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@G36645

Жыл бұрын

Will you cover the reboot

@beepboop204

Жыл бұрын

🙃😉😊

@ConservativeVoicesUniversity

Жыл бұрын

#Algorithmic Engagement Comment

@guderian557

Жыл бұрын

Six 'feet' tall? It is not the dark ages anymore, use standard units of measurement.

@paulwalker3758

Жыл бұрын

When will you be doing the reboot? I know you did it a while ago, but I’m looking forward to the updated version.

As a 9 year old in 1978 this was the best show ever!

@Chris-ut6eq

4 ай бұрын

Made a huge impression on me as a kid as well. For decades I always wanted to say "Fleeing from the cylon tyanny...." into a computer microphone and see the text on the screen.

@bxpress6507

Ай бұрын

In 1978 Battlestar galactica made it so special to be alive as a kid! Saturday morning cartoons and other TV series back then gave you a special feeling that is hard to put in words..so we turned to cereal instead!😂 go honeycomb!😊

I'm already humming the kick-ass theme tune. I love that they used it as the Colonial nation anthem on Ron Moore's rebooted series.

@dave23024

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was just thinking how much it sounds like the music from Rise Of Nations.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

I ended up playing it in a few different keys and improvising around the main motif through the whole video. I thought I’d just figure it out quickly to save myself simply whistling it, but the very effective 3-2-1 motion (or indeed 4-3-2, the first time round, before the final 2-7-1) makes it very catchy indeed.

@captainyossarian388

Жыл бұрын

It was a beautiful nod to Philips' theme.

@ThomasMusings

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed!

@jenibond

Жыл бұрын

That the Lorne Greene voice over , will forever remind me of my childhood !!!

There are those that believe the original show had a kick ass theme, incredible characters and stand out double episodes..but there are also those that believe it was a show that lost its way as a narrative ..but as a child when it came out it was a classic

@michaeljw3602

Жыл бұрын

@CyberPup 22 I absolutely love the reboot too. For me it was seminal viewing .. I loved the original as a child and see the flaws as an adult. As an adult I love the reboot

@Rocketsong

Жыл бұрын

@CyberPup 22 The Cylons may have had a plan, but Ron Moore certainly didn't.

@happychappy492

Жыл бұрын

I loved the original as a kid and I also loved the reboot its about time they gave it another reboot with a different approach again

@richardgillette5759

7 ай бұрын

there are those that believe that life here began out there

@andrewtaylor940

7 ай бұрын

The double or 2 part episodes stand out for a reason. Originally the show was supposed to be a series of 2 hour tv movies. Shown in rotation with others. Kind of like how Columbo used to be. So they planned and did extensive preproduction for those 6 movies. They were polished and ready to go. At the last minute they were told the network wanted it as a weekly series instead. All the single episodes were filler thrown together hurriedly to make that new mandate.

My favorite episode was with Lloyd Bridges as Commander Cain of the Battlestar Pegasus! I hoped and hoped to see him again, but to no avail.

@rohanmarkjay

Жыл бұрын

My favourite episodes were the ones involving Patrick McNee as the last surviving being that created the cylons representing the dark side and the angelic beings representing the light. Those brilliant episodes, the writing, the acting of Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch were brilliant and represent the high point of the series for me.

@bonghunezhou5051

Жыл бұрын

@@rohanmarkjay I like both War of the Gods (w/ Patrick Macnee) and The Living Legend (w/ Lloyd Bridges) the best - indeed a toss-up between them!

I really enjoy the 70’s Battlestar Galactic, to me it found the perfect balance between the “utopian society” of Star Trek with the “space adventure” of Star Wars. It’s such a fun comforting show.

@alienlife7754

11 ай бұрын

The near annihilation of man is fun and comforting? Lol.

@mlmcproductions4191

7 ай бұрын

The underlying story is the hook. A mature culture is decimated by a rival culture. The human existence in the universe may have been from them. Mythology and parallels to the human condition.

@mlmcproductions4191

7 ай бұрын

The Return of Starbuck was why Doctor Z came to be.

@johnjamele

7 ай бұрын

yes, but it's still a great episode @@mlmcproductions4191

Who can forget that great BSG call back in the opening credits of The A Team. One of Televisions most genius moments

@Sephiroth144

Жыл бұрын

Indeed; heck, still annoyed we never got the reveal that KITT was a Cylon...

@fnoce5948

Жыл бұрын

I remember the AT opening credits where the cylon walks by. Genius?REALLY?

@lindabrandt4013

Жыл бұрын

Let’s not forget the TA the episode at the movie studio where we get to see Dirk Benedict come face to face with a Cylon and the expression on his face.

