Battlestar Galactica (1978-79). Part One. A Nest of Vipers, But The Good Type.

[@shaggycan]

Both Lorne Greene and John Colicos were trained by CBC radio during WW2 so they have amazing voices. As was Leslie Neilson.

[@piotrd.4850]

If I hade choice between Arnold's physique in his prime and Greene's voice - man I that would be hard...

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

I remember going to universal studios in 1987 in Los Angeles. The cylons kidnapped you on the tour and took you into their ship

[@doctorclu]

I saw that around 1987. I remember thinking "I loved Battlestar but geez, I'm surprised all this is still here!" Also remember being on the tour and seeing the front end of the Buck Rogers Thunderfighter sitting behind a building out in the weather in bad shape.

[@paulclarke7571]

I was in a bar in Toronto, Canada in 1991. Looked over and there was John Colicos. The actor who played Beltar. He was pretty drunk but we did have a few laughs. Darth Vader aint got nothing on this guy. A class act.

[@fightersweep]

Great video. I saw the BSG movie as a kid on release in the UK in 1979. The cinema I saw it in showed the film in "Sensurround". Damn near shock the building to bits when the Vipers launched. It was awesome! Instantly became hooked and a little bit obsessed to be honest. Wanted the toys, wanted a Colonial Warrior jacket, watched the TV show through a snow storm on a dodgy portable television (our main household TV couldn't get the channel it aired on) and bought the soundtrack album, comics, novel etc. Still got a bunch of Mattel BSG toys. Prized possession is a carded Starbuck signed by Dirk Benedict. Happy childhood memories.

[@GlensRetroShow]

Love the Classic Battlestar Galactica The 2000 was ok.. but for me the OG is the best

[@christophersanders3252]

2000 was so weird. The cylon ships have faces! And they ruined the Cylon origin story. They just made Terminator in space- much less compelling than the idea that the Cylons were actually aliens.

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

Holy moly, Jane Seymour is stunning!

[@X-Gen-001]

Totally agree. She's an absolutely gorgeous woman.

[@dragdragon23]

I have a old sifi mag with her interview, she was claiming she was being harassed on the phone calls, telling her to leave the show and she did. maybe she had second thoughts about being on this show and wanted to move on?

[@robwalsh9843]

She is almost offensively attractive.

[@moonpawooe7134]

Absolutely disgustingly sexy

[@moonpawooe7134]

Scorchio 😊

[@aliberni]

I loved this show so much as a kid. I wanted to wear one of those captain's uniforms and fly a Viper so bad. Obsessed, I was.

[@carlrood4457]

I liked Boomer because he was kind of in the middle of Starbuck and Apollo. His natural instincts were to go by the book, but Starbuck could more easily talk him into things. He wasn't quite as absolute as Apollo. If the show had lasted longer, the evolution of the three way friendship would have been worth it.

[@GGGritzer]

Boomer is my favourite too!

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

They had a cool space bros thing going.

[@rickjohnston2667]

They were the Kirk, Spock, McCoy "big three" of that series.

[@doctorclu]

Love me some Boomer!

[@silentandinvisible]

if I remember correctly, there are many occasions where all the other pilots give off salvo after salvo... while Boomer is (pretty much?) one shot, one kill

[@StuartRaweakaStuOz]

1978 was an astonishing year for TV Sci-Fi - Irwin Allen's Captain Nemo (my favourite), Galactica, Blake's 7 and Jason of Star Command. Great review.

[@jamesstewart7736]

Not forgetting "Sapphire and Steel" of course. Hey Stam. When are you going to do that series? 😊

[@mikavirtanen7029]

Jose Ferrer is my second favorite Captain Nemo after James Mason. Sadly Irwin's Nemo took the crash dive in ratings and all we got was the miniseries.

[@RighteousBrother]

Holee !! I'd forgotten all about that Captain Nemo! I'm going to look it up now thanks fella!

