My brother was cutting the grass of this local millionaire back on the early 70s. With the tractor he hit the above ground light and told the owner that his ground light hit the tractor. So the owner said, we’ll next time we must tell the light not to jump up and hit the tractor. The guy had a sense of humour. LOL
@@chopperchuck On top of that, a Cylon raider crashed on earth (Halloween night as a matter of fact) resulting in the Cylon Empire nearly discovering the location of Earth! Fortunately the survivors of the raider were thwarted from contacting the Empire and the centurion had fallen into a dumpster. I speculate that the Cylon centurion was later discovered, reverse engineered and somewhat resurrected into the Knight 2000. (AKA KITT)
This was the last episode of Galactica 1980 to air. It didn't receive much fanfare because ABC had already consigned this show to the trashheap. Dirk supposedly did this show to retrieve some personal items he had in a napsack that was somewhere in the Universal studio.
That's not true, this episode was done before Galactic 1980 was even conceived. This episode was supposed to the last episode of the first season, it was supposed to be the season finale and end with a cliff hanger, but the show was cancelled and never aired, the scenes of older Adams and the boy were shot and added to the episode.
I remember watching the original broadcast of this and i was really, really depressed. Very sad to see that after the Cylon and Starbuck bonded together, the Cylon Dies! Very sad!
I remember the original broadcast of this as well. The most depressing part was it makes you think Cool! Starbuck is back! Then it turns out to just be the origin story for that god awful kid nobody liked instead and Starbuck is still out of the series. The 2nd series was awful. This is the only episode I remember liking.
@@redbyrd64 Originally this was supposed to be the last episode of the first season, it was supposed to end as a cliff hanger, but the show was cancelled and I guess they didn't want it to end with a cliff hanger and never aired it, until the last episode of the second season.
I posted something similar above. Battlestar Galactica is very similar to Terminator in both stories involve an army of evil robots trying to eliminate what remains of humanity after wiping out most of humanity in a holocaust. On "versus" threads I have posted wondering who would win in a war between the Terminators and the Cylons.
I heard a rumor that one of the reasons Dirk did this "return" was to get some stuff he had in a locker at Universal. When Galactica was initially canceled, he was not allowed to enter the soundstage to get it.
This episode was actually filmed as the last episode of season 1 as a cliffhanger, but the show was cancelled and it never aired, until the show returned as Galactica 1980, and they decided to use it as the last episode of season 2.
I remember watching this when it first aired. (Gods, I'm old!) It was more of a tearjerker then because the viewers got to watch the relationship develop from enemies to real friends. 😥😢😭 Matt Smith's Doctor Who did something similar with the head of one of those "tin men" he fought from time to time in the episode in which he regenerated at the end into Peter Capaldi.
This episode was a science fiction version of the world war 2 story about an American and Japanese soldier stranded on an island together after their planes crash landed.
@@beardlesshungrydaddo3960 , me too. In fact, I was thinking about this very scene while I was browsing the Battlestar universe. Also, when it played on channel 4.2 at the time, I took several snapshots as the cylons functions ceased.
What a bunch of wankers commenting above lol. Yes.. it was touching as a child in the 70’s… but not that touching! Bad parenting - must have been children of hippies. In a few years, these boys deepest wish was to be Steven from Family Ties.
@@TheButlerNZ Nope. But then our 'computers' back in 1980 were a pencil and a sheet of graph paper. A computer crash just meant you had to sharpen your pencil after the lead snapped.
@@bigal3055 Mine was a TRS 80. The monkeys at the switch panel inside went faster if you left an offering of peanuts overnight. The only color was on the logo on the keyboard
I bought the original Galactica-1980 DVD collection solely for this episode. Was so happy when the reboot decided to remake it with "You Can't Go Home Again" (in a manner of speaking)
All true, except I don't know how to fix the trunk-release on my remote so it works again, so I'd have trouble fixing Cy. But maybe Starbuck would be much better.
This episode caught me in the ❤️! After this one, I was an avid fan of the Cylons. Always loved their design, their modulated voices, and the roving eye. I liked them more than stormtroopers.... At least, Cylons had better aim, though they were slower.
Uh... which "two scenes from a really bad show" are you talking about? I only see scenes of 1978 masterpiece Battlestar Galactica. Maybe TH-cam took down those two scenes, or something like that!
