Battlestar Galactica (1978) | Galactica 1980 - Battlestar Galactica Retrospective, Part 1

The best vid I've seen yet on this beloved show. In fact I just picked up the Hallmark Galactica ornament which is selling out fast. The Star Wars ripoff spin always irked me. I love Star Wars as much as the next fan but other people are allowed to make space fantasy stuff too. Happy holidays Rowan!

If I get Daffy Duck on Star Trek: Lower Decks, I will definitely cry 😢

I would rather rewatch any episode from BSGs first run than to watch any of the newer Star Wars total garbage movies.

Star Wars made 3 good movies. Battlestar Galactica made about a dozen really good shows with a far better back story than the crap Lucas conjured up.

It strangely has a lot of mormon theology in it.

of not putting out lol

a low opinion of her putting out

Battlestar Pondaroza

Thank you for this

2 diff actors as dr Z?

Huge mistake early in the video: The Fall Guy was from the 80s.

NOTE: The ship's control room equipment was REAL state-of-the-art Tektronix lab equipment that the company thought would make an ideal media demonstration. Indeed, that my TERRIER AA GUIDED MISSILE facility was created for the new C152B digital computers being installed aboard warships, we actually used that equipment for real. Jokes that we were using BATTLESTAR GALACTICA equipment. One day, we loaded a new computer program into our C152 for testing and the red row of lights in the top center of the computer's display had the lights swing back and forth slowly like a Ceylon warrior's eye. Made us laugh out loud...

Yes That New reimagining was a joke they made everyone a cylon And Cain was a lesbian NOT ACCEPTABLE

Return of Starbuck is The Best of GALACTICA 1980

AND BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was My favorite series of all time

It's almost laughable

Even to this day, the whole Lawsuit fiasco has me wondering if there was ANY honesty to it, or if it was just a cynical way to break competition & get some cash as a bonus.

I was 7 years old when BSG aired & was already a huge Star Wars Fanatic. When I found out about the Lawsuit, that BSG was 'being punished for being like SW', I was flabbergasted. Big Ships in Space, Small Ships in space, no bullets. That's really the honest similarities, if one accounts for Genre. So were these Executives Morons who had no understanding of Science Fiction? Or were they just cynical assassins?

I suppose a bit of both.

ABC's insistence on the Weekly format though, that I understand. They knew that moving away from the Prestige Miniseries format would hurt the show, but then, as now, they assumed the audiences were morons (clearly projecting...) and could not possibly remember anything over a couple months away. It is also exceedingly rare for American Executives to play 'The Long Game' and creating a story that could have easily paid off in long-term cultural dividends was anathema to Short-Term Quarterly Investments.

I'm old enough to have watched the original Galactica and 1980 when they first aired... Galactica 1980 DID suck and most hated Dr. Z!!! The Return of Starbuck was excellent however.

I remember being taken to the cinema by mum and dad and it was a double feature - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (the two part pilot as one feature length movie) and Battlestar Galactica - best cinema day ever!!!

I watched it at the theatre in Penticton B.C. in the late 70s. Watched it again on US tv and noticed it was censored or changed in a couple spots. Enjoyed it immensely.

I preferred the original BSG over the remake. The human Cylons were a terrible story line.

Does any one know if this show is a spinoff of the starbuck coffee franchise

So your saying jimmy carter was in this show

Very well made, thank you for sharing.

Isn't it Laurette Spang (no "r"), or am I suffering from the Mandela Effect?

The Mormons

I went back and watched the whole BSG series in 2007. It really stands up well. The visual effects look like the late 1970s, but other than that it is great.

I doubt it drew on Chariots of The Gods. I think it came straight from Mormon theology. Also, Baltar didn’t have “Gaius” as a first name until the reimagined series.

You failed to note the replacement of Doctor Zee by Robbie Rist (most commonly known as "cousin Oliver" on The Brady Bunch.

I absolutely hate the buck Rogers fighter ship design. Totally sucks

Yah, I rememder this show being pretty crappy. Not enough special effects, bad acting, who cares plots and just a lame copycat of star wars

As someone that grew up (old as dirt) with BSG and Star Wars, I really never made a connection between them. Back then there was a ton of space movies and stories well before Star Wars. Star Wars set a bar and I remember watching BSG when it first came on and it still sticks with me today, so that is iconic. That, Star Trek and Space 1999 were were IP's that story wise stuck with me. There were other stories that I remember just nothing that really moved the needle. Things like Lost in Space, Buck Rogers and others were fun shows just not mind changing.

