t claim to be an all-knowing expert on Galactica, but I was 15 years old at the time, and there for the network series run, and did also see the theatrical version in a theater in its post-network version and it was pretty much as the newspaper article described a year before. I believe the theatrical version was meant to introduce the series to non-US audiences and whether their appetites for the exported series. Other than that, your video is spot on. Cheers.
The fact that the U.S. theatrical release (which didn't occur until after the series was cancelled) did well at the box office really helped convince Universal that there was still enough interest in the property to merit bringing it back as a series, albeit in a much less expensive format. And of course, we all know what happened.
My family contributed to the ticket sales. I remember being slightly disappointed and surprised, because I was expecting something new. Instead, it was basically the early episodes of the show. Granted, it had been a long time since I had seen them. I still enjoyed the movie, and I thought it looked good in the theater. I was slightly confused by the ending, since I had forgotten that originally the implication was that Baltar had been executed.
I wish the studio would re release the shows on DVD with updated fx. Like they did with the original star trek episodes. I dont know how many times I seen those shuttles about to crash into each other.
I was too young for any of the Galactica movies on the big screen (as in, not born yet), but I did see them all on home video. Mission Galactica is fine until it pointlessly tacks on half of Fire in Space near the end (and retains the stretched fire shots that look exactly like the stock footage they are). The editing in the final scene, with mismatched shots of Apollo, is especially clumsy. Conquest of the Earth got a theatrical release here in Australia. The first I ever heard of it was when I saw it on a CIC Video release of Star Trek’s Space Seed (to promote the upcoming video release of The Wrath of Khan. The cover promised the trailer for TWOK, but the tape had the trailer for Conquest instead! Anyway, Conquest is an astonishing piece of editing coupled with clumsy redubbing (turning Dr Zee into two characters and abruptly making Jamie and Dillion lovers), but that’s about it.
COE is an abomination! GL wanted to make an original series movie (to relaunch the whole franchise) but Universal once again said no. COE not only bombed but killed the entire movie series!
Thanks to my father, I saw 'BG' & 'The Cylon Attack' in theater at 6 & 7 years old in Québec city, Canada. You're the best Dad!
That is a great memory that you will have forever! Thanks for watching!
Watching Battlestar Galactica in Sensurround when I was a kid was the single greatest cinematic experience of my life....
I saw BSG in Sensurround at a theatre in Plantation,Florida. Loved it!!!!!!!
@AgentM79 I watched it at the only Sensurround equipped theatre in South Africa
I’ve heard that it was amazing! It would be cool if Universal brought it back for special movie occasions.
@ It was indeed a great experience. I don’t care how 4K or 8K your TV is, or how great your home audio is - nothing could compare to a massive bucket of popcorn and a theatre that SHOOK, and where you were immersed in “surround sound” before we even knew what it was. In 1978, we were experiencing this technology at a time when homes still had B&W televisions in use.
I have battlestar galactica on super 8, I both of them 😊😊😊
Turns out they still don’t understand the potential of BSG.
The fact that they did nothing for the 45th anniversary says it all!
Some day someone will.
The hardest part is the ability to purchase or lease the "Rights" to the Trademarks and Copyrights of BSG for use.
If it weren't for overly strict Trademark and Copyrights, there would be many more great tv shows and movies from the 70s, 80s, and even ...... gulp....... the 90s being remade today.
Most won't outright sell the trademarks and copyrights and will only lease them with massive restrictions.
Imagine paying a buttload of money for the "Rights" to remake a movie, that movie does awesome and is all the rage, but because of the restrictions, you can't make a sequel or turn it into a tv show and then the actual owner of those "Rights", goes ahead and makes a sequel and/or tv show while you get to sit and watch it all happen with very little to no involvement on your part???
That's why so many good shows and movies from back then are mothballed with nothing being done and the excuse is .....
They are considering it but can't get all the right pieces (actors, directors, producers, etc), together at the right time.
Which is nothing more than a BS excuse.
The BSG spin-off series about the Pegasus in the Glen Larson original BSG Universe nearly happened back in 2020 but got obliterated by the joke that was known as Covid. Now that project is completely dead with all of the costumes, the 3-part pilot (where have we seen that before lol), and the 3 full and 2 partial episodes written for the series now shoved into the studio's dead show closet, most likely for decades to come.
Once things got back on track after Covid, all of the contracts with the actors, directors, writers, etc. were expiring/expired and the costs to sign new ones were very prohibitive (official reason given).
The REAL reason was the show no longer became financially viable even if it were to succeed because the "Rights" leases needed to be renegotiated and those 'Powers That Be" jacked the price way up as they decided they might consider doing something similar in the "future".
@@thomasjoseph5876 It's my understanding that this is what happened to Lost In Space. Hopefully, Hulu or Netflix or some other entity, will revive BSG like they did LIS.
@@thomasjoseph5876 Covid was NO 'joke'!
An overreaction yes, but a joke, no!
@@DMSProduktions It was a complete joke as to how it was treated and handled. It literally did more damage to people's lives in how it was handled, than it killed.
A large amount of those deaths could have been prevented if several Governors of Blue States hadn't released Covid positive patients back into the Nursing Homes they came from.
As a Medical Professional (ER Doc), it is amazing how the Govt disregarded the things we were saying (frontline workers) and instead, followed the recommendations of people like Fauci who hadn't been exposed to frontline care for over a decade and who essentially made poor decisions that kept Covid going and doing the damage it did. Instead of correcting those issues and mistakes, he doubled down on them and lied.
So, ya, Covid was a complete joke.
😊 I remember going to the drive-in theater to watch the movie Battlestar Galactica. I still love it today and I’m 65 years old.😊
Nice! It’s a classic and still holds up well today. Thanks for watching!
We also saw it at the drive in with Star Crash. They showed the first teaser trailer for Empire Strikes Back Between features. Great Times.
Me too.
Blue Ridge Drive-In, Saylorsburg, PA
I also saw it at the McLendon triple drive-in by Houston, Texas. Sadly, the drive-in is long gone. If I remember correctly, there were 3 space movies going at the same time also...
Wow...the drive-in...that's an experience I miss. Would have been cool to see Galactica that way.
Two of favourites shows in 1970’s Battlestar galactica and Space1999
The first season of Space 1999 is still amazing today! I recently watched it and can’t believe how good the writing was!!
