The funny part is Dirk Benedict going on to the A Team. Opening credits has Dirk standing there and a Cylon goes walking by. Dirk has a look of "Hey...."

We used the opening music at our wedding, after the ceremony and the wedding party entered the ballroom. It was glorious.

I was 10. It was the best time in history to be a boy that age.

I still believe that canceling Battlestar Galactica was one of the dumbest moves in television history . They could've had one of the greatest runs in tv history .

I loved Battlestar Galactica. Back in 1978, I was in the U.S. Navy aboard a Destroyer in Florida. For weeks we heard advertisements of the premier and I was waiting for the first episode. Unfortunately I discovered that my ship was going to be at sea on maneuvers off the coast of Florida that night. Before we sailed, I remember I went to Sears and purchased a little portable battery powered television with a 6 inch screen just in case. On the night of the first episode, my ship was sailing up the coast of Florida near Miami. I could see the city lights as we sailed. I took my little battery powered television up the the very top deck of the ship and, since we were at darken ship, covered myself with a tarp. Lo and behold, I was able to get reception from a television station in Miami and got to watch the first episode at sea. Over time, I got to watch every episode.

The original Battlestar Galactica my favorite show I was growing up.

That doubletake Dirk Benedict does in the A-Team credits with the Cylon is absolute gold.

As kids, we didn't care about any similarities to Star Wars. It was just fun to have a space opera TV show.

Richard Hatches trailer from 1999 was awesome how could it not get a series it beats me.

I was 8 when it came out. Nothing was bigger in my world at the time. Glory days.

The people who didn't like it probably watched it recently. Remember what your other options were in this time slot. It started out against like night time soap operas and pro-wrestling. Those were literally your only other options. No streaming, no DVDs, no VCRs. The internet didn't exist. Very few people even had a computer. You watch it only when it is on, if your parents weren't already watching something on the one TV. Those things made it special when you were luck enough to get to watch it. It turned out great, especially now that we know the restrictions they were under when making it. They gave us something amazing at a time when nothing else like it was on TV.

When I was kid, my friend had a Battlestar Galactica toy ship and I was so jealous. Everybody watched that show, kids, parents, grandparents.

I loved the original Battlestar Galactica & Buck Rogers in the 25th century - AH, that was great TV.

I remember loving this show so much that one time my bicycle had the chain bounce off and jam into the rear wheel. I shoved my bike into some bushes at a park and ran home to watch the show, then went back afterwards to recover my bike.

I loved this show. I was 12 when it came out after the high of Star Wars was still in the air. My favorite episode was the Battlestar Pegasus episodes. That moment when Boltar thinks he's going to watch the glorious destruction of the last Battlestar only to have one of the Cylon pilots say in his robotic voice, "I really think you need to look at the other Battlestar?" and Boltar is like, "What other Battlestar? Turn you fool, turn!". Thinking about that moment in that episode gives me goosebumps to this day. I was given a Cylon fighter and Python fighter toys, that shot the red projectile for Christmas, even though I was outgrowing toys by then. I did buy the Revell or AMT models of the Cylon fighter and Python. I enjoyed building and displaying them.

There was just something special about the girl who did the countdown for every launch. The series was so anchored in many ways.

Battlestar Galactica was an amazing show. Full of character driven stories, passionate performances and visual candy for the eyes. I still watch it on Blue Ray! Thanks Dan for the great retrospective!

I remember the hype for the miniseries; I think I was about 9 when it came out. Watched the show religiously. My mom spotted a Cylon Raider toy at a garage sale, and got it for me. I loved it so much! It was post-lawsuit, so the missiles only popped out about an inch. But I was pretty handy with a screwdriver, and once apart it was evident that the missiles just had an added tab that prevented them from launching. A few minutes with a file and I had them working as intended.

Gun on Ice Planet Zero, and Living Legend, were my favorite episodes!👍🏾

After Battlestar Galactica ended, the best tie in / cross reference happened. The A Team. During the opening theme from the A Team, Dirk Benedict is standing there when a cylon walks by. He has this look of "Hey....."

