I had the pleasure of working with Mr. Hatch on a now never to be released episode of Star Trek New Voyages. The man was an absolute professional and treated the volunteer stage crew with absolute respect. It's sad he never got to see the episode finished and released.
@@mikepowers8607 He played one of the Klingons in fan made Star Trek show Axanar. Search on YT for Axanar and you will find it. It is highly recommended!
In 1978 I was in the USAF at Keesler AFB Mississippi and we had the entire day room packed watching the two hour premier. Yelling, cheering, it was a hoot. This show was way ahead of it's time.
I saw the pilot when they released it in the movie theaters in Canada to defray some of the cost of producing it. When I saw the tv premier I was a bit disappointed as they'd added a lot of unnecessary scenes to "explain" some of the plot points. Apparently the network executives insisted they be added as they didn't trust the tv audience to follow the story:(.
Yeah I was at NTC Great Lakes, our rec room was full of sailors waiting to watch the pilot and right in the middle they preempted the show to show the signing of the Camp David Peace Accords, so many pissed off sailors.
One of the advantages of landing a sponsorship deal with Raytheon. ;) Actually, it was a bit more like a product placement deal: all of those futuristic looking computer displays were in fact commercially available, if extremely expensive.
I remember when I first met Richard Hatch, I just got out of the hospital, and I was in the hospital for tests of my epilepsy. I looked awful, but my family had got me a 3 day pass for the comic- con.
I was 7 when this came out and I loved every second of this show. Col Tigh was one of my fav characters, competent, smart, brave. I don't remember seeing a lot of black guys on TV at the time and it made a good impression on my little kid mind.
This was a great series for inclusion. Strong and capable black leads, strong and capable female pilots, and a lot more. For the times it was very progressive.
I loved this show from the day it first aired on TV. To get approval for Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry lied to studio executives & said it was a "wagon train to the stars." 12 yrs later Glenn A Larson actually did it with Battlestar Galactica.
The networks wanted scooby doo to have a smart alec puppy bad influence character added to match marvin and wendy . Now they want you to have biden . Crazy . Cavitation .
The Cylons were the absolute best. Roving eye. Black and chrome. And the Cylon robotic voice was amazing. The different voice of the gold and black Cylon. Incredible show for its time. Unfortunate that ABC cancelled it anyone season.
Then in later episodes, you get characters like Lucifer, who had dots, where a mouth would be, that were upturned to show happiness or downturned to show anger, and Count Baltar, who was given a basestar of his own. I used to love the dialogue between Baltar and Lucifer.
Loved this show as a kid. Didn't realize at the time that I was seeing the same recycled visual effect shots over and over sometimes mirrored and such to look new. Also that John Dykstra (from Star Wars A new hope) was doing the special effects.
It sure makes clear that they couldn't be more than 10 light years from Earth. The follow-on series "Battlestar Galactica 1980" made sense in that light. But it was such a weird show, and awkwardly done...I prefer my headcanon that they were farther out (more like 50 LY,) and haven't gotten here yet. ...and BSG 1980 is just a fever dream.
@@stevejordan7275 But at the same time, they _can't_ be that close to Earth. If they were, the signals from Earth's radio technology wouldn't be faint, they'd be clear, and the Cylons would _already be here_ bombing our cities. So the more reasonable interpretation is that the original first season of BG takes place centuries in our future, giving the signals from the Moon time to reach them Out There. And the second season never happened.
It is certainly one of the better episodes. Some of them were very clearly aimed at children but this one was better. It was not perfect but it was better. I also liked the episode earlier on where the Galactoca has taking a lot of hits and is struggling to contain fires while also not perfect it is also a good episode.
The first movie I saw in Sensaround. I attended a lot of airshows so i knew how realistic the Sensaround was ( the vacuum of space not withstanding ). Great movie and effects.
I remember watching the original BSG as a child, in the late 90s. One of the few things my stepdad and I bonded over. I still love watching this show to this day.
I was 10 when the series came out I remember the pilot movie and afterwards I would watch it faithfully every Sun Night at 8pm. It was the same with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century that came on every Thurs night at 8pm...
@@mikehosken4328 Oooh, yeah... reruns of the episodes premiered earlier in the week; I remember that. I was always watching Scooby Doo (and unfortunately Scrappy, too) and the rest of the Sat. morning cartoons. lol
That's the benefit of real/physical models and miniatures. The only downside was it was such an expensive show for its time that they reused the same shots over and over. I'd love to see a Star Trek style remastered version with new effects, but these still hold up very well today.
@@terryprentice9657 Yeah the original plan was to do 3 made for TV movies with budgets to match. In the end they divided the budget onto an extra 22 episodes, which did not leave a lot left over for the effects
One thing I love about this scene was the following the chain of command, which is missing so much in fiction. Like Adama commanding Colonel Tigh to sound battle stations instead of doing it himself.
It would’ve been a perfect set up for a series finale. Just have that “third planet” where the basestar was orbiting was indeed, turn out to be Earth. It had been drawn by the same signal that drew Galactica, and after the battle, the Galactica discovers this and makes first contact. A few edits or an extension to 90 minutes, and Imif would all fit in one final episode.
