Man , Growing up in those days were Awesome!! Looked forward to watch every episode , as much as possible!! Life was so much better then ... we had no computer's no cell phones the street lights were our go home time ,, kid's today missed out on so much !! No imagine.. so glad to be a gen X. !! 😂❤ SO SAY WE ALL !!! Thank you !!
Dirk Benedict confirmed in interviews that the woman Starbuck encounters in The Return of Starbuck was indeed one of the Seraphs from the Ship of Lights, who appeared in the episodes War of the Gods Parts I and II and Experiment in Terra. In War of the Gods, the Seraphs told Starbuck that his was "a most promising spirit," and suggested that he would fulfill that promise with Apollo's continued guidance. The woman in The Return of Starbuck told Starbuck that he was being tested, and at the episode's end, she judged Starbuck to be a "good man." What was supposed to happen next was that Starbuck was to escape the deserted planet using the Cylon Raider (which Starbuck already knew how to pilot in the episode, The Hand of God), and would eventually be rescued by the Ship of Lights, who would lead Starbuck towards his next adventure, but that sadly never came to be.
Not quite correct the part with Starbuck escaping in the raider is the actual ending which would have been used if the epsoide was aired in the cancelled season 2 of original show you see they used the plot but what they planned was for Starbuck to appear again in galactica 1980 and it would be realved to troy boxey that Starbuck became one of the ship of lights that's what she means by him being tested and that's how he escapes his fate not sure if he has to die first or if that just transform him. The unproduced script is online somewhere.
I was a kid back then and loved the original Battlestar Galactica TV show. I met Dirk Benedict at a custom car show back in the early 80s (he was the star appearing at the show) and he was very nice. He was on the A-Team by then, but I asked him about Battlestar Galactica, and he chatted about it for a bit. I got his autograph, and he signed it "All the best, Dirk Benedict aka Starbuck".
I was a kid back then too. I was floored by another film that Benedict was in. The local independent station in my town showed sci fi and horror movies on Sunday afternoons. It was called “Sssss.” It came out in 1973. He gets a job assisting a scientist who was working on snakes. The Dr gives him shots to immunize him from possible snakebites. Soon he begins to notice his body changes… I’ll stop there to avoid spoilers.
así es ,nada se tíra, todo se recicla , como un capitulo de la fuga de logan ,stargate en donde los protagonistas se encuentran con una raza extraterrestre que esta reparando un portal intergaláctico para traer tropas desde otra galaxia e invadir la tierra
The original concept may date to a movie called Hell In the Pacific. An American pilot is marooned with a Japanese one, and both have to cooperate to survive.
Those wires were visible even when the show first ran. It was like they didn't even try to hide them. It's a shame this show was so short lived. I loved it back then!
I think the network wasn't very wise about how they handled the show. They should have turned it into an event tv movie series or mini series and kept it going.
John Colicos played the bad guy really well... Baltar, Mikkos Cassidine from General Hospital, and I read somewhere he was the first Klingon in Star Trek original series.
He also reprised his Galactica character in Richard Hatch’s self financed revival, Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming. If I remember correctly that was his last appearance before he died.
@@kpowersThat sounds like a better deal than the DVDs I purchased separately and two years apart from each other! Especially since I bought the 80 disc just to get the episode with Starbuck. Seriously I didn’t watch anything else.
Thanks so much for that TVcrazyman, bloody awesome.... here's a little story for you... I loved that show to the max when I was a kid ‼️ At school, can't remember what class it was now but we had to create a story on how to prevent fires ( I grew up in Australia at that time, Australia has a lot of bush fires) . So, my story involved Starbuck and Apollo flying close to earth when one of Starbuck's cigars entered earth's atmosphere and landed in Australia. A fire started and well blah blah blah. I drew a really cool space craft that they were flying and the cigar entering earth, I was proud of my story and the cool Battle Star Galactica connection I had created. My teacher had a very opposite thought and I was scolded about such a concocted story ‼️ I'll never forget that day hahaha 🤣🤣🤣 Cheers to you TVcrazyman 🤟✨
Wow. She should have encouraged your imagination. Seems like a fun story that correlates to people driving cars and throwing out a cigarette. She must not have been a sci-fi fan.
Found this channel last night around 02:00 in the moring and keep watching till i passed out :) Subbed, love the content. Greets from the netherlands. OT: This is my favorite show from my youth.
Frackin awesome sir ! All Warriors know Galactica 1980 is a very bad dream by Adama ! 😅 the only canon is “Return of Starbuck “ fan theory was that Starbuck returned to the fleet in the Cylon Raider!
You are correct about women not wearing tight pants in Egypt. I saw one of the cast mention this on a DVD (It was either Richard Hatch or Glen Larson-I don't remember offhand). So no need to worry that it is just an IMDB rumour
Four and a half decades later I still remember "Redeye". A few years after that, I watched a show that had an episode with the SAME plot ("Tales of the Gold Monkey").
I also loved the Starbuck Galactica 1980 episode when I was a kid. I do wonder why his Cylon companion had that unique voice and personality of his from the other Cylons though. Before their Raider had crashed down on the planet his voice was that of a regular Cylon and not a mix of two.
A couple of things that erk me is one is what happened to the Battlestar of the lost thirteenth tribe once they arrived on earth and number two is on The return of Starbuck episode, there was a Cylon ship around there somewhere used by the patrol that confronted Starbuck and Cy. Starbuck should have been able to use that ship to get back to the Galactica or at least get close enough to call for a rescue party. Starbuck shouldn't have been marooned.