@@JENDALL714 no, the original Cylons were reptilian and they built the Centurions to serve them. It is speculated that the robots turned on their makers, but we're not even sure of that; the original Cylons might have just died out. It was also speculated that the Imperious Leader is one of the few original Cylons left.
IT IS GREAT I WOULD LIKE TO WATCH THIS CHAPTER AGAIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARE IT. PLEASE SOME ONE WHO WANT TO SHARE THE LAST CHAPTER OF GALACTICA WITH US IT WILL BE FANTASTIC.
Its was StarBuck's destiny as i remember as he met a woman and they had a child that became The all important StarChild. I believe SB salvaged his fighter and got it going but was only one seat so put the child in the craft and lauched it hoping the kid would be saved (I think).... It was in the 80s and i saw it only the once. Was very sad as Starbuck was my favourite character and loved the show.
It's really sad how such great shows were reduced in quality for the sake of budget just one season later. Space 1999 - Buck Rogers - Battlestar Galactica. This episode was a great sendoff and the only good episode in the 1980 season.
The impact of this scene is somewhat reduced by the fact that the “dead” Cylon is a machine that theoretically should be repairable so long as there is enough of its components left to work with.
that's where the show failed to explain that the Cylons were cyborgs, so whilst the machine part could be repaired, the organic part couldn't. Similar in concept to Daleks.
@@Super80sMan they were fully robotic in the original, and not built by humans, they got into a war with humans after the humans interfered with their war against another organic race
Bad writing. Though it's also true he didn't have a repair manual, and food may have made getting off that planet more of an issue. What's almost as stupid was that - as I recall - the girl/angel with the baby took a seat aboard the ship built from salvage that she wasn't going to keep, but suddenly appeared on the mountain to pronounce Starbuck officially "Good."
@@stevejordan7275 He repaired Cy when he first found him and when he’s working on him we see Starbuck flipping pages in some kind of book or manual. All I know is if I were Starbuck I wouldn’t stay stranded on a cold desolate planet with a perfectly good Cylon ship just sitting there. Like you said though, poor writing. If they wanted to keep Starbuck stranded then in the laser fight on the ground they could have had the ship take a laser hit that either badly damaged it or destroyed it.
Even if Starbuck's Cylon didn't get destroyed from 1 of the other 3 Cylons looking for him,would they try to use the undamaged Cylon fighter to return to the Galactica and her fleet long after Starbuck crash-landed on a nameless planet,even though the fleet got very far away?
It's funny, but almost every space opera tv show has an episode like this. U.F.O. and ST:TNG to name a couple. Also the movie Enemy Mine. It's a trope, but it's worth repeating. When you can't afford to be enemies, sometimes you become friends, at least for a little while. I would say though, that it never seems to work out in the long run for the non-human.
@jetuber U.F.O. was in 1970, but yes, certainly Arena is sort of in the same vein. They didn't become friends, but Kirk decided they didn't have to be enemies. Of course, that was only after he had the Gorn at his mercy. The original short story that episode was based on had a similar dynamic, but the set-up was quite different.
From a literary standpoint this reminds me of the 2nd terminator movie. In TERMINATOR an army of evil robots are trying to wipe out what remains of humanity after a holocaust and ONE of them is heroic and saves humanity and befriends the leader of the human resistance (John Connor) And in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA the cylons are an army of evil robots trying to wipe out what is left of humanity after a holocaust and ONE of them befriends one of the main human characters (Starbuck). And of course both the "good" Terminator and the "good" Cylon die heroically saving the lives of the human they have befriended.
Had Starbuck and his Cylon did get back to the Galactica and the fleet with the undamaged Cylon fighter after the 3 Cylons who came to get him were destroyed, would Commander Adama let the Cylon still function after what his kind did to the Colonies?
After all these years, I have a very disturbing thought about this episode. After the new Cylons were deactivated, why didn't he just climb aboard the newly landed Raider and fly off after the fleet?
I watched and liked this episode when it originally aired (it aired as an episode of the mostly awful series _Galactica 1980_ ). On later viewing I first noticed that Cy was voiced by radio legend Gary Owens. After that it was difficult to take it seriously, a Cylon with the voice of the original wacky morning DJ..
0:42 I Litterally had a moment on my motorbike where I was hanging in the air (bike doing a hand stand behind me)... where "the ground came up and hit us"... Whats worse, due to landing arms in a gutter, the delayed faceplant skateboarders landing meant I launched back into the air only for the ground to come back and slap me in the face AGAIN!. (BTW.. BEST EPISODE EVER...... This was SOOOOO a missed opportunity for a spinoff... tho.. who says it was missed... do it do it do it!!!!!!
