Why is it that Robins (or Robyns) wreck sequels? Robyn Douglass Glactica 1980: WEAK. Robin Curtis Star Trek III SUPER WEAK. Robin in Batman and Robin: there is no word in the english language to describe the horrible contribution made to that franchise. Note to sci fic writers don't hire an actress or include a character named Robin to star in your sequels or it'll be an instant flop.
the original was better then todays and 1980, their was a hint in a episode with patrick macnee since he was the voice of the supreme cylon that he was the devil but they played like they werent going to be cancled so that was never answered, most I can sayf for the new one was it did have a ending, thank god, bury it
I watched BSG the original series when I was a kid in the 80s I loved it, of course by today's standards it hasn't aged well, but back then it was awsome,
Then Starbuck transformed into 'Faceman' and roamed the earth (Southern CA actually) in a supercharged black van righting wrongs and surviving cancer.
Hurray for cheezy sci-fi from the 70s early 80s! Doing their part to get everyone drunk/baked to the poiint they were actually hilarious! Of course fro0m the perspective of today looking back at what they thought was futuristic is hilarious. Except Star Trek communicators... look at a flip phone. Life does imitate art. Also the DVD Princess Leia puts in R2D2...Rom 2 Dram2?
I shudder to imagine what a cellphone transmission tower would do to a Cylon. That business alone makes me glad that G1980 is no longer considered old-BSG canon.
This was not as bad as I remembered, for what it was. One of the Super Scouts Mark Everett was on America's Most wanted. He murdered his girlfriend and took off with his son. He was killed by the cops in 2008. He is the black haired kid, who said "This is where they went to satisfy their thirst" Sad.
Wondered why the Galactica didn't go back in time a haul off back to Caprica to stop the Cylons
Galactica 1980 was, how shall I put this, as embarrassing to real fans of the original series as the Star Wars Holiday Special was to George Lucas. Electric Bugaloo in space. Worse than season 9 of the X Files. Worse than Battlefield Earth even! lmao.
I was obsessed with this series. Found out on you tube that was not the general opinion (to say the least). Those guys are good characters, even better than the original star buck and the other guy, funny jokes, almost godly machinery cool all knowing watches........... i just don't get it.
They do! They used their superpowers to sow seeds in Space Croppers and to flee bad guys in the Night the Cylons Landed. It was very very very cheesy.
@TheHobbitsRule "I never figured out why Troy and Dillon didn't have superpowers like the kids" Because they were born on Caprica - not in space where the gravity plating on the ships was turned up higher than on the planets. If you were born on Earth you could jump higher on the Moon - same theory applies for these kids.
I always thought that I missed out on several episodes, because it all didn' t make sense. The episodes didn't have anything to do with one another. Now I know I DID see all of them. What a mess that was.
But I admit I quite liked the Time Travel Idea. It could have worked out great, if they'd invested a bit of effort. There are so many series and movies that use(d) this topic... . I remember I loved the time travel episodes and wondered why it suddenly stopped.
I always thought that I missed out on several episodes, because it all didn' t make sense. The episodes didn't have anything to do with one another. Now I know I DID see all of them. What a mess that was.
But I admit I quite liked the Time Travel Idea. It could have worked out great, if they'd invested a bit of effort. There are so many series and movies that use(d) this topic... . I remember I loved the time travel episodes and wondered why it suddenly stopped.
Peut être qu' ils n' ont pas poursuivi avec Starbuck parce que Dirk avait des engagements de son côté.....en tout cas je regardai Galactica 1978 que pour le voir, j' avoue...Je me rappelle vaguement de cet acteur blond qui joue dans la version de 1980, mais il ne m' a pas marqué plus que ça...
C'est exact. Lorsque Glen Larson rapidement commencé à mettre Galactica 1980 ainsi que dans l'automne de 1979 l'ensemble des acteurs, à l'exception de Lorne Greene, avait des engagements antérieurs.
What would have been so much better for Galactica would have been them meeting the Searcher from Buck Rogers. That would have been a great end from both shows. I mean, they were looking for each other, so why not. I wonder if, in the back of their minds, they had planned something like that at some point?
I think Glen Larson was asked that question once. Basically, if he ever considered doing a crossover between the two shows, like what happened with Simon and Simon and Magnum P.I. which were both shows done by Belliasio and Universal, and that Glen was involved with. His response was that Buck was on NBC and Galactica (and Galactica 1980) was on ABC, so that could not have happened.
@mokwella yeah but little have he known that "Ally Mcbeal" did one with Boston ....you know the one with the lawyers.....and they both produced by David E Kelly and one was on ABC and the other on FOX....interesting....
@RicardoR5 Some of the inspiration for KITT came from Battlestar Galactica. The scanner on the front of the car is similar to the scanner of the Cylons. Also, on an episode of Battlstar Galatica (the original), Starbuck was on a spaceship called CORA, which had similar characteristics to KITT in which it could maneuver by itself, and talk to Starbuck when it deemed necessary.