[@shadowchaser3836]

All but Blake’s 7 (since I am in 🇺🇸) made quite the impact on a young boy who was in day care and on the verge of kindergarten…😎

[@StuartRaweakaStuOz]

@@RighteousBrother get the three hour UNEDITED version on the Internet Archive

[@bluewinds10]

late 70s/80s shows always had the best intros and theme music. Everything today is instantly forgettable.

[@pjhunt4135]

Love ❤ this show, I'm rewatching this and buck rogers in january

[@troubadour723]

Buck Rogers would have been better if it also had been a series of made-for-tv movies instead of a weekly series (that, and if they had gotten rid of the phallic-headed robot).

[@doctorclu]

Love Buck Rogers. Ok, I think the mostly enjoyable watch order is Season 1, Season 2 (flip ""The Dorian Secret"", ""Testimony of a Traitor"" which brings Buck back to Earth), and save "Flight of the War Witch" for the very end. Leaves the whole series on a up beat, and explains better the absence of Ardala in Season 2, along with story developments seen in Flight of the War Witch never being seen or mentioned again.

[@GrimGalore]

I love the theme music to the original BSG, and I especially loved it when it was used as the national anthem of the Twelve Colonies in Ronald D. Moore's show.

[@timmooney7528]

Several items carried over to the reboot. I see them as Easter eggs for the pre-existing fans.

[@M2Mil7er]

honestly, even as a kid I could see they were reusing the Viper launch sequence but it was exhilarating, and you knew a cool space battle was starting.

[@pow3rscr3w64]

The odd thing is EVERY science fiction show does this. Star Trek: TOS, TNG, and the rest. The BSG reboot reused footage all the time. But ONLY OG Galactica is ever called out for it

[@MikeKoesterCraig]

It's not like the vipers and launch tubes vary. Every launch has to look the same.

[@doctorclu]

With video recorders not being exceptionally common re-seeing the awesome photage was quite welcome!

[@M2Mil7er]

@@pow3rscr3w64 Called out implies there's something wrong with it. I understood from a young age why they reused the footage. It's clear from my comment that I enjoyed the repetition. 👍

[@M2Mil7er]

Exactly!@@doctorclu

[@daverage4729]

One of the great shows of my childhood. I always dreamt of zipping about in a Viper. A great fun show with a fantastic theme tune...as iconic as the Six Million Dollar Man intro for me.

[@billc5378]

The kid actor Puppas (Redeye) episode, was also in the Last Bionic Woman episode (On the Run pt2) as the kid in the park she came across before she gave herself up.

[@carlrood4457]

I'll never forget the premier. They cut into it to cover the signing of the Camp David Accords. As an 11 year old, I was not happy. They did choose to continue from where they left off, so I didn't miss anything (atypical of the time where they'd just cut in to where the show would normally be at that time).

[@bensneb360]

Despite being about the last of humanity, being on the run from killer robots… the Original BS is a great comfort show. Something about the swashbuckling adventure feel and likable characters makes this show very easy to rewatch and enjoy as much as the first time.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

Yes, fully agreed. And that's also why I couldn't stand the remake... It was so gloomy and depressing, I _really_ had no idea why there wasn't an epidemic of suicides going on after the first couple of episodes...

[@doctorclu]

@@Wolf-ln1ml people claimed they liked the reboot because it was realistic, and the classic series was not dark enough for what they went through. After that comment I caught just how dark the classic series was. Adama telling Athena how he had a lottery of available seats, telling like some god who would live and who would die. That is bleak! They hinted at way more like that. Also, as we saw in the pandemic, people strive to return to normalcy as quickly as possible. Just like we saw in Battlestar, most of the times that can be good for moral for survival, but while remaining vigilante, as they found out on Carillon in the first few episodes.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

@@doctorclu Oh, of course the old series was dark. But the _overall mood_ was far, far lighter - people were partying regularly, making lighthearted jokes, enjoying what little life they had as much as they could... The reboot had _very_ little of that. The peole had pretty much nothing to live _for,_ or at least pretty much nothing was shown. (and the music score was far lighter, too) Also, the reboot brought in a _lot_ of deception and betrayal on top of it all...