Saw it in Sensuround at the Will Rogers in Chicago, Thrice! Yeah, back then you can sit and watch over and over on one ticket. The most memorable part that shook me up was when there was just the blackness of space with the stars and then BOOM as a pair of Vipers blew past from directly behind. The floor shook!
Wow! Thanks for sharing that incredible memory! What a difference from watching the show on my computer now!
I saw it in the theatre with my older brother at the Brookhurst Loge in Anaheim, California. I recall that the space battles were so loud that it scared me as a small kid. In the same movie house we also saw Bakshi's LOTR and Battle Beyond The Stars.
Thanks for sharing that! I’ve heard from a few fellow fans that the sound was over the top loud!
The 1979 theatrical release wasn't a "pared down" version of the TV pilot, it was the original theatrical version that was released in Canada in summer 1978. They were same prints, in fact. More footage was filmed after the movie was completed, which became part of the 3-hour premiere version. My recollection is that the May 1979 theatrical release was not quite a smash. In the New York area it played for all of three weeks, then a fourth week at a single theater. I also recall reading that "Mission Galactica" only played in the southwest U.S. It didn't come to the northeast at all that I remember. It played on HBO in '80/'81, which is how I saw it.
Interesting! There is more to that Canadian release than some fans know (future episode on it someday). Thanks for all that great info!!
They seemed to better in Europe in the UK too.
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Yeah, we paid to see it in the theatres, and then re-watched it (with minor changes to the edit- like Baltar not getting killed) when the series premiered in September of that same year. It was really kind of a rip-off.
Was 13yo when Battlestar Galactica premiered. Really loved to watch it back in the 70's. Never saw the movie when it came out but have it on laserdisc.
The movie still holds up well today! Thanks for watching!!
Yes I was in the UK when it was released in the film theatres . I was a kid then, and thought it was fantastic. It gave me the shakes then and still gives me the shakes now! lol
That is so cool that you remember it so well! Thanks for sharing!!
When I saw it in the UK it was paired with the theatrical version of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
My aunt worked in a cinema so I went to watch all the BSG theatrical releases along with the Buck Rogers in the 25th century film and other sci-fi fare such as Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Nice! I never saw that last one! Was it good?
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Total camp. But I'd watch it again...
I saw _Spacehunter_ in a Drive-in theater... in 3-D!! All I really remember about it was Molly Ringwald was _adorable,_ the android lady was _HOT_ and Michael Ironside was completely unrecognizable with all the makeup and prosthesis as OverDog!
Sorry to say, I didn't see any of the Galactica films in the theater. That would have been amazing! But, now I have a 70" screen and I am getting the Blu-Ray of the original series (still have it on regular DVD), so I think that might come close to the theater experience. I did have the original movie on VHS. Great video, Collectica! It took me a while to get to it this time.
Nice!! Dim the lights hand have some Battlestar fun! (I’m jealous!😊)
Hehe I remember the promo for the first movie here in New Zealand. Never got to see it in theatre but did see the mission galactica movie when it came here in ... 1980? Thanks for the video.
Very cool! Thanks for watching and sharing that info!
Saw this in England in 1979.
The slogan said, "Out does STAR WARS." It certainly didn't do that, but made for enjoyable viewing for kids desperate for anything sci-fi. We also saw Mission Galactica, shown once as a Sunday matinee. We enjoyed it. We also saw Buck Rogers with Gil Gerrard at the cinema. We got the Buck Rogers series on the TV quite quickly, but Galactica did not show for several years. When I did eventually see it, I was very disappointed with the stories. I much preferred other TV shows of that era like Space 1999. Galactica was certainly more entertaining than Blakes 7.
So cool that you got to see all of these films at the theater. GL was never happy with BSGs first season and blamed a lot of it on the rushed schedule the show faced.
@battlestarcollectica7106 They were certainly great days. They were most impressive on the big screen. Around that time, a few sci-fi TV shows were released at the cinema by splicing 2 episodes together. Space 1999 had 2 films released.
I used to get Starlog magazine at the time. This told me what I needed to know about current and upcoming films and shows. I still have many, including one that contained a Galactica S1 episode guide.
We never got Galactica 1980 until many years later. This was most disappointing and almost unwatchable, apart from the Return of Starbuck.
I was around that same age when it first came out, in quick succesive years I got a largest dose of Sci-Fi films in British cinema's like the ABC and the Classic in Birkenhead which firstly for me began with Capricorn One, then Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and then the Big One in Star Wars in December of 1977 which was itself quickly followed by Superman, The Warlords of Atlantis, Star trek: The Motion Picture, The Black Hole, Moonraker, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, The Humanoid, Battle Beyond the Stars, and The Empire Strikes Back and Flash Gordon all before we finally got Superman II, Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tron, Return of the Jedi, Superman III, Dune, 2010: The Year We Make Contact and finally The Last Starfighter. After those films I finally started to feel less like a child and more a teen with an attitude to sustain and an ego to uphold and I stopped going to the cinema to watch Sci Fi films and anything I did watch around then and onward would always be on VHS, you know, looking at that list and remembering those films in the pictures as a kid I see that I lived my childhood in most coolest of times possible.
@wirralnomad I can't argue with that or that list. I saw most of them. My favourite post STAR WARS film was Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I also recall The Humanoid with Richard Keil. Another Sunday matinee. Great days, indeed. Deluged in sci-fi.
Great days indeed.
@@MarkHarvey-uh8oc
Deluged is quite an apt description.
I was born in '70 and don't remember knowing as a kid that BSG, or Buck Rogers for that matter, had theatrical releases. Of course I remember going to see Star Wars and King Kong was huge back then.
BSG was big hit for Universal. I don’t think anyone really knew that they were just seeing what was shown on tv for free!
I saw Battlestar Galactica twice at the cinema here in the UK (I was 10). I then finally saw Mission Galactica on home video in 1981 ( it didn’t get a wide release at the cinemas in the UK coz if it had I’d have gone!)
The posters for both films were fantastic!
I also collected the 132 topps card set which I still have to this day, as well as the poster magazines, annuals (including the Mission Galactica one!) , the storybook, the photo novel and eventually all the novels.