I was 14 years old in 1978 and the cancelation of Battlestar hit hard!

Absolutely one of my favorite shows ever. And I love that cameo in the A-Team. And Benedict’s look as the Cylon walks by was just a wonderful nod to a great show.

For all the immense pressure the creators of this series was under regarding lack of time, the quality was stunning!

Thing is I thought it was the most popular thing on TV but as a kid I was confused because each & every week on Sunday when it was supposed to be on, it kept getting “Pre-empted”. Remember that kiddies? Before cable there was being “Pre-empted”. TV’s way of shoving things to the side as they saw fit. This didn’t happen once but started happening every week and for the dumbest shit too. One week was “Englebert Humperdinck, sings all your polka favorites”. And so on & so on. This is how I knew “Yeah it’s gone”. Which lead to even greater confusion.

Growing up in the 1970s, I LOVED Galactica. It sparked my imagination and was so exciting. Brilliant show.

The cast had possibly the best chemistry of any TV show. The only shows that came close were Star Trek TOS and WKRP In Cincinnati.

I was fortunate enough to have met Richard Hatch just after the debut of the SciFi channel’s BSG mini series reboot but before the full series started. We talked a lot about his ongoing efforts to bring the show back over the years. To his credit, he never mentioned the role of Tom Zarek that he would eventually play in the new series. We spoke for so long, that his handler literally had to pull him away from the conversation. Having been a huge fan of the original series, my meeting with Richard is one of the highlight of my life. He was so generous with his time and passionate about BSG. I was so saddened by his untimely death in 2017. Rest in peace Apollo, know that you are missed.

I remember that scene in The A Team when the Cylon walked by, loved his look...

Great video!! It was sad that the show was cancelled after such a short time. Like you the last episode was my favorite! Growing up i thought the Cylons, the ships etc were the coolest! In general the actors and characters where well done. The A Team Cylon cameo was just great!

Hey Dan love the channel. You seems to talk about all my favorite Sci-fi TV shows. Battlestar was one of my very shows next to Lost in Space and Star Trek. Looking forward to more videos.

This was my favorite show when I was a teenager. The point when they finally reach Earth was a three part miniseries. I remember because five minutes into the first miniseries episode our TV let out the Magic Smoke, and I missed the whole event. 20+ years later I happened across the boxed set of DVDs containing all the episodes and the miniseries. Needless to say I snagged that and binge-watched the whole thing. It was epic.

I still remember Fred Astaire's cameo in one episode. What a great send-off to a classic actor!

I liked Galactica. It had some problems, as stated. The Lost Warrior was just a reworked version of the movie Shane. And the main problem - the Cylons want to wipe out all humans, and every planet visited by the Galacticans contained...humans! I heard the original concept was that the Cylons weren't robots but reptilian creatures who had to wear the metal armor to survive. That's why the imperious leader had a reptilian look to him. They never showed closeups of him on the series, BUT in the original pilot version he was seen in closeup with an alien voice. This was seen before the show premiered on an episode of 20/20. I heard that ABC said you can't have them killing living creatures on a show during the "Family Hour" (7-8PM on Sunday night) so...they changed the plot to have the Cylons robots - you can't "kill" a robot. The same effects used over and over, the stories being just OK, lead to some changes 1/2 way thru essentially stopping the Cylons chasing them, but even those stories were just OK. Plus it was up against Archie Bunker's Place, so the ratings suffered - too expensive for those OK but not great ratings. So it was canceled. Then they tried Galactica 1980 - a really child-friendly version of the show which was REALLY terrible - they finally find Earth, but the Cylons have been tracking them, so they figure they can't go to Earth until they advance Earth's technology to fight the Cylons - so they park their vehicles around Earth - um, do you think the Cylons are that stupid not to figure out you're circling Earth!!?? And don't get me started on "The Super Scouts" of the show - terrible...terrible...