Back when I worked at the Mall of America one of my coworkers had a Hot Wheels K.I.T.T. car signed by William Daniels. Well one day David Hasselhoff was doing an autograph signing, so he thought he might get him to sign his Hot Wheels. Then, he looked at the crowd and thought no not worth it.
In Saga of a Star World, (or the movie released before the series) Apollo and Zack are ambushed by Cylon fighters. Apollo orders reverse thrust and maximum braking flaps. Flaps would be useless in space. Also, the next cockpit scene has Apollo ordering forward thrust. Except that the space outside the cockpit is moving forward, when the Viper should be travelling in reverse!
There was a script for Galactica 1980 called The Wheel of Fire where Starbuck does return as a light person. You can probably find the script online with a little digging. Some key lines are: So, you finally became a Captain ••• like your father. Troy whirls around and stares dumbtoundedly at: A FAMILIAR FACE Starbuck is standing before Troy. STARBUCK I'm proud of you Boxey. Troy continues to stare at Starbuck in disbelief. Starbuck simply smiles.
I loved your episode. I have been a fan of bsg for 28 years I was 8 wen I played with a toy viper. I asked what ship class was this in star War. My grandmother set me down . And said star wars and battle star galactica is to different monsters. I was hooked and loved it. I will give anotcomment about my questions for u.
Starbuck didn't need to come back! His coffee chain was just taking off! Yuk yuk! I remember how on Match Game PM Charles Nelson Riley was giving Brett Somers a hard time about her guest appearance on the show (and I don't think he knew the name of it! My brother claims that he overheard my other brother talking in his sleep, saying "the Cylons are eating the salad!" so he said "By your command!" in a robot voice, allegedly waking him up! Haha!
Oh, but Starbuck DID come back. He found his way to Earth and teamed up with a black guy with gold chains, a crazy guy, and a guy who smokes cigars and loves it when a plan comes together.
The actor playing the humanoid Cylon Lara Parker was calling to was also from Dark Shadows. His name is Roger Davis and he played the character Jeff Clark aka Peter Bradford.
Judith Chapman; the found woman on Starbucks last adventure was in Olympiad in Buck Rogers with Gil Gerard all cozy with him going through the sled course in her sled. Gorgeous lady.. Both series had great actors who could emote well even though this was family viewing only needing lesser acting of those times standard.
@@SJHFoto Yeah i remember Erin Grey on MPI with the "stairway to heaven" episode using stunt men up high except for them briefly on the safe lower bits of the stairs. She grew up in Hawaii and played character Digger and like chapman, gorgeous. So many lovely ladies from the 70's and 80's when shows were fun a light not heavy and dark like todays. So sad both BTG and BR had basically one season hmm (BR) as could have had plenty of stories on earth and BSG in space with a wide cast could have had lots stories. The whole religious mormon thing got too political apparently for him and it ended. worst part is the Mormon church thing is a modern scam literally like Scientology , set up by crooks who knew exactly what they were doing. Remember Richard Dawkins telling a young guy on stage whos about to sing on stage , that his religion is nonsense, although all gods are of course silly, but the older ones are genuine in that they were "made up" thousands of years ago. BSG The Cobol 12 and that we came from the stars is likely part true in that we either were seeded by a asteroid or comet or from the material left over on earth that then got going 4 billion ish years ago. Anyway point is, that i hope science and space and all that is the reality and proof that we should use and stay grounded as thats where we came from overall and today we are here and tomorrow we will have evolved into something else as the trees split and i just wish we could go back to those fun times when life was simple and shows bad guys werent so heavy handed and more cartoonish.
@@xx3868 For one thing, I thought we were talking about Judith Chapman, not Erin Grey. (Erin was in Magnum PI too, but that's not what I was referring to) As far as religion goes, the Bible is my guide to life. Some religions don't use the Bible, and some say they do, but don't really follow it.
THIS was definitely my battlestar galactica. I loved it as a kid, and when the remake came out, my anticipation was dashed. Such a shame it was so awful-I still can't understand how that went on for seasons when the great original show didn't! By the way, I am watching your video now, so I don't know if you mention this but a fun fact is that Larson was able to squeeze extra money from the budget by "borrowing" from the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew show which was another show of his that was always under budget. It is one of the reasons why a lot of the Galactica stars were guests on various episodes of that show
I just started watching Hardy Boys on DVD. I missed it the first time around. I saw the episode where Lorne Greene was Dracula or at least they implied he was. I never got into the new Battlestar Galactica show. If I remember right they were just way too serious on that show. Back when smiling was outlawed from television, I guess.
@@tvcrazyman I know some people say the new one is more "realistic", (and I guess it is-if 99% of the population was destroyed by robots that are remorsely hunting you, people wouldn't be getting up to the antics of the classic show probably), I prefer my entertainment to be escapist lightheartness, not grim depression. Yea, I was a huge fan of the Hardy/Nancy show back in the day! Oh, here's a fun fact, when the original actress who played Nancy left, the girl who played Bree in the Galactica episode where the shuttle pilots (aka "women") had to pilot the Vipers took over. She just didn't have that same flair as the original actress! The whole show was on its way out by then anyway. There was an excellent comic book that ended the series very nicely. Long story short, if you remember in "The Day the Cylons Landed", microwave ovens of all things almost destroyed the two Cylons on earth, well, in this comic, Galactica finds earth but the Cylons are hot on their heels. They land in Washington DC and quickly tell humanity what is happening and basically says that we don't have a prayer. Well, the Earth nations decide to launch Nukes at the Cylons, and the robots have no defense against them (they have never encountered radiation before) Discovering this, Adama quickly equips the Vipers with radiation bombs which destroy the Cylons without destroying the 3 or 4 Base Ships that attacked Earth. This lets humans of Earth study and copy the technology. Meaning that once Imperious Leader gets the signal of the location of Earth, the Earth nations and Galactica can effectively fight them off!
