myneesh Used to love this as a kids. It still has a certain charm. So many good actors and great episodes.

SnoopyStyle Battlestar Galactica protects the surviving ragtag convoy of two hundred plus refugee ships from the Twelve Colonies after the devastating conquest by the Cylon Empire. Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) leads the search for the mythical thirteenth colony Terra. Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Lieutenant Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) are the leading Viper pilots. They struggle to escape the traitor Baltar (John Colicos) and his Cylon cohorts under Lucifer.This Star Wars inspired franchise stumbles from time to time but at the end of the day, this is good sci-fi TV especially for its day. The biggest stumbles are the various human settlements that the convoy encounters. It puts the central premise under problematic rewriting. The basic premise is that these are the last of humanity looking for salvation. That's the drama. All these other human populations punch holes in that premise. They could stop at these places or gather up these survivors. It doesn't help to have unicorns either.The best episodes are probably Battlestar Pegasus and Fire in Space. The human settlements episodes are repetitive and degenerative. I'm also not a big fan of Boxey and Muffit. The Ship of Lights is memorable and could be expanded. The idea for Ice Planet Zero is classic but flawed at its core. It's a stationary weapon after all. There are quite a bit of recycling in the action FX sequences but that's to be expected for TV. One does grade on a curve and this is one of the better ones in its era.

lessardjoseph-558-701267 I always thought of this show as a sort of spin off from the 1970s Star Wars craze. The show is based on Egyptian mythology, and sprinkled with characters having the manes of Greek gods. This show was well written and should have had more than one season. I loved it when it came out in the late 70s. It had a good moral compass,like Star Wars, showing there was a clear line between good(humans) and evil(cylons). Galactica 1980 was not as good, but tried to complete the story line with the Galactica finally finding earth. The remake of 2004 was visuallystunning. But I found the cast a jumble of screwed up people who should be locked up in an asylum. It was a ship full of drunken sociopaths. The line between good and evil was blurred; I suppose much like society today. I guess I'm getting old and prefer the nostalgia of watching the old show. As in that show, we were a different people in the 70s and 80s. We understood that there is good, and there is evil. Time marches on.

S.R. Dipaling I didn't catch this in its first run. I'm not really certain why: I was seven at the time,getting drawn into anything SciFi(well,OK,mostly "Buck Rogers",but I was becoming familiar with "Star Trek" and "Star Wars",too),and this show had anything and everything that Sci-Fi was supposed to have:space ships of every kind,lasers,droids,warp engines,planetary systems,galaxies,humanity versus menacing technology and/or aliens,etc.What I DO know is that when this show was off the air for a little over a year,I ran across this in syndication(one season on the air and syndication! I never knew that could happen before)on a Kansas City independent TV station(back when those existed)and I was intrigued. A year or two later,and that same station re-ran the shows on Saturday afternoons and I was hooked. Never mind the cheesy,superficial dialog,or semi-pretentious character motivations or plot lines,this show had a compelling story(i.e. rag-tag group of survivors from a distant planet inhabited by HUMANS,who escaped annihilation from a group of overdeveloped droids,seeking an outreaching,possibly mythic land of relative peoples...wait for it...EARTH!),a regal theme song(Thank you Los Angeles Philharmonic!)and a fertile though line for the show's run(see the last part of the first quality). A largely handsome cast(among them Richard Hatch,Dirk Benedict,Terry Carter,Laurette Spang,Sarah Rush,Maren Jensen,Herb Jefferson jr.)headed by none other than Lorne Greene are able to make the action move along with the swiftness necessary of any good action-adventure series. I'd wondered,for some years after I'd first watched this,why the show had only one season's worth of shows(also,how come a handful of eps where the said group of humans actually make it TO Earth is somehow MIA)when it seemed to have great reception AND managed to secure a cult history of fan following. Then I ran across a 2000 SciFi network 'behind the Series" documentary about the show,and it gave me all I needed to know. The show,despite its very strong ratings and reasonably good reception,simply ran out of money to continue producing their episodes which,for their day,were quite high tech. Plus,the network,ABC,didn't seem to be particularly willing to bankroll anything Science fiction,so minus backing,the show's producers had to fold,re-configuring briefly with "Galactica 1980" before completely dissolving.In short,a fantastic little sci-fi project whose aspirations were pretty high for its time. The series that was re-imagined for SciFi network six years ago has plenty of advantages that this show didn't have(I still have yet to see it,but I hear it's very good),but this one lays out great groundwork. If I run across these shows again,I think I just might give it another look.