Lt. Starbuck and the Cylon

Great lords of Cobalt have lead you astray - Don't you know Earth is the opposite way?
About the best two scenes from a REALLY bad show of my youth.

[@chopperchuck]

we were taking a vote when the ground came up and hit us . LOL

[@jasonfaber1463]

My brother was cutting the grass of this local millionaire back on the early 70s. With the tractor he hit the above ground light and told the owner that his ground light hit the tractor. So the owner said, we’ll next time we must tell the light not to jump up and hit the tractor. The guy had a sense of humour. LOL

[@joemurray6769]

Chopperchuck that's so sad u think it's funny it's not funny that Starbuck is all a lone

[@chopperchuck]

@@joemurray6769 i know for a fact Starbuck was saved ,went into hiding on EARTH changed his name to Faceman

[@Pynaegan]

@@chopperchuck On top of that, a Cylon raider crashed on earth (Halloween night as a matter of fact) resulting in the Cylon Empire nearly discovering the location of Earth! Fortunately the survivors of the raider were thwarted from contacting the Empire and the centurion had fallen into a dumpster. I speculate that the Cylon centurion was later discovered, reverse engineered and somewhat resurrected into the Knight 2000. (AKA KITT)

[@davidwong9230]

Reminds me of the guy who crashed into a tree, who explained to the police, “Well, officer, the tree jumped out into the road” 😆

[@douglasquaid4518]

I like the opening of the A-Team when a Cylon walks past him and he points at it. he got a chance to see his friend again

[@davecoalwood9487]

We All loved that eh Mate?👍😁

[@MrRolyat98]

Always enjoyed that. He was all like “I think I know that guy”.

[@septimiusthedestroyer7394]

Lol yeah

[@michaelk4113]

That cracked me up every time!

[@hughmellerick4417]

I always loved that cameo!! Told my 7 year old about it, nearly 50 years on and I still remember it so clearly!!!

[@ErnestoTani]

My heart's broken when Cy says: "NO STARBUCK. NOT HUMAN. NOT CYLON. FRIENDS!"

[@DS..69]

@Tu Tone Yours did. Lmao.

[@jasperbirdcycle2024]

@Tu Tone That happened to me once. The manual did not help.

[@luthermcgee7297]

I know the feeling.

[@Kevs442]

Really? I got something TOTALLY different form this...I went from 6 to midnight...

[@don39boo]

Same almost cry.

[@mikefitzgerald8025]

Starbuck was so damn cool even Cylons liked him.

[@EwetoobSucks]

And then, they gender swapped him.

[@anunexpectedfire4062]

Cy was pretty coo too, tbh

[@joegover9452]

Not human' not cylon' friends. Best last words ever.

[@Helix751]

All these moments will be lost.. in time.. Like tears in the rain... Time to die....

[@EwetoobSucks]

​@@Helix751 Exactly !

[@anunexpectedfire4062]

Did Cy ever know he’s my hero

[@mikek1635]

Damn I remember this episode from when it first aired. The best episode in my opinion.

[@HerrEllsworth]

This was the last episode of Galactica 1980 to air. It didn't receive much fanfare because ABC had already consigned this show to the trashheap. Dirk supposedly did this show to retrieve some personal items he had in a napsack that was somewhere in the Universal studio.

[@chichiboypumpi]

mine too

[@JENDALL714]

That's not true, this episode was done before Galactic 1980 was even conceived. This episode was supposed to the last episode of the first season, it was supposed to be the season finale and end with a cliff hanger, but the show was cancelled and never aired, the scenes of older Adams and the boy were shot and added to the episode.

[@hughmellerick4417]

It was. Over 40 years since I've seen this, and still remember it so clearly - because it was a brilliant episode.

[@DocBree13]

Same here!

[@39Hundred]

This was the inspiration for John Connor being friends with a Terminator in Terminator 2.

[@Zurround]

I posted something similar above. Battlestar Galactica is very similar to Terminator in both stories involve an army of evil robots trying to eliminate what remains of humanity after wiping out most of humanity in a holocaust. On "versus" threads I have posted wondering who would win in a war between the Terminators and the Cylons.