@@SJHFoto I've got to get that comic. I think I have probably seen it before. You know I get that modern writers think that in times of crisis everyone is serious, but I've always thought people sometimes get more of a sense of humor after being subjected to hard times long enough as a coping mechanism. Plus, I think it's more interesting to see a range of emotions vs just doom and gloom. I totally agree with you entertainment should be about escaping depressing reality we see in the real world. I like having a fun adventure.
@@tvcrazyman I hope you enjoy your Hardy/Nancy experience! I still remember the theme music! The other shows I was into weren't from the States, so you might not know them. There's the Scottish show Supergran (I had a crush on one of the girls on that show (I was VERY young when it came out)), the 70s Famous Five is another show I liked (and had a crush on one of those girls too!) Another good show was the
This is the first I time heard of someone also liking the time travel aspect of season 2. As a kid I was thrilled about that. Only to find out the series would steer away from this. I too think the time travel route was the way to go. But I think that narrative was a bit ahead for that time and maybe more oriented to a mature/adolescant public. While BSG was probably child oriented. But then again, I was a kid and loved the theme🤔
LOL, at 12:54 you can see the rods holding the cylon ships up as they rotate and shot at the ground. Oh and yes Lorne Green was a very seasoned actor and he was very good, very believable.
I loved watching Battlestar Galactica but there always seemed to be delays at getting the next episode out. Hard to get a following when it was inconsistent. The formats they use now would have really worked with it where they only have to make about 10 episodes for a season instead of 20+ that were expected back then. Also the same special effects people that did Star Wars did much of their special effects at the time when Stars Wars was new and very popular.
Ohhhhh….I have so much Galactica 1980 trivia. For instance, G-80 was originally intended to be set five years after the original Galactica. The much smaller cast would have been Jamie (from earth), Adama, Starbuck, Apollo, and Baltar. Richard Hatch wanted nothing to do with it, and I’m not sure why Dirk passed on it, but since they couldn’t get either of them, they decided to set it 30 years later, rather than just 5. Baltar was replaced by “Xavier.” “The Return of Starbuck” was written as “The Return of Apollo.” Once again, Richard Hatch wanted nothing to do with it, so they asked Dirk and he said sure, and they adjusted the script by simply changing the name “apollo” to “starbuck” and making no other changes. This is why Adama gives his surprisingly emotional “Goodbye Starbuck” speech which seems a little intense all things considered. In fact it was written as Adama saying goodbye to Apollo, which makes a lot more sense. The angel-like-beings were called “Seraphs” in the script, though it never turns up onscreen. The pregnant lady was a seraph, dumped on the planet as a test for Starbuck. Starbuck passes the test and the lady says, “I judge this man to be good.” Had the show continued, Starbuck would have returned *as* a Seraph. He would have held the same role that “John” had in “Experiment in Terra,” and turned up a few times every year. Presumably the test in “the return of starbuck” was to see if he was worthy of becoming a seraph. Several other episodes were in various stages of development, and one of the completed ones had Troy and Dillon going back to Ancient Israel, where Starbuck would show up and advise them. I know more stuff about the show, like why it switched from time travel to Child Care in Space, if you’re interested
Awesome! I would have loved to have seen more time travel and having them go back to ancient Israel sounds very interesting. Did you find out about this stuff from a book or just picked it up a little here and there? Definitely interesting stuff and I definitely wonder why the change from time travel so quickly in the show's run.
@ 6:50 - That scene where they travel back to WW2....The Germans walking to a bunker was a scene lifted from Operation Crossbow 1965 about V1 and V2 rockets and a mission to destroy the factory.
In fanfiction Starbuck was found by a terran survey team about 5 yrs later,he was returned to Terra and Reunited with the colonial fleet by way of Pegasus who rescued Terra from the cylons.he retired from colonial service and reinstated later as a colonial combat instructor for pilots of the new terran space forces .
Would you consider doing a video on a show as recent as SLIDERS? That's my favorite sci-fi show and I'd really enjoy seeing you pick it apart. Anyway, this was an excellent episode, as usual.
Thanks, I'll definitely be thinking about doing one on Sliders. That show was really good at first and it kept sliding down hill, so to speak, as it went. It had really bad early cgi dinosaurs. The concept of going between alternate worlds has always fascinated me. It's too bad they went with more monster of the week toward the end verses exploring the possibilities. Have to go back over the episodes to refresh my memory.
@@tvcrazyman the first two seasons are fantastic, the third and fourth hit & miss, mostly miss, and I've yet to watch the final season. I think if you did an episode most people would be more interested in goofs and facts from those early seasons. At least I know I would be. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me and love the channel!!
I know you probably get a lot of requests for videos But how about The Night Gallery & Man From UNCLE tv shows. Love your videos thanks for All your hard work. !!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤😊😊😊😊
My Mother was extremely controlling and loved destroying or restricting anything I found interesting or loved. When this show came on television I had learned enough at 15 not to show any enthusiasm of any kind because she would use it as simply another weapon. She had taken everything else away from me, so the only thing she had left was lording over the television. I pretended I hated it and didn't care too much and that allowed me to never miss an episode. Funny what you remember all these years later.