Dirk's still going strong at age 79. I heard from him recently while on FB to my surprise. I was talking about how ROM Spaceknight. Was swiped from GORT/ Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) movie. And from the look of the BSG 78 Cyclons.
They probably got somebody else to do the post processing on the voice and they didn't have the right gear and techniques. If you look around on TH-cam (sorry, don't remember the channel name) there's a series of videos where a fan tries to reproduce the original Cylon voice all of the same exact equipment and techniques as they did on the show. Long story short, it was a lengthy and pretty involved process starting with recording the actor on tape, then feeing into various pieces of audio gear using various settings. The sound engineer that worked on the show said that it was tricky to do and that they had a hard time keeping it consistent from episode to episode.
@@Kj16V Same here,, I always thought it was a fairly simple process too. Turns out it's lot more complicated and harder to reproduce than either of us probably thought.
This was My favorite episode, but unfortunately it's not on the boxed DVD set, of the original series. It was in the Battlestar Galactica,1980 series. That's not on DVD, at least I couldn't find it, if it is.
Man they sure could’ve used some of those beam pistols that one-shot centurions during the exodus, would’ve helped in those fights where they had about four frakking explosive rounds for fifteen cylons
If only Cy and Starbucks coordinated their attack, they could've taken out all 3 centaurians, especially with the godlike woman who could've smoked the 3 centaurians in a flash. Or have the ship of lights orbs show up all around them to stop the fight. That would have freaked the centaurians out! So the woman came back to the planet with Starbuck and declared him good, so they picked them off and Starbuck joined the ship of lights.
Another prequel? Surely Raiders could download into a Centurion body, like human pilots can eject with a parachute. What about Thrace - Starbuck and Scar?
well there was that Centurion Baltar talks to about god during the battle of the Hub.. who sadly got destroyed.. but he seemed to be at least trilled or puzzlez by what Baltar was telling him.. also the other centurions decided on their own to risk their lives to save Hera and storm the Colony.. and they were given the BaseStar for them and left.. one wonder what happent to them over the years...
But they did, didn't they? In the new series (SPOILERS), Starbuck and the live Cylon ship crashed on a planet. Starbuck fixed up the Cylon (ship) and they flew back to the fleet "together". History somewhat repeated, but this time, the human and the Cylon both made it back to safety. Didn't they? Or did the live Cylon ship not survive the journey? I can't remember. Certainly, I don't remember in the new series the pair ever interacting again. Perhaps, their friendship couldn't last. They were just too different.
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I have real weird question. It sounds a bit strange/clumsy to have robots flying spacecraft. Wouldnt it make more sense to have had autonomous armed troup carriers that are fully self sustained and function as assault fighters and dropping off the Cylons at at their destinations rather than them flying it. Even in those years autonomy has been a concept so it wouldnt have been impossible
In the original series the cylons replaced their organic creators who were a reptilian race of some kind. I would persume that when they took over from their creators, they kept using the equipment left behind, which was made for humanoid beings. A lack of creativity could have been the reason why they never considered either automating ships, or putting cylon brains\processors directly interfaced into them, or maybe they just did not consider it practical, heck, the reason could have been that it would have been seen as too cruel even for them, to put a conscious being in a body that would just sit around for a long time.
In fact, if you read the novelization for "Gun on Ice Planet Zero," this was an idea that was invented and implemented by the Cylon Garrison Commander, Vulpa. However they only had a limited number of those remote raiders as the station on that planet was considered a lowly station, and the reason Vulpa was assigned there was as a temporary exile for him to try to redeem himself with. So he didn't have the resources he needed to have a full squadron of drone fighters.
we were taking a vote when the ground came up and hit us . LOL
My brother was cutting the grass of this local millionaire back on the early 70s. With the tractor he hit the above ground light and told the owner that his ground light hit the tractor. So the owner said, we’ll next time we must tell the light not to jump up and hit the tractor. The guy had a sense of humour. LOL
Chopperchuck that's so sad u think it's funny it's not funny that Starbuck is all a lone
@@joemurray6769 i know for a fact Starbuck was saved ,went into hiding on EARTH changed his name to Faceman
@@chopperchuck
On top of that, a Cylon raider crashed on earth (Halloween night as a matter of fact) resulting in the Cylon Empire nearly discovering the location of Earth! Fortunately the survivors of the raider were thwarted from contacting the Empire and the centurion had fallen into a dumpster.