Fantastic. I remember LOVING the ships of BSG, but never got into the story as a kid. Funny, as a kid, the things that I found off-putting were the very things the clueless execs put in to appeal to me. I always dreaded Boxy and Muffit being on screen because it meant whatever was going to happen was going to placid and dumb. Wonderful Retrospective, as usual.

@RA10H56

Жыл бұрын

I did love my Cylon and Viper ships!!! Though I had the child safe versions!!😂

@herbertkeithmiller

Жыл бұрын

Exactly my feelings about the kid and the daggett.

@geofftottenperthcoys9944

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@formerlydistantorigins6972

Жыл бұрын

Ye I don't get why they keep doing it, as I had the same feeling with Wesley Crusher, and the other Crusher on SeaQuest DSV

@orolab1

Жыл бұрын

So true about Boxy and Muffit. Imagine if every TOS had a “Tribble Moment”. Good Lord.

John Colicos was great value as a villain. He was also a superb Klingon in Star Trek. Much underrated as an actor, he was always fun to watch.

@zorak1704

Жыл бұрын

He was awesome as Mikkos Cassadine on General Hospital

@teawaruaedwards274

Жыл бұрын

KOR? Star Trek

@sargonixofur1234

Жыл бұрын

@@teawaruaedwards274 Kor indeed. Colicos appeared to be having a lot of fun playing him, see the DS9 episodes too for some depth to the character.

@RobinHGoodfellow

Жыл бұрын

Mikkos Cassadine

@Styphon

9 ай бұрын

Also, as "The Governor" in an episode of "The Starlost" (1973).

Regarding the casino segment in the original movie, I actually thought the revelation that the Ovions were capturing guests, cocooning them and feeding them to their young was deeply disturbing. You can briefly glimpse an Ovion larva emerging from a dead body, and this was right before Alien came out! I was scared as a kid.

@rauserbegins5850

Жыл бұрын

Yep, that whole sequence freaked me out as a kid. It was awesome!

@BenVaserlan

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

@MrKurtank

Жыл бұрын

It had great shock effect and stayed with me for a long while afterwards as well.

@happychappy492

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember that it was scary I was 10 years old but I also loved it, I was so excited every week when a new show would come on and I liked 1980 as well

@Chris-ut6eq

4 ай бұрын

Yes, this was a horror aspect woven into science fiction, love it and was revolted by it at the same time. Imagine on cows feel about us.....

I remember watching this on BBC 2 as a child and thinking I was dreaming when Galactica 1980 appeared. Such a bizzare spin off, but the original is amazing.

@FrostedSeagull

Жыл бұрын

Tony J and Dr T, We're you guys old enough to remember the magnifique Space 1999 ?

@phillawrence5148

Жыл бұрын

@@FrostedSeagull Barely but yes, what about Blakes 7? Lol, proper hammy

@Returntotheworld

Жыл бұрын

So awful I only now remember I’ve seen it. The original series was great only bested by the new series which for me was fantastic.

@happychappy492

Жыл бұрын

@@FrostedSeagull oh yeah I loved 1999 as a kid and Battle star and 1980 and I loved the Battle star reboot as well its time to reboot it again

@cl844

7 ай бұрын

was it part of some wierd off the wall showthat had strange stop motion animation and rotated between BSG and lost in space original series ? I remember watching that when i lived in london always annoyed my sister she could not stand anything scifi

Lorne Greene gives off "best dad" energy in almost every role.

I saw BG movie in the theatre in 1978 about five times over two weeks. I remember my friend always calling and saying "Do you want to go to see Battlestar again?" That was way more than I saw Star Wars the year before. Tickets were cheap, around $2, so it was easy to just go there every few days. I really enjoyed the movie and was happily surprised to see it become a series two months after seeing it in the theatre. I thought the vipers were way cooler looking than Star Wars x wings and I bought both the viper and cylon ships models and had them in my bedroom for a few years.

Something missed-the premiere was interrupted by live news coverage of Jimmy Carter signing a peace treaty with Egypt and Israel.

@Derpy1969

Жыл бұрын

That’s not presented in the blu-ray, but it would be hilarious if it was as a separate edition.

@dondevice8182

Жыл бұрын

I remember that si well! I Was young and so very frustrated- It seemed unimportant to 12 year-old me- compared to a sci-fi show on the TV at the time! :-/

@bartman231

Жыл бұрын

I missed the whole third act. I didn’t know what I missed until I read the comic. I could not figure out where the four-eyed singers came from. Aliens really weren’t a factor in the show.

@jyesucevitz

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe all viewing areas were effected.

@bartman231

Жыл бұрын

@@jyesucevitz I was west coast, so it premiered later than the east coast-so that probably is the case.