Starbuck could have rebuilt Cy again with the parts from the other 3 Cylon's. He also could then escape the planet with Cy in the Cylon raider that the 3 Cylons arrived on.
Oh yeahh! I totally forgot. 😀That's funny, I wonder how they got away with naming it Starbucks or did Glen Larson get something for that. Kind of like the Popeye's restaurant.
The “Made in USA” on the computer screen actually was not a goof. It actually points to a recent contact between the 12 Colonies and Earth, which was to be explored in the second season. Of course, that is just my head canon.
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Galactica 1980 would have been a whole lot better if they left out the space Scouts. And that is a common sentiment. Were they re-edited together certain episodes to make Galactica 1980 the movie that was the best episode there was other than the return of Starbuck
I remember one fan theory that Quantum Leap, Knight Rider and BSG were set in the same universe and that the technology for KITT was the result of reverse engineering the tech from the remains of a crashed Cylon Raider from Roswell and Quantum Leap is in a divergent timeline created after the time travel episode.
First, any "bloopers" that are on the very edge of the screen I don't consider bloopers. Because the edges of the screen were obscured by the frame of the TV sets back in those days so those ''bloopers'' were most likely not seen.
Another Quantum leap connection is that Al the Hologram mentioned in the video, is played by Dean Stockwell, who appeared as a cylon in the reimagined series
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Man , Growing up in those days were Awesome!! Looked forward to watch every episode , as much as possible!! Life was so much better then ... we had no computer's no cell phones the street lights were our go home time ,, kid's today missed out on so much !! No imagine.. so glad to be a gen X. !! 😂❤
SO SAY WE ALL !!!
Thank you !!
Dirk Benedict confirmed in interviews that the woman Starbuck encounters in The Return of Starbuck was indeed one of the Seraphs from the Ship of Lights, who appeared in the episodes War of the Gods Parts I and II and Experiment in Terra. In War of the Gods, the Seraphs told Starbuck that his was "a most promising spirit," and suggested that he would fulfill that promise with Apollo's continued guidance. The woman in The Return of Starbuck told Starbuck that he was being tested, and at the episode's end, she judged Starbuck to be a "good man." What was supposed to happen next was that Starbuck was to escape the deserted planet using the Cylon Raider (which Starbuck already knew how to pilot in the episode, The Hand of God), and would eventually be rescued by the Ship of Lights, who would lead Starbuck towards his next adventure, but that sadly never came to be.
It would have been a cool episode to see.
Not quite correct the part with Starbuck escaping in the raider is the actual ending which would have been used if the epsoide was aired in the cancelled season 2 of original show you see they used the plot but what they planned was for Starbuck to appear again in galactica 1980 and it would be realved to troy boxey that Starbuck became one of the ship of lights that's what she means by him being tested and that's how he escapes his fate not sure if he has to die first or if that just transform him. The unproduced script is online somewhere.
I was a kid back then and loved the original Battlestar Galactica TV show. I met Dirk Benedict at a custom car show back in the early 80s (he was the star appearing at the show) and he was very nice. He was on the A-Team by then, but I asked him about Battlestar Galactica, and he chatted about it for a bit. I got his autograph, and he signed it "All the best, Dirk Benedict aka Starbuck".
I was a kid back then too. I was floored by another film that Benedict was in. The local independent station in my town showed sci fi and horror movies on Sunday afternoons.
It was called “Sssss.” It came out in 1973. He gets a job assisting a scientist who was working on snakes. The Dr gives him shots to immunize him from possible snakebites. Soon he begins to notice his body changes…
I’ll stop there to avoid spoilers.
I hope you all enjoy this look back at Battlestar Galactica. I just recently rewatched the entire series on DVD.
I loved the Cylons as a kid. Robotic, yet interesting design and looks.
See - Threepio's daughter got axed.
i remember seeing "Enemy Mine" years later with Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset jr and thinking it was alot like the last BG episode.
Actually I remember seen that one too The sound effects sounded more like from Space:1999,
así es ,nada se tíra, todo se recicla , como un capitulo de la fuga de logan ,stargate en donde los protagonistas se encuentran con una raza extraterrestre que esta reparando un portal intergaláctico para traer tropas desde otra galaxia e invadir la tierra
The original concept may date to a movie called Hell In the Pacific. An American pilot is marooned with a Japanese one, and both have to cooperate to survive.
Those wires were visible even when the show first ran. It was like they didn't even try to hide them. It's a shame this show was so short lived. I loved it back then!
I think the network wasn't very wise about how they handled the show. They should have turned it into an event tv movie series or mini series and kept it going.
@@tvcrazyman Totally agree!
Yeah, but our television quality was so bad back then you couldn’t see the wires like they show in HD screens now!!
At least we had a full season. It would of suck if ABC canceled Battlestar Galactica after just 10 episodes
@@tvcrazyman Or maybe season 2 would have just consisted of several TV movies, then by season 3 go back to the regular 22 episodes season
It’s been years since I’ve watched the series. It was great to see the cast and the comparisons from other shows
Dr Zee was also in a room by himself sitting on a lit chair like the imperious leader and Baltar
I think he was Count Iblis son
John Colicos played the bad guy really well... Baltar, Mikkos Cassidine from General Hospital, and I read somewhere he was the first Klingon in Star Trek original series.