In late 1979 I was on the Universal Studios tour when our tram took us past a set that we where told was for an episode of Battlestar Galactica. It didn't make much sense at the time because the cast was dressed in Nazi uniforms.
I could have summed this up in three seconds: It sucked! If you really want three minutes, just repeat sixty times.
Trivia: The Return of Starbuck was supposed to the be lead in show of the second season. There are two versions actually. The one released to video back in the day, the woman dies and Starbuck flies his piece meal ship into space. The last line is "Let's see what's out there." According to the script, he is rescued by the ship of lights.
I love BSG the original but this was just so awful and badly done the storyline was crap for gods sake i mean Wolfman Jack, the Brady family dad, Scooby Doo, why did they not have big bird in it as well it sucks
I always thought that giving them superhuman powers on earth was too akin to the Superman theme, and came off as quite hokey. While new BSG started to show some signs of being rushed to 4 seasons, when it needed a 5th, at least Ron did the wise thing and wrapped up the Earth visitation within a single, final episode.
@PaulGrantDesigns - Look up the science fiction short story " Jordan ", by Zenna Henderson, & it may give you some insight into the backstory behind " Galactica 1980 ", even though it STILL doesn't excuse this half - baked, half - assed attempt at keeping Galactica alive. Stuffing it w / gratuitous appearances by 70's celebrities didn't help either.
@armortron The flying motorcycles and the CHP officiers was an attempt at having some friendly fun against their network competitor "CHiPs", which aired on Sunday nights on NBC, which was the same night and time they aired Galactica 1980 on ABC. Knowing that "CHiPs" was a high-rated show at the time, and that Galactica 1980 was going down the tubes, they decided to poke fun at their network rival.
Oh yeah... cyclons can't take a CLOSED microwave oven. All that colonial weapons technology and somehow they missed that. All they needed was to go to earth, get some microwave ovens, then go back to caprica and take it over with the dreaded microwave oven weapons.
Can we call this "Agony in Three Minutes"?? Ouch....the flashback....need to numb the brain now....
I remember being mad as ....well no word works...VERY VERY mad...as a 10 year old. I didn't buy this; nor did anyone else I knew at the time. Thankfully V came along and erased my memory....the first V...
You know...bout the only one of the scifi stuff from late 70s early 80s not redone so far is...you know NOT goinna curse myself and say it.
The Battle star wiki revealed that if the second season of classic Galactica was to be produced the Machine cylons were to be replaced by humanoids for cost effectiveness and Richard hatches Roll would be severely diminished.
@masketkiller101 This is Galactica 1980 NOT BSG. ----- Galactica 1980 was a bad attempt to appease letter-writing fans who were pissed that BSG was canceled. Only the final ep "Return of Starbuck" bears any resemblance to BSG, At least when Starbuck rebuilds the Cylon they don't have sex, which they would in Ron Moore's version. :P~
@masketkiller101 BTW original BSG creator Glen Larson is making a BSG theatrical film with Bryan Singer that's NOT related in any, way, shape or form to the Ron Moore's GINO. So suck on that! Hehe.
@masketkiller101@masketkiller101 BTW original BSG creator Glen Larson is making a BSG theatrical film with Bryan Singer that's NOT related in any, way, shape or form to the Ron Moore's GINO. So suck on that! Hehe.
Hey, I wonder what happened to the two "sky cycles". That was the only part of this attempted revival that I liked. It was a converted Yamaha 175 dirtbike. Been thinking about making one myself.
@Skybaby79 when my mom and I watched that episode tonight we decided that it was like the Badlands; you could think you were lost there forever but if you looked hard enough you could find people.
ok why are some comments about the show being so shitty getting thimbs up while other comments about the show being shitty get thumbs down?!! Y'all are some meanies this was the BEST guilty pleasure of the 80's at least it wasn't as bad as 'Bad News Bears' tv show or the 'Foul Play' tv show.
@Attila709 Isn't Fonzie in the portrait of Adama with his two sons? Watch the reimagined BSG google images "fonzie BSG" (& don't answer me: Why do you care to answer to a year old post :P )
You have to feel bad for Kent McCord because he went from the highly successful show Adam-12 as Officer Jim Reed to the awfully unsuccessful Galactica 1980. I'll bet he fired his agent for that decision!
The show was canceled because it was a $1mill an episode and Star Wars was sueing them. After the lawsuit, ABC decided its much cheaper to make the show on earth, and all the special effects were from the original series
The Cylons could still have gone into the planet just long enough to blast Ragnar into oblivion. Or they could have just fired into the cloud. Plus, finite supplies of food, water, fuel--all the ammo they needed, but there are other essentials that Ragnar didn't offer.