The TV series wasn’t broadcast in our region so had to wait years before that landed.
It had such potential…
Like GL said, it could have been a Star Trek style movie success had it been given the chance!
I'm from the UK and can confirm Mission did get a release in the cinema and then was paired up with the Buck Rogers movie a year later.
“Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack” was certainly a worthy sequel to the theatrical BSG movie. I purchased it on VHS tape the day it was released (pre-order!). I had just gotten my own VCP (it played tapes, but had no “record” capability).
Life was GOOD.
Nice! Glad that you enjoyed it. It was a fun movie!
"Mission Galactica" was never seen in theatres in the US. It was shown elsewhere around the world. I remember seeing a VHS copies of "Mission" and "Conquest of Earth" in video stores. We only got the edited version of the pilot in USA theatres, following the cancellation of "BG" on ABC. After "Galactica 1980," Universal released 12 telemovies for local stations, which were basically two episodes combined as one movie.
@@Sidewalkstvshow there was a second BSG movie released in the US titled "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming".
Thanks for the info! If Universal has listened to GL who knows what would have happened!
@@-Bean "Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming" was not a movie. That was the title of Richard Hatch's self-produced, presentation reel. He released a trailer only to show Universal executives to get their interest in starting a new continuing BSG series with the original cast. The trailer was only played it at conventions to the public (it was never meant to be seen online, but it has been popping up on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/OxDFdxT06d4/видео.html). Apparently, Hatch shot enough footage for a 30-minute showcase, but it was never completed and nobody has seen it.
@@Sidewalkstvshow ugh, got my titles confused... Your right, 'The Second Coming' was something else entirely. The showed a 'second BSG' move here titled 'Battlestar Galactica: The Cylon Attack' and had posters for a while that BSG-III subtitled "Conquest of the Earth" was "coming soon"; however, that never happened. The 2nd move was only in 3 theaters in the Chicago Land area . I remember the 2nd move being simply a re-edit of TV episodes 'Fire in Space' and 'The Living Legend' with emphasis of the appearance of 'Battlestar Pegasus' being commanded by Commander Cain (actor Lloyd Bridges), who is also Lieutenant Sheba father. The Will Rogers Theater did show a lot of test-edit early movie runs that differed from the official release, this theater was within 2 blocks walking distance from my house and the owner frequently let me in for free when I walked over there by myself (he remarked making more money off me playing video games and eating popcorn then he would from the ticket admission price)
@@-Bean Thanks for the info. I didn't realized it has any theatrical showing of "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" in the US. It wasn't nationwide like the pilot film.
Battlestar Galactica was a big hit on the college campus. Both the movie and the TV series.
I always heard that Star Trek was but never BSG. Thanks for that info!
As a kid in the USA, I saw the Battlestar Galactica movie. I was so surprised and confused because I was expecting a new movie, and instead it was the same as the first few episodes of the TV show that I had already watched, with a few differences. But I still enjoyed watching it in the movie theater because I liked the show so much.
Many fans were expecting something new. It’s funny that while the movie was in theaters that summer it was being broadcasted for free on tv!
Yes, I saw "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" & "Battlestar Galactica" in theaters & both in Sensurround. The funny thing is I didn't feel ripped off even though I knew (after the fact) I was essentially watching episodes of the show on the big screen. Hats off to Universal for being able to pull this stunt 3 times & get away with it. You would have of thought after the first film there was no way audiences would fall for it again & again. But happily we did.
😂🤣😂🤣I agree with you. Any BSG was worth it!!
Loving the commentary and all the movie posters! You're doing an awesome job! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!!
This infuriates me to no end. MGtCA had that really nice opening scene of the Galactica and the feet flying over head. I wonder if that was a planned but late shot from Dykstra's group that never made it into the premier and Television, or one from Universal Heartland after he left. Thanks for the vid.
Your right! I wonder why as well!
Hey, I'm an old Gen X-er, I remember the Battlestar Galactica movie very well.
It was a fun time to be a kid! BSG, Buck Rogers, Black Hole, Star Trek… Could not get better!!
I saw the movie in theaters in Sensurround...it was awesome...I have it on DVD now
Never saw Mission Galactica
Mission Galactica is worth tracking down just to see how it was pieced together. Thanks for watching!
I saw the first movie when it hit theaters. Having it in surround sound made it awesome especially when the Galactica did fly bys and everyone in the building felt it when Carrilon exploded. 😊
Nice! I wish I could have heard that. Thanks for sharing your great memory!
Talking of movies, are Universal even aware of all the BSG'78 references in Steven Spielberg's *Ready Player One,* with *absolutely no* Remake Series references whatsoever? Aech has a model Galactica, Viper, and Thunderfighter (used in Buck Rogers but developed for BSG'78), plus a *full size* Viper at the back of the garage, and main character Parzival uses a BSG'78 laser pistol *all throughout* the climactic battle! 🔫
I had no idea that there were BSG Easter eggs in that film. Now I have to watch it! Thanks for the info!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 -You'll *love* it!
Universal needs to get its 🍑 in gear!!!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 - You'll *love* it! Universal are just sitting dead on their *astrums!!!*
@battlestarcollectica7106 - Ah! I just noticed that Helen's shirt has Galactica patches on the sleeve too! 👕🚀
Demand internationally was still there. People also forget that Buck Rogers was in theaters before it aired as TV episodes.
Your right! I wonder what changes were made to Buck Rogers?
@@battlestarcollectica7106 Hopefully this doesn't become TL:DR. For Buck Rogers, when the theatrical movie became a TV pilot, they dropped the music-video opening credits sequence (with Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley moving about sensually in bikinis to a lyrical version of what world become the weekly opening theme song... with more tempo). A PG level curse word was edited out when Buck fights Tigerman in the Draconia's hangar bay. There was a scene where Emperor Draco chews out Commander Kane that was dropped from the tv pilot conversion, but it did remain in the Gold Key comics adaptation. Those are the changes I can remember.🙂
@@martok2112 I remember watching the Buck Rogers movie too.
@@librarian66 I used to have the Gold Key comic adaptation of Pt2 of the movie.... those Draconian marauders in the comic looked nothing like the marauders in the movie/show.
God i loved the Galactica series as a kid. I watched it religiously
It was a fun family show! Sci-fi Fantasy at its best!!