[@OlafGodredsson]

Better than anything Disney can come up with

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Anyone else notice that when Cy is delivering his last words his voice shows more emotion?

[@SixaraTM]

Always got a little teary-eyed over the ending of Return of Starbuck. This was a great episode.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Return of Starbuck? Was this an episode of Galactica 1980 then?

[@transitfan954]

@@odysseusrex5908 Yes. Either the last episode or next to last

[@AngelMartinez-qs3cf]

I remember watching the original broadcast of this and i was really, really depressed. Very sad to see that after the Cylon and Starbuck bonded together, the Cylon Dies! Very sad!

[@antonboludo8886]

Yes, I liked it too. I was a kid.

[@Fektthis]

I remember the original broadcast of this as well. The most depressing part was it makes you think Cool! Starbuck is back! Then it turns out to just be the origin story for that god awful kid nobody liked instead and Starbuck is still out of the series. The 2nd series was awful. This is the only episode I remember liking.

[@projektkobra2247]

I remember that too...

[@marktsunokai5889]

That's probably the worst fate for Starbuck, to be alone.

[@datacipher]

Yes… a horrible fate for such a gregarious guy. He probably started cracking up within weeks… may well have killed himself within a year or 2.

[@harrysatin5110]

Starbuck Cylon Friends. We could all learn from this lesson.

[@EditorDudesPlayList]

A man's best friend is his toaster!

[@Nightdare]

Yeah: You can't program humans

[@powerbite92]

Learn that Benedicts tribe throughout history seek to make allaiances with the enemies of the human race in order to betray us all..

[@garyself]

One of the favorite episode of the 1980 battlestar galactica series

[@zacherygorman9368]

I think it was late 70s

[@spartanx9293]

1979

[@jsimmons12]

There were other “favorites”?

[@redbyrd64]

I think this was the only good episode of Galactica 1980

[@JENDALL714]

@@redbyrd64 Originally this was supposed to be the last episode of the first season, it was supposed to end as a cliff hanger, but the show was cancelled and I guess they didn't want it to end with a cliff hanger and never aired it, until the last episode of the second season.

[@PeBoVision]

I bought the original Galactica-1980 DVD collection solely for this episode. Was so happy when the reboot decided to remake it with "You Can't Go Home Again" (in a manner of speaking)

[@guyfroml]

The best episode in the history of the series.

[@chichiboypumpi]

I will never forget this episode

[@luthermcgee7297]

Neither will I.

[@chrisl.7016]

Wow, it's been years since I've seen this episode when I was a kid. I remember crying after Cy left. One of the best episodes of the original show.

[@tauron1]

this was Galactica 80, not the OG. I believe this was the final episode of a shortened season and the best one at that.

[@patrickhughes8164]

I have met my enemy, He is no longer my enemy he is my friend.

[@rickjones257]

Definitely a Good Cylon. It didn’t deserve to end like that.

[@HerrEllsworth]

I heard a rumor that one of the reasons Dirk did this "return" was to get some stuff he had in a locker at Universal. When Galactica was initially canceled, he was not allowed to enter the soundstage to get it.

[@AlexMartinez-me2yc]

Damn! I know that feeling. Unless he was known to be violent, they shouldn't have kicked him off the be lot!!

[@NateSean]

I had to the same thing when I quit my job at Rite Aid.

[@MichaelGonzalez-hd7kk]

Must have been some good drugs in that knapsack.

[@JENDALL714]

This episode was actually filmed as the last episode of season 1 as a cliffhanger, but the show was cancelled and it never aired, until the show returned as Galactica 1980, and they decided to use it as the last episode of season 2.

[@constitutionman9026]

@@JENDALL714 Which is why it is better.

[@jimgilbert9984]

I remember watching this when it first aired. (Gods, I'm old!) It was more of a tearjerker then because the viewers got to watch the relationship develop from enemies to real friends. 😥😢😭 Matt Smith's Doctor Who did something similar with the head of one of those "tin men" he fought from time to time in the episode in which he regenerated at the end into Peter Capaldi.