If the Galactica's sister Colonial Battlestar Pegasus didn't get missing after she destroyed 2 Cylon Basestars,she would've joined the Galactica in destroying another Cylon Basestar.
Watching this show at 8 years old was a way to get my Star Wars fix at a time when the only way to get any Star Wars was if it was at the theater. I loved the space ships and lasers. Home theater really wasn’t yet a thing
The idea is from the Raisin Bombers in 1948/1949 during the time of the cold war to deliver food to Berlin. One bomber pilot told the kids, that he will waggle with his wings to show the kids, that it is him. He was the one, who dropped the candy. Other bomber pilots followed.
@@OpenGL4ever yeah it was the Candy Bomber and his actual name was Gail Halvorsen. The kids used to call him Uncle wiggily wings or something like that.
The original show was remarkable for its time and ABC messed up big time by prematurely canceling it. The reimaged show was also terrific and far more gritty and dark. Which is better? Neither, enjoy each one.
Missed the awesome ending where they showed the transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing footage with audio "The eagle has landed". Still gives me goosebumps.
“Gun on Ice Planet Zero”, is without question the best TV show I can ever remember. This show was everything to me as a kid, it paved the way for my love of sci-fi and everything science and engineering!
I love that episode, but even as a child there's something very weird about how the laser seems to have a kink in it right as it fires. And since they reuse the same effect over and over again every time it fires, I was like how can a laser bend like that? Normally I never questioned the special effects because they generally were excellent and better than many movie effects. But this one botched effect in this one episode took me out of it because they repeated it so many times. The story itself was great!
There is a tie-in novelisation of that pair of episodes. It's called "Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine." The authors are named as Glen A Larson and Robert Thurston, so I assume it was ghost-written. (It has cover art by Frank Frazetta that, at the time, you could order a poster repro for a few bucks plus 75 cents' postage.) If you're fond of Gun on Ice Planet Zero, you might really enjoy the expansion on characters and their back stories.
I ALWAYS enjoyed this show!!!!!!! I watched every episode!!!!!!!!!! I was a teenager and living with my grandma at the time and she watched it too because of Lorne Green being the star and it's central family theme!!!!!!!!!!! I enjoyed the special effects and they were ahead of IT'S time on that!!!!!!!!!! And what's GUI stand for? 😊 Happy HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 55 this show is so corny to watch...But my god I never missed an episode as a kid. I'd take a tape recorder and record the audio every Sunday, then listen to it every night until the next episode! I love these guys so much.
Apollo tells Boxy specifically in the pilot movie that the original, real Cylons (a biological reptillian species) built the Cylon robots along a human pattern.
I think you are seriously underestimating the power of AI/ML. Seriously, if Galactica had just splashed my base star, where can I go? There's nothing to do but kamikaze them, or just go inert, wait to run out of power. The remaining cylons could/should have pooled their brain power to figure a way back to the nearest base, or at least coordinated their attacks to get just one ship up Galactica's tailpipe.
@@stevejordan7275 We *know* that the Cylons would do suicide runs; they did them in other episodes, and were *quite* willing to sacrifice themselves in that manner. As for the other parts of this, that's why the Vipers would have kept them back until none remained- the danger was that the Cylons would find the civilian fleet while the battle's going on, and strike there; and that's *exactly* what their "Imperius Leader", "Count" Iblis would insist on too- given *its* personality at that!
The thing that always bothered me about this scene is that the Galactica gets the first shot in with a sneak attack but the stock footage they used clearly shows the base star firing first. 0:57
After the movie Glen Larson wanted a year to get ahead in filming of the special effects. So when those were being aired he could work on the next seasons effects and be ahead seeing how it took so much time. But the studio wanted everything done and aired imeditly that it didn't give him much time to produce new space battle scenes. Which is why we got so much same stock footage used over and over and over again in ever episode.
There were several great shows of that era. We look back now and some seem so terribly simple with their effects and even story lines while others still, mostly, stand the test of time.. Even the Brits got into it, along with the huge success of Dr Who. I will always have a soft spot for Blake's 7 (It's a machine. Pull the trigger). Perhaps it was the use of miniatures and practical effects or maybe the writers and execs were more inclined to the temper of the audience.
it was the final episode, but not much of a finale. It would’ve made a good series finale if they had made the “third planet” where the basestar was orbiting was indeed, turn out to be Earth. It had been drawn by the same signal that drew Galactica, and after the battle, the Galactica discovers this and makes first contact. A few edits or an extension to 90 minutes, and it would all fit in one final episode.
Hey, thanks for this! The classic Galactica show brought back great childhood memories! While the new version had it's moments with sophiscated storylines and tackling controversial issues, the one big problem I had with it was the fact that none of the Colonial characters were likable and sympathetic. By the time of the series end, I didn't care for any of them, with perhaps the exception of Helo and Galen. Also, I understand Universal is planning to do another reboot that is more akin to the original series. Hopefully, it will incorporate the best of both worlds of the two shows. Let's hope! Anyway, I look forward to seeing more of your videos! You just earned a new subscriber! :)
@@HoneysPark Exactly! 👍🏻 While the Moore series did just about everything right, it forgot the following key ingredients that you mentioned: hope and uplighting.