I wonder how Ron Moore would reimagine THIS crap...
what you all talking about, this series had an excellent story, top costumes and special effects which still look good today, the new series stinks like a yanki soldiers morals.
I remember this series when it first (and only?) came out. Even at the tender age of 6, I thought it was crap even with the flying motorcycles which did not impress.
I was only 7 when 1980 came out. I loved the flying motorcycles! When I saw the first few episodes on HULU all of the magic got sucked out. It was a mess of a series!
you forgot to point out that in the 'Nazi episodes' that almost everyone had blow-dried late 1970's hair styles while they were supposed to be in the past [mein duden furher; wast ist with das hair?] That was it for me for Galactica 1980.....good post all in all though, I liked it.
if somebody is an expert in BSG, please answer: I remember, when I was a a Kid a very rare chapter, where one Cylon live in a planet like "far west", and was called "red eye", and the inhabitans can't fight whit, because his guns (aluma) cant hurt him. "which chapter is?
Actually, Universal used the time travel idea from Galactica 1980 & made it into Quantum Leap, of course using a completely different cast & tweaking the concept a bit.
The time travel " to right wrongs, in the hope that each leap might be the leap home " came from the time - travel thing in Galactica: 1980 where they were attempting to ramp up Earth's technology so they could defend themselves against a Cylon invasion, by going into the past, i.e., WWII, to kick things up a notch.
Robert Reed, AKA " Mike Brady " as a scientist ? Gimme a BREAK. & I actually watched it..... !!!
Actually, there were 10 episodes of Galactica 1980, not 6. All of which are contained on the new DVD release, which I have just so gleefully purchased!
This was a very good, but under-rated show, and there's nothing near as good on tv today.
By this time, I was quite used to all my favorite shows getting shitcanned after a dozen or less episodes. Of course, had I not developed something of a crush on that Kent McCord guy, I probably would have hated this irritable bowel-dropping of a series as much as everybody else in the Western Hemisphere.
Galactica arrived on the solar system, the human refugees from the colonies became farmers on Earth (they landed on that flying saucer), while Galactica stands on patrol to watch out for cylons.
I accidentally deleted this great comment by mistermuggz:
"So let me get this right. The Cylon travels through space and its microwaves, but bites the dust when it stands in front of a little microwave oven??? "
I thought Galactica '80 (as we kids called it back then) was pretty retarded even when I was 7. We were all frothing at the mouth for the new Star Wars movie though, so we watched it anyway.
Not only was Robert Reed (who played Mike Brady) on the show, but in the very first episode, Dr. Zee is played by Robbie Rist, who was cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch (in the final season in which the show 'jumped the shark' and got cancelled.)
A shame really, if they were able to expand it at the time, it might have been a good series. Though stated the children didn't have super powers, the earths gravity was lighter than they were used to.
EPIC SOUNDTRACK TIME!!!
Baxxter101 1 week ago
Why is it that Robins (or Robyns) wreck sequels? Robyn Douglass Glactica 1980: WEAK. Robin Curtis Star Trek III SUPER WEAK. Robin in Batman and Robin: there is no word in the english language to describe the horrible contribution made to that franchise. Note to sci fic writers don't hire an actress or include a character named Robin to star in your sequels or it'll be an instant flop.
kalelwannabe 3 weeks ago
lol this is like a parody of bsg
jaggedspikerespawn 1 month ago
I have no idea why I liked this show when it came out.... Oh-wait I WAS TEN.
gunplanut 1 month ago
You know what's more epic than flying motorcycles? CARD GAMES ON FLYING MOTORCYCLES!
thespoonybard9 1 month ago
the original was better then todays and 1980, their was a hint in a episode with patrick macnee since he was the voice of the supreme cylon that he was the devil but they played like they werent going to be cancled so that was never answered, most I can sayf for the new one was it did have a ending, thank god, bury it
guitargold77 1 month ago
It's so bad, it's completely awesome!
Funkadelicization 3 months ago
I watched BSG the original series when I was a kid in the 80s I loved it, of course by today's standards it hasn't aged well, but back then it was awsome,
VindicatorReturns 3 months ago
I knew Crichton's dad looked familiar for some reason.
Iolanthe95 4 months ago
Jeez, after wataching BSG:TRS, this looks god awfully bad.
lingojac 5 months ago
1:44 Hey that's the guy who played crichton's father on Farscape!
CaptainPositron 5 months ago
@CaptainPositron
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I looked him up. His name is James Patrick Stuart. It doesn't appear he appeared in Farscape, but he grew up to be a hottie!
Funkadelicization 3 months ago
@Funkadelicization
Oh, the resemblance is uncanny!
CaptainPositron 3 months ago
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Funkadelicization 3 months ago
It's a pity this series didn't last 3 minutes!
borgduck 5 months ago
And what happened to Apollo?
cmsahe 6 months ago
He had apparently died years before, according to a brief scene at the very start of the series.
mokwella 6 months ago
@mokwella thnks for the answer.
cmsahe 6 months ago
God this looks craptastic... so say we all...
