The Last Battlestar Galactica Leads a Rag Tag Fugitive Fleet on a Lonely Quest for a Shining Planet Known as...Earth.
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.
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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Episode 1
Saga of a Star World
2h 14m7.7 / 10
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.
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Directed by Richard A. CollaWritten by Glen A. LarsonGuest stars Lew Ayres, Wilfrid Hyde-White, John Fink, Rick Springfield, Ray Milland, Ed Begley Jr., Jane Seymour, Norman Stuart
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.
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Directed by Christian I. Nyby II, Donald P. BellisarioWritten by Glen A. LarsonGuest stars Bruce Wright, Paul Coufos, Gay Thomas Wilson, Jane Seymour, Sheila Wills, Jennifer Joseph, Janet Prescott, Ed Begley Jr.
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.
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Directed by Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Glen A. Larson, Donald P. BellisarioGuest stars Jane Seymour, Sheila Wills, Jennifer Joseph, Janet Prescott, Millicent Crisp, Jonathan Harris, Larry Manetti, Ed Begley Jr.
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.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Donald P. Bellisario, Herman Groves, Donald P. Bellisario, Herman GrovesGuest stars Katherine Cannon, Johnny Timko, Claude Earl Jones, Red West, Jay Donahue, Carol Baxter, Mary Kay Mars, Marneen Fields
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.
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Directed by Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Donald P. BellisarioGuest stars James Whitmore Jr., Ted Gehring, Sean McClory, Arlene Martel, Ian Abercrombie, Robert Hathaway, Nancy DeCarl, Cathey Paine
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.
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Directed by Alan J. LeviWritten by Donald P. Bellisario, Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson, Michael Sloan, Michael Sloan, Leslie StevensGuest stars Jeff MacKay, Larry Cedar, Alex Hyde-White, Richard Milholland, Larry Manetti, Christine Belford, Denny Miller, Roy Thinnes
Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.
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Directed by Alan J. LeviWritten by Donald P. Bellisario, Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson, Michael Sloan, Michael Sloan, Leslie StevensGuest stars Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Manetti, Christine Belford, Denny Miller, Roy Thinnes, Alan Stock, Britt Ekland, Walt Davis
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.
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Directed by Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Glen A. LarsonGuest stars Barry Nelson, Brett Somers, Dennis Fimple, Eric Server, Rance Howard, Ben Frommer, Ed Begley Jr., Olan Soule
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.
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Directed by Donald P. BellisarioWritten by Donald P. Bellisario, Paul Playdon, Frank LupoGuest stars Jonathan B. Woodward, Charles Bloom, Bruce Glover, Audrey Landers, Brigitte Muller, Adam Mann, Murray Matheson, Felix Silla
While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.
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Directed by Vince EdwardsWritten by Glen A. Larson, Ken PettusGuest stars Junero Jennings, Lloyd Bridges, Rod Haase, Jack Stauffer, Felix Silla, Jonathan Harris, David Greenan, Anne Lockhart
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.
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Directed by Vince EdwardsWritten by Glen A. Larson, Ken PettusGuest stars Lloyd Bridges, Rod Haase, Jack Stauffer, Ted Hamaguchi, Patrick Macnee, Felix Silla, Jonathan Harris, David Greenan
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.
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Directed by Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson, Michael Sloan, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnellGuest stars William Bryant, Jeff MacKay, George Murdock, David Greenan, Anne Lockhart
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.
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Directed by Daniel HallerWritten by Glen A. LarsonGuest stars Jack Stauffer, Ed Begley Jr., Janet Julian, Olan Soule, Paul Coufos, Harry Johnson, Leann Hunley, Kirk Alyn
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.
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Directed by Daniel HallerWritten by Glen A. LarsonGuest stars John Williams, Norman Stuart, Patrick Macnee, Sarah Rush, John Dullaghan, David Greenan, Anne Lockhart
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.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Donald P. BellisarioGuest stars Fred Astaire, Anne Jeffreys, Bruce Wright, Dan Barton, Leann Hunley, Alex Hyde-White, John Holland, Lynn Halpern
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.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Donald P. Bellisario, Donald P. Bellisario, Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson, Michael Sloan, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnellGuest stars Lyman Ward, Frank Ashmore, Ben Frank, W.K. Stratton, Jeff MacKay, Newell Alexander, Patricia Stich, Frank Parker
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.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Glen A. LarsonGuest stars Don Mantooth, George Murdock, John Dullaghan, Randolph Mantooth, Kelly Harmon, Bobby Van, Ray Bolger, Murray Matheson
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.
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Directed by Winrich KolbeWritten by Donald P. BellisarioGuest stars Sarah Rush, John Dullaghan, Ron Kelly, Ina Balin, Bruce Wright, Lance LeGault, Robert Feero, Anthony De Longis
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.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Glen A. Larson, Mark A. PayneGuest stars Melody Anderson, Peter MacLean, Edward Mulhare, Nehemiah Persoff, Logan Ramsey, Ken Swofford, Sidney Clute, Ken Lynch
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.
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Directed by Daniel HallerWritten by David G. Phinney, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell, David G. ArthurGuest stars Ana Alicia, Paul Fix, Nick Holt, Randy Stumpf, Richard Styles, Robert Murvin, Ted Hamaguchi, James R. Parkes
Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell, Leslie Stevens, Michael Sloan, Frank Lupo, Herman Groves, Paul Playdon, Mark A. Payne, Donald P. Bellisario, Michael Sloan, Jim Carlson, Glen A. Larson, Terrence McDonnell, Michael Sloan, Ken Pettus, Herman Groves, David G. Phinney, David G. Arthur
