Battlestar Galactica

Original title : Saga of a Star World (1/3)
First Aired : 17.09.1978 (USA)
Director : Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Ray Milland (Sire Uri) Lew Ayres (President Adar) Rick Springfield (Zac) Norman Stuart (Statesman) David Matthau (Operative) Chip Johnson (1st Warrior) Geoffrey Binney (2nd Warrior) Paul Coufos (Pilot) Bruce Wright (Deck Hand) Patti Brooks (Tucana Singer) Carol Baxter (Woman in elevator) Sandy Gimpel (Seetol) Jane Seymour (Serina) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean)

The Story : When the Cylons trick the human fleet and destroys all its ships except the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama gathers up the remaining humans on the 12 colony worlds and leads them in search of the legendary 13th colony -- Earth.
Note : This episode et épisode pilote de 3 heures à été porté au cinéma dans une version de deux heure au Canada, en Europe et au Japon. Voir la fiche du film dans ce site Galactica, la bataille de l'espace.

Original title : Saga of a Star World (2/3)
First Aired : 17.09.1978 (USA)
Director : Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Ray Milland (Sire Uri) Wilfred Hyde-White (Sire Anton) John Fink (Dr. Paye) Randi Oakes (Young Woman) Norman Stuart (Statesman) David Matthau (Operative) Chip Johnson (1st Warrior) Geoffrey Binney (2nd Warrior) Paul Coufos (Pilot) Bruce Wright (Deck Hand) Patti Brooks (Tucana Singer) Carol Baxter (Woman in elevator) Sandy Gimpel (Seetol) Jane Seymour (Serina) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean) John Dullaghan (Dr. Wilker)

The Story : When the fleet stops at the planet Carillon to refuel, another Cylon ambush awaits them.

Original title : Saga of a Star World (3/3)
First Aired : 17.09.1978 (USA)
Director : Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Wilfred Hyde-White (Sire Anton) Norman Stuart (Statesman) David Matthau (Operative) Chip Johnson (1st Warrior) Geoffrey Binney (2nd Warrior) Paul Coufos (Pilot) Bruce Wright (Deck Hand) Patti Brooks (Tucana Singer) Carol Baxter (Woman in elevator) Sandy Gimpel (Seetol) Jane Seymour (Serina) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean)

The Story : When the fleet stops at the planet Carillon to refuel, another Cylon ambush awaits them.

Original title : Lost Planet of the Gods (1/2)
First Aired : 24.09.1978 (USA)
Director : Christian Nyby, Jr.
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson & Donald Bellisario
Cast : Sheila DeWindt (Lt. Deitra) Bruce Wright (Bay Technician) Leann Hunley (Female Warrior #1) Jennifer Joseph (Female Warrior #2) Gay Thomas (Female Warrior #3) Janet Lynn Curtis (Sorrell) Paul Coufos (Guard) George Murdock (Salik) Jane Seymour (Serina) Janet Louise Johnston (Brie) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : Lost Planet of the Gods (2/2)
First Aired : 01.10.1978 (USA)
Director : Christian Nyby, Jr.
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson & Donald Bellisario
Cast : Sheila DeWindt (Lt. Deitra) Bruce Wright (Bay Technician) Leann Hunley (Female Warrior #1) Jennifer Joseph (Female Warrior #2) Gay Thomas (Female Warrior #3) Janet Lynn Curtis (Sorrell) Paul Coufos (Guard) George Murdock (Salik) Jane Seymour (Serina) Janet Louise Johnston (Brie) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Lost Warrior
First Aired : 08.10.1978 (USA)
Director : Rod Holcomb
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario & Herman Grooves
Cast : Claude Earl Jones (LeCerta) Kathy Cannon (Vella) Lance LeGault (Bootes) Red West (Marco) John Timko (Puppis)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The long patrol
First Aired : 15.10.1978 (USA)
Director : Christian Nyby, Jr.
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario
Cast : James Whitmore Jr. (robber) Ted Gehring (Croad) Tasha Martell (Adultress) Sean McClory (Assault) Cathy Paine (C.O.R.A. (voice only)) Ian Abercrombie (Froger) John Holland (maitre 'd) Nancy DeCarl (robber's wife) Robert Hathaway (Enforcer) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)
First Aired : 22.10.1978 (USA)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario, Leslie Stevens, Michael Sloan
Cast : Roy Thinnes (Croft) James Olson (Thane) Christine Belford (Leda) Richard Lynch (Wolfe) Denny Miller (Ser 5-9) Britt Ekland (Tenna) Alan Stock (Cadet Cree) Curtis Credel (Haals) Jeff Mackay (Komma) Larry Cedar (Cadet Shields) Alex Hyde-White (Cadet Bow) Patrick Milholland (Killian) Walt Davis (Vickers) Dan O'Herlihy (Dr. Ravishol) Larry Manetti (Giles)

The Story : Baltar attempts to lure the Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon, which Adama becomes aware of.