Commander Kor, yes.
@@DoktorRotwang He reprises his role of Kor on 3 episodes of DS9.
He also reprised his Galactica character in Richard Hatch’s self financed revival, Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming.
If I remember correctly that was his last appearance before he died.
I love this 1970s battle star. In my day watching battle star on a battery powered TV in the corvair eating Wendy's in New Orleans.
Another awesome space show with great goofs and facts classic stuff never noticed these bloopers goofs
I am the waiter getting shot at in the beginning of this episode. I haven't seen this in 46 years. WOW. Thanks for the memories.
Awesome!
Very entertaining vid. BSG was my favorite in the 70s and it is great to see people still talk about it today.
“Return of Starbuck “ was the only episode of Galactica 1980 that felt like Battlestar Galactica. It had Cylons, Starbuck, Adama and Boomer
The best AND ONLY EPISODE REALLY WORTH WATCHING.
It was the only reason I bought the DVD.
@@josebrown5961 I bought the Blu-Ray box set and Galactica 1980 comes with it
@@kpowersThat sounds like a better deal than the DVDs I purchased separately and two years apart from each other!
Especially since I bought the 80 disc just to get the episode with Starbuck. Seriously I didn’t watch anything else.
@@josebrown5961 Yeah I really like watching the original series on Blu-Ray
Thanks so much for that TVcrazyman, bloody awesome.... here's a little story for you...
I loved that show to the max when I was a kid ‼️
At school, can't remember what class it was now but we had to create a story on how to prevent fires ( I grew up in Australia at that time, Australia has a lot of bush fires) . So, my story involved Starbuck and Apollo flying close to earth when one of Starbuck's cigars entered earth's atmosphere and landed in Australia. A fire started and well blah blah blah.
I drew a really cool space craft that they were flying and the cigar entering earth, I was proud of my story and the cool Battle Star Galactica connection I had created.
My teacher had a very opposite thought and I was scolded about such a concocted story ‼️
I'll never forget that day hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Cheers to you TVcrazyman 🤟✨
Wow. She should have encouraged your imagination. Seems like a fun story that correlates to people driving cars and throwing out a cigarette. She must not have been a sci-fi fan.
fun fact: the Cylons' costumes were filled by professional basketball players.
I have been fortunate to have met all of the principle actors over the years except Lorne Greene. All were very personable!
Wow...didn't realize that was Gary Owens. 46 years later still learning new stuff about it.
Oh my! I was 14, and my brother and I watched them all.
Found this channel last night around 02:00 in the moring and keep watching till i passed out :)
Subbed, love the content.
Greets from the netherlands.
OT: This is my favorite show from my youth.
Awesome, thank you!
Frackin awesome sir ! All Warriors know Galactica 1980 is a very bad dream by Adama ! 😅 the only canon is “Return of Starbuck “ fan theory was that Starbuck returned to the fleet in the Cylon Raider!
Did he stuff his uniform in the hole?
Thanks
The helmet Starbuck is wearing in the test run of the CORA viper was also used in Buck Rogers.
You are correct about women not wearing tight pants in Egypt. I saw one of the cast mention this on a DVD (It was either Richard Hatch or Glen Larson-I don't remember offhand). So no need to worry that it is just an IMDB rumour
after i heard "Fylon Sighter" this is now canon, lmao
I loved this show! Was it only 1 season with Dirk Benedict and Robert Hatch? Wow! I named my hamsters Starbuck and Apollo. 😃
Appreciate this video
Edward mulhare played someone people couldn’t see… and also played the ghost in “the ghost and Mrs Muir”
Loved the episode where it had a wild west theme and a cylon was the fastest draw.😮
That episode was a Remake of Shane.
That one was fun!
Four and a half decades later I still remember "Redeye". A few years after that, I watched a show that had an episode with the SAME plot ("Tales of the Gold Monkey").
Redeye didn't drink red eye..😂
Another classic we was so lucky tv back then was so good compared to today's rubbish. I sound old & grumpy lol 🤣🤣🤣
I think that most people aren't enjoying new TV shows and movies anymore. 😀
Battlestar Galactica was The Exodus Set in Outer Space.
I also loved the Starbuck Galactica 1980 episode when I was a kid. I do wonder why his Cylon companion had that unique voice and personality of his from the other Cylons though. Before their Raider had crashed down on the planet his voice was that of a regular Cylon and not a mix of two.
This is still a good show. I'm streaming me some Space 1999
Great work from USA, Chicago, IL
Aw brilliant! Love this guy! 👏👏👏
Thanks
A couple of things that erk me is one is what happened to the Battlestar of the lost thirteenth tribe once they arrived on earth and number two is on The return of Starbuck episode, there was a Cylon ship around there somewhere used by the patrol that confronted Starbuck and Cy. Starbuck should have been able to use that ship to get back to the Galactica or at least get close enough to call for a rescue party. Starbuck shouldn't have been marooned.
Someone else commented or I read somewhere that he couldn't use that cylon ship because it took two to fly it. I do wonder where that lost ship went.
Back when I worked at the Mall of America one of my coworkers had a Hot Wheels K.I.T.T. car signed by William Daniels. Well one day David Hasselhoff was doing an autograph signing, so he thought he might get him to sign his Hot Wheels. Then, he looked at the crowd and thought no not worth it.
In Saga of a Star World, (or the movie released before the series) Apollo and Zack are ambushed by Cylon fighters. Apollo orders reverse thrust and maximum braking flaps.
