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Richard Hatch & Dirk Benedict fly into our tv screen again.
In 1978, my father had surprised me with my very own color television for my bedroom. Battlestar Galactica was the first show I saw that night. Eventually I became fond of the tv series. I had not realized it had been cancelled. I was still waiting for episodes the next Septmeber.
Very nice television DVD set. Battlestar Galactica (1978-79) only lasted for one season. Originally meant to be only a seven-hour mini-series. Why the ABC network cancelled this science-fiction series is anyone's guess. It really was a hit with people. It debuted nearly 10 years after STAR TREK (1966-69, the original cast) had been cancelled and the very first STAR WARS (1977) film was released one year earlier. The STAR TREK reunion movie, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE was released in 1979. Battlestar Galactica was about to start a whole new science-fiction revolution.
BG included a cast that we soon came to know: Lorne Green (Bonanza [1959-73], Earthquake [1974]), Richard Hatch (Best Friends [1975], Heated Vengeance [1985]), Dirk Benedict, Herbert Jefferson Jr, Maren Jensen, Tony Swartz, Noah Hathaway (The neverEnding Story [1984], Terry Carter, John Colicos, Laurette Spang, Paul Coufos (Days Of Our Lives in 1981-82), Sarah Rush and special Guest Star, Jane Seymour (Live and Let Die [1973]). Leann Hunley (Days of Our Lives in 1982-86, The Beverly Hillbillies [1993]) and Larry Manetti (Magnum PI) make appearances and The Daggit, "Muffit" too.
The spaceships were so acceptable. The sound effects were smooth and easy on the ear. Very pleasent to hear. The cyclones with the moving red eye were like nothing we had seen before, almost hypnotizing. Battlestar Galactica was originally a tv series, but the pilot episodes were edited down into a theatrically released motion picture too. This DVD version includes scenes that were cut from the theatrical version and some scenes have been restored back into the episodes.
The bubble-wrap as partition sends me. Lorne Greene still wearing his cowboy boots. Those light helments, and watching this tv series again makes me wish I still had my long hair back.
Battlestar Galactica soon came back in a new tv series, Galactica 1980 starring Kent McCord (Adam-12) and Barry Van Dyke. Lorne Greene and Herb Jefferson Jr. returned. Richard Hatch and Glen A. Larson both tried for years to bring back BG in recent years. Richard Hatch made a test film Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999), originally intending to bring back original cast members. Ultimatly, the SCI-FI Channel broadcast a new mini-series, Battlestar Galactica (2003) starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. Instead of Apollo and Starbuck being two men, it was changed to man and woman. The Canadian white and grey sets looked nothing like we were used to seeing 25 years ago. And none of the original cast members had anything to do with this project. No cameo appearances. Dispite the disappointment of loyal fans, the new "Battlestar Galactica" will become a series in 2004.

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By Your Command ...
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA -- from its inception -- had the potential to become far much more than it ever amounted to on television. That isn't to say that the show -- one of the highest rated premieres in the history of the medium -- doesn't have a record worth mention; it's just to say that had the series continued into a second or third season or had the series launched a series of theatrical films (an opinion I've long held), the phenomenon of GALACTICA would probably be as pronounced as STAR TREK or STAR WARS is today.

The series has been given top-shelf treatment here in this fully remastered DVD collection, and I can't imagine a missing piece to the puzzle. The DVDs contain all of the episodes -- cut into seamless productions -- along with a handful of new production featurettes ('looking back,' 'special effects,' etc.) that are very good but could have packed more punch. The commentary on the pilot episode/movie plays wonderfully, with the principal actors contributing terrific anecdotes and memories of their experiences in making the premiere. Additional, EVERY EPISODE boasts deleted scenes, alternate takes, or outtakes (some hilarious ones!), and, arguably, some of these alone make this collection 'epic' in a single definition of the word.

While some episodes clearly are clunkers strung together on a thin plot under the strict constraints of network television, one fact remains clear: the creative forces behind the show worked very, very hard at maintaining the kind of continuity other science fiction shows strive for today. They realized -- back then -- that serious fans were interested in stories that grew -- in situations that led to repercussions unanticiated -- in choices that were not always easy because they seemed 'right' so much as they were 'just.'

Relive GALACTICA, or discover it for the first time in the awesome collection.

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this is the holy grail of fun fi folks!! ya got cylons, baltar, hatch, daggits, starbuck, vipers, ben cartwright, lucifer, scary pat mcnee, hot babes, more hot babes, some human eatin' big bug people...all in a plastic cylon head!! grab this before it's gone! 'nuff said!