I thought that the character of Helo was definitely a stand up kind of guy. A lot of the other characters, if not likeable, were certainly interesting!
The sad part about this show, was Universal didn't give them enough time or money to make proper space battles. Reused so many fights and it was showing badly toward the end of the show.
To be fair, this show needed a _lot_ of money to be done well. It involved a lot of highly detailed painted backgrounds and a lot of FX, even with the stock footage it was very, very expensive. It actually had fair-to-decent ratings at first, until the network put it in bad time slots...and the writers started to fall down.
Prime time TV shows in the 70’s had small production budgets. The network would compare the production budget against, say, Happy Days or Fantasy Island, not Star Wars.
Apollo's brother and their mother would've been so proud of him and Starbuck for helping to destroy a Cylon Base Star by going aboard it with a Cylon fighter and then destroying its scanners before getting off when the alarm went off as the Colonial Vipers were spotted by the Cylons.
The movie Glen Larson is making is being delayed due to script changes but Bryan Singer who will be directing says once the fans see the finished project they will really like what was done to Galactica.
starsiegeplayer Thanks for the update. Well now that just cuts it doesn't it? Another very talented and rare legend falls to illness and in a moment of time gone. So sad but also so thankful for his contributions that will live on.
starsiegeplayer Thanks for the update on Glen.I hope Universal Studios do continue his project and keep it the way it is suppose to be.Composer Stu Phillips told me one of Glen's sons Eric works for his father and may have had the Galactica franchise willed to him.His son I believed mentioned in an interview he will keep the Galactica franchise the way his father wanted it and he was writing his own episodes.And if the TV series is brought back and there is a huge budget,fans want to see all of the episodes in which Adama and the Galactica crew have nothing but space battles with the Cylons.Plus there is a back story in which the Cylons were also at war against another empire who both hate them and the humans.Let's also hope they use some of Richard Hatch's Galactica books and turn them into film versions
So cheesey by today's standards but I remember my little brother being glued to the screen as to not miss a second of this show & being amazed at the graphics !!! I asked him " can you imagine what these shows would be like in 20 to 30 yrs " he said " I don't think it could get any better " !!! Well guess what they did !!!
WE did not have Cable back then , but Dave and Don did . Things got wild at Turkey Hunting Camp . A Machete and steel pipe came out and there was a slightly dangerous Sword fight going on and they were shouting Cylon Attack . I had no Idea what a Cylon was or how to defend against them . I am glad that I had a Shotgun in the Tent just in case . Wild stuff !
Wish they would Digitally Remaster this series. I just ordered yet another new set of it and although it's viewable enugh i suppose, a better digitally remastered version (not silly blue ray) would really bring out all the vividness that still remains suppressed in it. Good thing i at least can watch it on a massive 70 inch home screen. The audio especially needs redigitized.
It would've been interesting to see the return on the Battlestar Pegasus again when Battlestar Galactica returned for a 2nd season on ABC-TV and to see Lloyd Bridges reprising the role of Commander Cain again and maybe seeing his character with a beard and to be reunited with the Colonial fleet and for him being reunited with his only daughter Sheba.
I have read that if there had been a second season, they were going to bring back Commander Cain. Remember that scene when Count Iblis tells Sheba she will see her father again? Shame we never got a second season.
I always believed that the promised “reuniting” of Sheba and her father was her discovery of his corpse in the crashed spaceship, and the sudden revelation that Iblis led the Pegasus to her final destruction. “Cloven hoof” not withstanding, of course.
@@LBF522 And Iblis would of course never, _ever_ lie... oh, wait, isn't one of his titles the Father of Lies? Come to think of it, maybe Sheba shouldn't assume anything based on anything she heard from that source...
Good thing that Starbuck & Apollo had waggled the Cylon fighter they were in so that they would be idemtified by the Galactica in case they lost the gadget that flashes a red dot so that Colonial Vipers wouldn‘t shoot them by mistake.
always liked this version. never understood the newer version making the Cylons into human form. was odd since they wanted to destroys the humans, but they made themselves into human form, kinda contrdictory [msp] in thier final solution.
Because that way the show could use human actors. The showrunners for the 'new' so-called BSG were not really interested in doing an SF story, they wanted to do allegories about current-day politics and society and that needed human actors who could interact with human actors.
Wow. The Cylons are unbeatable. They are already firing back before the aft laser turrets even detect the attacking battlestar. And then they even manage to hit the hangar openings on the far side of the Galactica from behind with their mega-lasers. Their lasers can apparently shoot in curves. Don't even get me started on the ultra-fast reaction time of the robots and their necessary verbal communication in a dicey situation. After all, who needs wireless communication and autonomous weapon systems on a robot ship? Perhaps they also use pneumatic tubes and file trolleys to communicate within the ship?