[@Zurround]

This episode was a science fiction version of the world war 2 story about an American and Japanese soldier stranded on an island together after their planes crash landed.

[@jimgilbert9984]

@@Zurround Yeah, that's no doubt where they got the idea for this episode, and then the Doctor Who folks got their idea from this.

[@Q80Warlock]

It's really sad how such great shows were reduced in quality for the sake of budget just one season later. Space 1999 - Buck Rogers - Battlestar Galactica. This episode was a great sendoff and the only good episode in the 1980 season.

[@greyofpta5305]

It occurred to me as a kid that he has three new cylons to scavenge parts from to get Cy back up and running again.

[@HariSeldon913]

They were all shot in the same place Cy was.

[@projektkobra2247]

I AM NOT ALONE!!!!!!!!!

[@Whatsupeiththestupidhandlebs]

What about the other two from Cy’s fighter? They should have been good for parts. Starbucks didn’t use parts from them to reactivate Cy.

[@equesfuscus]

All true, except I don't know how to fix the trunk-release on my remote so it works again, so I'd have trouble fixing Cy. But maybe Starbuck would be much better.

[@leekereopa1960]

I remember watching this when I was a little kid man I cryed my eyes out😭

[@nicholasmaude6906]

When I first saw this episode back in 1980 as a boy (I only saw the last five minutes or so) I found myself struggling very hard not to cry.

[@beardlesshungrydaddo3960]

I totally DID. I saw this clip pop up in my feed-and WOW. Such great memories!

[@luthermcgee7297]

@@beardlesshungrydaddo3960 , me too. In fact, I was thinking about this very scene while I was browsing the Battlestar universe. Also, when it played on channel 4.2 at the time, I took several snapshots as the cylons functions ceased.

[@jonvancil5547]

Same

[@datacipher]

What a bunch of wankers commenting above lol. Yes.. it was touching as a child in the 70’s… but not that touching! Bad parenting - must have been children of hippies. In a few years, these boys deepest wish was to be Steven from Family Ties.

[@spideyparkergoblin]

I love this show every time I watch the new series it makes me wanna come back to this.

[@TheButlerNZ]

Remember that time your PC crashed while you were doing that big project for school... and you hadn't backed up for days/ever

[@luthermcgee7297]

Me too!

[@bigal3055]

@@TheButlerNZ Nope. But then our 'computers' back in 1980 were a pencil and a sheet of graph paper. A computer crash just meant you had to sharpen your pencil after the lead snapped.

[@TheButlerNZ]

@@bigal3055 Mine was a TRS 80. The monkeys at the switch panel inside went faster if you left an offering of peanuts overnight. The only color was on the logo on the keyboard

[@normanjames9780]

Out of all of the episodes, this is the one that stuck with me. I still look for it online/streaming so I can watch it again and again.

[@davidkopec9442]

Best BG episode ever. I remember being riveted to the original airing.

[@user-sf7je7zi4t]

Never thought, human would cry at the death of a robot.

[@JENDALL714]

Technically Cylons are cyborgs, they are supposed to be half reptilian under the armor, that was the original premise anyway.

[@griselame]

@La Hire hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune

[@jackbristow432]

@@JENDALL714 no, the original Cylons were reptilian and they built the Centurions to serve them. It is speculated that the robots turned on their makers, but we're not even sure of that; the original Cylons might have just died out. It was also speculated that the Imperious Leader is one of the few original Cylons left.

[@ddesalvatore]

Why do I not remember this episode! That's it I'm re watching the entire series again

[@Laceykat66]

An iconic episode for the entire original series (I am including 1980 here)

[@stanleystriker7065]

"I extend my weapon..." KITT could never deliver such perfect lines...

[@dethbolt000]

This episode caught me in the ❤️! After this one, I was an avid fan of the Cylons. Always loved their design, their modulated voices, and the roving eye. I liked them more than stormtroopers.... At least, Cylons had better aim, though they were slower.

[@mrfrisky6501]

This is the best episode of BSG - amazing episode

[@bushybeard1135]

That Cylon sounds suspiciously like the the guy who voiced Karr in Knight Rider and Optimus Prime in original Transformers

[@marcremillard4052]

He has KITT's eyes too.