I speculate that the Cylon centurion was later discovered, reverse engineered and somewhat resurrected into the Knight 2000. (AKA KITT)
Reminds me of the guy who crashed into a tree, who explained to the police, “Well, officer, the tree jumped out into the road” 😆
I like the opening of the A-Team when a Cylon walks past him and he points at it. he got a chance to see his friend again
We All loved that eh Mate?👍😁
Always enjoyed that. He was all like “I think I know that guy”.
Lol yeah
That cracked me up every time!
I always loved that cameo!! Told my 7 year old about it, nearly 50 years on and I still remember it so clearly!!!
My heart's broken when Cy says: "NO STARBUCK. NOT HUMAN. NOT CYLON. FRIENDS!"
@Tu Tone Yours did. Lmao.
@Tu Tone That happened to me once. The manual did not help.
I know the feeling.
Really? I got something TOTALLY different form this...I went from 6 to midnight...
Same almost cry.
Starbuck was so damn cool even Cylons liked him.
And then, they gender swapped him.
Cy was pretty coo too, tbh
Damn I remember this episode from when it first aired. The best episode in my opinion.
This was the last episode of Galactica 1980 to air. It didn't receive much fanfare because ABC had already consigned this show to the trashheap. Dirk supposedly did this show to retrieve some personal items he had in a napsack that was somewhere in the Universal studio.
mine too
That's not true, this episode was done before Galactic 1980 was even conceived. This episode was supposed to the last episode of the first season, it was supposed to be the season finale and end with a cliff hanger, but the show was cancelled and never aired, the scenes of older Adams and the boy were shot and added to the episode.
It was. Over 40 years since I've seen this, and still remember it so clearly - because it was a brilliant episode.
Same here!
Not human' not cylon' friends.
Best last words ever.
All these moments will be lost.. in time.. Like tears in the rain... Time to die....
@@Helix751
Exactly !
Did Cy ever know he’s my hero
I remember watching the original broadcast of this and i was really, really depressed. Very sad to see that after the Cylon and Starbuck bonded together, the Cylon Dies! Very sad!
Yes, I liked it too. I was a kid.
I remember the original broadcast of this as well.
The most depressing part was it makes you think Cool! Starbuck is back! Then it turns out to just be the origin story for that god awful kid nobody liked instead and Starbuck is still out of the series.
The 2nd series was awful. This is the only episode I remember liking.
I remember that too...
Always got a little teary-eyed over the ending of Return of Starbuck. This was a great episode.
Return of Starbuck? Was this an episode of Galactica 1980 then?
@@odysseusrex5908 Yes. Either the last episode or next to last
One of the favorite episode of the 1980 battlestar galactica series
I think it was late 70s
1979
There were other “favorites”?
I think this was the only good episode of Galactica 1980
@@redbyrd64 Originally this was supposed to be the last episode of the first season, it was supposed to end as a cliff hanger, but the show was cancelled and I guess they didn't want it to end with a cliff hanger and never aired it, until the last episode of the second season.
Starbuck Cylon Friends. We could all learn from this lesson.
A man's best friend is his toaster!
Yeah: You can't program humans
Learn that Benedicts tribe throughout history seek to make allaiances with the enemies of the human race in order to betray us all..
Wow, it's been years since I've seen this episode when I was a kid. I remember crying after Cy left. One of the best episodes of the original show.
this was Galactica 80, not the OG. I believe this was the final episode of a shortened season and the best one at that.
This was the inspiration for John Connor being friends with a Terminator in Terminator 2.
I posted something similar above. Battlestar Galactica is very similar to Terminator in both stories involve an army of evil robots trying to eliminate what remains of humanity after wiping out most of humanity in a holocaust. On "versus" threads I have posted wondering who would win in a war between the Terminators and the Cylons.
I heard a rumor that one of the reasons Dirk did this "return" was to get some stuff he had in a locker at Universal. When Galactica was initially canceled, he was not allowed to enter the soundstage to get it.
Damn! I know that feeling. Unless he was known to be violent, they shouldn't have kicked him off the be lot!!
I had to the same thing when I quit my job at Rite Aid.