Flaps would be useless in space.
Also, the next cockpit scene has Apollo ordering forward thrust. Except that the space outside the cockpit is moving forward, when the Viper should be travelling in reverse!
There was a script for Galactica 1980 called The Wheel of Fire where Starbuck does return as a light person. You can probably find the script online with a little digging. Some key lines are:
So, you finally became a Captain •••
like your father.
Troy whirls around and stares dumbtoundedly at:
A FAMILIAR FACE
Starbuck is standing before Troy.
STARBUCK
I'm proud of you Boxey.
Troy continues to stare at Starbuck in disbelief. Starbuck
simply smiles.
Thank You once again it was Awesome 🥰
You're welcome. I appreciate it.
I loved your episode. I have been a fan of bsg for 28 years I was 8 wen I played with a toy viper. I asked what ship class was this in star War. My grandmother set me down . And said star wars and battle star galactica is to different monsters. I was hooked and loved it. I will give anotcomment about my questions for u.
Starbuck didn't need to come back! His coffee chain was just taking off! Yuk yuk! I remember how on Match Game PM Charles Nelson Riley was giving Brett Somers a hard time about her guest appearance on the show (and I don't think he knew the name of it! My brother claims that he overheard my other brother talking in his sleep, saying "the Cylons are eating the salad!" so he said "By your command!" in a robot voice, allegedly waking him up! Haha!
Oh, but Starbuck DID come back. He found his way to Earth and teamed up with a black guy with gold chains, a crazy guy, and a guy who smokes cigars and loves it when a plan comes together.
The actor playing the humanoid Cylon Lara Parker was calling to was also from Dark Shadows. His name is Roger Davis and he played the character Jeff Clark aka Peter Bradford.
Judith Chapman; the found woman on Starbucks last adventure was in Olympiad in Buck Rogers with Gil Gerard all cozy with him going through the sled course in her sled. Gorgeous lady.. Both series had great actors who could emote well even though this was family viewing only needing lesser acting of those times standard.
I remember her from a Magnum PI episode or two.
@@SJHFoto Yeah i remember Erin Grey on MPI with the "stairway to heaven" episode using stunt men up high except for them briefly on the safe lower bits of the stairs. She grew up in Hawaii and played character Digger and like chapman, gorgeous. So many lovely ladies from the 70's and 80's when shows were fun a light not heavy and dark like todays. So sad both BTG and BR had basically one season hmm (BR) as could have had plenty of stories on earth and BSG in space with a wide cast could have had lots stories. The whole religious mormon thing got too political apparently for him and it ended. worst part is the Mormon church thing is a modern scam literally like Scientology , set up by crooks who knew exactly what they were doing. Remember Richard Dawkins telling a young guy on stage whos about to sing on stage , that his religion is nonsense, although all gods are of course silly, but the older ones are genuine in that they were "made up" thousands of years ago. BSG The Cobol 12 and that we came from the stars is likely part true in that we either were seeded by a asteroid or comet or from the material left over on earth that then got going 4 billion ish years ago. Anyway point is, that i hope science and space and all that is the reality and proof that we should use and stay grounded as thats where we came from overall and today we are here and tomorrow we will have evolved into something else as the trees split and i just wish we could go back to those fun times when life was simple and shows bad guys werent so heavy handed and more cartoonish.
@@xx3868 For one thing, I thought we were talking about Judith Chapman, not Erin Grey. (Erin was in Magnum PI too, but that's not what I was referring to) As far as religion goes, the Bible is my guide to life. Some religions don't use the Bible, and some say they do, but don't really follow it.
I remember Judith Chapman from General Hospital
So funny thanks
R.I.P Terry Carter
THIS was definitely my battlestar galactica. I loved it as a kid, and when the remake came out, my anticipation was dashed. Such a shame it was so awful-I still can't understand how that went on for seasons when the great original show didn't!
By the way, I am watching your video now, so I don't know if you mention this but a fun fact is that Larson was able to squeeze extra money from the budget by "borrowing" from the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew show which was another show of his that was always under budget. It is one of the reasons why a lot of the Galactica stars were guests on various episodes of that show
I just started watching Hardy Boys on DVD. I missed it the first time around. I saw the episode where Lorne Greene was Dracula or at least they implied he was. I never got into the new Battlestar Galactica show. If I remember right they were just way too serious on that show. Back when smiling was outlawed from television, I guess.
@@tvcrazyman I know some people say the new one is more "realistic", (and I guess it is-if 99% of the population was destroyed by robots that are remorsely hunting you, people wouldn't be getting up to the antics of the classic show probably), I prefer my entertainment to be escapist lightheartness, not grim depression.
Yea, I was a huge fan of the Hardy/Nancy show back in the day! Oh, here's a fun fact, when the original actress who played Nancy left, the girl who played Bree in the Galactica episode where the shuttle pilots (aka "women") had to pilot the Vipers took over. She just didn't have that same flair as the original actress! The whole show was on its way out by then anyway.
There was an excellent comic book that ended the series very nicely. Long story short, if you remember in "The Day the Cylons Landed", microwave ovens of all things almost destroyed the two Cylons on earth, well, in this comic, Galactica finds earth but the Cylons are hot on their heels. They land in Washington DC and quickly tell humanity what is happening and basically says that we don't have a prayer. Well, the Earth nations decide to launch Nukes at the Cylons, and the robots have no defense against them (they have never encountered radiation before) Discovering this, Adama quickly equips the Vipers with radiation bombs which destroy the Cylons without destroying the 3 or 4 Base Ships that attacked Earth. This lets humans of Earth study and copy the technology. Meaning that once Imperious Leader gets the signal of the location of Earth, the Earth nations and Galactica can effectively fight them off!