CEOkiller 7 months ago 6
Does Dr. Z remind you of someone?
MrClone501st 7 months ago
The Flying motorcycling was the best. My childhood dream was to have one. I watched this serie in Brazil at 1982.
youseetoo 8 months ago
Then Starbuck transformed into 'Faceman' and roamed the earth (Southern CA actually) in a supercharged black van righting wrongs and surviving cancer.
lp115lp 8 months ago
Hurray for cheezy sci-fi from the 70s early 80s! Doing their part to get everyone drunk/baked to the poiint they were actually hilarious! Of course fro0m the perspective of today looking back at what they thought was futuristic is hilarious. Except Star Trek communicators... look at a flip phone. Life does imitate art. Also the DVD Princess Leia puts in R2D2...Rom 2 Dram2?
Lukiel666 8 months ago
1:18 Baker and Poncharello???
blumax68 8 months ago
For an 80's show, it was quite okay. Today, it's cult tv. Like it or not.
assimilator47 9 months ago
@assimilator47 Well, I remember it , and even at 14 I had to notice how bad it was. God, I didn't realize how long ago that was!
teainthesahara 8 months ago
@assimilator47 No, I remember really well and it really sucked !! Big time....
hyperchipper 8 months ago
Cool, so this wasn't any worse than the original series. What a relief.
GohModley 9 months ago
Yeah and it was almost as bad as Caprica. But not quite.
mokwella 9 months ago
You know a show is bad when they have to bring in Cousin Oliver.
Hell it would have been better if they would have crashed landed into Cousin Oliver house
CSATexan 9 months ago
I shudder to imagine what a cellphone transmission tower would do to a Cylon. That business alone makes me glad that G1980 is no longer considered old-BSG canon.
venuspluto67 9 months ago
That's not some man from outer space, that's Detective Steve Sloan!
davidn87 10 months ago
Next time I get attacked by a Cylon I'll just simply put a burrito in the microwave oven.
borgduck 10 months ago
The Brady Bunch, The Braaady Bunch, that's the way we became The Brady Bunch,,,,
borgduck 10 months ago
kinda funny that they spent all this time shooting lasers at the cylons, when they couldve shot microwaves at them
AngryAngus3 11 months ago
This was not as bad as I remembered, for what it was. One of the Super Scouts Mark Everett was on America's Most wanted. He murdered his girlfriend and took off with his son. He was killed by the cops in 2008. He is the black haired kid, who said "This is where they went to satisfy their thirst" Sad.
Wondered why the Galactica didn't go back in time a haul off back to Caprica to stop the Cylons
artax84z 11 months ago
@artax84z because time isn't linear it's a weebly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff :D
cmsahe 10 months ago
Galactica 1980 was, how shall I put this, as embarrassing to real fans of the original series as the Star Wars Holiday Special was to George Lucas. Electric Bugaloo in space. Worse than season 9 of the X Files. Worse than Battlefield Earth even! lmao.
southport97 11 months ago
Three minutes is about all I can take of this
TenctonPlanet 1 year ago
I was obsessed with this series. Found out on you tube that was not the general opinion (to say the least). Those guys are good characters, even better than the original star buck and the other guy, funny jokes, almost godly machinery cool all knowing watches........... i just don't get it.
Geert365 1 year ago
cool ps where is boxies dogps one adam 12
billpage 1 year ago
I never figured out why Troy and Dillon didn't have superpowers like the kids.
TheHobbitsRule 1 year ago
They do! They used their superpowers to sow seeds in Space Croppers and to flee bad guys in the Night the Cylons Landed. It was very very very cheesy.
mokwella 1 year ago
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@TheHobbitsRule "I never figured out why Troy and Dillon didn't have superpowers like the kids" Because they were born on Caprica - not in space where the gravity plating on the ships was turned up higher than on the planets. If you were born on Earth you could jump higher on the Moon - same theory applies for these kids.
lp115lp 8 months ago
LOL! loved the original and the new series, never saw this. Will have to give it a miss.
xxDrudgeryReportxx 1 year ago
haha so tandet:)
knollik 1 year ago
100,000 Views! Cool! Thanks everyone.
mokwella 1 year ago
I always thought that I missed out on several episodes, because it all didn' t make sense. The episodes didn't have anything to do with one another. Now I know I DID see all of them. What a mess that was.
But I admit I quite liked the Time Travel Idea. It could have worked out great, if they'd invested a bit of effort. There are so many series and movies that use(d) this topic... . I remember I loved the time travel episodes and wondered why it suddenly stopped.
biervanhier 1 year ago
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I always thought that I missed out on several episodes, because it all didn' t make sense. The episodes didn't have anything to do with one another. Now I know I DID see all of them. What a mess that was.
