Galactica 1980

branie

Anyone here remember this short lived spin off to Battlestar Galactica?

Taltos

With the flying motorcycles - face in hand - oh yes....
You remember who one of the leads is the son of and what other show he starred in with said famous dad...??

JupiterKid

Yep - I remember it well and loved Galactica 1980 as a kid.:)

Especially the flying motorbikes, the way the kids could jump high in the air and the Cylons who went to the Halloween party.

I saw it again a few years back and boy - it's dated very, very badly.:(

kitakyushu

It's hilariously bad. It seemed to keep changing premise and direction during it's "lengthy" 10 episode run and by the end people must have been so disinterested that they just gave up and threw together a Starbuck+Cylone episode.

Calibos

Taltos wrote: »

With the flying motorcycles - face in hand - oh yes....
You remember who one of the leads is the son of and what other show he starred in with said famous dad...??

Dick Van 'Diagnosis Murder' Dyke

What Sci-fi show did the other 'lead' appear in within the last 5 or 6 years and who's father did he play???

icdg

More normally airs under the "Battlestar Galactica" title these days, even though it was a massive retool of the original and only Lorne Greene and Herb Jefferson Jr returned. Helps that it uses the exact same theme music as Battlestar Galactica, which to be honest is the best thing about it.

Last seen in this neck of the woods repeated as a part of a run of the original Battlestar Galactica in a teatime slot on BBC Two sometime in the late 1990s/early 2000s, I can't remember which year exactly.

Taltos

Calibos wrote: »

Dick Van 'Diagnosis Murder' Dyke

What Sci-fi show did the other 'lead' appear in within the last 5 or 6 years and who's father did he play???

OMG - never spotted that before and I loved that show was just amazing, talk about muppets in space meets Buck Rogers...

BlaasForRafa

icdg wrote: »

More normally airs under the "Battlestar Galactica" title these days, even though it was a massive retool of the original and only Lorne Greene and Herb Jefferson Jr returned. Helps that it uses the exact same theme music as Battlestar Galactica, which to be honest is the best thing about it.

Last seen in this neck of the woods repeated as a part of a run of the original Battlestar Galactica in a teatime slot on BBC Two sometime in the late 1990s/early 2000s, I can't remember which year exactly.

Reading this thread I can remember bits of this program. The flying motorcycles were naff but I suppose CHiPs was really popular at the time so the producers must have thought that the public really loved looking at two bouffant-haired pretty-boys riding bikes on the LA freeways.

I recall Adama had a really fake-looking white beard and didn't he have a superbrain kid that looked like the milky-bar kid?

I remember the Starbuck episode which was actually pretty good but the only other episode I can remember is one with a crashed cylon fighter and one of its pilots trying to get to a radio station to broadcast a signal to his fleet....or was that from the original series?

Calibos

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Reading this thread I can remember bits of this program. The flying motorcycles were naff but I suppose CHiPs was really popular at the time so the producers must have thought that the public really loved looking at two bouffant-haired pretty-boys riding bikes on the LA freeways.

I recall Adama had a really fake-looking white beard and didn't he have a superbrain kid that looked like the milky-bar kid?

I remember the Starbuck episode which was actually pretty good but the only other episode I can remember is one with a crashed cylon fighter and one of its pilots trying to get to a radio station to broadcast a signal to his fleet....or was that from the original series?

Yer Man from St Elsewhere with the Moustache who was the Voice of Kitt from Knightrider was in that episode I think. Coincidentally, just saw him in this very video yesterday.....

JupiterKid

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Reading this thread I can remember bits of this program. The flying motorcycles were naff but I suppose CHiPs was really popular at the time so the producers must have thought that the public really loved looking at two bouffant-haired pretty-boys riding bikes on the LA freeways.

I recall Adama had a really fake-looking white beard and didn't he have a superbrain kid that looked like the milky-bar kid?

I remember the Starbuck episode which was actually pretty good but the only other episode I can remember is one with a crashed cylon fighter and one of its pilots trying to get to a radio station to broadcast a signal to his fleet....or was that from the original series?

The Milkybar kid genius was called Doctor Z (as in Zee, the American pronunciation of the letter):D Colonel Adama consulted Dr Z when he needed advice on what to do about Dillon and Troy (the two leading characters on Earth in 1980) and the Galactica kids they had in their care - who were disguised as a troop of cub scouts.:D You really couldn't make this stuff up!:pac:

There was also a woman who befriended Dillon and Troy and helped them out - they also travelled back in time in one of their spaceships to the 1940s and WW2.

An Earth boy discovered Dillon and Troy's spaceships when the invisible thingy cloaking them wore off. Dillon and Troy could press a button on a wristwatch thing and become invisible themselves.

The cylons who crashed on Earth were the ones who went to the fancy dress Halloween party and tried to use a satellite dish on top of the building the party was being held in (in Manhattan NYC I think) to contact their mothership. Wolfman Jack, a famous American DJ at the time, guest starred in this episode.

Wow - I remember far, far too much about this show!!:eek::o:o::P

jhegarty

branie wrote: »

Anyone here remember

No , because it didn't happen.

Such a series doesn't exist and was never made :P

Muckie

I really like the episode wher Starbuck repaired the Cylon robot.

Wan't there also something about Starbuck rescuing a pregnant woman,

she gave birth to a kid and the now good Cylon died why saying the kid.

Taltos

Think the kid is the milkie boy genius, the episode was used to show his origin and tie back to Starbuck.

Muckie

Taltos wrote: »

Think the kid is the milkie boy genius, the episode was used to show his origin and tie back to Starbuck.

Thats him thanks...think he was blasted off in the repaired Viper while Starbuck stayed behind...like a Hero

Taltos

Should have chucked the kid out and climbed into the cockpit himself.. Now that would have made the series... OK so maybe a time paradox or two - but come on - Starbuck on earth - no woman would have been safe

r3nu4l

Thing is, I remember watching this when it first came out. I was a massive fan of Battlestar Galactica and because I was so young, this to me was a fantastic series. I haven't seen it since and I imagine it has dated badly but for nostalgia sake I'd love to watch it again.