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Galactica 1980: Complete Series

Battlestar Galactica

Galactica 1980: Complete Series

Universal Studios (Jan 27, 1980)
TV Series | Action | Adventure | Science Fiction | Television
USA | English | Color | 18:35
Final Season
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
025195021494
| 2 discs
Region 1
Keep Case

The men and women of the city-size Battlestar Galactica -- fleeing the destruction of the human race on a distant planet and hoping to take refuge on Earth -- face a final showdown with the Cylon warriors. This 1979 theatrical release combines the original 1978 TV series pilot (the most expensive history at the time) with elements from later episodes. The special effects by John Dykstra (of Star Wars fame) were also cutting edge for 1970s TV.


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1 Saga of a Star World 133 min | Sep 17, 1978

After the Twelve Colonies of Mankind were destroyed in a sneak attack by the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar Galactica leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

2 Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 1 60 min | Sep 24, 1978

When a large number of Colonial Warriors come down with a serious infection, Apollo and Starbuck must train a number of female shuttle pilots to fly Vipers for combat duty.

3 Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2 60 min | Oct 01, 1978

After traversing a large void in space, the Galactica and the refugee fleet discover the home planet of their species, Kobol.

4 The Lost Warrior 60 min | Oct 08, 1978

Apollo crashes on the Wild West like planet Equellus after being pursued by four Cylon fighters. Taken in by a widow named Vella and her son Puppis, Apollo takes on crime boss La Certa and Red-Eye, a Cylon centurion turned formidable gunfighter who killed Vella's husband Martin.

5 The Long Patrol 60 min | Oct 15, 1978

Starbuck's unplanned double-date with Cassiopeia and Athena on the recently-reopened luxury liner Rising Star is interrupted when the Galactica picks up long-range transmission traffic indicting human life in a distant solar system on the other side of a vast asteroid dust field. Starbuck is recalled to duty to pilot the Starchaser, an up-powered reconnaissance viper denuded of weaponry and bearing a voice-activated computer - Computer, Oral Response Activated, known simply as CORA - that can handle the vast increase in performance in the new viper. Starbuck is enthralled by the new viper, but less enthusiastic about CORA, who bears a personality that grates on Starbucks nerves. Starbuck picks up two star-craft from hundreds of years vintage and in the process he is double-crossed and knocked unconscious by a smuggler of liquor. Starbuck later finds himself incarcerated on Proteus, a prison planetoid that is a surviving body from hundreds of such penal facilities scattered through the stars by the Colonies during the Cylon War, facilities that made munitions and liquor for the war effort. Proteus is now manned by the distant antecedents of its original guards and prisoners and continues to make ambrosia for Colonial warriors, even though hundreds of years worth of ambrosia have never left the planet - and the planet may not even survive, as a Cylon patrol that has detected Starbuck's now-stolen viper has spotted the planetoid while the stolen viper is being pursued by Apollo and Boomer.

6 Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 1 60 min | Oct 22, 1978

A special task force, mostly made up out of convicts, is dispatched to destroy a giant Cylon operated pulsar cannon on the planet Aracta directly in the Colonial Fleet's path. Having lost a cadet on the planet earlier, Starbuck is eager to join the expedition for once. Boxey and Muffit also join the group as stowaways.

7 Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2 60 min | Oct 29, 1978

As Apollo and the team of convicted specialists brave the snowy mountain to blow up the Ravashol Pulsar, the criminals plan their escape. Starbuck is still determined to make a detour and rescue cadet Cree, but the Theta clones object to the destruction of their creator's weapon.

8 The Magnificent Warriors 60 min | Nov 12, 1978

After the Cylons destroy two of the fleet's Agro ships and cripple the last remaining one, Adama hopes to swap an old energizer for seed on the the planet Sectar in Quadrant Zeta. Unfortunately, Siress Belloby won't give up the energizer unless the commander courts her. Down on the planet, the inhabitants of the small Agro community of Serenity are looking for a new dispensable constable to hold off the Borays, who raid the town each high moon.

9 The Young Lords 60 min | Nov 19, 1978

Shot down by Cylons, Starbuck crash lands on Attila, a planet on the far edge of Omega Sector and finds himself rescued from a phalanx of Cylons by a family of children. Kyle, the young leader of these self proclaimed warriors, soon hatches a plan to trade Starbuck to Outpost commander Spectre for his captured father.

10 The Living Legend: Part 1 60 min | Nov 26, 1978

While suffering from a fuel shortage, The Galactica finds the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, led by the legendary Commander Cain.

11 The Living Legend: Part 2 60 min | Dec 03, 1978

After Baltar's attack is repulsed, the crews of the Galactica and Pegasus carry out an attack on the planet Gamoray to acquire fuel supplies.

12 Fire in Space 60 min | Dec 17, 1978

The crew of the Galactica struggle to fight massive fires on board caused by Cylon suicide incendiary attacks.

13 War of the Gods: Part 1 60 min | Jan 14, 1979

Silver Spar Squadron is overtaken by a Ship of Lights and subsequently disappears. Investigating a red planet, Apollo, Starbuck and Sheba find a crashed starship and a lone survivor, the mysterious Count Iblis. After Sheba takes him on a tour of the Galactica and other ships in the fleet, the charismatic Count offers to perform three miracles of the Colonial's choosing if they will surrender leadership of the fleet to him.

14 War of the Gods: Part 2 60 min | Jan 21, 1979

Count Iblis has delivered the Colonials' enemy, Baltar before the Council of Twelve. As the Colonials celebrate, Adama and Apollo come to the conclusion that the secret to Iblis' identity can only be found within the wreckage of the ship where he was first encountered.

15 The Man with Nine Lives 60 min | Jan 28, 1979

When an old con meets Starbuck and suggests he is the warrior's father, there proves to be more following the elder than family ties.

16 Murder on the Rising Star 60 min | Feb 18, 1979

Starbuck is framed for murder of a sports rival. Apollo suspects Baltar but Adama agrees to charge Starbuck and try him for murder until Apollo can come up with some proof that he didn't do it.

17 Greetings from Earth 120 min | Feb 25, 1979

Apollo and Starbuck come across a vessel they think may have come from Earth and take it aboard the Galactica. On board are two adults and four children in a state of suspended animation. Adama disagrees with the Council of Twelve about opening the sleeping chambers, for that may mean endangering the humans within. When the adult male, Michael, wakes up, he finds it difficult to breath the air on board the Galactica. Apollo, Starbuck and Cassiopea decide to escort the Lunar Shuttle Avion to its destination, hoping to find out if the travelers home, Terra, may be related to the planet Earth.

18 Baltar's Escape 60 min | Mar 11, 1979

While Commander Adama deals with a newly assertive Council of Twelve's modification of his command, Baltar plots his escape.

19 Experiment in Terra 60 min | Mar 18, 1979

The mysterious Ship of Lights reappears, hijacks Apollo and his viper in space and sends him on a quest to save the planet Terra during peace negotiations with the Eastern Alliance. One of the beings of light takes human form to guide Apollo, and makes him take on the appearance of a missing Terran named Charlie.

20 Take the Celestra 60 min | Apr 01, 1979

During a celebration honoring Commander Kronus, Starbuck recognizes an old flame of his, Aurora and breaks off a date with Cassiopeia to follow his lost love to the Celestra. On their arrival, Starbuck and Apollo find themselves in the midst of a mutiny.

21 The Hand of God 60 min | Apr 29, 1979

When the Galactica crew detects that a Cylon Basestar has swung around to attempt to intercept the refugee fleet, Commander Adama decides to attack.