But I admit I quite liked the Time Travel Idea. It could have worked out great, if they'd invested a bit of effort. There are so many series and movies that use(d) this topic... . I remember I loved the time travel episodes and wondered why it suddenly stopped.
biervanhier 1 year ago
Battlestar Galactica 1980 vas rubbish
xsf908 1 year ago
Peut être qu' ils n' ont pas poursuivi avec Starbuck parce que Dirk avait des engagements de son côté.....en tout cas je regardai Galactica 1978 que pour le voir, j' avoue...Je me rappelle vaguement de cet acteur blond qui joue dans la version de 1980, mais il ne m' a pas marqué plus que ça...
kpou01780 1 year ago
C'est exact. Lorsque Glen Larson rapidement commencé à mettre Galactica 1980 ainsi que dans l'automne de 1979 l'ensemble des acteurs, à l'exception de Lorne Greene, avait des engagements antérieurs.
mokwella 1 year ago
@mokwella
kpou01780 1 year ago
What would have been so much better for Galactica would have been them meeting the Searcher from Buck Rogers. That would have been a great end from both shows. I mean, they were looking for each other, so why not. I wonder if, in the back of their minds, they had planned something like that at some point?
psxwarrior 1 year ago
I think Glen Larson was asked that question once. Basically, if he ever considered doing a crossover between the two shows, like what happened with Simon and Simon and Magnum P.I. which were both shows done by Belliasio and Universal, and that Glen was involved with. His response was that Buck was on NBC and Galactica (and Galactica 1980) was on ABC, so that could not have happened.
mokwella 1 year ago
@mokwella yeah but little have he known that "Ally Mcbeal" did one with Boston ....you know the one with the lawyers.....and they both produced by David E Kelly and one was on ABC and the other on FOX....interesting....
MsDeandrea 1 year ago
This is the "Star Wars Holiday Special" of Battlestar Galactica. Awful.
Timmeh75 1 year ago
so , kit form knight rider was a sylon, lol
RicardoR5 1 year ago 3
@RicardoR5 Some of the inspiration for KITT came from Battlestar Galactica. The scanner on the front of the car is similar to the scanner of the Cylons. Also, on an episode of Battlstar Galatica (the original), Starbuck was on a spaceship called CORA, which had similar characteristics to KITT in which it could maneuver by itself, and talk to Starbuck when it deemed necessary.
westholmes2001 1 year ago
In late 1979 I was on the Universal Studios tour when our tram took us past a set that we where told was for an episode of Battlestar Galactica. It didn't make much sense at the time because the cast was dressed in Nazi uniforms.
auerstadt06 1 year ago
@auerstadt06 hehe History in the making
realpaulo1 1 year ago
I could have summed this up in three seconds: It sucked! If you really want three minutes, just repeat sixty times.
Trivia: The Return of Starbuck was supposed to the be lead in show of the second season. There are two versions actually. The one released to video back in the day, the woman dies and Starbuck flies his piece meal ship into space. The last line is "Let's see what's out there." According to the script, he is rescued by the ship of lights.
batmanjwo 1 year ago
One of the worst follow-ups in the history of TV. :-)
ZemplinTemplar 1 year ago
I love BSG the original but this was just so awful and badly done the storyline was crap for gods sake i mean Wolfman Jack, the Brady family dad, Scooby Doo, why did they not have big bird in it as well it sucks
stevg8liverpool 1 year ago
I'm old enough to remember this show, not in the least because I developed something of a crush on Kent McCord. Boy howdy, thoze were the daze. ;-)
venuspluto67 1 year ago
I always thought that giving them superhuman powers on earth was too akin to the Superman theme, and came off as quite hokey. While new BSG started to show some signs of being rushed to 4 seasons, when it needed a 5th, at least Ron did the wise thing and wrapped up the Earth visitation within a single, final episode.
PaulGrantDesigns 1 year ago
@PaulGrantDesigns - Look up the science fiction short story " Jordan ", by Zenna Henderson, & it may give you some insight into the backstory behind " Galactica 1980 ", even though it STILL doesn't excuse this half - baked, half - assed attempt at keeping Galactica alive. Stuffing it w / gratuitous appearances by 70's celebrities didn't help either.
knoxvilleguy2 1 year ago
Was that john and pancho on the police bikes? That woulda been too funny if they were in that show.
armortron 1 year ago
@armortron The flying motorcycles and the CHP officiers was an attempt at having some friendly fun against their network competitor "CHiPs", which aired on Sunday nights on NBC, which was the same night and time they aired Galactica 1980 on ABC. Knowing that "CHiPs" was a high-rated show at the time, and that Galactica 1980 was going down the tubes, they decided to poke fun at their network rival.
westholmes2001 1 year ago
what did they smoke!?
EdinyKapok 1 year ago
I blame the "Jews"..