My understanding was that Universal Studios released BSG as the movie outside the US as “The Saga of Star World” the Summer before the series was released in the US on TV. And I was there!
Thanks for the info! I wish that Universal would issue a definitive box set featuring every version. Would be nice to see each difference!
I saw this in the theater (in Canada) when it came out. I'll never forget it.
Glad that you had fun watching it!!
I remember seeing Battlestar Galactica 1980 at the cinema as a double feature with Bronco Billy in the U.K. 😂
Nice! Very odd but fun double bill!!
Conquest of the Earth is the forgotten Galactica movie. Being a condensed form of the Galactica 80 pilot. Mission Galactica is far from forgotten.
We do not mention that movie here! 🤣🤣😂🤣
I was not aware of Mission Galactica theatrical being released in the US. I did watch Saga in the theater 2-3 times in Sensurround that audio engineer the late Peter Berkos built the sound file for the theatrical release with the massive Sherwin Vega speakers that was notorious for wrecking walls inside and outside the theater. Peter was also the creator of the voice for the Cylon that my local buddy Joe cracked the Cylon voice code secret.
Wow! Thank you for all that info!!
I watched the original in theaters with something called Surround Sound.
Surround Sound was a great gimmick! I never got to experience it but it sounded incredible!
I believe you mean Sensurround. Both Galactica movies used it. I saw the original in Sensurround and was blown away by the sound of Galactica engines.
@mediterranea-1 yes, that's correct. Sensaround. Saw a few movies using it such as Midway and King Kong. But, Galactica was best. Metal theater seats shuddering during Viper launch.
Oh, Mission Galactica was a film I remember going to see for a lot of reasons; back then we had no telephone, and I got to the cinema (about a mile from my house) only to find it started about 45 minutes later than advertised. In those days you did your best to let your parents know where you were and how long you were going to be (that's how I was raised anyhow), and I couldn't raise our next door neighbour on her phone, so I ran (yes ran) all the way home to let mum know the film was late, then had to run all the way back to the cinema (I'd already bought my ticket) to see the film; made it just in time. Great film but when you watch the series you realise it was a mish-mash of different episodes.
Wow! That is a great memory that you will never forget! Thanks for sharing it with us!!
the other episode connected to this was fire in the sky when the Cylons made a suicide attack. Remember watching this movie on HBO and loved it and tried to find it on video or DVD.
I watched the three episode turned movie at the theater just before that was superman2 was out where I went only a few seen superman2 in the seats and then it was the opposite with Galactica on a few seats were empty and the crowd cheered.
Wow! That is a great story. Thanks for sharing!!
I saw the Battlestar Galactica movie version in the UK in 1979 and Mission Galactica The Cylon Attack 2 years later. It's where most UK kids knew Battlestar Galactica - Conquest of the Earth saw short while later. For reasons unknown, the series wasn't shown until 1984, and by then, buzz had gone.
Do not mention that last film! It is banned here! 😂🤣😂🤣
@battlestarcollectica7106 It was bad 👎
Has there ever been a physical media release of the original 3 hour pilot?
The closest you are going to get to it is with the Blu-ray box set but even that is a little different then what was televised.
It sounds like the original Battlestar Galactica could have kept going in the theaters and the OG fans would have been pleased.
Yup! It should have had a second season!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I think the original BSG would have had about three to five seasons total if it kept going. The show deserved better.
In the theatrical releases, they re-used the same FX/space battle shots that were used and re-used over and over in the series. They could have added new space combat scenes to draw in fans who had already seen the pilot and Living Legend, but they were too cheap to do even that.
That’s Universal for you!
I saw this movie at a real nice theater in Century City Los Angeles. The sensurround was pretty cool as you can feel the ships low rumble as they went by.
I’ve heard from many fans that Sensurround was amazing! Glad that you have good memories of it as well!!
I remember watching _Saga_ when it released in theaters in Palm Springs, CA. I never saw the other two until I found them at a Blockbuster, many, many years later.
Blockbuster was the place for BSG! Back in the early 1980s the movie was always in top 100 of sci-fi and fantasy!!
As originally planned, Battlestar Galactica should have been a series of TV Movies instead of a series. Then it would have been must-see tv when it was on maybe four times a year instead of people getting tired of it as a weekly series. Plus the writing could have been better if it were movies instead. Now, I find out it could have become theater movies. That would have saved the whole project and given fans what we all wanted. However, the production company wanted a TV series and nothing else. Shame on them.
Your right! If it stayed a series of TV movies who knows how big it could have been!
Yes I did see Mission Galactica in the cinema and I still love it to today.
It’s a fun movie! I wish that Universal followed its success up with a new movie!
The first time I ever saw anything Galactica was on homemade VHS tapes a neighbor had made. Actually, he said he converted everything over to VHS from something called Beta which when he described it sounded like a smaller version of VHS tapes lol.
When he originally recorded it he left all the commercials and everything in it so it was like watching a tv show with bad reception because it was the old rabbit ears antennas back then, I guess.
Despite that, it didn't stop me from enjoying it and becoming a fan. I do remember watching it several years later on cable tv and the difference between the 2 was amazing. I never saw the movie and in fact, I never heard about it until I started watching your YT channel lol.
Beta! Have not thought about that format in decades!! You have some great memories! Thanks for sharing and watching!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I had looked it up one time on the internet and they called it a smaller version of VHS, superior in recording and playing quality to VHS but being smaller and because of a different form of technology, it didn't have the capacity to play the longer shows and movies that VHS did.
Had it been able to match VHS in that respect, there would have been no VHS.
Keep in mind, I didn't see a "decent" (cable tv) version of BSG until later in the 90s LOL.
There are x3 theatrical films, x12 TV movies (albeit one of which doubles as a theatrical, so x11 really), *and* Galactica Discovers Earth, which was shown in the UK as a TV movie. That's x15 films... and Universal is just sitting on them.
Admittedly, while some are edited together quite nicely, others are mashed together poorly, but with modern editing techniques and overdubs would be easy to fix. (Starbuck's return from Planet Starbuck could be fabricated from Athena spotting his Viper-beacon in The Long Patrol and bridge crew cheering from The Living Legend.) Universal could easily remaster them... but they'd rather leave money on the table!