[@TJdirect]

Ha! Perfect timing I just finished watching episode three. I loved as a kid and still do

[@thebadgamer1967]

I was 10 when this and star wars came out I literally used to skip my weekly scout meeting to watch it ,no vcr those days I loved it every damn second and collected the trading cards. As for the 2003 reimagined series ....I bloody love it the mini series is some of the best hours of television ever made imo. Great work. As for galactica 1980 cousin Oliver is in the pilot need we say more 😮

[@InterCity134]

As the Gen x og target audience who saw BSG in Sept 1978 as a young boy, I approve of this message. Some of the 1 hr shows were quite good in my mind, eg Fire in Space. Having lived through the desert that was the late 80’s and 90’s of Larson blocking any attempts to do things with the IP, I’m glad another attempt is going to be made now.

[@michelemartin7673]

Concur that several of the 1 hour shows, especially later on, are actually pretty good....and many are significantly better than the 2-hour "Greetings from Earth". It's the early 1 hour eps that are a weaker, in part because they had to scramble to write scripts when the decision was made to pivot from a series of telemovies to a weekly series. The last episode, "The Hand of God" shows what they could have done going into a second season when they had more time to breath.

[@foxyshabazz]

I'm glad you mentioned the movie. I was beginning to doubt my memory, as I remember it as a movie more than a TV show. I was only small, and my uncle took me to see it. He told me it was the sequel to Star Wars. I took this to be the truth at the time, but having given it some reflection, I'm thinking that he may have been mistaken.

[@ryankirkpatrick959]

Your joke about Lorne Green's voice narrating America's Furriest Pets actually made me laugh out loud! Here in his native Canada, Green's almost more famous for his time spent on "Lorne Green's New Wilderness," where he narrates a series about wildlife!! 😅

[@cologne2792]

" It's still highly entertaining, like sucking on a helium balloon and trying to sing a Death Metal rendition of Dancing Queen " -Genius. We don’t have Clive James anymore but we should all be thankful and rejoice that we do have Stam Fine.

[@aaronleverton4221]

Lord, don't let him near the reruns of Takeshi's Castle.

[@chiefton52]

When this came out we used to meet at the specified time and turn the lights off and watch it in the dark sitting on the edge of the chairs. It was that much of a hit during that time in our lives!!!

[@MackerelCat]

I love this show, warts and all. Something about that epic score, 70s fashions and effects, and the shiny shiny cylons.❤

[@billc5378]

I wanted my own cylon back then so I wrote a language parsing program on my ti 99 computer that would prompt "By your command". It would break down sentences I typed into subject predicate object, adjs, adverbs. I'd type in "Patty's phone # is xxxxxxx, Patty's address is aaaaaaaaa, joe lives at bbbbbb", I could then ask what Patty's phone # is or where does Joe live and the "cylon" would tell me. If I asked what my phone # was, the program would say, "your phone # is nnn-nnnn". Problem was the more info that got stored, the slower Cy got in his responses (TI - Basic, sigh!). I think Richard Hatch would have gotten a kick out of it!

[@RoadxFreedom]

The OG 1978-79 was my childhood, even though I was born in the mid 2000s. I have the DVD of the Complete Series now, and it's always nice to watch it every now and then. Some of the kid in me comes out after I watch it.

[@JamiesonHorton]

I love this AND Star Wars... I've never truly understood the legal issues. I think they're both great in their own right. Is it strange that the Ovions never reappeared? The costume dept. made at least two of those suits, and they couldn't have been cheap. Anyway, I've liked their design... the action figure was one of my favs. Great review!

[@timmooney7528]

I chalk it up to their species not colonizing a bunch of worlds. The only reason why we seen so many humans is because they were along the path to Earth. The species I had the most questions about were the Nomen. I got the impression they were Neanderthals or Cro Magnon men that didn't go extinct.

[@JamiesonHorton]

Wow... that's.... that's a really cool theory. OK, that's my head-canon now!

