Battlestar Galactica
an Episode Guide
by Jeff DeVouge
Last updated:
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:00
Battlestar Galacticaan Episode Guide
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| aired from: Sep 1978 to: Apr 1979 | 24 eps | ABC | 60 min | mono | ________________ |
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Opening Narration: (Used on the video version of "Saga of a Star World")
"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... that they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids... or the lost civilizations of Lemuria... or Atlantis... Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive... far, far away amongst the stars..." -- read by Patrick Macnee
Alternate Narration: (TV Version of "Saga of a Star World")
"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... that they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids... or the lost civilizations of Lemuria... or Atlantis... Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive... somewhere beyond the heavens" -- read by Patrick Macnee
Short Narration: (Episodes 4-11, 19, 23-24)
"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 that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive... somewhere beyond the heavens" -- read by Patrick Macnee
Closing Narration: (Episodes 3-24)
"Fleeing from the Cylon Tyrany, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest. A Shining planet, known as Earth" -- read by Lorne Greene
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Production Credits
Executive producer: Glen A. Larson
Created by: Glen A. Larson
Supervising producer: Leslie Stevens
Producers: Donald Bellisario, John Dykstra
Associate producer: Winrich Kolbe
Original Music by: Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson
Costume Design by: Jean-Pierre Dorléac
rc: Serina, Rigel, Omega, Greenbean
When the Cylons trick the human fleet and destroys all its ships except the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama gathers up the remaining humans on the 12 colony worlds and leads them in search of the legendary 13th colony -- Earth.
b: 17 Sep 78 pc: 50280 w: Glen A. Larson d: Richard A. Collarc: Serina, Rigel, Omega, Greenbean, Dr. Wilker
When the fleet stops at the planet Carillon to refuel, another Cylon ambush awaits them.
b: 17 Sep 78 pc: 50281 w: Glen A. Larson d: Richard A. Collarc: Serina, Rigel, Omega, Greenbean
When the fleet stops at the planet Carillon to refuel, another Cylon ambush awaits them.
b: 17 Sep 78 pc: 50282 w: Glen A. Larson d: Richard A. Collarc: Salik, Serina, Brie, Greenbean, Rigel, Omega
Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.
b: 24 Sep 78 pc: 50204 w: Glen A. Larson, Donald Bellisario d: Christian I. Nyby IIrc: Salik, Serina, Brie, Greenbean, Rigel, Omega
While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.
b: 1 Oct 78 pc: 50205 w: Glen A. Larson, Donald Bellisario d: Christian I. Nyby IIrc: Giles
Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.
b: 8 Oct 78 pc: 50908 w: Donald Bellisario d: Rod Holcombrc: Rigel, Omega
Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.
b: 15 Oct 78 pc: 50902 w: Donald Bellisario d: Christian I. Nyby IIrc: Giles
Baltar attempts to lure the Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon, which Adama becomes aware of.
b: 22 Oct 78 pc: 50206 w: Michael Sloan, Donald Bellisario, Glen A. Larson d: Alan J. Levirc: Giles, Rigel, Omega
Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.
b: 29 Oct 78 pc: 50207 w: Michael Sloan, Donald Bellisario, Glen A. Larson d: Alan J. Levirc: Greenbean, Rigel, Omega
When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.
b: 12 Nov 78 pc: 50912 w: Glen A. Larson d: Christian I. Nyby IIStarbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.
b: 19 Nov 78 pc: 50905 w: Donald Bellisario, Frank Lupo, Paul Playdon d: Donald Bellisariorc: Cain, Bojay
While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.
b: 26 Nov 78 pc: 50919 w: Glen A. Larson s: Ken Pettus, Glen A. Larson d: Vince Edwardsrc: Cain, Bojay
The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.
b: 3 Dec 78 pc: 50920 w: Glen A. Larson s: Ken Pettus, Glen A. Larson d: Vince EdwardsA Cylon kamikazee attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.
b: 17 Dec 78 pc: 50917 w: Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson d: Christian I. Nyby IIrc: Iblis, Brie, Bojay, Greenbean, Wilker, Rigel, Omega
While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.
b: 14 Jan 79 pc: 50921 w: Glen A. Larson d: Daniel Hallerrc: Iblis, Wilker, Rigel, Omega
While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.
b: 21 Jan 79 pc: 50922 w: Glen A. Larson d: Daniel Hallerrc: Omega
An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.
b: 28 Jan 79 pc: 50916 w: Donald Bellisario d: Rod Holcombrc: Wilker
When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.
b: 18 Feb 79 pc: 50924 w: Donald Bellisario, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell s: Michael Sloan d: Rod Holcombrc: Salik, Wilker
When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.
b: 25 Feb 79 pc: 50926 w: Glen A. Larson d: Rod Holcombrc: Salik, Wilker
When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.
b: 25 Feb 79 pc: 50947 w: Glen A. Larson d: Rod Holcombrc: Wilker, Rigel, Omega
When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees demands.
b: 11 Mar 79 pc: 50927 w: Donald Bellisario d: Winrich KolbeApollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.
b: 18 Mar 79 pc: 50928 w: Glen A. Larson d: Rod Holcombrc: Omega
Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestria from its supposedly dictatorial captain.
b: 1 Apr 79 pc: 50929 w: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell s: David S. Arthur, David G. Phinney, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell d: Daniel HallerRather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.
b: 29 Apr 79 pc: 50930 w: Donald Bellisario d: Donald Bellisario| Back to TOP of Page |
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