The title theme of this show was & still is brilliant to this day 🎵👌👌👌

@mephistoxarses8585

Жыл бұрын

SOME BELIEVE that there may be yet brothers of man....who even now.....fight to survive! Iconic and powerful even to this day!

One of the coolest TV themes ever.

@mephistoxarses8585

Жыл бұрын

And i think it always will be.

@hotdog1214

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Up there with Knight Rider, Airwolf and Streethawk.

After a theater performance, John Colicos was taking his bow when someone in the crowd yelled “BALTHAR LIVES!” To which Colicos broke into a wide grin and said “I love you!” Colicos said he thought it was awesome when BSG fans would talk to him about the show.

@muznick

8 ай бұрын

He looked like he enjoyed playing Baltar as much as we loved watching him.

@vincewilson1

3 ай бұрын

His name is Baltar, not Bathar.

I remember being taken to the cinema by mum and dad and it was a double feature - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (the two part pilot as one feature length movie) and Battlestar Galactica - best cinema day ever!!!

The big question at the time was, "can a Star Wars style show make the transition to television?". The mini-series format was very dramatic, nothing so grand had been tried for sci-fi television. While the switch to a standard episodic series was a bit uneven, the pairing of John Colicos as Baltar with Lucifer, voiced by Jonathan Harris, was brilliant. Having those two hams together in a scene was to die for. I kept waiting for Lucifer to call Baltar a "bubble-headed booby".

@subraxas

Жыл бұрын

In a regard of the "grand-ness", Space:1999 was pretty much comparable and it, of course, preceded the BSG by about three years.

@tumslucks9781

Жыл бұрын

@@subraxas Space 1999 was tedious. Never liked it. Battlestar was more fun.

@m.e.3862

Жыл бұрын

John Colicos and Lorne Greene were both Canadian and acted in the Stratford Shakespeare festival at Stratford Ontario. When they were together chewing up the scenery in the pyramid cave in we all laughed in our family and said “Stratford acting!”😅

@subraxas

Жыл бұрын

@Maria CANCER ❤❤❤

@dernvader6876

Жыл бұрын

"By your command..."

On one hand, I like the idea of Galactica being a limited prestige mini-series, like Roots, etc. Then I remember that if the series didn't happen we wouldn't have had the Pegasus episode. That was such an intriguing development after viewers had gotten used to living with the idea of a single surviving Battlestar. Suddenly it was like we were seeing some other unknown spin-off Battlestar show doing a cross-over. It was just mind-blowing for me as a kid.

The original Battlestar Galactica series has a special place in my heart as it was a favourite of my late grandfather. I spent many afternoons watching it with him as a kid when it was reran on British TV in the 90s.

as your opening credits prove...dang if that theme isn't still one of most exciting and beautiful pieces of music ever. Well, in my opinion anyway. It is gorgeous.

I loved the look of the Battlestar ship.

@jackthelad9933

7 ай бұрын

I used to sit at the back of the maths classroom and draw the Galactica instead of doing maths 🙂

@devox3291

2 ай бұрын

The big crocodile!

It's "Count Baltar," the name "Gaias" was an invention of the RDM reimagining.

@beargenxgm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@scavenger4704

Жыл бұрын

It's Gaius, a Roman name, not Gaias.

@Andrew-pr9xv

Жыл бұрын

It's actually Gygax, as a nod to D&D.

The original version had the best intro of any series, the dialogue at the start followed by the music was perfect

The cylons also were prominent on the Universal Studio tour for many years after the show was cancelled.

@dhaucoin

Жыл бұрын

Leading that GLORIOUS cameo in the opening credits in the first seasons of 'The A-Team': Dirk Benedict, as Face, just standing there, enjoying a quiet moment. A Cylon walks by, and he does this PERFECT 'don't I know that guy?' double take. A cheap laugh, and I laughed every damn time

@isntyournamebacon

Жыл бұрын

@bartman231 I remember that! I was quite young when riding that tram tour thing. I had no idea when getting on the tram that it was still there. Had not seen the show since i was little almost forgetting about it by then. When i went back a few years later, after the Jurassic Park ride opened, i think the BSG set was gone.

I just started rewatching the original BSG, along with multiple other classic films and TV series. Having more fun watching the older stuff than new movies and TV shows.

Had a serious crush on Dirk Benedict as Starbuck. Convinced my parents to buy most of the toys ...the figures, the Viper, the Galactica model. The Viper toys were modular, so you could remove the engine section from the pilot section and make different vehicles, was a lot of fun. Even had the Galactica hangar pod miniature that you could use rubber bands to launch small foam Vipers from. Those were the days.