1:10 landing bay taking hits vs 2:26 "and the landing bays are intact". At 1:14 Galactica pointing differently than in 1:15. At 1:50 the distance between the battlestars is still like 1:10. The battle is won despite Adama who looks very old and wise, because at 1:24 he orders the flanking maneuver exposing the Galactica to the intact part of the Cylon base star, and he forgot to lock on the forward lasers (which can turn), until 2:05. Not ordered to do so, the gunner at the landing bay is just shooting for fun, sidewards, at 2:04 while the Cylon base star is in front. Maybe the gunner thought there was a Cylon base ship but it was only a weather balloon.
R.I.P. Richard Hatch😢💔
I was glad to see his dream of being a part of another BSG series come to be.
You mean, Karn the Undying.
I had the pleasure of working with Mr. Hatch on a now never to be released episode of Star Trek New Voyages. The man was an absolute professional and treated the volunteer stage crew with absolute respect. It's sad he never got to see the episode finished and released.
@@mikepowers8607 He played one of the Klingons in fan made Star Trek show Axanar. Search on YT for Axanar and you will find it. It is highly recommended!
Rest in peace Richard Hatch you were the best of them all!
Agreed
As well as the late Lorne Greene
Kind of unfair
@@tommyalmeyda1253 and John Colicos (Baltar)
@@thereisnosanctuary6184
The reboot doesn’t even come close ❤
TV in the 60s, 70s and 80s was great. Good clean fun. BSG was one of the best.
This show is why I got my first VCR. Now I have the whole series on DVD. Great memories, awesome show!! LOVED the characters!
Still one of the best bridge designs in a Sci Fi Show. I love it.
I prefer the overall design of the ship and the bridge from the original series any day to the reboot designs.
@@Harldin Me as well. But i do like the gritty and rather "realistic" approach from the reboot concerning drama and storyline.
@@greyd.99xsome Oh the reboot was definitely the better show
@@Harldin no way.
@@Harldin : not even close. The reboot was an attempted rendition, and it is so outclassed
In 1978 I was in the USAF at Keesler AFB Mississippi and we had the entire day room packed watching the two hour premier. Yelling, cheering, it was a hoot.
This show was way ahead of it's time.
Buddy I was a kid when this was first broadcast.
I saw the pilot when they released it in the movie theaters in Canada to defray some of the cost of producing it. When I saw the tv premier I was a bit disappointed as they'd added a lot of unnecessary scenes to "explain" some of the plot points. Apparently the network executives insisted they be added as they didn't trust the tv audience to follow the story:(.
@@MAZE4 So was I. I was 21.
Yeah I was at NTC Great Lakes, our rec room was full of sailors waiting to watch the pilot and right in the middle they preempted the show to show the signing of the Camp David Peace Accords, so many pissed off sailors.
@@greywuffzfavrr6038 Wow that's just wrong.
First time I recognized the upholstered pilot seats in the Cylon Raider. Centurions like it comfortable!
For the time (late 70s) the computers and graphics looked very futuristic. This was 5-6 years before the general public ever saw a GUI.
One of the advantages of landing a sponsorship deal with Raytheon. ;)
Actually, it was a bit more like a product placement deal: all of those futuristic looking computer displays were in fact commercially available, if extremely expensive.
It’s called predictive programming.
@@spyone4828 The deal was actually with Tektronix.
It all looked very much ahead of anything else on TV.
When I was 12 watching this I thought the effects were amazing.
What a great fracking show.
I remember when I first met Richard Hatch, I just got out of the hospital, and I was in the hospital for tests of my epilepsy. I looked awful, but my family had got me a 3 day pass for the comic- con.
I was 7 when this came out and I loved every second of this show. Col Tigh was one of my fav characters, competent, smart, brave. I don't remember seeing a lot of black guys on TV at the time and it made a good impression on my little kid mind.
So true. He was a favorite of mine as well.🙋🏽♂️
This was a great series for inclusion. Strong and capable black leads, strong and capable female pilots, and a lot more. For the times it was very progressive.
Boomer was also pretty awesome.
@@classicgalactica5879 Boomer was also a great character
@@AkodoAkira1 it was cool that they made it like it was not a big deal and that is normal
I was 8 and still remember having to take a nap to watch it. Such great memories
The show with the real Starbuck.
I loved this show from the day it first aired on TV. To get approval for Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry lied to studio executives & said it was a "wagon train to the stars." 12 yrs later Glenn A Larson actually did it with Battlestar Galactica.
totally untrue.
The networks wanted scooby doo to have a smart alec puppy bad influence character added to match marvin and wendy . Now they want you to have biden . Crazy . Cavitation .
The Cylons were the absolute best. Roving eye. Black and chrome. And the Cylon robotic voice was amazing. The different voice of the gold and black Cylon. Incredible show for its time. Unfortunate that ABC cancelled it anyone season.
The Gold Cylon was designated as a Command Centerion
The second (third?) season where they came to earth was actually pretty shite.
Then in later episodes, you get characters like Lucifer, who had dots, where a mouth would be, that were upturned to show happiness or downturned to show anger, and Count Baltar, who was given a basestar of his own. I used to love the dialogue between Baltar and Lucifer.
It was cancel it or be sued into oblivion by George Lucas for copyright theft
@@FutureReverberations It was the third season.