"Launch When Ready!" 🚀
I once asked them about a decade ago about going a massive collectors box set. They said no!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 - The Borays of Humanity! 😡
I saw it in the UK. I saw all three ‘movies’.
Never mention that third film! 🤣😂🤣😂
@@battlestarcollectica7106 was the third movie the one where they return to Earth and those two guys from the BSG fleet go on a 'fish out of water' adventure dealing with Redneck bikers etc ?
@@battlestarcollectica7106 LOL! I've got it on DVD!
When I was a kid in the 90s I saw all of the original tv series Once.
In the 00s I was in a shop and I remember seeing the DVD for for second one cylon attack and reading the back of it. It did say it was a movie made from episodes.
Since then I have seen the og show more times but I'm not sure I've seen the actual movie versions.
You’re not missing much. The OG episodes are much better!
About 10 years ago the Battlestar Galactica movie played at the Egyptian Theater here in L.A.. It was a 1979 vintage print, in Sensurround. I had forgotten just how pointless Sensurround was. In this instance, it basically was a loud rumbling that permeated throughout the film, even in the vacuum of space. At times it drowned out the dialog. Pretty hilarious.
😂🤣😂🤣i can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that from fellow fans! A few remember their parents leaving the movie because it was so loud!!
remembering seeing this and buck rogers in the theater. great memories
At one point there may have been a double feature for both films. I think I have an ad of it! Great times!!
I saw the Battlestar Galactica movie in the theater but never heard of the second one. I actually watched the TV series every week and enjoyed it.
Mission Galactica is virtually unknown by most fans these days. I don’t even think even Universal USA remembers it!!
I live in Perth Australia and I'm pretty sure we got the movie before the series. Not sure how long it was but I didn't even know as a kid there was a series until it aired. I do remember being very excited about both movies when they came out. I remember waiting in the cinema foyer for the next session of BSG to start and hearing the sensurround booming through the doors. I remember being so excited.
Thanks for sharing that great memory! I was excited as well. The build up/hype here in America was intense! I can remember taking too my friends during the summer of 1978 about this new thing called BSG!
I saw Mission in UK theatres on a double bill with the Buck Rogers movie in 1980. I had no idea Galactica was a TV series at the time. I also saw Conquest of the Earth in the cinema, a year or so later. We eventually got the TV series a couple of years later.
Were you surprised at COTE? It was a horrible choice as a follow up to Mission Galactica!
@battlestarcollectica7106 It was certainly confusing as to why we suddenly had a new set of lead actors. And no indication in the film that it was set decades later and Kent McCord played a grown up Boxey, as that was cut. Also the trailer was misleading, as we thought the Cylons would attack earth. But that was just a projection in the final film.
In the german speaking area BATTLESTAR GALACTICA as well as BUCK ROGERS were a theatrical experience.
The media treated them as movies and there was no hint of their TV counterparts. I saw all 4 movies in the cinema back then and while not as 'big' as STAR WARS they worked very well at the big screen.
It was completely unthinkable that Special Effekts of that calibre would be done for television! The series themselves just made it as late as 1986 on our TV screens here.😟
Wow! That is amazing. BSG is very popular in your country right now. I did an episode where all of the novels were rereleased in your country last year and no where else! Very cool!!
I saw the original theatrical version released before the series premiere. It was re-released after the end of the series run, though I didn't see it. I have a Blue-ray version that doesn't match the theatrical version I saw. No aliens in the casino, but Baltar is still executed.
I had Mission Galactica on video. The Cylon fighters had a different sound when they flew. Also, the Fire In Space episode was shoe-horned in.
There was Galactica 1980 video Galactica Discovers Earth with a few episodes jammed together.
Evidently they did their best to weave the different story elements together. Surprisingly it actually works!
I watched it at a drive-in paired with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The sound for Star Trek was messed up for the first few scenes, but not Galactica. Fortunately, they replayed Star Trek, and we stayed long enough to hear what we missed before heading home.
That sounds like fun!! That period of time was amazing for sci-fi fans!!
I saw the movie in the summer of 1978. I was 10 years old.
Nice! It was a fun movie!
It wasn't out in the Summer of 78 it premiered as a miniseries in the fall of 78 on TV
@@steves6407 Sorry. I got the year wrong. Spring '79.
@@richardlahan7068 easy to do, we're not getting any younger
Saw Mission Galactica The Cylon Attack in Melbourne Australia from memory it was only at the cinemas for a shorter time than the original BSG. As a kid still thought it was great. Still an Anne Lockhart fan today!
Nice!!! Thanks for sharing and for watching!!
Definitely do a piece on mission Galactica 😂❤
Coming soon!
I got to see the original Battlestar Galactica movie in Sensurround at The Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in 2013, with Glen Larson in attendance. He told the story of how he came up with BSG back in the 60's when the original Star Trek was airing and took questions from the audience after the show. He was pretty frail. He had someone there to help him stand up and walk.
😳I did not know that. Thanks for that info.
I was living in Puerto Rico when "Mission Galactica" was released; and, I thought it was the coolest flick to watch since S.T. & S.W. combined. BSG was never broadcast in the commonwealth, probably because nobody thought of dubbing the series in Spanish; but, BSG the movie was shown subtitled and in "Sensoround". Still, ABC saw greenbacks instead of a potential show that may have broadened certain horizons of its mythos. If you're lucky enough to have a VHS copy of Mission Galactica in excellent condition and a fully functional VCR... watch it whenever you want, but do so sparingly.
Thanks for that incredible info! I just assumed that it was shown in PR as a weekly series. Did it ever make it syndicated years latter?
Mission Galactic I know was release in VHS in Australia because as a kid we rented it. I don’t recall the movie being released but possibly I was too young to remember if it was.
It really did well in Australia. I also think it may have been issued on DVD?
Saw Battlestar Galactica at the theater but the Cylon Attack was not released in theaters in the USA as far as I know. It did come out on video tape in the USA tho.
It was issued here for a very short period of time but was mainly meant to cash in on the first movies popularity over seas. Thanks for watching!!
I used to own the paperback novel of the movie when it first came out which had a cover showing the picture seen here at 00:01:42 which was a picture that always fascinated me when I was little back in 1979/1980 or whenever BSG was released into cinema's all over the UK.