Jane Seymour was “TOTALLY HOT”, I had more than a crush on her😍🥰

Battlestar Galactica 1978 was a profound happening in the lives of myself and my 13 year younger btother, He was 7 years old when it premiered and we just bonded over it. I bought the novelizations to get him interested in reading. He drew the spaceships and I drew the characters. I bought every piece of merch I could find in the pre-internet backwater we grew up in. i still have most of them to this day. When the movie came out we arrived at the theater an hour early to get the best seat and had the place all to ourselves for about 45 minutes before anyone else showed up. Galactica 1980 was a complete travesty and we do not speak of it. He watched the reboot with great appreciation and has often recommended it to me, but I can't watch it. For me Galactica will always be the 1978 version.

I loved the original series, especially the Cylons. I always wondered why it was canceled. Thanks for clearing this up for me.

Really cool memories. I saw Star Wars at the movies in 1977 when I was 8 years old and was not impressed. Battlestar came on TV and I loved it. Might be the reason I have never seen another Star Wars movie since. Liked Buck Rogers from that time too. I grew up watching reruns of Twilight Zone from Rod Serling years and that is to me the best Si-Fi.

The main difference between the original Battlestar Galactica and the updated version is that the original was heavy on sci-fi and light on drama, and the updated version was the reverse, heavy on drama and light on sci-fi. Edward James Olmos, who played Bill Adama in the updated version, told the media that he was there for the drama, and that the first three-eyed monster he saw would mean that he's "outta there".

I always loved the original Battlestar Galactica. I thought the show was so brilliant. I remember getting paperback books of different episodes after the show went off the air. I also remember Richard Hatch co-wrote a couple of books with some continuing stories of the original Battlestar Galactica. They were so good!

The voice of the Cylons came from the 1970 Universal film Colossus The Forbin Project.

I still love that Battlestar Galactica was SO iconic that they made Face and the Cylon at Universal Studios a part of the opening credits of the A-Team every season after the first.

Love the original BSG, so I loved this video. Thank you!

When I was watch Galactica, I never thought "man this is just like Star Wars" Other than being in space that is...

I loved that show. One of my favorites during that time. I was in college at the time and my brother's friend (Andrew Probert) designed the Cylons. I loved their voices. Thanks for posting.

Battlestar Galactica, Dr Who, Blake Seven, Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Lost in Space, are my favorites,

another great one you could touch on - the original V (1984) with Marc Singer

Who didn't have a crush on Jane Seymour! Galactica 1980 did have one good episode!

Loved BG ! I was 13 when it came out. I thought it went more than 1 season but that shows how memories aren't what we think.

I so prefer the 78 BSG than the remake. I watched it as a kid and loved it so much. But like everything corporate it got ruined.

I was in love with Maren Jenson, Athena. Should have mentioned her. She was beautiful !

I commend Richard hatch who flew the flag for Battlestar galactica for a lifetime with the concept trailer and all. Galactica has a special place in my heart.

Galactica was shown on Sunday nights in the UK, the end credits theme would always give me butterflies because it meant the weekend was over and school was tomorrow.

Loved Battlestar Galactica and watched it in law school. After I passed the California Bar I started representing John Dykstra when he and other amazing special effects gurus like Jonathan Erland formed Apogee drafting some amazing pre CG special effects inventions.

It utterly broke my heart as a 10 year old when Galactica was cancelled. It set fire to the remains and pissed on the ashes with Galactica 1980. What insanely wasted potential. At least the reboot got the respect the original should have had, despite being inferior in concept imo.

I was in my second and final year of grad school in 1978-79. I made sure I made time to watch the show as much as possible despite my busy schedule. That's how much I enjoyed the show. But then I had been a Star Trek fan since 1966.

By the Gods! I loved this show when it aired back in the 1970's! One of the best parts of my youth back then!

Loved the original series, including the episodes when they "reached Earth". The episode that effectively killed it for me: Bunch of Galactica school kids crash lands on Earth, 'naturally', with 'invisibilty shields'?? and, err, sort of flying jet pack belts (!?!), so they can jump into a big tree, go invisible, to hide from cops/ comedy relief villians. As far as I know, they never did follow-up on that story line.