I absolutely love this episode. I so wanted to see the Pegasus come out of nowhere and help out and rejoin the fleet
Loved this show as a kid. Didn't realize at the time that I was seeing the same recycled visual effect shots over and over sometimes mirrored and such to look new. Also that John Dykstra (from Star Wars A new hope) was doing the special effects.
Yeah. Some of the sfx was lifted from UNIVERSAL movie from. 1971 called silent running boxys dagget too😊😊
@@gerry-p9x yes, the "agro ships"
The best Sci-Fi TV show ever!
Loved that show as a kid. Thanks for sharing, appreciate it a LOT 👍
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
I have not watched this in years but still remember all the lines!
Missed the awesome ending where they showed the transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing footage with audio "The eagle has landed"
That was awesome!
Ty for the reminder
It sure makes clear that they couldn't be more than 10 light years from Earth.
The follow-on series "Battlestar Galactica 1980" made sense in that light.
But it was such a weird show, and awkwardly done...I prefer my headcanon that they were farther out (more like 50 LY,) and haven't gotten here yet.
...and BSG 1980 is just a fever dream.
Not exactly the routine signals Apollo thought they’d pick up.
@@stevejordan7275 But at the same time, they _can't_ be that close to Earth. If they were, the signals from Earth's radio technology wouldn't be faint, they'd be clear, and the Cylons would _already be here_ bombing our cities. So the more reasonable interpretation is that the original first season of BG takes place centuries in our future, giving the signals from the Moon time to reach them Out There. And the second season never happened.
@@shermanlee4037 I *like* that idea.
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Yup, let's go with that.
"Tigh, I'm tired of running. Let's take her on." 😁
This was one of my favorite episodes ever of this series, and I remember vaguely this storyline from when I was less than 2 years old!
It is certainly one of the better episodes. Some of them were very clearly aimed at children but this one was better. It was not perfect but it was better. I also liked the episode earlier on where the Galactoca has taking a lot of hits and is struggling to contain fires while also not perfect it is also a good episode.
it was the last episode too ;(
1980 series just didnt do it as good
@@bigcazza5260 No, it wasn't at all; as I'm led to believe, and the entire series is available on DVD at that.
@@bigcazza5260 Oh, it did far better than the remake garbage.
The first movie I saw in Sensaround. I attended a lot of airshows so i knew how realistic the Sensaround was ( the vacuum of space not withstanding ). Great movie and effects.
I always thought the cyclone fighters sounded like vacuum cleaners 😂
Brooklyn kid, glad I was a yungin' during this era( late 70's / early 80's ) Sunday night; Homework,this & dinner. Peace
I remember watching the original BSG as a child, in the late 90s. One of the few things my stepdad and I bonded over. I still love watching this show to this day.
I was 10 when the series came out I remember the pilot movie and afterwards I would watch it faithfully every Sun Night at 8pm. It was the same with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century that came on every Thurs night at 8pm...
I still remember when I saw this episode as a small kid. Was just the best tv show on Saturday morning TV
Saturday morning?? How old are you? Must've been some serious re-runs, as this was on prime time at night when it first aired.
@@-108- it was 1982
@@mikehosken4328 Oooh, yeah... reruns of the episodes premiered earlier in the week; I remember that. I was always watching Scooby Doo (and unfortunately Scrappy, too) and the rest of the Sat. morning cartoons. lol
I bought the entire series.
Movie-quality effects on a TV show? Awesome.
Loved Battlestar as a kid!
Yes buddy,the visual effects were good, they still look good today!
That's the benefit of real/physical models and miniatures. The only downside was it was such an expensive show for its time that they reused the same shots over and over.
I'd love to see a Star Trek style remastered version with new effects, but these still hold up very well today.
@@img00 They basically spent their entire budget on the pilot, which is why they had to re-use stock footage in the episodes
@@terryprentice9657 Yeah the original plan was to do 3 made for TV movies with budgets to match. In the end they divided the budget onto an extra 22 episodes, which did not leave a lot left over for the effects
Fuking awesome.
Watch it on Blu Ray and it holds really cool
One thing I love about this scene was the following the chain of command, which is missing so much in fiction. Like Adama commanding Colonel Tigh to sound battle stations instead of doing it himself.
"By your commaahnd."
The Hunt for Red October did this very well also
@@terryprentice9657 Good film, even better book.
yes a silly outdated system
@@unit0033 Repeating commands helps to ensure clarity.
It would’ve been a perfect set up for a series finale. Just have that “third planet” where the basestar was orbiting was indeed, turn out to be Earth. It had been drawn by the same signal that drew Galactica, and after the battle, the Galactica discovers this and makes first contact. A few edits or an extension to 90 minutes, and Imif would all fit in one final episode.
If the Galactica's sister Colonial Battlestar Pegasus didn't get missing after she destroyed 2 Cylon Basestars,she would've joined the Galactica in destroying another Cylon Basestar.
I love this show soo much..
Watching this show at 8 years old was a way to get my Star Wars fix at a time when the only way to get any Star Wars was if it was at the theater. I loved the space ships and lasers. Home theater really wasn’t yet a thing
“They’re waggling!”