Must have been some good drugs in that knapsack.
This episode was actually filmed as the last episode of season 1 as a cliffhanger, but the show was cancelled and it never aired, until the show returned as Galactica 1980, and they decided to use it as the last episode of season 2.
@@JENDALL714 Which is why it is better.
I will never forget this episode
Neither will I.
I have met my enemy, He is no longer my enemy he is my friend.
I remember watching this when it first aired. (Gods, I'm old!)
It was more of a tearjerker then because the viewers got to watch the relationship develop from enemies to real friends.
😥😢😭
Matt Smith's Doctor Who did something similar with the head of one of those "tin men" he fought from time to time in the episode in which he regenerated at the end into Peter Capaldi.
This episode was a science fiction version of the world war 2 story about an American and Japanese soldier stranded on an island together after their planes crash landed.
@@Zurround
Yeah, that's no doubt where they got the idea for this episode, and then the Doctor Who folks got their idea from this.
The best episode in the history of the series.
When I first saw this episode back in 1980 as a boy (I only saw the last five minutes or so) I found myself struggling very hard not to cry.
I totally DID. I saw this clip pop up in my feed-and WOW. Such great memories!
@@beardlesshungrydaddo3960 , me too. In fact, I was thinking about this very scene while I was browsing the Battlestar universe. Also, when it played on channel 4.2 at the time, I took several snapshots as the cylons functions ceased.
Same
What a bunch of wankers commenting above lol. Yes.. it was touching as a child in the 70’s… but not that touching! Bad parenting - must have been children of hippies. In a few years, these boys deepest wish was to be Steven from Family Ties.
That's probably the worst fate for Starbuck, to be alone.
Yes… a horrible fate for such a gregarious guy. He probably started cracking up within weeks… may well have killed himself within a year or 2.
I love this show every time I watch the new series it makes me wanna come back to this.
Remember that time your PC crashed while you were doing that big project for school... and you hadn't backed up for days/ever
Me too!
@@TheButlerNZ Nope. But then our 'computers' back in 1980 were a pencil and a sheet of graph paper. A computer crash just meant you had to sharpen your pencil after the lead snapped.
@@bigal3055 Mine was a TRS 80. The monkeys at the switch panel inside went faster if you left an offering of peanuts overnight.
The only color was on the logo on the keyboard
Anyone else notice that when Cy is delivering his last words his voice shows more emotion?
Out of all of the episodes, this is the one that stuck with me. I still look for it online/streaming so I can watch it again and again.
I bought the original Galactica-1980 DVD collection solely for this episode. Was so happy when the reboot decided to remake it with "You Can't Go Home Again" (in a manner of speaking)
I remember watching this when I was a little kid man I cryed my eyes out😭
It occurred to me as a kid that he has three new cylons to scavenge parts from to get Cy back up and running again.
They were all shot in the same place Cy was.
I AM NOT ALONE!!!!!!!!!
What about the other two from Cy’s fighter? They should have been good for parts. Starbucks didn’t use parts from them to reactivate Cy.
All true, except I don't know how to fix the trunk-release on my remote so it works again, so I'd have trouble fixing Cy. But maybe Starbuck would be much better.
Why do I not remember this episode! That's it I'm re watching the entire series again
Best BG episode ever. I remember being riveted to the original airing.
Better than anything Disney can come up with
"I extend my weapon..." KITT could never deliver such perfect lines...
Definitely a Good Cylon. It didn’t deserve to end like that.
An iconic episode for the entire original series (I am including 1980 here)
this head will make a great candle holder
This episode caught me in the ❤️! After this one, I was an avid fan of the Cylons. Always loved their design, their modulated voices, and the roving eye. I liked them more than stormtroopers.... At least, Cylons had better aim, though they were slower.
Uh... which "two scenes from a really bad show" are you talking about? I only see scenes of 1978 masterpiece Battlestar Galactica. Maybe TH-cam took down those two scenes, or something like that!
Never thought, human would cry at the death of a robot.
Technically Cylons are cyborgs, they are supposed to be half reptilian under the armor, that was the original premise anyway.
@La Hire hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune
@@JENDALL714 no, the original Cylons were reptilian and they built the Centurions to serve them. It is speculated that the robots turned on their makers, but we're not even sure of that; the original Cylons might have just died out. It was also speculated that the Imperious Leader is one of the few original Cylons left.