Now what got me at that time was the nose tip with it being a flat hexigon shaped nose tip as opposed to the downward sloping rectangle shaped nose tip, now as I grew up and occassionally saw that picture again from time to time I could explain it within my own mind as it basically just being concept artwork like Ralph McQuarrie's concept artwork for the X-Wing fighter that looked more like those seen in the Disney trilogy with wider semi-circular intakes on the wing root mounted engines as opposed to the slimmer fully circular ones we actually got to see in the final filmed scenes of Star Wars, ESB and also in RotJ.
But in recent years I have been wondering about the possibility of this model of not so much being just a simple concept drawing, but that it could in fact be a much older model of Viper than the one we got in the original 1970's movie and tv series, the problem being that in the movie and tv series the Colonial Viper we see is accepted within cannon as being the Mk I (Starhound/Star Hound) and so it could only realistically be a Mk I Viper protoype that didn't see full production with full production of the Viper series of fighter craft beginning once potential failures and shortcomings had been amended with changes to the design, or, the model that we see with the hexigon nose tip is a particular model from a previous series of fighter craft that the Viper was designed and built to succeed.
Now the Viper Mk I Starhound was supposedly noted as being the direct replacement fighter craft for the previous fighter craft that was called the Scorpion (although I have heard it called the Scorpion Mk I which begs the question "what happened to the Mk II onwards and if their wasn't one then why would it be called the Scorpion Mk I rather than just being called the Scorpion), but we already have a Scorpion fully designed and built for all to see and it looks nothing like the Viper with the hexigonal nose tip.
So what could this hexigonal nosed Viper type of fighter be if it was retroactively introduced as a Viper type of predecessor?
I wouldn't exactly go along with it being a predecessor to the Scorpion as it wouldn't make sense to go from one design to a very similar third design via a second design that is so very different from both of the others in so many ways, and it's at this precise point that I think that maybe it could go like this... ...prior to the Viper Mk I and it's predecessor the Scorpion Mk I there was another series that served as a multi-role craft, let's say something like a craft that has to be used for both ground attack and as a fighter craft but due to having multiple roles to fill the series was more of a Jack of all trades and a Master of none.
I mean that as in it was ok at performing both roles, but it was not great at either and often found itself out performed by enemy fighter craft, therefore the roles were separated into two distinct requirements to be filled by two distinct craft.
One such craft without the requirements to serve as a fighter craft could be developed into an out and out light bomber for ground attack duties as well as for bombing run duties against enemy bases and basestars.
The other craft being designed to be an all out interceptor and fighter craft that could also be used as a much more effective escort craft for both light bombers and shuttle craft which were both more susceptible to attack from enemy fighters, the former could I suppose be seen to be the Scorpion light ground attack bomber and the latter being the out and out full pedigree fighter craft we all know and love in the Colonial Viper.
I would really love to see someone that makes these types of videos about BSG just make at least one single individual video that is all about the Hexigonal Nosed Viper and nothing but the Hexigonal Nosed Viper, but at this point I do believe that we now need a new name for it , especially now that it could be seen as a totally different craft altogether from the Viper/Scorpio series' of craft that has both a background development history and service history/record that is totally independent from the Colonial Viper Mk I and the Colonial Scorpion Mk I which would also explain why we had a Scorpion Mk I but not a Scorpion Mk II as at the time of the beginning of the Cylon War both the Scorpion series and the Viper Series were still only in their first incarnations respectively with the un-named Hexigonal Nosed Viper variant having not long been taken out of service of the military of the Colonies.
I'm just going to call this craft by a name of a predatory creature known to Ancient Egyptian Mythology due to the obvious link to Ancient Egypt that we see everywhere in the original series and movie, and so I think I shall name this craft the "Colonial Griffin" and from Google here is a description of a Griffin:-
The Griffin:-
In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Griffin was a powerful, regal, and protective creature that was associated with the Sun God:
Appearance:-
The Griffin was a hybrid of a lion and an eagle, with the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion, and the wings, front talons, and head of an eagle.
Symbolism:-
The Griffin represented power, wealth, courage, prestige, protection, vigilance, wisdom, justice, fidelity, and boldness.
I can see the "Griffin" name fitting the Hexigonal Nosed Viper craft perfectly in such a scenario that I have described here, what with it being a bomber it has strength and it flies so the Half Lion and Half Eagle description fits perfectly with the originally intended purpose/role of the Colonial Griffin, but it proved to be less effective in both roles than any craft that was designed specifically to serve only one of those two roles and so it very quickly became obsolete earlier in it's service life and it was immediately recognised by the Colonial forces and by extension by the Colonial Governments and Leaders that the Griffin would need to be replaced as soon as was viably possible.
"Come On People, please add some more detail to this Colonial Griffin Strike Attack Fighter Craft"! Please give this craft some history, give it a back story too, and please justify its existence in what some of us class as iconic BSG artwork by giving this Griffin some "purpose in Life"!
And Please Battlestar Collectica, please make a video about the backstory of the Colonial Griffin from all of the details that I have already provided along with the expanded back story and "design, development and service history" of this particular BSG craft that has so far gone completely neglected for the last 46 years since it first appeared on book covers and on merch and in concept art back in 1978.
Very cool stuff! I just read your comments twice and you’re right! That is a very cool Viper! Thanks so much for the excellent info!!
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Thank you so very very much, I really do believe that there is a place in BSG Lore for this particular series and model of craft, and that this particular model of craft deserves to finally take it place "officially" within thte cannon lore of the older original franchise after 46 years of being right there for us all to see but never ever having had any official acknowledgement.
Also, it could "also" be adopted and adpated for use within the reboot franchise' cannon lore too, although my main priority is to see to it that it gains full official recognition within the original movie/tv series franchise first and foremost as that is exactly where it's depiction (within the picture shown in this video) lies for all to see.
Would you by any chance be willing to delve into such a craft and create such a video dedicated to the Colonnial Griffin at all? It would not only be nice to see, it would also be a great project containing content that is worthy of attention by a vast fanbase and I'm sure that with a video like yours based off of an idea like mine could very much project itself massively within the fanbase and who knows, together we could actually change one small part of BSG Cannon Lore for the best and forever.
In the U.S. it was on TV first, then the movie came out. Imagine my surprise when I went to the movies and it was the same premiere episode that was on TV!