The Egyptian styling and astrological names harking to some lost origin of Earth really appealed. Watching the cinema release, even as a kid I was sure this was a tv show bolted together, with it's rear projection, repeated use of shots and thick black lines around the ships, but the designs of everything from the Vipers, Galactica itself and even the uniforms really sold me on the story. Eventually arriving on tv it was the closest thing to Star Wars and I was hooked. The comic serialisation and especially the novelization all helped to solidify the world-building and as much as I saw through the inclusion of a kid-friendly character, something about the idea of that robo daggit worked for me!

That theme song. Always gets me. Battlestar has lived in my dreams for many decades.

2:54 "the bionic woman under his belt" 😮

@Aiden.Stinkhorn

Жыл бұрын

He wishes.

Galactica was AMAZING. It was just what I needed after Star Wars, and it fit in so well with my interest as a kid in Egyptology. "1980" was a missed opportunity indeed. Great video, Rowan!!

You can also tell how great Anne Lockhart is as an actor. Even the way she stands as Sheba projects power.

@SimmerCK

Жыл бұрын

I recently bought the series on blu ray. Sheba did stand out to me and the whole Pegasus storyline raised my interest in the story.

"The Living Legend" was easily one of my favorite episodes, partially because of Lloyd Bridges, but it was fun to watch the stunned reactions to his appearance. The final space battle was awesome, and Anne Lockhart as Sheba (in addition to being really cute) played off well against Apollo and Starbuck. 😎👍

@Marveryn

Жыл бұрын

ending was also fantastic. He took on 3 basestar on his own and scare baltar so much he sac two of them while he retreated. On paper a single basestar should equal one battlestar. Yet Balter didn't want to the chance that he would be kill so he ran.

The Galactica and theme song continues to inspire me as I gone through ups and downs in my life.

@robertoortizespinoza795

7 ай бұрын

The music of the Battlestar Galactica Theme composed by Stu Phillips is like to the theme of a venezuelan movie "La Epopeya de Bolivar". The author of this was the venezuelan composer Aldemaro Romero since 1 : 42 min kzread.info/dash/bejne/hXZ81ZKDYq7deLg.htmlsi=_w6GlAdsJALV3W31 Battlestar Gallactica was premiered in 1978 and "La Epopeya de Bolivar", in 1969.

It was like watching Star Wars made on Dr Who’s budget. Great show

@MarkFoster321789

28 күн бұрын

Each episode cost a million dollars to produce: it makes DOCTOR WHO and BLAKES 7 look like community theatre!

“Starbuck, what do you hear?” “Nothing but the rain.” Can’t wait.

The power of this show (I was 10 in 1980) was that it brought big "Star Wars" production values & special effects to TV and it did long before the second "Star Wars" movie was even released. Kids my age were too young for Star Trek's original series, it looked like your grandpa and ran on syndication late on weekends. This level of effects was even rare in cinemas then. BSG had come and gone by the time "Battle Beyond the Stars" & "Empire Strikes Back" hit the big screen. What passed for TV special effects then was Steve Austin doing things in slow-mo to bionic sounds or the Hulk doing things in slo-mo to Hulk music. For boys addicted to "Star Wars" this was methadone as the years went by for the next sequel. It happened the same way "Alien" happened- Producers didn't want anything on their desks other than sci-fi scripts in the wake of 77's Star Wars, but it happened on TV, the only place where something like this could play second fiddle to things like Mork & Mindy and All In The Family. It has a haunting legacy for guys my age. It was never the surprise smash TV event of "V" years later. I have absolutely nothing to say about the ridiculous reboot, what nonsense. It could totally be resurrected for the big screen, which is what it was all along - a big screen space opera shoehorned into the "idiot box."

There's so many great sci-fi shows that would really benefit from the RJC Retrospectives treatment. Thunderbirds, Futurama, Earth: Final Conflict...

@kareliask

Жыл бұрын

One day we'll reach Star Cops 🤭

@Andrew-pr9xv

Жыл бұрын

@@kareliask SPACE PRECINCT!!!

@chheinrich8486

Жыл бұрын

All gerry anderson super mariknation and live action shows

@susanscott8653

Жыл бұрын

​@@chheinrich8486 yep, Captain Scarlet, UFO, Space1999....

@bigredjanie

Жыл бұрын

I'm all for the Gerry Anderson shows getting more coverage!

The original BSG was really hamstrung by the time time it was made. A lot of it has aged surprisingly well, even with the '70s sheen. You just have to contrast it with Buck Rogers (a weaker show that admittedly has its moments) to see how surprisingly well BSG was doing with its externally imposed constraints. BSG somehow (until 1980) managed to survive executive meddling surprisingly intact, which is to the credit of all involved.

Can’t wait to listen! What I loved was that the show looked like Lost in Space and Star Wars, had stand-alone adventure episodes like Star Trek, but a modern overarching story connected it all together.

