Battlestar Galactica 

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.

Creator:

Glen A. Larson

Stars:

Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Richard Hatch	...	Captain Apollo 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Dirk Benedict	...	Lieutenant Starbuck 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Lorne Greene	...	Commander Adama 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Herbert Jefferson Jr.	...	Lieutenant Boomer 21 episodes, 1978-1979
John Colicos	...	Count Baltar 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Maren Jensen	...	Lieutenant Athena 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Noah Hathaway	...	Boxey 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Laurette Spang	...	Cassiopeia 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Tony Swartz	...	Flight Sergeant Jolly 21 episodes, 1978-1979
Terry Carter	...	Colonel Tigh 21 episodes, 1978-1979
David Greenan	...	Flight Officer Omega / ... 18 episodes, 1978-1979
Anne Lockhart	...	Lieutenant Sheba 12 episodes, 1978-1979
Sarah Rush	...	Flight Corporal Rigel 10 episodes, 1978-1979
Jonathan Harris	...	Lucifer 9 episodes, 1978-1979
George Murdock	...	Dr. Salik 5 episodes, 1978-1979
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Flight Sergeant Greenbean / ... 5 episodes, 1978-1979
John Dullaghan	...	Dr. Wilker 5 episodes, 1979
Bruce Wright	...	Guard / ... 5 episodes, 1978-1979
Larry Manetti	...	Giles 5 episodes, 1978
Patrick Macnee	...	Imperious Leader / ... 13 episodes, 1978-1979

Storyline

The leaders of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind are making plans to sign a peace treaty with their mortal enemies, the Cylon Empire. On the eve of the ceremony, the Cylons betray the pact and destroy most of the Colonies and their entire fleet. Under the command of Commander Adama, the battlestar Galactica leads the remaining Colonial ships into space and seeks out a lost thirteenth colony, which turns out to be Earth. Along the way, the Colonials encounter various races (both friendly and hostile), the legendary human warrior Commander Cain, and the planet Kobol, the motherworld of all the Colonies. All the while, the Cylons - under the command of human traitor Count Baltar - closely pursue this fugitive fleet across the universe.

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Plot Keywords:

earth | vessel | suspended animation | shuttle | traveler | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Sci-Fi.com

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 September 1978 (USA)

Also Known As:

Battlestar Galactica

Filming Locations:

Red Rock Canyon State Park - Highway 14, Cantil, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$750,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min (24 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

4:3

Did You Know?

Trivia

The synthesized robotic sounding voices of the Cylon centurions was done by Michael Santiago using the EMS Vocoder 2000. This device has become extremely difficult to find, and is very expensive. It has become even more expensive, since the turn of the Millennium, than it was in the 1970s.

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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.

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Quotes

Commander Adama: [closing narration] Fleeing from the Cylon Tyranny, the last battlestar Galactica leads a ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest... a shining planet known as Earth.

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Alternate Versions

The opening three-part TV episode was originally produced as Battlestar Galactica (a 2-hour movie), which was released to theaters. The three-hour TV version contained a number of scenes not shown in theaters. Baltar is seemingly executed in the theatrical version but his life is spared in the television version. The television version also includes an "epilogue" in which Baltar is given his own Cylon base ship and which introduces the Cylon character Lucifer, thus setting up the weekly series. This three-hour version is now available on the DVD set of the entire series as the first episode, "Saga of a Star World".

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Connections

Referenced in The Earth Is Not... A Spinning Ball (2016)

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Soundtracks

It's Love, Love, Love
by John Andrew Tartaglia, Sue Collins and Glen A. Larson
Performed by The Space Angels

User Reviews

one of my favorites

Yeah yeah, so it may be considered a Star Wars ripoff by some. Who cares? As a kid in the 70's, I loved nothing more than the movie and then the subsequent ABC TV series especially with all of the special effects that kids love to see after Star Wars came out. And when the Scifi Channel started to show the series again, I couldn't get enough of it. An underappreciated scifi series in my opinion.