“Waggling?”
Makes me laugh every time lol. 😂
The idea is from the Raisin Bombers in 1948/1949 during the time of the cold war to deliver food to Berlin. One bomber pilot told the kids, that he will waggle with his wings to show the kids, that it is him. He was the one, who dropped the candy. Other bomber pilots followed.
@@OpenGL4ever yeah it was the Candy Bomber and his actual name was Gail Halvorsen. The kids used to call him Uncle wiggily wings or something like that.
Awesome sci fi series.
Even with them being made to use the battle footage over and over it was a great show and beats anything today hands down !!!!
RIP Richard Hatch. I was hoping you would be able to to finish the Axanar film.
The original show was remarkable for its time and ABC messed up big time by prematurely canceling it. The reimaged show was also terrific and far more gritty and dark. Which is better? Neither, enjoy each one.
oNE OF THE BEST EPISODES OF gALACTICA!
Missed the awesome ending where they showed the transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing footage with audio "The eagle has landed". Still gives me goosebumps.
@@aaronbarlow4376 OH YEAH, BUT ITS ON THE DVDS.
Special effects are pretty damn good for a tv show.
This Show was Sued By George Lucas, Because He Said this was too much like, Star Wars!
Pretty good for 1978!!! Buck Rogers used similar models/effects, that was another brilliant classic of a show.
What once was
@@aaronbarlow4376 actually, they reused the models from BSG for the Buck Rogers show. I even think they reused some effect shots
@@bigdrew565 I know that.
..even this low res post..still it is just amazing to watch & remember..I was 12 when BGS dropped.
thnx for this cool upload.
“Gun on Ice Planet Zero”, is without question the best TV show I can ever remember. This show was everything to me as a kid, it paved the way for my love of sci-fi and everything science and engineering!
I love that episode, but even as a child there's something very weird about how the laser seems to have a kink in it right as it fires. And since they reuse the same effect over and over again every time it fires, I was like how can a laser bend like that?
Normally I never questioned the special effects because they generally were excellent and better than many movie effects.
But this one botched effect in this one episode took me out of it because they repeated it so many times.
The story itself was great!
This episode loosely resembles "The Guns Of Navarone"
There is a tie-in novelisation of that pair of episodes. It's called "Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine." The authors are named as Glen A Larson and Robert Thurston, so I assume it was ghost-written. (It has cover art by Frank Frazetta that, at the time, you could order a poster repro for a few bucks plus 75 cents' postage.)
If you're fond of Gun on Ice Planet Zero, you might really enjoy the expansion on characters and their back stories.
I ALWAYS enjoyed this show!!!!!!! I watched every episode!!!!!!!!!! I was a teenager and living with my grandma at the time and she watched it too because of Lorne Green being the star and it's central family theme!!!!!!!!!!! I enjoyed the special effects and they were ahead of IT'S time on that!!!!!!!!!! And what's GUI stand for? 😊 Happy HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Graphical User Interface
At 55 this show is so corny to watch...But my god I never missed an episode as a kid. I'd take a tape recorder and record the audio every Sunday, then listen to it every night until the next episode! I love these guys so much.
Hell, I was a freshman in college when this came on. Tried never to miss it…but a color tv in a dorm was almost unheard of.
I did the same audio recording of the Bigfoot and Fembot episodes of Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman. Amazing what we did before VCRs
Daaamn didn’t the waggling in the reimagining was a reference to the original show! Also forgot about felkerkarb 😆
The cylons: “we are fuc...!”
I grew up watching the show...loved it...👍
Those chairs on the Cylon fighter look conveniently comfy for soft human butts.
Apollo tells Boxy specifically in the pilot movie that the original, real Cylons (a biological reptillian species) built the Cylon robots along a human pattern.
Great that for once the Galactica got to kick Cylon butt instead of just being the target!
Robots wouldn't think to waggle a starfighter too, guys; good call in that regard.
Unless "the manual" recommended it.
@@MichaelBradley1967 Yeah.
I think you are seriously underestimating the power of AI/ML.
Seriously, if Galactica had just splashed my base star, where can I go? There's nothing to do but kamikaze them, or just go inert, wait to run out of power.
The remaining cylons could/should have pooled their brain power to figure a way back to the nearest base, or at least coordinated their attacks to get just one ship up Galactica's tailpipe.
@@stevejordan7275 We *know* that the Cylons would do suicide runs; they did them in other episodes, and were *quite* willing to sacrifice themselves in that manner.
As for the other parts of this, that's why the Vipers would have kept them back until none remained- the danger was that the Cylons would find the civilian fleet while the battle's going on, and strike there; and that's *exactly* what their "Imperius Leader", "Count" Iblis would insist on too- given *its* personality at that!
Told you they didn't need any of that electronic felgercarb 😁.
The thing that always bothered me about this scene is that the Galactica gets the first shot in with a sneak attack but the stock footage they used clearly shows the base star firing first. 0:57
George Lucas special edition?
The aft turrets saw them and started firing right before the Galatica fired.