Great video! After Star Trek Space 1999 then Star Wars then Battlestar Galactica then Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. They were all GREAT!

"There are those who believe that life here began out there" intrigued me more than "space the final frontier"

@mephistoxarses8585

Жыл бұрын

Funny you saying that......i also believe that "life here...started OUT THERE!"

@topJimmyP1984

Жыл бұрын

Loved that and the original intro!

@edstar83

Жыл бұрын

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If absolutely nothing else, "Battlestar Galactica" has to be one of the single most fucking amazing scifi titles ever.

I read the novelizations back in the day and thought them pretty well done. They even added some extra plot elements and even new point of characters in some cases. The novels stuck with the show's original idea that the Cylons are lizard-like aliens in armour rather than robots.

As a kid of the late 70's / early 80's and in awe of sci-fi, even I at the time switched off Galactica 1980. Kids actually like the dark stuff. Destruction of the colonies. Serena's death. Vader's bad-assery. Imperious Leader's cold ruthlessness. Kids know when they're being mugged off.

@SamHell-wr8bi

7 ай бұрын

Same. I was only 6, but Starbuck, Boomer, and Apollo were my heros. Get that kid and his robot monkey outta here! Give me my heros!

My biggest criticism of Battlestar Galactica is: not enough Maren Jensen 18:15

@CantankerousDave

Жыл бұрын

Maren Jensen and Jane Seymour, man…

I was 8 when this show came on, and couldn't wait each week for a new episode. BSG. Buck Rogers, and space 1999 made up my core tv, along with project bluebook

Still one of my favourite epic sci-fi theme tunes.

BSG was hands-down my all-time favorite show when I was a kid. I was heartbroken when it was canceled and I will never forgive them for it. The series was left in a cliffhanger that was never resolved. My favorite story ever on television was never finished. It still hurts to this day. And don’t get me started on Galactica 1980. That show was a hollow shell of the original and a great disappointment. And the Reboot in the 2000’s was great, but it was so different I don’t even consider it the same story at all.

@orangefacedbuddah1776

6 ай бұрын

time to move on....😒😒😃😃

@allenjones3130

5 ай бұрын

I didn't care for "Galactica 1980" either. Except for two episodes, the scripts were generally lacking in the drama, action, suspense and character interplay of the original.

As a LONG TIME FAN of the original BSG (not the distorted miniseries and later full series of the 21st century), thank you. BSG, Larson, Stu Phillips and the magnificent actors deserve a lot more praise than they had. Great documentary.

Loved the show as a kid in the early 80s. Being from a small village on the West coast of Scotland, sci-fi was a bit of an escape. Although I have nostalgia for Galactica 80, I still maintain you could tack Return of Starbuck onto the end of the original season and it'd be an excellent finale episode.

As a kid in the 70s, I had a neighbor who had one of those old synthesized voiceboxes that he got from 6 decades of heavy smoking and throat surgery. It made him sound like a Cylon Centurian. For that reason, I always called him 'The Cylon' or later, 'Cy' It somehow stuck and everyone started calling him 'Cy.' He was a combat-experienced WW2 Vet and unlike most Cylons, a really good shot. A real character too, even into his 80s. He'd try to hit on young girls even with that awful voice, so he was arguably more like Starbuck. I dont think he ever saw the show, but he liked the nickname. I saw his grave a few years ago, and someone keeps leaving little Battlestar Galactica items there. Guy's been dead for 30 years, but he's still a local legend. I know this story's inane, but I thought I'd waste a little of your time with it. Youre welcome. 😅

The most memorable moment about Galactica 1980, Mr William Daniels is in the driver's seat with a Cylon Centurion sitting in the back seat.

That OG theme is an absolute banger

Loved this every bit as much as Star Wars, and never compared them, or even Star Trek. They're all excellent, imo, but this has a place in my heart because it was weekend viewing during my school days

I was 6 when this came out, and this is my childhood comfort TV. Just the mythological music from the beginning speeds up my heartbeat to this day. Had the Colonial Viper, the Cylon Raider, and a Muffet the Robotic Dog action figure as well as the mandatory Cylon. Much love to you for making this video!

Great video! Can't wait for part 2.The reboot of Battlestar Galactica blew me away! 🤩

Such fun to see those Star Trek creatives showing up in BSG's history. No wonder it turned out so well! 👍

I remember watching it as a kid back in the day but I was too young to appreciate it.

