Battlestar Galactica

TV Series
1978–1979
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Noah Hathaway, Lorne Greene, Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch, Maren Jensen, and Laurette Spang in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

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After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

18K

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POPULARITY

1,259

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 8 nominations total

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Trivia
George Lucas and 20th Century-Fox sued the producers over alleged similarities with Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). The show was re-worked from its original pilot to capitalize on the film's popularity, employing the same special effects team and the same concept designer. The lawsuit was dismissed in 1980, Fox appealed, and the case was settled out of court in 1983.

Goofs
The humans' terms for time measurement appear to be simple replacements, as explained on the Trivia page - "micron" = second; "centon" = minute; and "centar," "secton," "sectar" and "yahren" corresponded respectively to hour, week, month and year - the term "centon" is the most used, often in a context that cannot possibly mean a minute: "He should have been in bed centons ago," "A route that will take us centons out of our way," etc.

Quotes
Opening Credit Announcer: There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe... with tribes of humans... who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians... or the Toltecs... or the Mayans. Some believe there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive - somewhere beyond the heavens!

Alternate versions
Two episodes were edited together to form the made-for-video movie Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack. In syndication, the series incorporates the episodes of "Galactica 1980" (1980).

Connections
Edited into Battlestar Galactica (1978)

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7/10

Classic

Battlestar Galactica is one of those fine and cheesy sci-fi shows of the past that still shine bright: like the Buck Rogers show and movies, Space: 1999 or the Planet of the Apes stories, the original Battlestar Galactica (like the remake) has one main feature - for its time well done special effects and settings (now looking dated of course, but in a good way, at least in my opinion) and strong casts and characters. Everyone who grew up with that kind of sci-fi (including the first Star Wars movie and Star Trek original series) will never forget characters like Starbuck or Apollo. After all those years, besides a few too cheesy episodes, Battlestar Galactica is still an epic adventure.