JonEddie1971 1 year ago
onde eu encontro o filme pra comprar
glaucioojfmg 1 year ago
Thank God that shit was cancelled.
Peacekeeper76 1 year ago
Oh yeah... cyclons can't take a CLOSED microwave oven. All that colonial weapons technology and somehow they missed that. All they needed was to go to earth, get some microwave ovens, then go back to caprica and take it over with the dreaded microwave oven weapons.
starsiegeplayer 1 year ago 2
I'm getting my hair done like Dr Z
kpeavey1 1 year ago
Thanks, dude. I had just about purged This show and "The Star Wars Holiday Special" from my brain cells.
Disco, Cylons, Robert Reed, Wolfman Jack, John Denver's kid, CHiPS, AND Barry van Dyke (who later headlined Airwolf)
They had everything ... what went wrong? ;-)
hyretech 1 year ago
Yeah, it was BAD.. I always saw these episodes and just thought they were a part of the main story, I wondered how it could get so poor!!
andy7666 1 year ago
Ponch and John meet Starbuck and Apollo!
Taimak77 1 year ago
this is so GAY! faceman was (Y) :D
Raunoland 1 year ago
i was little, i remember galactica 1980 vaguely. they time traveled or something like that.
tranurse 1 year ago
digging the disco BSG, though I loathe BSG80..
Bondek1996 1 year ago
ah the good old stuff
bankai1981 1 year ago
Can we call this "Agony in Three Minutes"?? Ouch....the flashback....need to numb the brain now....
I remember being mad as ....well no word works...VERY VERY mad...as a 10 year old. I didn't buy this; nor did anyone else I knew at the time. Thankfully V came along and erased my memory....the first V...
You know...bout the only one of the scifi stuff from late 70s early 80s not redone so far is...you know NOT goinna curse myself and say it.
Jaedeon625 1 year ago
Clips from all 6 episodes? There were 10 episodes of Galactica 1980 lol
jasonrmcdowell 1 year ago
@jasonrmcdowell He does say two 2 parters and a 3 parter - so yeah, 10.. Don't know why I bothered typing that - bingo fuel!! ^_^
andy7666 1 year ago
thanks for the info
great video
Avidffanimation 1 year ago
The Battle star wiki revealed that if the second season of classic Galactica was to be produced the Machine cylons were to be replaced by humanoids for cost effectiveness and Richard hatches Roll would be severely diminished.
skinhead5 1 year ago
They could have just showed the last Starbuck episode, and skipped the rest.
darkwhitedirewolf 1 year ago
Ero molto piccola ma Barry Van Dyke mi faceva letteralmente sognare!!
MillaF100 1 year ago
at 2.10, the 'Halloween' episode (aka "the night the cylons landed") is this guy the first example of a 'human' cylon?
chewie211171 1 year ago 3
at 1.18, this scene could have appeared in 'CHIPS'.
chewie211171 1 year ago
Lmfao! The old BSG is so gay! So wtf german soilders!? From WWll!? Lmao fail! What were the producers smoking when they made this lol...
masketkiller101 1 year ago
@masketkiller101 This is Galactica 1980 NOT BSG. ----- Galactica 1980 was a bad attempt to appease letter-writing fans who were pissed that BSG was canceled. Only the final ep "Return of Starbuck" bears any resemblance to BSG, At least when Starbuck rebuilds the Cylon they don't have sex, which they would in Ron Moore's version. :P~
JMYodaTHX 1 year ago
@masketkiller101 BTW original BSG creator Glen Larson is making a BSG theatrical film with Bryan Singer that's NOT related in any, way, shape or form to the Ron Moore's GINO. So suck on that! Hehe.
JMYodaTHX 1 year ago
@masketkiller101 @masketkiller101 BTW original BSG creator Glen Larson is making a BSG theatrical film with Bryan Singer that's NOT related in any, way, shape or form to the Ron Moore's GINO. So suck on that! Hehe.
JMYodaTHX 1 year ago
@JMYodaTHX if this was on tv in todays times no one would watch it... ITs totaly gay!
masketkiller101 1 year ago
Hey, I wonder what happened to the two "sky cycles". That was the only part of this attempted revival that I liked. It was a converted Yamaha 175 dirtbike. Been thinking about making one myself.
CaptainNomura 1 year ago
@CaptainNomura - Saw one of them on eBay about 6 months ago believe it or not. The guy wanted like $5000, it didn't sell as I recall.
Hairy43 1 year ago
Thanks for the info. I guess it would be cheaper to make one myself. I can make improvements along the way.
CaptainNomura 1 year ago
And they lived happily ever aft---
Wait, they left Starbuck to starve to death alone on a desert planet?!?!?
Skybaby79 2 years ago 5
@Skybaby79 when my mom and I watched that episode tonight we decided that it was like the Badlands; you could think you were lost there forever but if you looked hard enough you could find people.
That made me feel better.
