Battlestar Galactica

Name: Battlestar Galactica
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1978-09-17
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Lorne Greene, Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch, Maren Jensen, Herbert Jefferson Jr.

ENDED1 Season21 Episodes★ 7.1

Battlestar Galactica is a sci-fi and fantasy series on ABC that ran from 1978 to 1979, ending after 1 season and 21 episodes.

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NetworkABC

First AiredSep 17, 1978

Last AiredApr 29, 1979

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Created ByGlen A. Larson

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited States

ProductionUniversal Television, Glen A. Larson Productions

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

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Cast

Lorne Greene

Commander Adama

Dirk Benedict

Lt. Starbuck

Richard Hatch

Capt. Apollo

Maren Jensen

Lt. Athena

Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Lt. Boomer

Terry Carter

Colonel Tigh

Noah Hathaway

Boxey

Tony Swartz

Flight Sargeant Jolly

John Colicos

Count Baltar

Laurette Spang

Cassiopeia

Seasons & Episodes1 season · 21 episodes

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E1Saga of a Star World

Sep 17, 1978134m★ 7.6

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

E2Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

Sep 24, 197847m★ 7.4

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

E3Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

Oct 1, 197847m★ 7.2

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

E4The Lost Warrior

Oct 8, 197847m★ 6.3

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

E5The Long Patrol

Oct 15, 197847m★ 6.8

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

E6The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

Oct 22, 197847m★ 7.2

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

E7The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

Oct 29, 197847m★ 6.8

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

E8The Magnificent Warriors

Nov 12, 197847m★ 6.3

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

E9The Young Lords

Nov 19, 197847m★ 6.2

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

E10The Living Legend (1)

Nov 26, 197847m★ 7.9

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

E11The Living Legend (2)

Dec 3, 197847m★ 7.7

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

E12Fire in Space

Dec 17, 197847m★ 6.3

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

E13War of the Gods (1)

Jan 14, 197947m★ 7.4

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

E14War of the Gods (2)

Jan 21, 197947m★ 7.3

E15The Man with Nine Lives

Jan 28, 197947m★ 6.6

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

E16Murder on the Rising Star

Feb 18, 197947m★ 6.9

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

E17Greetings from Earth

Feb 25, 197994m★ 5.9

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

E18Baltar's Escape

Mar 11, 197947m★ 7.1

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

E19Experiment in Terra

Mar 18, 197947m★ 6.1

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

E20Take the Celestra

Apr 1, 197947m★ 5.9

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

E21The Hand of God

Apr 29, 197947m★ 7.4

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

About Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica is a sci-fi & fantasy, drama series on ABC. The show first aired on Sep 17, 1978 and currently has 1 season and 21 episodes. Battlestar Galactica has ended. It has a rating of 7.1/10 based on 302 votes. The cast includes Lorne Greene, Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch, Maren Jensen, Herbert Jefferson Jr.. Created by Glen A. Larson.