As a kid in the 70s, I had a neighbor who had one of those old synthesized voiceboxes that he got from 6 decades of heavy smoking and throat surgery. It made him sound like a Cylon Centurian. For that reason, I always called him 'The Cylon' or later, 'Cy' It somehow stuck and everyone started calling him 'Cy.' He was a combat-experienced WW2 Vet and unlike most Cylons, a really good shot. A real character too, even into his 80s. He'd try to hit on young girls even with that awful voice, so he was arguably more like Starbuck. I dont think he ever saw the show, but he liked the nickname. I saw his grave a few years ago, and someone keeps leaving little Battlestar Galactica items there. Guy's been dead for 30 years, but he's still a local legend. I know this story's inane, but I thought I'd waste a little of your time with it. Youre welcome. 😅

I hated that Doctor kid. He made cousin Oliver look like an appealing addition.

Got me excited to watch this show ...

I was 6 when this came out, and this is my childhood comfort TV. Just the mythological music from the beginning speeds up my heartbeat to this day. Had the Colonial Viper, the Cylon Raider, and a Muffet the Robotic Dog action figure as well as the mandatory Cylon. Much love to you for making this video!

Still a great series!

I am a big fan of the classic version of Battle Star Galactica. The newer version was awful.

Night of premier a cat somehow got into an electrical substation and crispy crittered itself and took out all of the power on my side of town. Never saw the whole thing. Pretty pissed at the time.

Great job, but to mention Lloyd Bridges’ roles in the goofy comedy movies and not the Sea Hunt tv series is just wrong, since the role he played in BSG was very similar to the one he played in Sea Hunt.

I fell in love with the show, even before it came out in the late 70's. I first saw the upcoming show in the preview section of the TV Guide and tore the pages out and kept them. As the time came for it to premier, its story line had already been ingrained into me. Then when the new version came out, I was somewhat disappointed, even though I would watch a show every so often online later on. Personally I think the show got a bad rap by outside sources who thought it was a cheap knock-off of Star Wars, which it was not. There's always going to similar aspects of science fiction related material, but that doesn't mean one is mimicking one that preceded it. I will always enjoy the original short lived show.
When Galactica 1980 came along, as this video pointed out, the characters lacked the same caliber, quality, and strength as the former characters and actors portrayed. A shame really, because if the show consisted of a stronger script and focus, maybe it would have lasted, but too many outside forces were going against it for rising shows and it too was cancelled in a very short time. The last episode was better than most in this struggling followup version.

Colicos played Baltar. Just Baltar. Not "Gaius". That name is from the "reimagined" Galactica.

One of my favorite memories was having spoken with Richard Hatch and Anne Lockhart after a panel that grew into an hour long lunch. I was reluctant to ruin my memories by watching the new BSG. Richard took the time to break it down and convinced me to watch. I'm so glad he did. We corresponded and compared notes for a while. What a great guy.

My favorite episode was when Apollo accidentally intercepted the Apollo 11 transmissions. I've never been emotional but I choked up on that one.

The power of this show (I was 10 in 1980) was that it brought big "Star Wars" production values & special effects to TV and it did long before the second "Star Wars" movie was even released. Kids my age were too young for Star Trek's original series, it looked like your grandpa and ran on syndication late on weekends. This level of effects was even rare in cinemas then. BSG had come and gone by the time "Battle Beyond the Stars" & "Empire Strikes Back" hit the big screen. What passed for TV special effects then was Steve Austin doing things in slow-mo to bionic sounds or the Hulk doing things in slo-mo to Hulk music. For boys addicted to "Star Wars" this was methadone as the years went by for the next sequel. It happened the same way "Alien" happened- Producers didn't want anything on their desks other than sci-fi scripts in the wake of 77's Star Wars, but it happened on TV, the only place where something like this could play second fiddle to things like Mork & Mindy and All In The Family. It has a haunting legacy for guys my age. It was never the surprise smash TV event of "V" years later. I have absolutely nothing to say about the ridiculous reboot, what nonsense. It could totally be resurrected for the big screen, which is what it was all along - a big screen space opera shoehorned into the "idiot box."

Muito bom

I wish we could get a series spinoff with just the original cylons using the original canon but through the viewpoints of the cylons and showing their culture and issues.

Battlestar Galactica 1978 was a good iconic show however Galactica 1980 was hot garbage except for one episode "The Return of Starbuck" in which in my opinion was the best Battlestar Galactica episode ever!