Galactica 1980

Galactica 1980 is a short-lived American science fiction series from 1980. The series was a sequel to the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series. The series was first broadcast by the American network ABC. In Netherlands, the series originally broadcast by the KRO in the beginning of the 80 's. The series was written by Glen Larson.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Galactica 1980 uses an almost entirely new cast. All the old crew members of the fleet "died", except that Commander Adama and Boomer takes over the position as second in command of Colonel Tigh.
 * 2 Background
 * 3 Cast
 * 4 Credits
 * 5 Episodes
 * after 6
 * 7 external link

The series itself takes place a generation after the original series. The Galactica and its fleet of 220 civilian ships have discovered the Earth . But they have discovered that this by no means to defend itself against the Cylons, something on which one had one. There they decided to teams of colonial soldiers (colonial warriors) to send to Earth incognito to various members of the scientific community are hoping to speed up the technological progress.

In the series the characters Tigh replaced the popular Captain Apollo and Lieutenant Starbuck from the previous Battlestar Galactica series. Troy is the adopted son of Apollo that Boxey was mentioned in the original series. The character Jamie Hamilton is a journalist on the Earth.

The first three episodes turned to a return in time to nazi Germany where Troy, Dillon and Jamie try the scientist doctor Xavier to capture and bring back to the Galactica. This scientist has fled from the Galactica because he is convinced that the Galactica and the colonials are best helped by the development of the nazi technology to speed up. He escapes at the end of the third episode.

After these three episodes that still considered good by most fans are, the scripts weaker and more childlike in nature, mainly as a result lose the series that initially high Visual rating quickly had her audience. In the last episode for the series was stopped will Starbuck, played by Dirk Benedict, back to the Galactica in an episode which is a flashback. Although this episode was also highly rated by the fans and had higher ratings than the previous episodes, this was not enough to save the series. ==Background[ Edit] == Although Battlestar Galactica had high viewing figures and constantly in the top 20 most viewed programs came, the program was because of the extremely high production costs for that time stopped. The cost for the series were so high because there were normally used only in movies special effects were used, and those were only in their infancy. Because there is no experience was with special effects on this scale had to be a distinction. Because of the great success of the series wanted to continue but the ABC series anyway on a cheaper way. For this reason were the expensive star fired and it was decided to let the Earth find the Galactica Express so no expensive sets and special effects have to be more done. This formed the basis for Galactica 1980.

Galactica 1980, however, was plagued by low financing and weak scripts. As a result, soon the show lost much of his viewing audience. Is the accusation made by the fans that the show became a children's series. One of the new characters was heavily criticised by the fans, the 14-year-old doctor sea. Doctor sea was a so-called child prodigy never could do something wrong. Where in the previous series commander Adama still the wise leader, could do nothing more this in the series from 1980 without the Council of this child prodigy.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some of the other objections that the fans have about this series are the flying engines (with which they disclose their identity right), traveling through time (if one could do this one could, after all, back to the home planet to the inhabitants to warn the cylons), the freeze gun (whereby people could do nothing for a few seconds), the invisible, the lack of cylons, a car that just drive by the city on two wheels, and the many holes in the script.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">These episodes of Galactica 1980 are considered by most fans of Battlestar Galactica as nonexistant and not hearing the main story (not canon). This show is among fans also called called BG-' 80 . ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="106" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Just as in the 1978 series, the characters in the 1980 series but one name, so no name and surname. ==Credits<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="87" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This is a list of all the episodes with their original first airdates on ABC in 1980:
 * Commander Adama - Lorne Greene
 * Boomer - Herbert Jefferson, Jr.
 * Captain Troy - Kent McCord
 * Lieutenant Dillon - Barry Van Dyke
 * Jamie Hamilton - Robyn Douglass
 * Doctor Sea - Robbie Rist (first 3 episodes), Patrick Stuart (rest of the episodes)
 * Created by: Glen a. Larson
 * Executive Producer: Glen a. Larson
 * Superviserend producer: David j. O'Connell
 * Co-producers: Jeff Freilich, Ben Kadish
 * Assistant Producers: David G. Phinney, Tim King
 * Storyline editors: Chris Bunch, Allan Cole, Robert w. Gilmer
 * Music: Stu Phil Lambert
 * Directors of photography: Ben Campbell, Mario DiLeo
 * Set Directors: Morrie Hoffman, Jennifer Polito-Puma
 * Casting by: Phil Benjamin
 * Sound: James F. Rogers, Earl Crain, Jr.
 * Production manager: John C. Chulay
 * Sound effects editor: Samuel Reynolds
 * Music Editor: Herbert d. Woods
 * Clothing: Jean-Pierre Dorleac
 * Clothing supervision: Mark Peterson
 * Titles and optical effects: Universal Title
 * Thumbnails and special effects: Universal Hartland

==At the end<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Later, the episodes of Galactica 1980 merged with the episodes of Galactica 1978 and sold together as one package in syndication. A number of episodes was also merged and if video sold under the name Conquest of the Earth.
 * "Galactica discovers Earth"(" Galactica 1980 "), episode 1: 27 January
 * "Galactica discovers Earth"(" Galactica 1980 "), episode 2: 3 February
 * "Galactica discovers Earth"(" Galactica 1980 "), episode 3: 10 February
 * "The Super Scouts", episode 1: 16 March
 * "The Super Scouts", episode 2: 23 March
 * "Spaceball": 30 March
 * "The Night the Cylons Landed", episode 1: 13 april (guest appearance by Wolfman Jack)
 * "The Night the Cylons Landed", episode 2: 20 april (guest appearance by Wolfman Jack)
 * "Space Croppers": 27 april
 * "The Return of Starbuck": 4 may