[@marcremillard4052]

And Prime's lips.

[@TaxiHack39]

The Voice Of Cy Is Rex Cutter Who Voiced Red Eye The The Episode The Lost Warrior

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@TaxiHack39 Gary Owens voiced Cy.

[@coollikesatan]

Not a dry eye in the house..

[@ddm62571]

Best Battlestar Galactica episode ever!

[@don39boo]

This was so sad he all alone.

[@wayne3302264]

This episode may very well have inspired the movie "Enemy Mine" with Dennis Quad and Louis Gossett Jr.

[@isidrodeleon673]

Those times when we thought they were real robots ...

[@mdellertson]

I sure hope real life AI will be this warm and cuddly.

[@maximuskhan2100]

That was fookin great. Such an underrated show.

[@rascallyrabbit8548]

this head will make a great candle holder

[@miltonxvb]

IT IS GREAT I WOULD LIKE TO WATCH THIS CHAPTER AGAIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARE IT. PLEASE SOME ONE WHO WANT TO SHARE THE LAST CHAPTER OF GALACTICA WITH US IT WILL BE FANTASTIC.

[@dennissaes3529]

The original series & this only episode from 1980 perfect end.. Always hoped the ships of light rescued Starbuck..

[@jmv1969]

They did. Google 'Wheel of Fire' BSG episode. It was an unmade Galactica 80's second season episode.

[@richardthered]

Its was StarBuck's destiny as i remember as he met a woman and they had a child that became The all important StarChild. I believe SB salvaged his fighter and got it going but was only one seat so put the child in the craft and lauched it hoping the kid would be saved (I think).... It was in the 80s and i saw it only the once. Was very sad as Starbuck was my favourite character and loved the show.

[@luthermcgee7297]

@@richardthered , strangely enough, he's my favorite star, too.

[@stufaryde8819]

Geez that got me just like it did back then.

[@richardthompson6366]

I have not seen this episode since it originally aired but it still resonates.

[@cgvapors963]

This was a great episode for its time.

[@lewisbale1]

I cried

[@DoroteoVilla]

One of the best episodes of the series.

[@garfilms]

i think is the best epìsode from Galactica!

[@redfoe77]

The series went out with a bang. This was one of its best episodes ever! It also was it's last episode.

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I couldn't help but notice there was something non-monotonous about the Cy's voice.

[@jamesmartin9401]

It's funny, but almost every space opera tv show has an episode like this. U.F.O. and ST:TNG to name a couple. Also the movie Enemy Mine. It's a trope, but it's worth repeating. When you can't afford to be enemies, sometimes you become friends, at least for a little while. I would say though, that it never seems to work out in the long run for the non-human.

[@jetuber]

I think this episode preceded those, though it itself has a slight precedent in ST:TOS "Arena."

[@jamesmartin9401]

@jetuber U.F.O. was in 1970, but yes, certainly Arena is sort of in the same vein. They didn't become friends, but Kirk decided they didn't have to be enemies. Of course, that was only after he had the Gorn at his mercy. The original short story that episode was based on had a similar dynamic, but the set-up was quite different.

[@Super80sMan]

The impact of this scene is somewhat reduced by the fact that the “dead” Cylon is a machine that theoretically should be repairable so long as there is enough of its components left to work with.

[@dan_hitchman007]

But Starbuck didn't know how to fix Cylons.

[@TheGrumpy01]

that's where the show failed to explain that the Cylons were cyborgs, so whilst the machine part could be repaired, the organic part couldn't. Similar in concept to Daleks.

[@Super80sMan]

@@TheGrumpy01 Were they supposed to be cyborgs on the old show? I thought that was a change for the new version.

[@andreww2098]

@@Super80sMan they were fully robotic in the original, and not built by humans, they got into a war with humans after the humans interfered with their war against another organic race

[@Caliban_80]

The difference in the quality of everything in this show from the remake is staggering.

[@tstahler5420]

The only episode of BSG 1980 worth watching.