MozartMeerkittten 1 year ago
Dr Z looked like the sort of boy John Denver would have with Richard Clayderman
TomthatiscalledTom 2 years ago
ok why are some comments about the show being so shitty getting thimbs up while other comments about the show being shitty get thumbs down?!! Y'all are some meanies this was the BEST guilty pleasure of the 80's at least it wasn't as bad as 'Bad News Bears' tv show or the 'Foul Play' tv show.
bitchyb73 2 years ago
Barry Van Dyke - Takes over in Galactica - and its terrible, takes over in Airwolf and it's terrible! Bet he loved his agent!!
therealMrMackem 2 years ago
Please, this never happened... really... please !?!
Shryce 2 years ago
You want a bad flashback, just think about the "Star Wars Holiday Special".
hyretech 2 years ago
Yeah I know... It's one of those, 'what has been seen. cannot be unseen' experiences...
Shryce 2 years ago
@hyretech LOL! I've never seen that, probably just as well!
borgduck 1 year ago
Gee, why didn't they throw Fonzie in there too
Attila709 2 years ago 22
@Attila709 Then it wouldn't have completely sucked! Fonzie rules!
batmanjwo 1 year ago
@Attila709 Isn't Fonzie in the portrait of Adama with his two sons? Watch the reimagined BSG google images "fonzie BSG" (& don't answer me: Why do you care to answer to a year old post :P )
cmsahe 10 months ago
@Attila709: Fonzie water-ski-jumping over a shark. A Cylon mechanical shark! :-D
venuspluto67 9 months ago
@Attila709 Fonzie is in the new BSG, look at t he picture of youn Adama with his two kids.
cmsahe 6 months ago
You have to feel bad for Kent McCord because he went from the highly successful show Adam-12 as Officer Jim Reed to the awfully unsuccessful Galactica 1980. I'll bet he fired his agent for that decision!
westholmes2001 2 years ago
Here is something really scary.....this show is
now 30 years old!!!!
easyalpha1 2 years ago 5
The show was canceled because it was a $1mill an episode and Star Wars was sueing them. After the lawsuit, ABC decided its much cheaper to make the show on earth, and all the special effects were from the original series
dave87gn 2 years ago
This had to be the worst idea anyone could ever of had for BStar G. 1980 that is.
cylonBS 2 years ago
Only closely vying for "worse" with the finale to the new series...
ReadeMoore 2 years ago
why didn't the recent series of BG attack the cylons with huge 1970s microwave ovens ?
johnduthie316 2 years ago 5
Actually the nuBSG Cylons had a very similar weakness. Certain forms of radiation, harmless to humans, would slowly kill them.
jergsden 2 years ago
Yeah. If memory serves it happens at Ragnar. I wonder why they didnt stay there safely instead of running away?
pat1981lux 2 years ago
The Cylons could still have gone into the planet just long enough to blast Ragnar into oblivion. Or they could have just fired into the cloud. Plus, finite supplies of food, water, fuel--all the ammo they needed, but there are other essentials that Ragnar didn't offer.
I wonder how Ron Moore would reimagine THIS crap...
SuperSaiyanAl 1 year ago
Sweet Jesus! What a pile of utter shit this show was and is. Gods deliver us!
RAIDERS58th 2 years ago
amazing how such dumb crap can be turned into something cool. xD
strutnoodle 2 years ago
what you all talking about, this series had an excellent story, top costumes and special effects which still look good today, the new series stinks like a yanki soldiers morals.
SPEAKTRUTHALWAYS 2 years ago
OMG this show was even more abysmal than I remembered. What a shit shw.
fatograph 2 years ago
I will NEVER forget how bad this sucked! What a way to destroy a good show.
hitman2070 2 years ago 16
the cylons don't like Microwaves, well lets all be glad for realism sake that there isn't any microwave radiation in space, lol..........
rah01kah 2 years ago
I remember this series when it first (and only?) came out. Even at the tender age of 6, I thought it was crap even with the flying motorcycles which did not impress.
RoninDave 2 years ago
What an absolute pile of steaming crap that was, is and always will be......
krashly71 2 years ago
then it came galactica 1981 in which adama was played by michel landon and the character´s name was Adama Cartwright
txt23 2 years ago
I was only 7 when 1980 came out. I loved the flying motorcycles! When I saw the first few episodes on HULU all of the magic got sucked out. It was a mess of a series!
mattdawg83686 2 years ago
you forgot to point out that in the 'Nazi episodes' that almost everyone had blow-dried late 1970's hair styles while they were supposed to be in the past [mein duden furher; wast ist with das hair?] That was it for me for Galactica 1980.....good post all in all though, I liked it.
bbo40 2 years ago
I'll check my series again. I remember that one. It was Apollo who was stuck on that planet. I think?