Original title : The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2/2)
First Aired : 29.10.1978 (USA)
Director : Alan J. Levi
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario, Leslie Stevens, Michael Sloan
Cast : Roy Thinnes (Croft) James Olson (Thane) Christine Belford (Leda) Richard Lynch (Wolfe) Denny Miller (Ser 5-9) Britt Ekland (Tenna) Alan Stock (Cadet Cree) Curtis Credel (Haals) Jeff Mackay (Komma) Larry Cedar (Cadet Shields) Alex Hyde-White (Cadet Bow) Patrick Milholland (Killian) Walt Davis (Vickers) Dan O'Herlihy (Dr. Ravishol) Larry Manetti (Giles) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

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

Original title : The magnificent warriors
First Aired : 12.11.1978 (USA)
Director : Christian Nyby Jr.
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Barry Nelson (Sire Bogan) Brett Somers (Siress Belloby) Eric Server (Dipper) Dennis Fimple (Duggy) Olan Soule (Carmichael) Rance Howard (Farnes) Ben Frommer (Nogow) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Young Lords
First Aired : 19.11.1978 (USA)
Director : Donald Bellisario
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario, Frank Lupo, Paul Playton
Cast : Charles Bloom (Kyle) Bruce Glover (Megan) Audrey Landers (Miri) Adam Man (Nilz) Brigitte Muller (Ariadne) Jonathan B. Woodward (Robus) Adam Mann (Nilz) Jonathan Harris (voice of Spectre)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Living Legend (1/2)
First Aired : 26.11.1978 (USA)
Director : Vince Edwards
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson From a Story by Ken Pettus & Glen A. Larson
Cast : Rod Haase (Tolan) Junero Jennings (Helmsman) Ted Hamaguchi (Helmsman) Lloyd Bridges (Cain) Jack Stauffer (Bojay)

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

Original title : The Living Legend (2/2)
First Aired : 03.12.1978 (USA)
Director : Vince Edwards
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson From a Story by Ken Pettus & Glen A. Larson
Cast : Rod Haase (Tolan) Junero Jennings (Helmsman) Ted Hamaguchi (Helmsman) Lloyd Bridges (Cain) Jack Stauffer (Bojay)

The Story : 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.

Original title : Fire in Space
First Aired : 17.12.1978 (USA)
Director : Christian Nyby, Jr.
Writing credits : Jim Carlson & Terrence NcDonnell
Cast : Jeff McKay (fire engineer) Jeff Mackay (Fireman) William Bryant (fire leader)

The Story : 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.

Original title : War of the Gods (1/2)
First Aired : 14.01.1979 (USA)
Director : Dan Haller
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : John Williams (Statesman) Leann Hunley (Female Warrior) Kirk Alyn (Old Man) Paula Victor (Old Woman) Paul Coufos (Pilot #1) Chip Johnson (Pilot #3) Bruce Wright (Guard) Olan Soule (Carmichael) Norman Stuart (Statesman) Patrick Macnee (Iblis) Janet Louise Johnston (Brie) Jack Stauffer (Bojay) Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean) John Dullaghan (Wilker) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : War of the Gods (2/2)
First Aired : 21.01.1979 (USA)
Director : Dan Haller
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Leann Hunley (Female Warrior) John Williams (Statesman) Norman Stuart (Statesman) Patrick Macnee (Iblis) John Dullaghan (Wilker) Sarah Rush (Rigel) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Man With Nine Lives
First Aired : 28.01.1979 (USA)
Director : Rod Holcomb
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario
Cast : Fred Astaire (Chameleon/Capt. Dmitri) Anthony DeLongis (Taba) Leann Hunley (Female Warrior) Robert Feero (Bora) Anne Jeffreys (Siress Blassie) Lance LeGault (Maga) Bruce Wroght (Corporal Lomas) Dan Barton (ducket taker) Patricia Stich (Broadcaster Zara) John Holland (maitre 'd) Ted Parker (Commentator Zed) Alex Hyde-White (Warrior) Lynn Halpern (Pyramid Dealer) Pamela Susan Shoop (IFB Interviewer) David Greenan (Omega)

The Story : 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.