Universal got you! Lol! They really pulled a fast one on all of us. Thanks for watching!
Loved this movie and tv series!
It was a fun time to be a sci-fi fan! Still hold up well today! Thanks for watching!!
I remember the telemovie of Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack premiering on HBO, and then decades later finding a used copy of it (along with the telemovie version of Galactica 1980's pilot) at a local magazine store) on VHS. Can't say I've ever heard of MG:TCA being a theatrical release, unless it was in nations other than the 🇺🇸 (similar to how Lucasfilm's "The Ewok Adventure" in the mid 80s was a made for TV movie, but got limited theatrical rise in other countries)
It was released in the US for a very short period of time (did not do well because fans knew it was nothing new). It did much better overseas where Galactica was still unknown to many.
@battlestarcollectica7106 Yeah. This was still at a time when all the major film distributors wanted their own Star Wars, too.... and lots of people that may not have been fans of Galactica probably saw it as nothing more than a Star Wars knock off.... and as you pointed out, for those who were fans, it was a rehash of old material spliced together... nothing new.
I just remember, as a kid, thinking it was cool seeing Galactica on HBO with its really boomy sound over a regular, monaural tv speaker. Remember that? How movies on HBO sounded louder than in network tv? (No doubt trying to compress the stereo audio...or in Galactica's case, the Sensurround effect... of a lot of big screen movies through that small mono tv speaker. Dolby System/Dolby Stereo was not quite mainstream yet... whereas nowadays, practically every movie of every genre is Dolby encoded or DTS)
I saw the movie version of the pilot, in theaters, paired with Buck Rogers in Sensurround. I also own an old rental video tape of Misssion Galactica, The Cylon Attack.
Nice!! I missed BR when it was issued in the theater. Do you remember if it was different than the TV pilot?
@@battlestarcollectica7106 @battlestarcollectica7106 The ABC Sunday Night Movie event of the pilot, Saga Of A Star World, was a 3 hour event with commercials, clocking at 2 hours and 13 minutes without. The theater cut was edited down to 2 hours 5 minutes. That's the version you get when you just buy the movie. Also, Baltar is executed by the Imperious Leader in the theater cut. He spares him in the TV series so he can continue to menace the good guys. They obviously shot the scene 2 ways.
There's one thing I always wonder? Where did the vipers come out from? The front or the sides?
They came out the sides. A few quick rare shots of it in the pilot.
I don't remember it that way. I remember it being a 2 part series on tv and then released in the theaters to capitalize on the success of #Starwars. The difference in the TV Version and Theatrical release was that in the movie version Baltar was beheaded, in the series he was spared. Another thing I remembered was people comparing #BSG and #StarWars because there were similarities in the ship designs. John Dykstra did special effects on both projects.
Your right. It first appeared as a 3 hour pilot and the issued as a movie after the show was cancelled. Universal had no faith in it and the movies success stunned them!
Some lovely images - BSG was seriously shafted by the 'company' but we still got more than anybody else was giving. As a fan - the whole 80 thing is the hardest pill to swallow - but we do still have so much. In the UK my mum took me to see Jaws 2 as a little kiddling - and it showed as a double feature with Battlestar Galactica Final Conquest (I might have got that title wrong) - I was already a fan and had seen the films at the cinema and watched the TV series. So why did this film have none of the original characters in - set at the end of the saga: and boy we were short changed. How was it not advertised? Why was nobody in it - at the time I just didn't understand. They never showed the 80 series in the UK - so it wasn't until years later that I found out the story. That all said - I still love it, the series, the films - even the reboot. Sorry but I just have love and nostalgia - no anger. I loved Star Wars and never saw BSG as a rival or ripoff - just something that was great and extra.
We do not speak of the abomination that is Conquest of Earth! All I can tell you is that Universal once again did not listen to creator GL!
I remember seeing Battlestar Galactica in the theaters here in the USA… I don’t remember anything about Mission Galactica? I loved the tv series and I went out and bought the book based on the movie I saw, and I also bought the DVD of the movie…
So I guess I missed out…
You did not miss much. Mission Galactica was not a big hit here because fans knew it was just a rehash!
According to IMDB, the movie, Battlestar Galactica, was released in 1978, which is what I thought I remembered. I remember seeing it in the theater before the TV show premiered. I always thought that was good marketing.
Your right! A version of it was tested in Canada in 1978. There is a very interesting story as to why Universal did that. The release that became a huge hit was issued in Spring of 1979.
I saw it in the theater as a kid and it was the closest thing to Star Wars of a decent quality there was.
That why many critics called BSG the “Son of Star Wars!”. George Lucas hated that!!
The movie came out before the series, same as the Buck Rogers filme before the tv series
The edited theatrical movie released in july and the tv series started in Sept of 1978
The movie was tested in Canada (whole story about that) in 1978 but its official release was in the spring of 1979.
If this was shown at my local theatre I didn't go see it which would have been slightly odd considering my love of sci fi and my dad being the theatre manager. I'd not heard much about the show until it was shown on TV here in mid 1980. This was my first ever VHS video purchase way back in 1982, this and the Mission Galactica VHS release a little later were the only Battlestar Galactica available to me for about a decade.
The two movies were much bigger overseas were the audience had not yet been exposed to BSG. I know that first movie played in my area for over 3 months! I have the newspaper ads to prove it. I miss those days!
Didn't see Mission Galactica but I saw the the Galactica movie in the theater. It was really cool for a 10 year old.
Still fun today! Holds up very well. Thanks for watching!
Yes I saw mission galactica on cable television, involving the episodes the living legend and fire in space. I know except for the pilot film and the living legend were the only episodes of the original series that feature other battlestars other than galactica.
Thanks for the info!
I seen both in Chicago's Will Rogers Theater. I remember Buck Rogers doing the same thing with the movie releasing frist then the TV series.
Very cool! I missed Buck Rogers at the theater. Universal really knew how to make fast money!!
You'd think in remake happy Hollywood theyd revisit the BSG franchise as a theatrical series. Of course they'd screw it up but, Id love to see a Battlestar in Imax! 😄👍
Universal was clueless back in 1979 and clueless now! Nothing has ever changed!!