After the movie Glen Larson wanted a year to get ahead in filming of the special effects. So when those were being aired he could work on the next seasons effects and be ahead seeing how it took so much time. But the studio wanted everything done and aired imeditly that it didn't give him much time to produce new space battle scenes. Which is why we got so much same stock footage used over and over and over again in ever episode.
Han fired first.
The basestar could have detected them just before.
There were several great shows of that era. We look back now and some seem so terribly simple with their effects and even story lines while others still, mostly, stand the test of time.. Even the Brits got into it, along with the huge success of Dr Who. I will always have a soft spot for Blake's 7 (It's a machine. Pull the trigger). Perhaps it was the use of miniatures and practical effects or maybe the writers and execs were more inclined to the temper of the audience.
70's sci-fi looks cheesy now, but for those who grew up with it those shows are more beloved than the CGI-riddled
"cartoon" 📺 shows on now...
Loved this show!
Like watching two battleships fighting each other.
This episode was the series finale of the original Battlestar Galactica
it was the final episode, but not much of a finale. It would’ve made a good series finale if they had made the “third planet” where the basestar was orbiting was indeed, turn out to be Earth. It had been drawn by the same signal that drew Galactica, and after the battle, the Galactica discovers this and makes first contact. A few edits or an extension to 90 minutes, and it would all fit in one final episode.
Hey, thanks for this! The classic Galactica show brought back great childhood memories! While the new version had it's moments with sophiscated storylines and tackling controversial issues, the one big problem I had with it was the fact that none of the Colonial characters were likable and sympathetic. By the time of the series end, I didn't care for any of them, with perhaps the exception of Helo and Galen. Also, I understand Universal is planning to do another reboot that is more akin to the original series. Hopefully, it will incorporate the best of both worlds of the two shows. Let's hope! Anyway, I look forward to seeing more of your videos! You just earned a new subscriber! :)
They just wanted to be dark and dramatic. The original was more about uplifting and hope, the good ole days.
@@HoneysPark Exactly! 👍🏻 While the Moore series did just about everything right, it forgot the following key ingredients that you mentioned: hope and uplighting.
The reboot will be adaptation using the same type of writers and show runners that did Rings of Power.
Don't expect it to be entertaining.
@@tahu1349 Well, all tv shows and movies are ultimately about entertainment! LOL! What we're talking about is a matter of degree. 😉
I thought that the character of Helo was definitely a stand up kind of guy. A lot of the other characters, if not likeable, were certainly interesting!
A remaster of the effects would be great. I think though that another reboot is in the works more like the original series.
The sad part about this show, was Universal didn't give them enough time or money to make proper space battles. Reused so many fights and it was showing badly toward the end of the show.
To be fair, this show needed a _lot_ of money to be done well. It involved a lot of highly detailed painted backgrounds and a lot of FX, even with the stock footage it was very, very expensive. It actually had fair-to-decent ratings at first, until the network put it in bad time slots...and the writers started to fall down.
Prime time TV shows in the 70’s had small production budgets.
The network would compare the production budget against, say, Happy Days or Fantasy Island, not Star Wars.
The last and final episode!! A great one
The Battlestar Galactica, Versus a Cylon Base Star
Apollo's brother and their mother would've been so proud of him and Starbuck for helping to destroy a Cylon Base Star by going aboard it with a Cylon fighter and then destroying its scanners before getting off when the alarm went off as the Colonial Vipers were spotted by the Cylons.
The movie Glen Larson is making is being delayed due to script changes but Bryan Singer who will be directing says once the fans see the finished project they will really like what was done to Galactica.
Unfortunately, Glen Larson died almost two weeks ago :(
starsiegeplayer Thanks for the update. Well now that just cuts it doesn't it? Another very talented and rare legend falls to illness and in a moment of time gone. So sad but also so thankful for his contributions that will live on.
starsiegeplayer Thanks for the update on Glen.I hope Universal Studios do continue his project and keep it the way it is suppose to be.Composer Stu Phillips told me one of Glen's sons Eric works for his father and may have had the Galactica franchise willed to him.His son I believed mentioned in an interview he will keep the Galactica franchise the way his father wanted it and he was writing his own episodes.And if the TV series is brought back and there is a huge budget,fans want to see all of the episodes in which Adama and the Galactica crew have nothing but space battles with the Cylons.Plus there is a back story in which the Cylons were also at war against another empire who both hate them and the humans.Let's also hope they use some of Richard Hatch's Galactica books and turn them into film versions
I vote Anson Mount as Commander Adama.
@@kenwaid8239He would be really good as Adama. Shame what they have done to Pike.
So cheesey by today's standards but I remember my little brother being glued to the screen as to not miss a second of this show & being amazed at the graphics !!!
I asked him " can you imagine what these shows would be like in 20 to 30 yrs " he said " I don't think it could get any better " !!!
Well guess what they did !!!
"The Hand of God" this was the season/series finale.
After seeing that Basestar getting blown to bits, I think we'll need a 'space mop'....!😂
The Cylons be like, "The stinking Mormons are coming!"
The greatest sci-fi show ever
BGOS was campy, but it had heart; unlike the crap they show on tv today.
When your ship is round... which way is aft?