[@BBFPV]

I like this Starbuck w.o. PMS 4 all the time seasons long 🤣

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

My favorite episode.

[@mukbangsareawesome6335]

Best episode of 1980

[@queenglamazona8789]

Really the only good episode of Galactica 1980.

[@HailAnts]

I watched and liked this episode when it originally aired (it aired as an episode of the mostly awful series _Galactica 1980_ ). On later viewing I first noticed that Cy was voiced by radio legend Gary Owens. After that it was difficult to take it seriously, a Cylon with the voice of the original wacky morning DJ..

[@glorifiedng]

That was one of my favorite episodes when i was a kid.. prob 8-9 years old...

[@andrewlove1971]

Damm, this aired in 1979, I still remember this episode…. That end…. That was 44 years ago!!!

[@ScottHarbison]

It fucked me up when Cy died. Shot my worldview into frakkin pieces.

[@offgridhomesteaders863]

I remember being 6 years old and ballimg my eyes out when this happened

[@MrMaxismybaby]

"The manual did not help".🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mikevanroy9356]

It was the 1980s. The manual was in Japanese.

[@MrMaxismybaby]

@@mikevanroy9356 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jorgealbertorodriguezvilla8773]

Este es el capítulo que más me gusta y más recuerdo de la serie galáctica

[@queenglamazona8789]

Era bein Bueno

[@mclaugsc]

this was a pretty good episode of Galactica 1980. I accept this as how Starbuck met his end.

[@mclaugsc]

um spoiler alert if you haven't seen it all yet.

[@Zurround]

From a literary standpoint this reminds me of the 2nd terminator movie. In TERMINATOR an army of evil robots are trying to wipe out what remains of humanity after a holocaust and ONE of them is heroic and saves humanity and befriends the leader of the human resistance (John Connor) And in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA the cylons are an army of evil robots trying to wipe out what is left of humanity after a holocaust and ONE of them befriends one of the main human characters (Starbuck). And of course both the "good" Terminator and the "good" Cylon die heroically saving the lives of the human they have befriended.

[@theluminary832]

One of the best episodes!

[@BBCKT]

After all these years, I have a very disturbing thought about this episode. After the new Cylons were deactivated, why didn't he just climb aboard the newly landed Raider and fly off after the fleet?

[@darryls7931]

I wondered that as well, though he might be shot at by friendlies too....

[@cyrbuzz6615]

Or it takes all three to pilot the ship.

[@Todd.T]

"You saved OUR lives" he says to the dying Cylon. The Cylon's last words should have been "Thanks..dick"...

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

My favorite bg episode. Cy.👍

[@MH5XXXX]

That was a great episode

[@TheButlerNZ]

0:42 I Litterally had a moment on my motorbike where I was hanging in the air (bike doing a hand stand behind me)... where "the ground came up and hit us"... Whats worse, due to landing arms in a gutter, the delayed faceplant skateboarders landing meant I launched back into the air only for the ground to come back and slap me in the face AGAIN!. (BTW.. BEST EPISODE EVER...... This was SOOOOO a missed opportunity for a spinoff... tho.. who says it was missed... do it do it do it!!!!!!

[@P1NKTHINKER]

It's on Horror Channel 10/05/2021

[@TheButlerNZ]

@@P1NKTHINKER Horror Channel? in what country.. I'm in NZ...

[@kennethdemuchest5171]

I always did like this episode.

[@NoahSpurrier]

This was a good series.

[@azurerainbow4637]

Even if Starbuck's Cylon didn't get destroyed from 1 of the other 3 Cylons looking for him,would they try to use the undamaged Cylon fighter to return to the Galactica and her fleet long after Starbuck crash-landed on a nameless planet,even though the fleet got very far away?

[@chrisb.1214]

I guess they gave him a more human aspect to his voice so he would have more of a personality and be more affable, but it's kind of silly though.

[@ghostman5620]

I just.figured it was some residual damage.

[@nunyabizness6595]

That strange before time. Before xfiles, twilight zone 80 and 90s outer limits.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

after this traumatic childhood re-experience i need some CY CO THERAPY

[@ralphangioli4852]

The only thing I never understood about this episode is why didn't Starbuck repair Cy using parts from the other Cylons and then escape in their ship?