Cool video! I was almost 13 when the Show came on T.V. I used to watch it every week with my dad, also Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. I did a few Battlestar Galactica vids you might find interesting. I did a vid on the Comics, the 2004 & 2006 Rittenhouse Auto and Costume cards. But my favorite vid I did is of the Battlestar Movie Script. It has some interesting name changes of 2 characters you may not know about! 😁🖖
Will seek them out! Thanks for watching!!
@@battlestarcollectica7106 No problem, you should get a kick out of them! 😉
Yes sir. I did. It was amazing. Scared the isssh out of me when the singers came out with the multiple eyes.
It was all about those freaky eyes! Still scares me today! 😂Lol!
I saw the first movie in the theater with my dad when I was a kid.
I hope you enjoyed it. I’ve heard from many that the sensurround hurt their ears!
I remember seeing "Mission Galactica" in the Cinema, in 1979.
I would buy a restored cut on Bluray, if one was made available.
A dvd was issued for it in Europe. I don’t think it’s ever been issued on Blu-ray.
I didn’t know of the movie until I caught it on tv one time in the early eighties. Having not seen the original show since it first aired this movie felt familiar and kinda off but I watched it anyway, because I wasn’t going to pass up seeing more Battlestar Galactica.
It still holds up well today but the original pilot is much better. Thanks for watching!
When we left the theatre everyone wanted a Viper :o)
We all still do!! 🤣
@@battlestarcollectica7106 I don't know, I hated it at first but the Star Fury from Babylon 5 has stolen my heart with the HammerHead snubfighter from Space Above and Beyond and BSG Vipers tied for second place..
To be honest, I actually liked the edited together TV movie versions of the show. I mean, obviously the show is better, but I did like when they stuck a couple of episodes together, often in interesting ways. Sadly, nobody seems to have copies of those, and in fact, nobody even seems to remember them. But I would love to see them again.
Those movies are very rare today. An official VHS box set was issued in the UK but that was it.
@ really! When was that?
I'd go see it on the big screen sounds epic fun and the screen wow I'm in.
It would be great if Universal would release it back in theaters as a special event. How cool would that be!
@battlestarcollectica7106 if they do that I'm there I saw the Dark Crystal again when they re released it epic . The magic of those movies on thoes screens cant bet it.
I only saw these movies on home video but I wonder if those who went to see them in the theater felt deceived thinking they were getting a brand new big screen theatrical BSG story only to quickly realize it was just the TV pilot and a couple of episodes of the series mashed together. At least it was projected on the big screen and was in “Sensurround” which must have been incredible at the time to get a pre-THX auditory surround sound experience.
The newspaper ads said "The original theatrical version of the spectacular television film," so if you read a paper, the package was clearly marked.
That’s exactly what happened here in the US but overseas it was something new and fresh!
You haven't lived until you experience a Viper launch in sensaround while sitting in the front row.
I wish I was there!! 😂
I must respectfully disagree with a small part of your analysis.
IIRC, The first two hour Galactica film based on the pilot episode was released theatrically in Canada ( and perhaps other territories ) ahead of its US network premiere. There was an article in a tabloid paper back in 1978, not long after the ABC TV premiere titled something like “THE MOVIE THEY WON’T LET YOU SEE!”, which revealed some differences between the movie and television versions, including the fact that Baltar was executed in the movie, but was spared in the television cut ( which was the first I’d heard of it ).
Also, confusingly, if you listen to commentary from the actors on the pilot episode, one gets the feeling that some scenes ( for example the locker room scene between Dirk Benedict and Maren Jensen ) might have been filmed and added after the original theatrical cut was made, to fill out the three hour running time.
I don’t claim to be an all-knowing expert on Galactica, but I was 15 years old at the time, and there for the network series run, and did also see the theatrical version in a theater in its post-network version and it was pretty much as the newspaper article described a year before. I believe the theatrical version was meant to introduce the series to non-US audiences and whether their appetites for the exported series.
Other than that, your video is spot on. Cheers.
Planning an episode on that early Canadian release. Thanks for all that great info!
The fact that the U.S. theatrical release (which didn't occur until after the series was cancelled) did well at the box office really helped convince Universal that there was still enough interest in the property to merit bringing it back as a series, albeit in a much less expensive format. And of course, we all know what happened.
Just horrible! If Universal had just listened to GL!
I always heard the series was canceled because it became too expensive. 1 million an episode
That is only part of the story. Stay tuned!
No, I saw the First original on VHS, Bulter was deleted. I didn't know a second one was made. I would want to see that...
It’s worth tracking down but the original episodes are much better. Thanks for watching!
My family contributed to the ticket sales. I remember being slightly disappointed and surprised, because I was expecting something new. Instead, it was basically the early episodes of the show. Granted, it had been a long time since I had seen them. I still enjoyed the movie, and I thought it looked good in the theater. I was slightly confused by the ending, since I had forgotten that originally the implication was that Baltar had been executed.
Your right. The were a few difference especially with Baltars head! 😂
I wish the studio would re release the shows on DVD with updated fx. Like they did with the original star trek episodes.
I dont know how many times I seen those shuttles about to crash into each other.
Universal teased a special edition of the original movie (with updated SFX) maybe 20 years ago but nothing ever came of it.
I was too young for any of the Galactica movies on the big screen (as in, not born yet), but I did see them all on home video.
Mission Galactica is fine until it pointlessly tacks on half of Fire in Space near the end (and retains the stretched fire shots that look exactly like the stock footage they are). The editing in the final scene, with mismatched shots of Apollo, is especially clumsy.
Conquest of the Earth got a theatrical release here in Australia. The first I ever heard of it was when I saw it on a CIC Video release of Star Trek’s Space Seed (to promote the upcoming video release of The Wrath of Khan. The cover promised the trailer for TWOK, but the tape had the trailer for Conquest instead!
Anyway, Conquest is an astonishing piece of editing coupled with clumsy redubbing (turning Dr Zee into two characters and abruptly making Jamie and Dillion lovers), but that’s about it.
COE is an abomination! GL wanted to make an original series movie (to relaunch the whole franchise) but Universal once again said no. COE not only bombed but killed the entire movie series!
It should have been a movie franchise.
Yup, Universal screwed up!
Yeah, I saw it and the cobbled together episodes really work with this one
I agree! It somehow worked!!