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I remember watching repeats of this when I was much younger, at that age continuity didn't matter to me and I just loved the show. The Reboot was an amazing show that still holds up today. I've been subscribed to your channel for a few years now and really love your sense of humour. Although you're not the only content creator to do it, I really love how you cut in scenes to punctuate or punchline your jokes. It's a lot of extra editing for you but for us it's so worth it as the viewer.

[@STho205]

The soft core porn of the SyFy series is all I dislike. Starbuck as a hot headed woman with "connections" is the best gender swap of any franchise. She nailed the part.

[@jamesabernethy7896]

@@STho205 It was a great change. Katee Sackhoff gave the role attitude and not just swagger. Her character went through so much development, not just the final revelations. The swap changed the dynamic but was done for story reasons rather than political ones.

[@David.42]

I really really wanted one of those pilot jackets.

[@vfxtutswithdan1893]

So I'm not the only one!

[@fazole]

Even as a kid, I never believed a suede jacket would protect you in space!

[@willl7780]

ME2

[@willl7780]

@@vfxtutswithdan1893 you are not....

[@TheInjuredNinja]

Me three

[@Knaeben]

I watched this show so much when I was a kid I have many of them memorized.

[@SJHFoto]

I grew up watching this show. I am actually re-reading my old novels and comic books from the show now!

[@nigeh5326]

I saw a version of the first film in the cinema here in Britain when it was released and really enjoyed it. Imo as time went on the series deteriorated whereas the later 2000s series started off v well and mostly held to a high standard until almost the end when the plot went to pieces being rushed to wrap up the show.

[@doctorclu]

I could see that on the reboot, but I do like the reboot as kinda a loose outline overall of what we might have seen Classic BSG follow, just in their own way. (mostly the aspect of Starbuck being an angelic being and guiding the colonists to Earth and after that.)

[@K.F-R]

You slew me with the Windows update skit. Still giggling. 😅 (27:37)

[@giroromek8423]

In Galactica 1980 they upgraded to Millenium, sorta upgraded though.

[@rikkiwear853]

I wanted a Colonial jacket so bad when I was a kid.

[@TheBeird]

While I love the BSG reboot, I am a little sad the fans of the OG series never got the closure they wanted.

[@seano4977]

I completely agree

[@noneed4me2n7]

It would’ve been nice if Richard Hatch had gotten his version off the ground but I was happy to see him integrated into the newer series.

[@braxxian]

BSG reboot is one of those rare things that is vastly superior to the original. That being said everyone still loves classic BSG. How can you not😀

[@GGGritzer]

@@braxxian, reboot was lame. It was okay for the first 2 seasons but completely lost its footing for the last 2. Man made Cylons were awful. The ending was dismal

[@cylelle376]

The real problem with the reboot is that it was actually written as the antithesis of its predecessor. While Larson's show was clearly of the opinion that humanity (as epitomised by the Galactica's main characters) was 'a race worth saving' the reboot's fascination and sympathies were just as clearly with the Cylons instead, with the humans as anti-heroes, deserving of all the devastation foisted upon them. As a message, I couldn't stomach the latter version and it was particularly cruel after having spent nearly 25 years hoping for a continuation. But even beyond that and as your video so wonderfully shows, the original simply looked better - the ship designs, the lighting, the costumes and the music were exceptional and still now 45 years on hold up.

[@TheNakedSilo]

When Adama reveals the name "Earth" and the camera cuts to reaction shots of the people in the room, I always expect someone to say "Earth? What a dull name."

[@daverage4729]

Lol! Gotta love the way Lorne Greene pronounced it though..."Errrrrr-ttth!!!!!!"

[@WillWilsonthesafetyguy]

'OG BG' was my absolute favorite show when I was a kid. I became so obsessive about it my parents started to threaten me with not letting me watch it if I didn't calm the fuck down lol. Years later when the reboot came out, I had the pleasure of sharing my love of BSG by watching the new series with my daughter who, became so obsessive about it her mother started to threaten her with not letting her watch it. All of this has happened before and will happen again indeed.

[@Interislander957]

I always wanted Adama to be my grandfather for some reason. He was just so steady and reliable.

