Caught an episode on the Sci-Fi channel the other day. Did those ******************s ever make it to Earth or what??
God my sister and I loved that show. It's funny how our perspectives are so warped when young. I could have sworn that show was a major part of my childhood, but in just doing a search on it to find out the answer to your question, I find that it only ever had a single season! Anyway, here's a helpful quote from an IMDB user comment: "The show was axed at the end of its first season, leaving the storyline unresolved and a generation of kids feeling ripped off. Many more were tempted the following year with the appearance of Galactica 1980, a ultra-cheap bastardisation of the original show detailing the arrival of the refugees on a contemporary Earth. It failed to attract even the very young demographic it was aiming for."
Wow, I'm in the same boat you are. I had no idea that it lasted only one season. I thought I had watched that show for a few years. It definately shows me how skewed my sense of time was when I was younger.
Wow, I could have sworn it made it to a second season. In the first 16 years of my life, I don't think I was ever angrier than when the 2 hour first episode was pre-empted half way through so the network could broadcast some rank triviality about Carter, Sadat and Begin from Camp David.
There is supposedly a new Battlestar Galactica on the Sci-Fi station next year. They are taking a few liberties - I head that Starbuck is going to be a woman.
To this day I'm am the proud owner of the autographs of Apollo (Richard Hatch), Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) and Caseopia (Lorretta Spang). On second thought maybe I'm not so proud.
Casseopia was nice to look at, so no shame there. I remember reading a couple of years ago that Richard Hatch talking about a theatrical release movie that would come out etc etc....Only problem is that he doesn't own the rights to anything regarding the show. Glen A Larson owns everything and he and Hatch didn't see eye to eye.
My uncle, Peter Berkos, created the sound effects for the show (which were used as well for Buck Rogers). He did the sound effects for a lot of movies - from Creature from the Black Lagoon to The Hindenburg (which he won an Oscar for) to Car Wash (which, being a Reagan Conservative from Orange County, he didn't like talking about that). Sorry, just my little connection to BS.
Richard Hatch has been behind this for years. He has been writing BG books ala William Shatner and has been working on a revival for years. Pretty sad.
I still love that show. That, Buck Rogers and classic Star Trek. This was how I wittled away my childhood.
The sad part was that he would go from convention to convention, keeping the Battlestar Galactica torch alive, writing books, getting a fanmade trailer made, etc. And as soon as the interest in the property became valuable again, Glen A. Larson fuct him right up the @ss. And the Starbuck as a woman plot point is merely the tip of the suckberg...
Battlestar Galactica was crap. Galactica 1980 was ultracrap. Dr. Z, portrayed by Robbie Rist? Give me a fookin break. HOWEVER!!!! Maren Jensen was the underappreciated siren of the 1970s. Ahhhh.