CymrilBlade 2 years ago
if somebody is an expert in BSG, please answer: I remember, when I was a a Kid a very rare chapter, where one Cylon live in a planet like "far west", and was called "red eye", and the inhabitans can't fight whit, because his guns (aluma) cant hurt him. "which chapter is?
kinered 2 years ago
it was in the first season of BSG I think? I remember that episode and it is the BSG version of "Shane".........
bbo40 2 years ago
The Lost Warrior
mokwella 2 years ago
This rocks!
mpdivo 2 years ago
Thank you for sparing me the trouble of watching this. I'd heard it was bad. You saved me the time and Netflix rentals.
vonBeavis 2 years ago
Actually, Universal used the time travel idea from Galactica 1980 & made it into Quantum Leap, of course using a completely different cast & tweaking the concept a bit.
knoxvilleguy2 2 years ago
and a far better show
JonnyInfinite 2 years ago
The time travel " to right wrongs, in the hope that each leap might be the leap home " came from the time - travel thing in Galactica: 1980 where they were attempting to ramp up Earth's technology so they could defend themselves against a Cylon invasion, by going into the past, i.e., WWII, to kick things up a notch.
Robert Reed, AKA " Mike Brady " as a scientist ? Gimme a BREAK. & I actually watched it..... !!!
knoxvilleguy2 2 years ago
Actually, there were 10 episodes of Galactica 1980, not 6. All of which are contained on the new DVD release, which I have just so gleefully purchased!
This was a very good, but under-rated show, and there's nothing near as good on tv today.
virus007911 2 years ago
By this time, I was quite used to all my favorite shows getting shitcanned after a dozen or less episodes. Of course, had I not developed something of a crush on that Kent McCord guy, I probably would have hated this irritable bowel-dropping of a series as much as everybody else in the Western Hemisphere.
venuspluto67 2 years ago
oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooddddddddddddd
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
davefs25 2 years ago
ok, what the hell are they doing at earth?
ozerataoglu 2 years ago
Correction: What the hell was this doing on television?
ChaationBergin 2 years ago 2
Galactica arrived on the solar system, the human refugees from the colonies became farmers on Earth (they landed on that flying saucer), while Galactica stands on patrol to watch out for cylons.
VictorHugoBrazil 2 years ago
This video is funny.
But I liked your old comments on the screen better then these new ones.
john6380 2 years ago
Ok, I reverted some of the edits a bit.
mokwella 2 years ago
Thanks. I like this new version better.
john6380 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
My eyes are bleeding.
scifi75 2 years ago
you wanna know whats worse than losing 3 mins of you life? being reminded that you lost 6 hrs of your childhood watching this 30yrs ago
giavirtae 2 years ago
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ScavengerMaster 2 years ago
pity it couldnt predict hidden birth defects and anomalies like you so that 30yrs later we wouldnt have to put up with your f**k tard comments
giavirtae 2 years ago
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ScavengerMaster 2 years ago
I rest my case
giavirtae 2 years ago
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ScavengerMaster 2 years ago
Ugh. 3 minutes was too much.
PencilNeckedGeek 2 years ago
I accidentally deleted this great comment by mistermuggz:
"So let me get this right. The Cylon travels through space and its microwaves, but bites the dust when it stands in front of a little microwave oven??? "
mokwella 2 years ago
That of course gives new meaning to nickname "Toaster."
mokwella 2 years ago
Mr. Brady at 00:36...so bad it had to be intentional.
deyoungparker 2 years ago
You forgot to mention that Galactica 1980 was where Human-Form Cylons made their true first appearance (as opposed to the recent remake.)
Sytheking 2 years ago
I thought Galactica '80 (as we kids called it back then) was pretty retarded even when I was 7. We were all frothing at the mouth for the new Star Wars movie though, so we watched it anyway.
Anyone notice the similarities to "V"?
deyoungparker 2 years ago
brutal
Alan123123123 2 years ago
OMG I rememeber the episode where they took off before the cops could get them.. shit i'm old.
goofygoat2009 2 years ago
I remember it too but I don't fell old and I am 36 :-)
controrivoluzionario 2 years ago
Ditto!
sinfanti 2 years ago
Trivia:
Not only was Robert Reed (who played Mike Brady) on the show, but in the very first episode, Dr. Zee is played by Robbie Rist, who was cousin Oliver in The Brady Bunch (in the final season in which the show 'jumped the shark' and got cancelled.)
technomikelyons 2 years ago
A shame really, if they were able to expand it at the time, it might have been a good series. Though stated the children didn't have super powers, the earths gravity was lighter than they were used to.
KaFaraqGatri 2 years ago
Galactica 1980 really did suck... Can't believe Lorene Greene decided to do that series.
NatureBoyUSA 2 years ago 6
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Galactia 1980 rocked and so Battlestar Galatica! What sucks is that retarded remake of it!
AnarchyTelevision198 2 years ago
Couldn't agree more!
blackdragon767 2 years ago