That Cylon sounds suspiciously like the the guy who voiced Karr in Knight Rider and Optimus Prime in original Transformers
He has KITT's eyes too.
And Prime's lips.
The Voice Of Cy Is Rex Cutter Who Voiced Red Eye The The Episode The Lost Warrior
@@TaxiHack39 Gary Owens voiced Cy.
Not a dry eye in the house..
IT IS GREAT I WOULD LIKE TO WATCH THIS CHAPTER AGAIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARE IT. PLEASE SOME ONE WHO WANT TO SHARE THE LAST CHAPTER OF GALACTICA WITH US IT WILL BE FANTASTIC.
Best episode of 1980
Really the only good episode of Galactica 1980.
The original series & this only episode from 1980 perfect end..
Always hoped the ships of light rescued Starbuck..
They did. Google 'Wheel of Fire' BSG episode. It was an unmade Galactica 80's second season episode.
Its was StarBuck's destiny as i remember as he met a woman and they had a child that became The all important StarChild. I believe SB salvaged his fighter and got it going but was only one seat so put the child in the craft and lauched it hoping the kid would be saved (I think).... It was in the 80s and i saw it only the once. Was very sad as Starbuck was my favourite character and loved the show.
@@richardthered , strangely enough, he's my favorite star, too.
"The manual did not help".🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was the 1980s. The manual was in Japanese.
@@mikevanroy9356 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is the best episode of BSG - amazing episode
It's really sad how such great shows were reduced in quality for the sake of budget just one season later. Space 1999 - Buck Rogers - Battlestar Galactica. This episode was a great sendoff and the only good episode in the 1980 season.
This episode may very well have inspired the movie "Enemy Mine" with Dennis Quad and Louis Gossett Jr.
Those times when we thought they were real robots ...
Best Battlestar Galactica episode ever!
That was fookin great. Such an underrated show.
This was a great episode for its time.
The only episode of BSG 1980 worth watching.
One of the best episodes of the series.
Geez that got me just like it did back then.
The series went out with a bang. This was one of its best episodes ever! It also was it's last episode.
I have not seen this episode since it originally aired but it still resonates.
Este es el capítulo que más me gusta y más recuerdo de la serie galáctica
Era bein Bueno
My favorite episode.
I couldn't help but notice there was something non-monotonous about the Cy's voice.
The impact of this scene is somewhat reduced by the fact that the “dead” Cylon is a machine that theoretically should be repairable so long as there is enough of its components left to work with.
But Starbuck didn't know how to fix Cylons.
that's where the show failed to explain that the Cylons were cyborgs, so whilst the machine part could be repaired, the organic part couldn't. Similar in concept to Daleks.
@@TheGrumpy01 Were they supposed to be cyborgs on the old show? I thought that was a change for the new version.
@@Super80sMan they were fully robotic in the original, and not built by humans, they got into a war with humans after the humans interfered with their war against another organic race
The only thing I never understood about this episode is why didn't Starbuck repair Cy using parts from the other Cylons and then escape in their ship?
Bad writing. Though it's also true he didn't have a repair manual, and food may have made getting off that planet more of an issue.
What's almost as stupid was that - as I recall - the girl/angel with the baby took a seat aboard the ship built from salvage that she wasn't going to keep, but suddenly appeared on the mountain to pronounce Starbuck officially "Good."
@@stevejordan7275 He repaired Cy when he first found him and when he’s working on him we see Starbuck flipping pages in some kind of book or manual. All I know is if I were Starbuck I wouldn’t stay stranded on a cold desolate planet with a perfectly good Cylon ship just sitting there. Like you said though, poor writing. If they wanted to keep Starbuck stranded then in the laser fight on the ground they could have had the ship take a laser hit that either badly damaged it or destroyed it.
The producer's wanted the fans upset and miserable. They left us gutted................
I like this Starbuck w.o. PMS 4 all the time seasons long 🤣
Even if Starbuck's Cylon didn't get destroyed from 1 of the other 3 Cylons looking for him,would they try to use the undamaged Cylon fighter to return to the Galactica and her fleet long after Starbuck crash-landed on a nameless planet,even though the fleet got very far away?
This was so sad he all alone.
this was a pretty good episode of Galactica 1980. I accept this as how Starbuck met his end.
um spoiler alert if you haven't seen it all yet.
"The Return of Starbuck" The one and ONLY good episode of "Galactica:1980"
A valuable piece of wisdom but acquired at great expense.
