Battlestar Galactica

7.1
1978

Production

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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.

Trailers & Videos

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Battlestar Galactica - Show Trailer | NBC Classics

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Battlestar Galactica - Original Show Intro | NBC Classics

Seasons

21 Episodes • Premiered 1978

Still image for Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1: Saga of a Star World

1. Saga of a Star World

7.5

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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2. Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

7.3

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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3. Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

7.1

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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4. The Lost Warrior

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.

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5. The Long Patrol

7.1

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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6. The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

7.1

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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7. The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

6.7

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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8. The Magnificent Warriors

6.4

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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9. The Young Lords

6.5

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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10. The Living Legend (1)

7.6

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

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11. The Living Legend (2)

7.4

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.

Still image for Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 12: Fire in Space

12. Fire in Space

5.9

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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13. War of the Gods (1)

7.3

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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14. War of the Gods (2)

7.3

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.

Still image for Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 15: The Man with Nine Lives

15. The Man with Nine Lives

6.5

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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16. Murder on the Rising Star

7.1

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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17. Greetings from Earth

5.7

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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18. Baltar's Escape

7.2

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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19. Experiment in Terra

6.0

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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20. Take the Celestra

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.

Still image for Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 21: The Hand of God

21. The Hand of God

7.2

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

Cast

Photo of Lorne Greene

Lorne Greene

Commander Adama

Photo of Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict

Lt. Starbuck

Photo of Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch

Capt. Apollo

Photo of Maren Jensen

Maren Jensen

Lt. Athena

Photo of Terry Carter

Terry Carter

Colonel Tigh

Photo of Tony Swartz

Tony Swartz

Flight Sargeant Jolly

Photo of John Colicos

John Colicos

Count Baltar

Photo of Laurette Spang

Laurette Spang

Cassiopeia

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