One thing that never gets mentioned on the 80 series is that it includes the Actor Jeremy Brett who only really came to major fame later in the 80s as Sherlock Holmes and was by far the most perfect Holmes ever on screen

@rohanmarkjay

Жыл бұрын

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s a lot wonderful shakespeare trained actors of the British school were trying to break into America. Mainly because being an actor in Britain at the time was no fun despite your immense talent. You were living in a three bedroom house and struggling to pay the bills underpaid and under appreciated for your talents and no one really gave a shit about you in UK. Whereas in the U.S. actors were treated like Royalty. So a lot of highly trained and talented British actors went to America. Not everyone made it, but if you look carefully at American tv and movies that came out in the late 1970s and1980s you see a lot of British actors on American television and movies who were prominent in the 1970s in British TV. British actors who moved to the States some permanently in the late 1970s into the 1980s, to name a few Simon McCorkingdale, Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Stephanie Beecham, Lesley Ann Down, Marina Sirtis and Patrick Stewart etc a lot of them became wealthy after moving to the U.S. during the 1980s. Jeremy Brett was probably part of the British acting exodus to America in the late 1970s going into the 1980s.

@gb8628

Жыл бұрын

No way, Basil Rathbone was OG

Loved this show as a kid. And I still think it stands up well 40 years later. I always thought it would have been good if the Galactica turned up at an Earth that is way in the future and able to help/protect the fleet.

Very well researched and put together. We could tell the "Eastern Alliance" plot was just padding and had no real focus. The ships of light gave the show more of a mythos which could have been explored more along with Iblis, two of my favourite episodes. The series still holds up well overall.

Was a little boy and watched the show when it originally aired way back when. Hearing that theme song again paired with footage from the show made my heart soar!

I watched the original theatrical release in 1978 in a cinema equipped with "Sensurround". This was fancy way of saying that the seats vibrated every time the Battlestar appeared on the screen. It was developed in the 1970's as an attempt to keep cinema audiences which were rapidly dwindling as a result of the competition from the improving production values on television. I also saw a Charlton Heston movie about the Battle of Midway in the same theatre with the "Sensurround" system. Your seat vibrated with every explosion on screen!

AND BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was My favorite series of all time

I was too young to watch BSG when it came out and still quite young for the repeats so my memories of it are fuzzy at best - since I haven't revisited as an adult. The only things that really stuck with my nostalgia memories was Face from the A-team 😋😋, the masterpiece of a theme (which never gets old) and the super cool chrome Cylons (how interesting that they tried a bronzy colour, but I'm glad they didn't, the silver ones are iconic). Sadly I do have a vague emotional memory of the tiresome kid and dog! 😁😁 We're here for space ships and pew-pew battles and those aspects were annoying. Great retrospective as always, off to watch the sequel.

The original BSG and Buck Rodgers were my childhood

Commander Cain- “Looks like I picked the wrong secton to quit sniffing glue.”

I appreciate your videos and was looking forward to this one. I will note two things of importance you left out: 1. Lt. Zac Adama, portrayed by soon-to-be hit musician Rick Springfield, and his tragic death in the initial episode (although you did mention later that Adama had lost all of his children), and 2. The many BSG novels, some of which are wholly new stories that continue to expand the OG BSG universe.

@Laurielism

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1: Zac Adama. I'm still grieving.

I watched it at the theatre in Penticton B.C. in the late 70s. Watched it again on US tv and noticed it was censored or changed in a couple spots. Enjoyed it immensely.

Without revealing my true identity under this pseudonym, I can tell you that I am the stepson of one of the producers of the original Battlestar Galactica. And as a young boy, I got to go on the Battlestar Galactica sets frequently. I got to know most of the main actors such as Greene, Benedict, et all, and many others. I can tell you with great clarity of memory that nearly everyone - both cast and crew, grew weary, and became highly frustrated with ABC. ABC was constantly changing things and usually for the worst. Even the set writers got upset over the sudden changes that ABC threw at them. You are correct in that there were people at ABC who truly hated Battlestar Galactica, and they used their political and influential power of their position at ABC to try and destroy the series. I also clearly remember my stepfather becoming extremely upset every now and then at what ABC had done to the show. The cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica was filled with extreme professionals who all did their work VERY well and no one seem to like the network who was constantly trying to disrupt, destroy, and get this series canceled. Even the editing department was constantly tasked with impossible requests. I’ll never forget the mountains of film that was constantly discarded because ABC wanted it that way, but ultimately hurt the episode because they were pulling out the parts that made the episode make sense.