It's funny, but almost every space opera tv show has an episode like this. U.F.O. and ST:TNG to name a couple. Also the movie Enemy Mine. It's a trope, but it's worth repeating. When you can't afford to be enemies, sometimes you become friends, at least for a little while. I would say though, that it never seems to work out in the long run for the non-human.
I think this episode preceded those, though it itself has a slight precedent in ST:TOS "Arena."
@jetuber U.F.O. was in 1970, but yes, certainly Arena is sort of in the same vein. They didn't become friends, but Kirk decided they didn't have to be enemies. Of course, that was only after he had the Gorn at his mercy. The original short story that episode was based on had a similar dynamic, but the set-up was quite different.
I sure hope real life AI will be this warm and cuddly.
That was one of my favorite episodes when i was a kid.. prob 8-9 years old...
From a literary standpoint this reminds me of the 2nd terminator movie. In TERMINATOR an army of evil robots are trying to wipe out what remains of humanity after a holocaust and ONE of them is heroic and saves humanity and befriends the leader of the human resistance (John Connor)
And in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA the cylons are an army of evil robots trying to wipe out what is left of humanity after a holocaust and ONE of them befriends one of the main human characters (Starbuck).
And of course both the "good" Terminator and the "good" Cylon die heroically saving the lives of the human they have befriended.
Had Starbuck and his Cylon did get back to the Galactica and the fleet with the undamaged Cylon fighter after the 3 Cylons who came to get him were destroyed, would Commander Adama let the Cylon still function after what his kind did to the Colonies?
My favorite bg episode. Cy.👍
I always did like this episode.
i think is the best epìsode from Galactica!
It fucked me up when Cy died. Shot my worldview into frakkin pieces.
After all these years, I have a very disturbing thought about this episode.
After the new Cylons were deactivated, why didn't he just climb aboard the newly landed Raider and fly off after the fleet?
I wondered that as well, though he might be shot at by friendlies too....
Or it takes all three to pilot the ship.
Damm, this aired in 1979, I still remember this episode…. That end…. That was 44 years ago!!!
I watched and liked this episode when it originally aired (it aired as an episode of the mostly awful series _Galactica 1980_ ). On later viewing I first noticed that Cy was voiced by radio legend Gary Owens. After that it was difficult to take it seriously, a Cylon with the voice of the original wacky morning DJ..
I guess they gave him a more human aspect to his voice so he would have more of a personality and be more affable, but it's kind of silly though.
I just.figured it was some residual damage.
0:42 I Litterally had a moment on my motorbike where I was hanging in the air (bike doing a hand stand behind me)...
where "the ground came up and hit us"...
Whats worse, due to landing arms in a gutter, the delayed faceplant skateboarders landing meant I launched back into the air only for the ground to come back and slap me in the face AGAIN!.
(BTW.. BEST EPISODE EVER...... This was SOOOOO a missed opportunity for a spinoff... tho.. who says it was missed... do it do it do it!!!!!!
It's on Horror Channel 10/05/2021
@@P1NKTHINKER Horror Channel? in what country.. I'm in NZ...
Dirk's still going strong at age 79. I heard from him recently while on FB to my surprise. I was talking about how ROM Spaceknight. Was swiped from GORT/ Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) movie. And from the look of the BSG 78 Cyclons.
I always wondered why they changed the Cylon's voice in this episode.
Maybe the voice of the Cylon Starbuck brought back to life changed from the repairs.
Gary Owen of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh in.
@@HENSLEYMB Also the Voice of Space Ghost.
What's going on with the cylon's voice here? I can hear the human voice behind it.
They probably got somebody else to do the post processing on the voice and they didn't have the right gear and techniques. If you look around on TH-cam (sorry, don't remember the channel name) there's a series of videos where a fan tries to reproduce the original Cylon voice all of the same exact equipment and techniques as they did on the show. Long story short, it was a lengthy and pretty involved process starting with recording the actor on tape, then feeing into various pieces of audio gear using various settings. The sound engineer that worked on the show said that it was tricky to do and that they had a hard time keeping it consistent from episode to episode.
@@Riceball01 Never would have imagined that it was difficult! I always thought they just fed it through some 80's voice synth and called it a day!
@@Kj16V Same here,, I always thought it was a fairly simple process too. Turns out it's lot more complicated and harder to reproduce than either of us probably thought.