Original title : Murder on the Rising Star
First Aired : 18.02.1979 (USA)
Director : Rod Holcomb
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario, James Carlson, Terrence McDonnell From a Story by Michael Sloan
Cast : Frank Ashmore (Wing Sgt. Ortega) Brock Peters (Chief Opposer Solon) Ben Frank (Chella/Riftis) Patricia Stich (Broadcaster Zara) W.K. Stratton (Barton) Lyman Ward (Palloni) Jeff Mackay (Corporal Komma) Jeff McKay (CPI Komma) Newell Alexander (Elias) Ted Parker (Commentator Zed) Ted Noobe (Officiator) Paul LeClair (Guard) John Dullaghan (Wilker)

The Story : 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.

Original title : Greetings From Earth (1/2)
First Aired : 25.02.1979 (USA)
Director : Ahmet Lateef
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Ron Kelly (Security Officer Reese) Ray Bolger (Vector) Randolph Mantooth (Michael) Kelly Harmon (Sarah) Murray Matheson (Statesman Geller) Lesley Woods (Aggie Morelane) Frank Marth (Josh Moreland) Curt Lowens (Krebbs) Lloyd Bochner (Commander Leiter) Bobby Van (Hector) Gary Vinson (Doyle) Alex Rodine (Lanceman) Lester Fletcher (Donner) Michelle Larson (Charity) Gillian Greene (Melanie) Eric Larson (Todd) Kimberly Woodward (Loma) David G. Larson (Baby Walker) Donald Mantooth (Medtech) George Murdock (Salik) John Dullaghan (Wilker)

The Story : When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.

Original title : Greetings From Earth (2/2)
First Aired : 25.02.1979 (USA)
Director : Ahmet Lateef
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Ron Kelly (Security Officer Reese) Ray Bolger (Vector) Randolph Mantooth (Michael) Kelly Harmon (Sarah) Murray Matheson (Statesman Geller) Lesley Woods (Aggie Morelane) Frank Marth (Josh Moreland) Curt Lowens (Krebbs) Lloyd Bochner (Commander Leiter) Bobby Van (Hector) Gary Vinson (Doyle) Alex Rodine (Lanceman) Lester Fletcher (Donner) Michelle Larson (Charity) Gillian Greene (Melanie) Eric Larson (Todd) Kimberly Woodward (Loma) David G. Larson (Baby Walker) Donald Mantooth (Medtech) George Murdock (Salik) John Dullaghan (Wilker)

The Story : When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.

Original title : Baltar's Escape
First Aired : 11.03.1979 (USA)
Director : Winrich Kolbe
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario
Cast : Lloyd Bochner (Commander Leiter) Ina Balin (Siress Tinia) Anthony DeLongis (Taba) Robert Feero (Bora) John Hoyt (Sire Dombra) Lance LeGault (Maga)

The Story : 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.

Original title : Experiment in Terra
First Aired : 18.03.1979 (USA)
Director : Rod Holcomb
Writing credits : Glen A. Larson
Cast : Ken Swofford (General Maxwell) Melody Anderson (Brenda) Peter D. MacLean (President Arends) Logan Ramsey (Moore) Edward Mulhare (John) Nehemiah Persoff (Commander)

The Story : 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.

Original title : Take the Celestra
First Aired : 01.04.1979 (USA)
Director : Daniel Haller
Writing credits : Jim Carlson & Terrence McDonnell From a Story by David S. Arthur, David G. Phinney, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
Cast : Ana Alicia (Aurora) Paul Fix (Kronus) Nick Holt (Charka) Randy Stumpf (Damon)

The Story : 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.

Original title : The Hand of God
First Aired : 29.04.1979 (USA)
Director : Donald Bellisario
Writing credits : Donald Bellisario
Cast : Lorne Greene (Commandeur Adama), John Colicos (Conte Baltar)

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