Oh boy, can't wait! 😃

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. As a kid in southern Ontario rural farmland, I built my own viper out of hay bales, affixing wooden boards with nails to be my control panels. I also worked some leather to create my own holster and with a thick piece of dowling and wooden blocks I hammered together my own blaster fashioned after Buck Rogers and the 25th Century. Two other blocks of thinner square pieces of wood with a single hinge operated as a crude Star Trek communicator, and a broomstick glued solidly into the end of a worked lathed cyllinder of wood operated as an effective light saber that I used (to my farming neighbours great frustration) as superior method to cut down the vicious attacking corn plantmen of Mongo. In a time where recreations of your favourite science fiction properties were too expensive- I had to create my own R2D2 costume out of cardboard boxes, glued paper and coloured markers, and it just took four safety pins, a crudely cut out letter "S" insignia and a long towel to transform myself into Superman- creativity and imagination reigned. That being said, I loved this look back with some additional information I wasn't aware of. I'm surprised you made virtually no mention to some of Battlestar's more inventive lore like the Pyramid and Triad. The creation of their leisure pursuits added some needed background to the story. I still despise the modern word "tropes" being used because it has become an overly used- and mostly poorly understood description of "conventions". Tropes is often used as a pejorative, and I'd prefer to see it relegated to one of those words that came into prominence in the "teens' and was just as quickly forgotten as TV Tropes website is no longer used as it once was either. My experience with BSG didn't end however as in the aoughts, the incredible Bill Hollweg from Broken Sea Audio sought to create his own Battlestar Galactica fan audio. He asked me who I wanted to play- Apollo of course, and myself and my girlfriend, already engaged in a lot of my own works including the world's first Firefly fan audio drama, settled into the roles. A friend of mine met with Richard Hatch and purchased one of his books and got him to sign it for me. I was pretty overwhelmed as Hatch hat not only found great love in the series, but had his own vision of how he saw BSG progress and unable to get the networks onboard started seeing his vision of it take place in books before his untimely death. Still would like to interview you at some point, if you're interested. In the meantime, keep on flying.

One of my favorite memories was having spoken with Richard Hatch and Anne Lockhart after a panel that grew into an hour long lunch. I was reluctant to ruin my memories by watching the new BSG. Richard took the time to break it down and convinced me to watch. I'm so glad he did. We corresponded and compared notes for a while. What a great guy. My favorite episode was when Apollo accidentally intercepted the Apollo 11 transmissions. I've never been emotional but I choked up on that one.

Thanks for this. I saw some of the original broadcasts, but in the late 70s, I started working and more or less stopped watching TV for several years. Never saw a single episode of "1980" and actually wasn't aware of it at all. I wouldn't mind seeing the 1978 show again, but really, I don't think it can hold a candle to the 2000s revival

Oh what a great time it was to be 14 and watch this glorious show. It's not just a "membaberries" thing, either; this show was good. Great acting, very original storyline (I loved Star Wars but even as a kid I thought this had a better story), wonderful effects, incredible music. Such a shame it didn't get a couple more seasons to really shine. What could have been. And no, I had no interest in the new show; without the people I had grown to love and care about, it just didn't matter. And I was so happy to hear the show was coming back in 1980...until I saw what had become of it. Sigh. Another case of terribly wasted potential; but still, great memories of that year!

@jiminverness

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For me, Star Wars blew everything else out of the water in SFX (much like the Avatar movies are visually so good, even if not the story), but each SW movie was a grand adventure and fun, but for all intents and purposes self-contained. BSG kept me wondering what's going to happen next. So many arcs and personal development of characters, even where it's gone episodic and the story of the week is drawn from a familiar trope.

"His voice alone carries an Orson Welles-like power..." As a newsreader on CBC Radio in the 40s, Lorne Greene was known as "The Voice of Doom."

One early evening when I was about seven years old, I was suposed to go to my aunt and uncle who lived just a short walk away. For some reason the tv was on and going through the very few channels we had, I stumbled on this program. They flew through space in starfighters, they landed on a rock, there were these robots, and the humans lived on a massive ship in space. I just couldn't move myself away from this. I HAD to see this. This was Battlestar Galactica. My very first encounter with Science Fiction. It set in motion a love for space and sf that still exists today. It lead to getting Lego (classic) space sets, it lead unintentionally to Star Wars (I had no idea what Star Wars was, but I used the figures to play BSG), Star Trek, Blake's 7, a whole shitload of SF books, etc...etc... All because of this program. (Funny side story, I arrived late and explained it to my uncle who was also a bit into future science. He told me that it was a science fiction show. But english not being my language, I misunderstood him and though he said it was a s3x show. Well, thought seven year old me, if this is what that s3x is about, then maybe it's pretty good :-D)

The original BSG holds a special space in my memory. I loved Star Wars, but BSG gave me something else - not just the epic space opera, and heroic characters. The loss of a character felt meaningful because it wasn't galaxy spanning but in this handful of ships and people, and within a family - and it even left family responsibilities. It brought up ideas such as class disparity and grand mythology and even theology. In places it was a mess, but when it worked, when it was what they'd wanted it to be, it was way ahead of its time. Starbuck and Apollo were the duo I wanted to be part of. It was something special for it's time, and this retrospective reminded me why! BSG 1980 was a mess I half thought I'd imagined, apart from that Starbuck story.