@@Riceball01 This is the guy you are talking about who got all the gear to reproduce the voice.
th-cam.com/video/V2EdTAHPcqg/w-d-xo.html
The difference in the quality of everything in this show from the remake is staggering.
I cried
This was a good series.
"You saved OUR lives" he says to the dying Cylon. The Cylon's last words should have been "Thanks..dick"...
This was My favorite episode, but unfortunately it's not on the boxed DVD set, of the original series.
It was in the Battlestar Galactica,1980 series.
That's not on DVD, at least I couldn't find it, if it is.
I remember this part, like yesterday, I was 6 years old when I see this part of galactica, now I am 44....😂
Youngster.. I was like twice your age... wait does that make me 88 now....
One of the best episodes!
Man they sure could’ve used some of those beam pistols that one-shot centurions during the exodus, would’ve helped in those fights where they had about four frakking explosive rounds for fifteen cylons
This was a great Robinson Crusoe inspired episode.
I remember being 6 years old and ballimg my eyes out when this happened
That strange before time. Before xfiles, twilight zone 80 and 90s outer limits.
If only Cy and Starbucks coordinated their attack, they could've taken out all 3 centaurians, especially with the godlike woman who could've smoked the 3 centaurians in a flash. Or have the ship of lights orbs show up all around them to stop the fight. That would have freaked the centaurians out! So the woman came back to the planet with Starbuck and declared him good, so they picked them off and Starbuck joined the ship of lights.
Would have been interesting if they explored something like this in the BSG reboot series. Would show the onset of the Cylon rebellion.
Another prequel?
Surely Raiders could download into a Centurion body, like human pilots can eject with a parachute.
What about Thrace - Starbuck and Scar?
well there was that Centurion Baltar talks to about god during the battle of the Hub.. who sadly got destroyed.. but he seemed to be at least trilled or puzzlez by what Baltar was telling him.. also the other centurions decided on their own to risk their lives to save Hera and storm the Colony.. and they were given the BaseStar for them and left.. one wonder what happent to them over the years...
They sort of do... except they look human
But they did, didn't they? In the new series (SPOILERS), Starbuck and the live Cylon ship crashed on a planet. Starbuck fixed up the Cylon (ship) and they flew back to the fleet "together". History somewhat repeated, but this time, the human and the Cylon both made it back to safety. Didn't they? Or did the live Cylon ship not survive the journey? I can't remember. Certainly, I don't remember in the new series the pair ever interacting again. Perhaps, their friendship couldn't last. They were just too different.
Friends. 👍
Gary Owens (Laugh In and Space Ghost), voiced this Cylon. I wonder who did the others.
No It Was Rex Cutter
@@TaxiHack39 Rex Cutter did the other Cylons, but Gary Owens did the voice of Cy.
1:30 sounds like Leonard Nimoy??
"Not Human, not Cylon.... Facinating..."
When I was 10 years old these came to me more technological. 😅
after this traumatic childhood re-experience i need some CY CO THERAPY
It is awesome honestly I like this new version of GALACTICA. Congratulation Jahbab1 great job. When you have the possibilite to get the epic complete episode about RETURNED OF STARBUCK please could you show us to watch again. It will be a splendid event for your followers.
I have real weird question. It sounds a bit strange/clumsy to have robots flying spacecraft. Wouldnt it make more sense to have had autonomous armed troup carriers that are fully self sustained and function as assault fighters and dropping off the Cylons at at their destinations rather than them flying it. Even in those years autonomy has been a concept so it wouldnt have been impossible
In the original series the cylons replaced their organic creators who were a reptilian race of some kind. I would persume that when they took over from their creators, they kept using the equipment left behind, which was made for humanoid beings. A lack of creativity could have been the reason why they never considered either automating ships, or putting cylon brains\processors directly interfaced into them, or maybe they just did not consider it practical, heck, the reason could have been that it would have been seen as too cruel even for them, to put a conscious being in a body that would just sit around for a long time.
In fact, if you read the novelization for "Gun on Ice Planet Zero," this was an idea that was invented and implemented by the Cylon Garrison Commander, Vulpa. However they only had a limited number of those remote raiders as the station on that planet was considered a lowly station, and the reason Vulpa was assigned there was as a temporary exile for him to try to redeem himself with. So he didn't have the resources he needed to have a full squadron of drone fighters.
I feel this way every time I come to the end of a good Bing Chat.