[@stevejordan7275]

Bad writing. Though it's also true he didn't have a repair manual, and food may have made getting off that planet more of an issue. What's almost as stupid was that - as I recall - the girl/angel with the baby took a seat aboard the ship built from salvage that she wasn't going to keep, but suddenly appeared on the mountain to pronounce Starbuck officially "Good."

[@ralphangioli4852]

@@stevejordan7275 He repaired Cy when he first found him and when he’s working on him we see Starbuck flipping pages in some kind of book or manual. All I know is if I were Starbuck I wouldn’t stay stranded on a cold desolate planet with a perfectly good Cylon ship just sitting there. Like you said though, poor writing. If they wanted to keep Starbuck stranded then in the laser fight on the ground they could have had the ship take a laser hit that either badly damaged it or destroyed it.

[@P1NKTHINKER]

The producer's wanted the fans upset and miserable. They left us gutted................

[@martinpoole1451]

This was a great Robinson Crusoe inspired episode.

[@micpar2]

Dirk's still going strong at age 79. I heard from him recently while on FB to my surprise. I was talking about how ROM Spaceknight. Was swiped from GORT/ Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) movie. And from the look of the BSG 78 Cyclons.

[@tron3entertainment]

I feel this way every time I come to the end of a good Bing Chat.

[@miltonxvb]

It is awesome honestly I like this new version of GALACTICA. Congratulation Jahbab1 great job. When you have the possibilite to get the epic complete episode about RETURNED OF STARBUCK please could you show us to watch again. It will be a splendid event for your followers.

[@devintariel3769]

Love thaf you heart the dry signal in the vocoder

[@johnalang]

"The Return of Starbuck" The one and ONLY good episode of "Galactica:1980"

[@willpeony5534]

A valuable piece of wisdom but acquired at great expense.

[@hakanturkoglu9344]

I remember this part, like yesterday, I was 6 years old when I see this part of galactica, now I am 44....😂

[@TheButlerNZ]

Youngster.. I was like twice your age... wait does that make me 88 now....

[@karagun5547]

When I was 10 years old these came to me more technological. 😅

[@jackbarnaba7751]

The voice of "Laugh In" as the Cylon

[@Toolatecrew]

For some reason when I glanced at the title I expected to see a Cylon go into Starbucks and get their coffee order messed up.

[@rodneyrussell-to4ng]

I love this episode, it's my favorite!! I think that the reason Starbuck didn't rebuild another Cylon,is because it wouldn't have been the same as Cy, and he didn't have the Hart to do it!! I think that the reason why he didn't use the Cylon Fighter to get back to the fleet,was because he wouldn't have been able to catch up with them,on the fuel it had, and the fleet was probably way out of range for him to reach. Not only that,it takes 2 to fly the Cylon Fighter, and he can't do it by himself. Not only that, but it might have compromised the fleet, if he tried to meet up with them. He also wouldn't have been able to contact the fleet,so they might have shot at him, thinking that he was just another Cylon Fighter, trying to attack them. Just my opinion though.

[@thomasprice7893]

Man they sure could’ve used some of those beam pistols that one-shot centurions during the exodus, would’ve helped in those fights where they had about four frakking explosive rounds for fifteen cylons

[@bb82870]

this Cylon is cool

[@lethalwolf7455]

I sometimes think ‘Enemy Mine’ was inspired by this

[@LordZontar]

Hell In The Pacific (1968) -- Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune.

[@spaceflight1019]

Now I know where the phrase "rapid unscheduled disassembly" comes from...

[@TheMightyGorga]

I always wondered why they changed the Cylon's voice in this episode.

[@azurerainbow4637]

Maybe the voice of the Cylon Starbuck brought back to life changed from the repairs.

[@HENSLEYMB]

Gary Owen of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh in.

[@queenglamazona8789]

@@HENSLEYMB Also the Voice of Space Ghost.

[@axis19752]

I remember that scene..

[@KareninaKahler]

We were taking a vote when the ground came up and hit us. xD