I watched Battlestar Galactica as a kid in 1978. We really liked it.

My favorite episodes EASILY were the Pegasus ones. Lloyd Bridges as a General Pattonesque Commander Kane was awesome! I wish a spin off series would’ve been made from that.

I recall that the premiere was interrupted with a message from President Carter and the Camp David Summit. Thanks for providing the date. I was in 5th grade and loved the show. I remember having the novelization. I can't believe this was one season!

Such a tragedy. This show shaped a large portion of my childhood!

Simply put...television executives botched it again and again. Don't even get me started on Firefly. * twitch twitch*

I will never forgot The most epic Sci-fi 1978 Battlestar Galactica. With the magical of cinematic, nothing is impossible, and even those actor are gone, we can revives a new version from the old original 1978 Battlestar Galactica like old Batman to newest Batman

Patrick Macnee as the Devil was my favorite episode. The original Avenger. Darn good to see Richard Hatch in the new BSG. The science-fiction community have very long memories.

What kid didn't like Battle Star Galactica. I loved it and watched it every time it was on. I really loved the space ships and uniforms. Especially the helmets were cool looking. The shining silver bad guys. Great time for a kid. Even Space 1999 was freaking awesome, but I did like Battle Star better. WOW, great memories. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

As a 52-year-old science-fiction fan who loving Star Wars , Battle star Galactica, buck Rogers I must say this channel has become one of my favorites for all of its solid contact and historical accuracy of classic television and movies.

I saw BSG the day it aired, with my entire family, when I was 7. That, combined with 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek' pretty much cemented me as a huge fan of Sci-Fi from then on. I know many think the 2004 Re-Imagining superior, and in some ways it is. However, it tried *too* hard to be edgy and dark, so much so it bordered on parody at times. There was lots of sex, but little love, the humans were so dysfunctional it was difficult to believe they survived at all. One of the Original's greatest strengths was its recognition of, and appreciation for, the importance of Family. Both the ties of Blood and of the Heart, that make even the most difficult situations survivable. None of that was in the 2004 version. Indeed it cynically put down or outright ignored its importance.

The banter between Baltar and Lucifer was classic. You knew Lucifer was always eyeing Baltar's chair...😅

Absolutely loved watching this as a kid. One of my favourite shows for sure. I still remember so much despite how long ago I watched it! Thanks so much for your video! Cheers!

Truly one of my all time favorite shows when I was a kid...I have the dvd of the movie and the vinyl record sound track (Original not reprint)..Never missed an episode and was so bummed out when it went off the air.. Thank you for doing this video. I really enjoyed it and love your other videos as well...Please keep them coming..

I loved classic Battlestar Galactica. I was crushed as a kid when it was cancelled. The toys were a total disappointment. Even as a young kid I passed on them as they were so inferior to Star Wars figures. The Marvel comics series was mostly a disappointment. WIth the exception of the Cylon Mark 3 story. I think Marvel might of had some restrictions as they didn't fight the Cylons in the original stories unless it was in a flashback. I think the "gun on ice planet zero" and the episode with the fire stick out to me the most.

In Gilbert, Arizona a local man has an Entire Colonial Viper from BSG in his Barn. He put it up on OfferUp two years ago. (I have images)

I would say cost was the top reason for the cancellation. Any other new series that performed as well as Galactica would have gotten a second season. With the million-dollar pricetag, though, ABC didn’t consider the benefit worth the cost. War of the Gods is my favorite pair of episodes. Great acting by the cast and some great mythology and universe-building.

I saw STAR WARS (NOT "A New Hope"...NOT Ep IV...just STAR WARS) as an 11yr old in `77. I was hooked. Soooo...Battlestar Galactica was the perfect sci-fi adventure for me in `78. "The Man with Nine Lives" is my favorite Ep. (I have a background in theatre arts & dance)

It never felt like there was only 24 episodes to me.