[@rauserbegins5850]

We all wanted Lorne Greene to be our grandfather!

[@bfragged]

Loved this show as a kid

[@timfurnier7061]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! You're the first person to mention the message in the city lights!!!!! LOL Everyone else misses it!

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

I knew Richard hatch. Met him in 89' at a comic con and saw him every year for twenty something years. Battlestar Galactica was an instant hit to me when it came out. And has only become more entering. 😂❤

[@neilgodwin6531]

Baltar was a Klingon spy! And there's a Starfleet admiral on board

[@doctorclu]

A starfleet admiral?

[@Hambie76]

Okay, so, yes, I enjoyed much about the Moore version. But I grew up on this, the original version, and even had my own kind of fanfic. I truly wish this had been what we got.

[@doctorclu]

I love reading fanfics! Read quite a few BSG ones over the years.

[@nicholashqar1654]

The og battlestar is great❤

[@rickbase833]

Couldn't agree more about the one season it was on TV. The two parters were much better than the guest star of the week episodes.....oh wait that was Love Boat right? Acutally one of the stand alone episodes that I liked more than others was the one where Apollo lands on a planet where it's the wild west. That scene where Apollo straps up for a gun duel was cool.

[@CoinOpTV]

By your command!

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

What a Golden time in Sci-Fi , in the Wake of Star Wars so many Imaginations of Space where Unleashed

[@CircusOfFive]

I’d be down for the “I survived on Galactica and all I got was Count Eblis inside me” T-Shirt. Or even “I got Count Eblis inside me”. Eventually it’ll just be “Got Count” and everyone will get the drift.

[@k.sammokko4218]

"Count me in"

[@doctorclu]

"Get Counted"

[@1Blastarr]

When I was a kid "Battlestar" had a 6pm time slot Sunday, when the show was about to come on the streets would clear, those were the days when kids would actually play outside.

[@IanM-id8or]

I must rewatch this one. Much as I loved the reboot, there's always been a place in my heart for the original Battlestar Galactica

[@Mike1064ab]

It’s funny how instead of bringing closure to a show that didn’t end properly they just make a new show to screw up instead. There should be some clause that if you cancel a show you must allow them to have some kind of finale to it. Don’t let shows end abruptly.

[@alvarolozano711]

I AGREE

[@simonllawrence]

You should do a video on Glen A Larsons legacy , that guy single handedly ensured tv was awesome in the 70s and 80s.

[@mikavirtanen7029]

I think Donald P. Bellisario would need one too. That guy was as involved as Larson in the Original BSG and has quite a legacy too.

[@doctorclu]

Glen Larsony... LOL! Yeh, I loved his stuff.

[@X-Gen-001]

If I had to sum up my childhood in one word it would be space. lol We had Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, V, Buck Rogers, Lost In Space, Space 1999, space cartoons and a myriad of space themed Atari 2600 games.

[@blagwedge]

The trouble with a character like Sheba is that its also the name of a brand of cat food. So it does look like she's been given a really crap name, compared to names like "Apollo" or "Boomer". I think Cassiopia's name was originally Domestos.

[@tskmaster3837]

Sheba is also a name from the bible. It's more than just a cat food.

[@HuntingCatIsBack]

Only if you ignore their originally full names: "Evertim (formerly Labatt's) Apollo" and "Mya Boomerang Wontcomeback" Jolly of course had the nickname "Whiskas".

[@neilgodwin6531]

Top Cat had the same problem. Now I'm imagining a BSG character called Domestos. It's bad enough that an Asgardian warrior is called Cif!

[@doctorclu]

Problem with the naming is thast they pull from "all the tribes" so you get some cool names of mankind myth like Apollo (Roman), Athena (Greek?), Sheba (Bible), Rigel and so forth. Starbuck and Omega is cool and sci-fi sounding. Adama and Bojay is different. Boxey and Boomer is... ok? Jolly is fun. But then you "GREENBEAN". The hell? Didn't even try to cover the name of some Earth food. The quality of the names tended to vary, but mostly "brothers of man" different.