@@SJHFoto I've got to get that comic. I think I have probably seen it before. You know I get that modern writers think that in times of crisis everyone is serious, but I've always thought people sometimes get more of a sense of humor after being subjected to hard times long enough as a coping mechanism. Plus, I think it's more interesting to see a range of emotions vs just doom and gloom. I totally agree with you entertainment should be about escaping depressing reality we see in the real world. I like having a fun adventure.
@@tvcrazyman I hope you enjoy your Hardy/Nancy experience! I still remember the theme music!
The other shows I was into weren't from the States, so you might not know them. There's the Scottish show Supergran (I had a crush on one of the girls on that show (I was VERY young when it came out)), the 70s Famous Five is another show I liked (and had a crush on one of those girls too!) Another good show was the
Fun series.
First was the best 😉👍!!!
This is the first I time heard of someone also liking the time travel aspect of season 2. As a kid I was thrilled about that. Only to find out the series would steer away from this. I too think the time travel route was the way to go. But I think that narrative was a bit ahead
for that time and maybe more oriented to a mature/adolescant public. While BSG was probably child oriented. But then again, I was a kid and loved the theme🤔
I've always loved anything with time travel even when I was a kid. The idea has always fascinated me.
Same here. I even think bsg might have triggered my time travel interest
LOL, at 12:54 you can see the rods holding the cylon ships up as they rotate and shot at the ground. Oh and yes Lorne Green was a very seasoned actor and he was very good, very believable.
I loved watching Battlestar Galactica but there always seemed to be delays at getting the next episode out. Hard to get a following when it was inconsistent. The formats they use now would have really worked with it where they only have to make about 10 episodes for a season instead of 20+ that were expected back then. Also the same special effects people that did Star Wars did much of their special effects at the time when Stars Wars was new and very popular.
At 12:44 you can see the reflection of the filming crew in Cy’s armor!
Ohhhhh….I have so much Galactica 1980 trivia. For instance, G-80 was originally intended to be set five years after the original Galactica. The much smaller cast would have been Jamie (from earth), Adama, Starbuck, Apollo, and Baltar. Richard Hatch wanted nothing to do with it, and I’m not sure why Dirk passed on it, but since they couldn’t get either of them, they decided to set it 30 years later, rather than just 5. Baltar was replaced by “Xavier.”
“The Return of Starbuck” was written as “The Return of Apollo.” Once again, Richard Hatch wanted nothing to do with it, so they asked Dirk and he said sure, and they adjusted the script by simply changing the name “apollo” to “starbuck” and making no other changes. This is why Adama gives his surprisingly emotional “Goodbye Starbuck” speech which seems a little intense all things considered. In fact it was written as Adama saying goodbye to Apollo, which makes a lot more sense.
The angel-like-beings were called “Seraphs” in the script, though it never turns up onscreen. The pregnant lady was a seraph, dumped on the planet as a test for Starbuck. Starbuck passes the test and the lady says, “I judge this man to be good.”
Had the show continued, Starbuck would have returned *as* a Seraph. He would have held the same role that “John” had in “Experiment in Terra,” and turned up a few times every year. Presumably the test in “the return of starbuck” was to see if he was worthy of becoming a seraph.
Several other episodes were in various stages of development, and one of the completed ones had Troy and Dillon going back to Ancient Israel, where Starbuck would show up and advise them.
I know more stuff about the show, like why it switched from time travel to Child Care in Space, if you’re interested
Here's my question-Where did Starbuck get his Cigars?
Awesome! I would have loved to have seen more time travel and having them go back to ancient Israel sounds very interesting. Did you find out about this stuff from a book or just picked it up a little here and there? Definitely interesting stuff and I definitely wonder why the change from time travel so quickly in the show's run.
Why no Spacesuits whenever they fly a Viper?
What if they have to Abandon Ship in Space?
Yeah i been thinking about that to, about C.H.I.P. cross over with BSG
👍 The most expensive science fiction series ever made for television 📺. If adjusted for inflation, still is !........
They did spend a lot of money on that series, especially the first episode.
Headcanon; Tvcrazyman is actually Keith, the subject of stories from Ellis in L4D2.
I've got season 1 and 2 and plan on getting BS 1980 soon
@ 6:50 - That scene where they travel back to WW2....The Germans walking to a bunker was a scene lifted from Operation Crossbow 1965 about V1 and V2 rockets and a mission to destroy the factory.
Thanks, I figured it was taken from something else.
The whole attack of Earth by the Cylons in Galactica 1980 was from the 1974 movie "Earthquake", which also starred Lorne Greene.
Robot chicken Star*uck brought me here. 😂
Very interesting content
Thanks
The similarities between 1980's "return of starbuck" and 1979's "enemy mine" might beg the question which came first.
In fanfiction Starbuck was found by a terran survey team about 5 yrs later,he was returned to Terra and Reunited with the colonial fleet by way of Pegasus who rescued Terra from the cylons.he retired from colonial service and reinstated later as a colonial combat instructor for pilots of the new terran space forces .
thanks for the spoiler alert, very helpful
Well yah a fylon sighter is a person the looks for clairicle errors in all the paper work . 5:29
Thanks for your work. I would love to see ten straight minutes of clips of Cassie...Laurette Spang. Teen crush.