Even a round ship would have to have a fore and aft. Those positions are simply designated at the time of designing.
The Better Battlestar.
The very best of the original Battlestar galactica
They're waggling!
Adama...they can hold their own .
anyone else notice how big and cushioned the seats in that cylon fighter were? ;D
Well they only know how to make human styled chairs.
Cylons hate getting scratches on their shiny chromed behinds.
@@MrDainBramage 🤣🤣
LAZYBOY?
Die beiden besten Freunde
Battle scenes re-used from The Living Legend Pt. II.
I used to like that show when I kid I will always like that show 😂
The gold Cylons were real badasses.
WE did not have Cable back then , but Dave and Don did . Things got wild at Turkey Hunting Camp . A Machete and steel pipe came out and there was a slightly dangerous Sword fight going on and they were shouting Cylon Attack . I had no Idea what a Cylon was or how to defend against them . I am glad that I had a Shotgun in the Tent just in case . Wild stuff !
This was an ABC show you didn’t need fucking cable dude it was broadcast over the airwaves so no excuses
Wish they would Digitally Remaster this series. I just ordered yet another new set of it and although it's viewable enugh i suppose, a better digitally remastered version (not silly blue ray) would really bring out all the vividness that still remains suppressed in it. Good thing i at least can watch it on a massive 70 inch home screen. The audio especially needs redigitized.
Well, I mean, it needs a remaster AND to be on Blu-ray.
I love Battlestar will have to call it was the best TV show
It would've been interesting to see the return on the Battlestar Pegasus again when Battlestar Galactica returned for a 2nd season on ABC-TV and to see Lloyd Bridges reprising the role of Commander Cain again and maybe seeing his character with a beard and to be reunited with the Colonial fleet and for him being reunited with his only daughter Sheba.
I have read that if there had been a second season, they were going to bring back Commander Cain. Remember that scene when Count Iblis tells Sheba she will see her father again? Shame we never got a second season.
I always believed that the promised “reuniting” of Sheba and her father was her discovery of his corpse in the crashed spaceship, and the sudden revelation that Iblis led the Pegasus to her final destruction.
“Cloven hoof” not withstanding, of course.
@@gernblansten684 The crashed ship wasn't the Pegasus. The Pegasus and Commander Cain were going to return in season 2 had the series been renewed.
@@LBF522 And Iblis would of course never, _ever_ lie... oh, wait, isn't one of his titles the Father of Lies? Come to think of it, maybe Sheba shouldn't assume anything based on anything she heard from that source...
There is no air in space but those cylons ships bank into corner
Gravity?
Battlestar Algorithm, reporting for duty Tube
Good thing that Starbuck & Apollo had waggled the Cylon fighter they were in so that they would be idemtified by the Galactica in case they lost the gadget that flashes a red dot so that Colonial Vipers wouldn‘t shoot them by mistake.
No, it was a terrible thing. If they'd been shot we would have been spared the agony of this series continuing...
Starbuck had jokingly mentioned to Boomer that they would do that if they lost the device. Fortunately, Boomer remembered it.
Frac that was a good episode
I've only really seen the new BSG, have seen odd clip here and their of the original. Would love to put it on my collection of shows.
I have the whole series..Apollo and Starbuck forever!!
always liked this version. never understood the newer version making the Cylons into human form. was odd since they wanted to destroys the humans, but they made themselves into human form, kinda contrdictory [msp] in thier final solution.
Because that way the show could use human actors. The showrunners for the 'new' so-called BSG were not really interested in doing an SF story, they wanted to do allegories about current-day politics and society and that needed human actors who could interact with human actors.
@@shermanlee4037Oh a Star Trek wannabe..
Much prefer the original BSG.
weird universe with atmosphere
I Liked this show when I was a kid, but I was playing a ATARI 5200 back then to. Looks like Felgercarb nowadays.
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Battlestars have always been my favourite spaceship, the original followed closely by the reboot.
Wow. The Cylons are unbeatable. They are already firing back before the aft laser turrets even detect the attacking battlestar. And then they even manage to hit the hangar openings on the far side of the Galactica from behind with their mega-lasers. Their lasers can apparently shoot in curves. Don't even get me started on the ultra-fast reaction time of the robots and their necessary verbal communication in a dicey situation. After all, who needs wireless communication and autonomous weapon systems on a robot ship? Perhaps they also use pneumatic tubes and file trolleys to communicate within the ship?
1:10 landing bay taking hits vs 2:26 "and the landing bays are intact". At 1:14 Galactica pointing differently than in 1:15. At 1:50 the distance between the battlestars is still like 1:10. The battle is won despite Adama who looks very old and wise, because at 1:24 he orders the flanking maneuver exposing the Galactica to the intact part of the Cylon base star, and he forgot to lock on the forward lasers (which can turn), until 2:05. Not ordered to do so, the gunner at the landing bay is just shooting for fun, sidewards, at 2:04 while the Cylon base star is in front. Maybe the gunner thought there was a Cylon base ship but it was only a weather balloon.
Damn right, you said it!
"'battlestations, seal all the compartments, close the three ring circus"
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