[@SJHFoto]

@@tskmaster3837 Thank you. It amazes me how many people don't know that! (That's where the cat food got its name from)

[@TodaysDante]

I always thought the Patrick McNee's character was really a Cylon (the reptilian beings that built the robots).

[@doctorclu]

Always did too. But it seems it was an early skin replica of the reptilian race that they co-existed with for a while. Probably made initially to make the reptilians more at ease with them to eventually conquer them. What is a bit chilling is the Cylons would create a human skin replica in the Galactica 1980 series. Head canon is they Cylons were gearing for their final attack on the human race much like how they had erradicated the reptilian race!

[@PS10N]

I saw all of the episodes, the nights of their broadcasts, as a little kid, and everything you said was a memory. Thanks. ALSO, please release the Cylon voice dub gags as individual short videos. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time, and the original BSG is the most lovable ridiculous thing ever made in the 70s.

[@andrewmurray1550]

they could be done in their own right, similar comedy style as "Larry the Stormtrooper" or general voiceovers like Bad Lipreading (StarWars).

[@PS10N]

To fill in the blank for the episode cribbing, "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" is unholy union of "The Dirty Dozen," "The Guns of Navarone," and "Ice Station Zebra."

[@Directorkey718]

I'm going to check out the OG series now because of this video, thanks!

[@Howiex-is8gq]

Loved that show

[@biancalemke5465]

❤❤❤starbuck ik was verliefddd.op hem uit denhaag jaren 80 wat spannend was het .😮

[@DJ-DJAS]

Bianca 😊 Jij was vast niet het enige meisje die verliefd was op hem.

[@kevinkeeney9418]

The Battle of Carillon prominently features a firefight on a high walkway with sturdy handrails, so Battlestar Galactica is obviously not inspired by Star Wars, but by Space Mutiny.

[@MrWhipple42]

I was 10 years old when this show came out, and I watched the hell out of it, had all the toys (including the choking hazard viper), and read the novelizations of the stories. It's a centerpiece of my childhood. The reboot was better.

[@ronstewtsaw]

Fond memories. Saw the theatrical release at the local theatre. My brothers and I had a Viper and a Cylon fighter. The whole family would chime in at the end of each episode "a bright shining planet called Earth." Except we didn't say Earth. We used the name of an iron curtain country that was the brunt of jokes in those days. It was funny as hell at the time.

[@inkermoy]

Loved the show as a kid. I thought G80 was passable but goofy. I also liked Buck Rogers, it doesn't hold up to well now, but damn the outfits on the women! I'm not as bothered by battle shots being reused. If you're an avid Star Trek fan, or watched mecha anime back in the 70's or 80's it was old hat and a given. The BGS footage is amazingly crisp. I guess I'll have track down a BR set somewhere.

[@SJHFoto]

I loved this show and Buck Rogers too! I always wondered why they didn't combine the 2 instead of the Galactica 1980. They already had the Buck Rogers sets and costumes, so instead of Galactica arriving in 1980, they could have arrived in the 25th century. It would have given the humans a fighting chance

[@inkermoy]

@@SJHFoto Interesting idea, but never cross the streams! XD

[@carlrood4457]

Boxey and Muffet: The Sprydle and Chim-Chim of BSG

[@jhschmidMD4]

I love them both, the original AND the new. Different shows, but both great in their individual ways.

[@raybearoz]

Great work there mate... This is one of the shows I missed, but you're making me want to go and watch

[@martinsear5470]

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century soon matey? I only ask because a Tweeky Dalek mashup would be excellent. 'edited because the cat walked on my keyboard'

[@kevinkeeney9418]

Beeda beeda exterminate, Buck.

[@rayhume1971]

The last rime Fred Astaire danced on camera was in Battlestar Galactica.

[@harshlands]

Fail utterly to understand how the YT algorithm hasn't caught onto this channel. A number of other channels do TV and Film retrospectives but are humorless and not nearly as clever as Stam's content.