As someone that grew up (old as dirt) with BSG and Star Wars, I really never made a connection between them. Back then there was a ton of space movies and stories well before Star Wars. Star Wars set a bar and I remember watching BSG when it first came on and it still sticks with me today, so that is iconic. That, Star Trek and Space 1999 were were IP's that story wise stuck with me. There were other stories that I remember just nothing that really moved the needle. Things like Lost in Space, Buck Rogers and others were fun shows just not mind changing.

This channel is so underrated.

I was a huge fan of the original show when I was a kid (I'm in my early 50s now). I had a few of the toys -- I remember the early versions of the Viper and Cylon Raider toys shot out little red bullets, but they changed them later because a kid swallowed one of the bullets. I guess they should've seen that coming.

What a great summary of The Battlestar Galactica legacy! I was born in 72 so that was a big part of my childhood. I met the actor who played Boomer in San Diego in a 1996 he didn’t look much older then he did when he was on the series. Not too long before he sadly passed away I met Richard Hatch at a comic convention in San Jose California while he was promoting Star Trek Axanar.

@philfitnesspt6139

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Boomer actor is still alive?? HERBERT JEFFERSON he's 70

The main theme is my ring tone. Epic it is. It's been so long since I've watched it. On my to do list. Good work on the retrospective as usual.

The opening theme music to Battlestar still gives me shivers. Also love that you Mentioned the Phil Silvers Show, it still makes me laugh to this day!

Takes me back to my childhood While most kids were glued to Saturday morning cartoons this was the show that caught my interest... Although I didn't fully understand it... BSG was still my had to watch escape from reality.. As budget as it looks today I still do the odd marathon viewing from time to time with the DVD collection

My favorite series ever. Great story, great cast, both old and new versions

The episodes borrowed heavily from famous movie tropes. "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" combined elements of "the Guns of Navarone" ( a mission to destroy superguns threatening a naval convoy) and "the Dirty Dozen" (using unwilling convicts on a suicide mission). "The Young Lords" used a poem to memorize the mission's plan ala the "The Dirty Dozen." "The Lost Warrior" was basically "Shane" (weary gunfighter reluctantly helps homesteaders against rich exploiter's hired killer while imparting life lessons to little boy) . "The Magnificent Warriors" borrows heavily from "The Magnificent Seven" (group of warriors defend villagers against mounted bandits) and other western movies.

Was so great to See Anne Lockhart in this. She used to shop at the grocery store I worked at in the 90's and I'd love talking to her about BSG :) She is such an amazing person.

@buckodonnghaile4309

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Never met him but Lorne Greene was the drama instructor at a Canadian kids camp I used to work at (he was there decades before me). Him and the owner of the place, Eugene Cates, were life long friends and from the pictures he showed me i learned that Lorne looked like a middle aged man in his teens and never really aged after that. Strangest thing. Cheers

The Universal Studios attraction was one of the very best at the time!

That theme is incredible.

"There are those who believe... that life hyaaaa begon out thyaaaaaa... " This is a really well made video. I really didn't want to watch anything this long at this time of night, but this flew by.

Love the 1979 series, I remember watching it on early 80s British TV, now have it on blu ray myself, and I prefer this longer style retrospective to the last one you did for BSG 4ish years ago. I’d love to see the 2000s Battlestar Galacria get this longer more in-depth style retrospective treatment. Thanks for the work you put into these videos. EDIT after reaching the end, I’m really looking forward to part 2 now.

I was around 10 years old n absolutely loved this program 🎉

It was only after I bought the Blu-ray release that I realized I had only seen about half of the episodes. Admittedly, we didn’t have a TV when it was first airing, but I thought I had seen them all in reruns. (I saw the movie many, many times in the theaters, and kept checking out the soundtrack LP from the library.)

And the Viper cockpits were based off of Air Force T-38 cockpits. All the avionics are very familiar!

Yes! BSG was the first non-cartoon show that I got into. I was 4 years old when I watched Galactica 1980 and reruns of the original. It is the show that reminds me of happier and innocent times as a pre-teen growing up. My family loved it, my friends loved it. And yeah I cried at the end of Return of Starbuck. It is one of my favourite stand alone episodes of any tv show of all time. Great show and I love everything about it, even the bad episodes.

Dude, your retrospectives showcase your talents in research, summary, and everything else that goes into them! I probably appreciate your vids so much because my opinions are pretty much the same but when they differ you have a coherent and logical reasoning behind them. Feelings? Sometimes, yes but very well explained. You're obviously an intelligent person and I hope your dream of a production company comes true one day.

This is better than the other shows of that time