Battlestar Galactica

1978 star 7.1 tv1 Season play_circle21 Episodes

The Last Battlestar Galactica Leads a Rag Tag Fugitive Fleet on a Lonely Quest for a Shining Planet Known as...Earth.

When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama

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Episode 1
E1

Saga of a Star World

The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.

Sep 17, 1978

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Episode 2
E2

Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

Sep 24, 1978

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Episode 3
E3

Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

Oct 1, 1978

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Episode 4
E4

The Lost Warrior

Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.

Oct 8, 1978

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Episode 5
E5

The Long Patrol

Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.

Oct 15, 1978

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Episode 6
E6

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.

Oct 22, 1978

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Episode 7
E7

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

Oct 29, 1978

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Episode 8
E8

The Magnificent Warriors

When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

Nov 12, 1978

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Episode 9
E9

The Young Lords

Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

Nov 19, 1978

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Episode 10
E10

The Living Legend (1)

While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

Nov 26, 1978

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Episode 11
E11

The Living Legend (2)

The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

Dec 3, 1978

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Episode 12
E12

Fire in Space

A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.

Dec 17, 1978

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Episode 13
E13

War of the Gods (1)

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

Jan 14, 1979

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Episode 14
E14

War of the Gods (2)

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

Jan 21, 1979

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Episode 15
E15

The Man with Nine Lives

An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.

Jan 28, 1979

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Episode 16
E16

Murder on the Rising Star

When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.

Feb 18, 1979

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Episode 17
E17

Greetings from Earth

When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

Feb 25, 1979

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Episode 18
E18

Baltar's Escape

When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.

Mar 11, 1979

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Episode 19
E19

Experiment in Terra

Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

Mar 18, 1979

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Episode 20
E20

Take the Celestra

Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.

Apr 1, 1979

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Episode 21
E21

The Hand of God

Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.

Apr 29, 1979

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people Cast

Lorne Greene

Lorne Greene

Commander Adama

Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict

Lt. Starbuck

Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch

Capt. Apollo

Maren Jensen

Maren Jensen

Lt. Athena

Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Lt. Boomer

Terry Carter

Terry Carter

Colonel Tigh

Noah Hathaway

Noah Hathaway

Boxey

Tony Swartz

Tony Swartz

Flight Sargeant Jolly

John Colicos

John Colicos

Count Baltar

Laurette Spang

Laurette Spang

Cassiopeia

apartment Production Companies

Universal Television Universal Television
apartment Glen A. Larson Productions

public Countries

United States of America