[@Dios67]

Anne Lockhart ❤ Also, John de Lancie who went onto to play "Q" in Star Trek TNG had a bit part in the episode Experiment in Terra.

[@delaunfifield3490]

Great Video! As someone who loved the show SOOOOO much I was nicknamed "Starbuck" in middle school ( I know-MAJOR CHEESY!!) I thought you did a GREAT job on this video! I so miss the original (although i have it on DVD) I did find the repetition of effects irritating-but they still looked great on a HUUUGGGGEEE 28 INCH Screen of the day.

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

Baltar was ALMOST over-the-top? He was entirely over-the-top! That's why we loved him! 🤎

[@class3times]

Like every 12 year old kid at the time I Loved Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars and Star Trek and Buck Rogers in the 25 Century! I loved them all! BTW - I enjoyed your Ming the Merciless imitation ".... Eeeeearth.... "

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

I generally don’t like humour in these historical breakdowns but the “ New fone who dis?” cracked me up 😂

[@Rob_F8F]

1:56 "waiting in the queue to talk to customer service..." For a moment, I thought this was the lead-in for an ad-read for NordVPN or MasterClass. 😅😅😅

[@readhistory2023]

JMS apparently paid attention to Galactica's production issues when he made B5.

[@briangleason5597]

I Miss the original series. So much creativity. This was better to me than star wars.

[@acrovader]

I read somewhere that a 2nd season would've featured much less Cylons & action & special effects and focus more on characters & drama & issues on the Battlestar Galactica. I guess this route would've helped with budgetary concerns. I also read that the 2nd season would've featured less Apollo & Starbuck in favor of introducing new characters on the Galactica. The show would've essentially been 'Battlestar Galactica: The New Generation' (more or less). Adama would've died between the two seasons with Apollo taking up the role of commander of the Battlestar Galactica. Had not the show been cancelled, this would've been what we got for Season 2.

[@timmooney7528]

I heard there were drafts for season 2 stories, where several of the cast get killed off early on, and Apollo becomes emotionally distant and self destructive due to Boxey and Athena dying off. To add to this, his friendship with Starbuck becomes rocky since Adama begins treating him more like a son than Apollo. In effect, Apollo's character gains some depth, and each week he would encounter a personal struggle.

[@doctorclu]

I often believe some shows were better off getting cancelled than continuing on into mediocrity. I think Classic BSG (not counting G80, that is it's own thing that I like on it's own) had a good story, and good wrap up with "Hand of God". Some of the concepts for season 2 I'm honestly glad they didn't do. The one I heard, for example, was Galactica getting into a battle and Athena getting burned, even to the point of Adama having to put her out. And then after facial surgery she would have looked very different (different actress). I think some of these ideas, while a progression of the plot, would have taken away from the magic we experienced of the show.

[@peccatumDei]

I was a fan of the original show in it's first run. I saw all the references to the zodiac, Egyptian, Greek, and other elements of Earth history not as any kind of plagiarism, but a sign that our old Earth cultures in many instances sprang from the same cultures that founded the 12 colonies. And then Earth being a seemingly unlucky 13th colony that lost contact... It was never to be of course, but we did see at the end of the original series reception of the broadcast of the original moon landing, from a distance that must have been many light years away. I would have loved to see the Galactica and the fleet come into contact with Starfleet from Star Trek, and enjoy seeing the Cylons getting absolutely hammered.

[@suttercane6]

Awesome frakking video!

[@andrewmurray1550]

I love the way they named characters after galaxyies, stars, ships and.....coffee shop franchises.

[@SJHFoto]

Remember, this was before Starbucks the coffee shop. As a kid, I always thought of the character from Moby Dick

[@brunozeigerts6379]

I would have liked to see a Cylon commander say, 'You got this, right?' 'Yes..' the other responds in higher voice. 'Why did your voice go up... you got this, right?"

[@ThompPL1]

32:27 . . . Wait a sec . . . The *Narrator* of OG-BG was actually Satin / Imperious Leader of the Cylons !!? 👹 👾 🤯😆

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

I was born in 73 and remember this show fondly. My older cousins called it a ripoff off Star Wars but there were things I liked about it over the Lucas films. I would love to see it return today,especially since Star Wars has fell off in quality.