All the series where great!!! Glenn a Larson made really great series. They made my childhood😁🙂😘 Thank you😘

BTW, back in the early 80s, in S. Calif., I went to a Star Trek convention. Whilst there, they showed a terrific little comedy Sci Fi short called 'Appliance Wars'. Part of the comedic part is that it was small appliances (toasters etc) that were flying.

I remember as a kid in the uk we watched battlestar on a Sunday great sci-fi series loved it

I think the show had class.

It also didn't help that the network pre-empted episodes and bounced the show around the schedule so we couldn't find it (I was only in 6th grade). Such a shame.

Was a grad student at CSUN at night .. on the break I wondered outside and saw Cylons eating at lunch tables! They filmed around the library! Excellent sci-fi .. cancelled way too soon

I was 8 years old when BSG premiered. As someone whose life was changed by Star Wars, I can't understate what it meant to have that magic brought home on a weekly basis. Even then, I knew they were using the same vfx footage over and over, but I didn't care. The characters carried it along. The stories pulled me in. And I couldn't decide who I had the biggest crush on, Serina, Cassiopea, Sheba, or Athena. I had the toys, the comics, and even saw it in the theater in Sensurround. It wasn't Star Wars but it captured my imagination in the same way. That's something the new, dour, and completely joyless BSG remake failed to do. And the less said about Galactica 1980 the better. Even then I knew what a cash grab was. That the original series only lasted a year is one of the great tragedies in the television landscape. If the studio had known that the popularity and influence of Star Wars would be generational instead of in the moment, and given Glen Larson the year he wanted to develop the series properly, imagine what would've been.

Richard Hatch passed away February 7 2017 from pancreatic cancer. RIP

I loved the voices of the Cylon centurions. The show introduced a gold centurion, (battalion commander I think). His voice was of a deep tone like an operatic bass singer but very mechanical. So COOL! 🤖-BY YOUR COMMAND!

I was obsessed with the show when it first came out. Not affluent enough to own a video recorder back then, I recorded just the sound on cassette tapes and would play them in car on the way back and forth to college (a 3-hour ride).

Battlestar was an awesome show

Loved that series, guess I never realized it was only one season, or too many years have dimmed the memory.

Thank you for explaining why my favorite TV as a kid was cancelled.

I actually thought the dog was animatronics... what a smart move

I was fairly obsessed with this show when it hit the UK in the late 70s, firstly as a movie at the cinema and then the TV show followed. I had the toys, books, annuals etc. It's a shame it didn't get to continue as was envisaged. I had a huge crush on Anne Lockhart.

The 78 BSG was bliss for a kid who came of age around when the original Star Wars came out. I loved so much of the design elements of the show like the uniforms, the guns, the fighters (both sides), the cylons especially, the landing bays and so on. This, SW, Space 1999, Blakes 7, the Tom Baker Dr Who's, a bit later Alien, the 1st Terminator, Blade Runner, the 2000AD & DHP comics. All so inspiring. I remember as a kid just thinking for ages about off world colonies with combat model nexus six replicants running around. Then later you find Zardoz, 2001, TNG, Lexx & so many more. I couldn't imagine not being into Sci fi.

One of the saddest days of my 11-12 year old life when it was cancelled. 😢

I grew up with Battlestar Galactica too! I just bought the entire series in DVD & Blu-Ray!

Lucas cares about his money and doesn’t care about anyone ‘s creativity, as long as he’s number one and gets his money.

My favorite episode was from Galactica 1980, "The Return of Starbuck". Starbuck and a Cylon become friends. For me the Cylons were the best part of the series.

A little known Rick Springfield played Zack, Apollos brother in the first episode. They killed him off.

Dan, you are SO good at this. You are one of the rare KZfaq presenters who doesn't get annoying after watching several clips. You must be a real cool guy because your personality comes through during your narration. Normally, KZfaq folks are unprofessional and condescending. YOU are a genuine star dude. Thanks for doing this.

Rick Springfield…. I remember the premier. At the same time, Star Blazers came out and it was mandatory watching after school.

Gun on ice planet zero part 1&2 is my favorite episode.

I liked the classic Battlestar Galactica. No reboot of this classic series comes close.