I never have a problem wires.
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Would you consider doing a video on a show as recent as SLIDERS? That's my favorite sci-fi show and I'd really enjoy seeing you pick it apart. Anyway, this was an excellent episode, as usual.
Thanks, I'll definitely be thinking about doing one on Sliders. That show was really good at first and it kept sliding down hill, so to speak, as it went. It had really bad early cgi dinosaurs. The concept of going between alternate worlds has always fascinated me. It's too bad they went with more monster of the week toward the end verses exploring the possibilities. Have to go back over the episodes to refresh my memory.
@@tvcrazyman the first two seasons are fantastic, the third and fourth hit & miss, mostly miss, and I've yet to watch the final season. I think if you did an episode most people would be more interested in goofs and facts from those early seasons. At least I know I would be. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me and love the channel!!
@@mikemayberry7121 Thanks
8:32 Well it worked for Hope Lange on The Ghost 👻and Mrs. Muir. 🤷🏼♂️. 🤓😎✌🏻
Oh that's right, Edward Mulhare was a ghost on that show wasn't he. That's cool. I should have got that one and mentioned it.
He also sounded like KARR in knight Rider
They likewise used the same moon shots, toy models, and cable tether lines that were used for our lunar missions.
Me and my dad got saved from Cylons at universal studios, never got the chance to thank those colonial warriors!
David Hasselhoff wasn't hiding on the Galactica. He was on StarCrash!
The original concept for Galactica 1980 was what became Quantum Leap.
I know you probably get a lot of requests for videos But how about The Night Gallery & Man From UNCLE tv shows. Love your videos thanks for All your hard work. !!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤😊😊😊😊
Thanks, I appreciate it. I'll add them to the list.
A lot of the actors in the original show were on black sheep squadron which ended a year earlier
My Mother was extremely controlling and loved destroying or restricting anything I found interesting or loved. When this show came on television I had learned enough at 15 not to show any enthusiasm of any kind because she would use it as simply another weapon. She had taken everything else away from me, so the only thing she had left was lording over the television. I pretended I hated it and didn't care too much and that allowed me to never miss an episode. Funny what you remember all these years later.
So you used reverse psychology on your mother.
Starbuck could have rebuilt Cy again with the parts from the other 3 Cylon's. He also could then escape the planet with Cy in the Cylon raider that the 3 Cylons arrived on.
That's a good point. If they would have only did another episode.
Always assumed the ship was trash and Cy's personality was destroyed but one more season who knows?
Whatever happened to STARBUCK?!!!😮 He found Earth and founded a coffee chain! Don't you know ANYTHING???😅. 🤓😎✌🏻
Oh yeahh! I totally forgot. 😀That's funny, I wonder how they got away with naming it Starbucks or did Glen Larson get something for that. Kind of like the Popeye's restaurant.
@@tvcrazyman Actually a bunch of Yuppies in the 90's in Seattle named it after the 3rd mate on the Peaquod in Moby Dick I believe 😏🤓😎✌🏻
@@paulsarnik8506 Go figure. Learn something new everyday. I would have thought they got the idea from Battlestar Galactica for sure.😀
Loved the first season, the 80's bits were not good, the reboot was great, one of my all time favorites
I was hired on this set too.
1978 battlestar galactica was awesome.
Should have lasted longer.
Commander cain Should have had his own tv show.
The “Made in USA” on the computer screen actually was not a goof. It actually points to a recent contact between the 12 Colonies and Earth, which was to be explored in the second season. Of course, that is just my head canon.
3.37 looks more like production footage than the actual show.
Germans at bunker is straight from movie "Operation Crossbow 1965" did i miss it in a BSG episode?
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I’ve read in more than one article that BSG has episodes that were inspired by the Mormsn religion.
Love that show, not so much Galactica 1980...
The movie was hilarious
Original Galactica was very hokey… like many shows back the were. No one I knew liked Galactica 80.
One reason why the actors who played Starbuck and Apolo did not return was $$$$. They were reportedly asked to take a 50% pay cut and said no
Interesting.
Galactica 1980 would have been a whole lot better if they left out the space Scouts. And that is a common sentiment. Were they re-edited together certain episodes to make Galactica 1980 the movie that was the best episode there was other than the return of Starbuck
I remember one fan theory that Quantum Leap, Knight Rider and BSG were set in the same universe and that the technology for KITT was the result of reverse engineering the tech from the remains of a crashed Cylon Raider from Roswell and Quantum Leap is in a divergent timeline created after the time travel episode.
I like that. That would make for an interesting movie.
@@tvcrazyman You me both, Hollywood thesedays though? They'd find some way to eff it up.
at 4.52 spock knows the door is not going to open. he adjusts his body to walk into the wall.
the door.
First, any "bloopers" that are on the very edge of the screen I don't consider bloopers. Because the edges of the screen were obscured by the frame of the TV sets back in those days so those ''bloopers'' were most likely not seen.
1978 BG > 1980 BG 😊
Another Quantum leap connection is that Al the Hologram mentioned in the video, is played by Dean Stockwell, who appeared as a cylon in the reimagined series
But when you are a kid you not only don’t see it but you don’t care because all you want is to have one of those ships and guns 😊
Erf? lol it’s Earth. Try it slow. Erf lol to funny
I don't know sounds like erf to me.😀
In that episode...she was already pregnant.....Starbuck was not the father.....but Zee decided he would be a good choice.....
Why did they not pursue great characters like the silons,they just faded away?