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

We loved this show in ‘78 because our shows had something successive generations will never know: scarcity.

[@susanscott8653]

Loved the original BSG. Something about the tech hit the spot for me at the time. I would love to see it again now just to see it from an adult perspective. Never seen the reboot, might have to look for it.

[@carlrood4457]

Guns on Ice Planet Zero is Guns of Navarone with a little Dirty Dozen thrown in.

[@STho205]

Well at least Balance of Terror isn't Enemy Below.

[@thatdadgaming1]

Ahhh. Vipers were so cool... I remember seeing the movie in the theater.. I'M NoT Old YOUR OLD..... 😊 Fun vid 👍 But..... Was it better than Space 1999??? Hmmm.. go check out the intro to Space 1999. I'm pretty sure that was /is the best 70s intro music EvER... (Not kidding...) Lol..

[@carlrood4457]

I built a couple model kits from the show, a viper and a Cylon raider. I never painted model kits I built because it would have looked worse.

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

What a golden time in TV Sci-fi , in the Wake of Star Wars so many Imaginations of Space where Unleashed, Awesome review and Merry Christmas

[@richardeller9246]

I think the original Battlestar Galactica is the best space epic ever in my humble opinion.

[@michaelfisher7170]

Lol. Late elementary school early Jr high. My nerd friends wanted to be x wing pilots. Nerd me wanted to be a viper pilot. The recess debates were awesome. Post script...the first rule of Galactica 1980 is we don't talk about Galactica 1980.

[@dirkstarbuck6126]

Great review! Thanks for giving OG BG much love!

[@catsmews]

that 'new phone who dis' moment was pure gold! 🤣

[@nutherefurlong]

Funny how much of my brain was occupied with the show. I loved Star Wars, having only seen the first film when this aired, but I think because it was a series it wound up enhancing my appreciation of it. I can see why the copyright holders of Star Wars went after them, culturally there was some competition there. I saw a bit of 1980 and rejected it. Sounds like I dodged a laser blast. I also still think it's intriguing that the narrator, the Imperious Leader, and Iblis were all connected to McNee. It suggested to me that the Cylons fell due to temptations from Iblis or something. The stories are often good, and there's a family feel that's hard to find, even in the found family shows and movies we've had since. The nepotism is a bit weird, though. Probably pretty hard to go up in ranks when the top pilots and commanders are all related... Expo 67 got a lot of SF exposure, it seems :) Glad you covered this, looking forward to your episode reviews :)

[@DCGuy1997]

Interesting story about the Jim Garner and Larson flap over the Rockford Files script. Larson took a 6 Million Dollar Man script and reworked for the Bionic Woman. Almost word for word. The BW episode is Fly Jaime from Season 1.

[@Scarlet01812]

The feathered hair is simply a hilarious callback

[@Dom_Mason]

Battlestar Galactica was my favorite series as a kid. The show came out when I was 5. But didn't get into it into I was 10 or 11 when it was a rerun. I actually found a pilot jacket at the local Goodwill when I was like 13. I wore that thing quite a bit lol. Not sure what happen to it. But, I see they have ones on Amazon now. Hell I may buy a knockoff just for old times. Actually got around to downloading the complete 1080p version of it. Converted it to 4k using AI upscale topaz software. The series looks amazing in 4k.

[@stevew8513]

The network cancelled Battlestar Galactica, and they never, ever had those ratings in that time slot ever again. You didn't mention the worst problem with the series, studio interference. A bunch of untalented executives thought they could meddle with the show and make it better. Some bigwig had seen the movie Towering Inferno and made them make an out-of-control fire episode, even though it didn't make sense since a fire onboard a ship could be extinguished by venting the affected areas into the vacuum of space. I love the designs of everything in the show except the outfits. Everything has a drab brown color scheme, "which was the style at the time". That's the element that's dated the most.

[@michaelpuglia2407]

OG BG❤