original BSG spin off?

spooydermot

does anyone remember the spin off series of the original BSG, with the kids wandering around on earth(and I believe 2 officers from the Galactica?)
i was very young at the time, so maybe it wasn't even galactica....

anyway, if anyone has the info on the show could they please refresh my memory.........
(but if i do recall correctly, i remember thinking it was pants anyway)

Joeface

"Galactica 1980" i believe and thats all there is worth saying about it

sceptre

Galactica 1980. Even as an eightish year old I thought it was awful. Came home from school one day and did the kiddie equivalent of wtf?

For international syndication it was rolled up as part of the main BSG package.

It had a reasonable start and something of an interesting last episode (mostly because this had nothing to do with Galactica1980) and quite a bit of rubbish in between. It was set a few decades after the original series where they finally reach Earth and the Galactica takes off again, nominally to throw the Cylons off the scent but really to save a bag of cash. The whole purpose behind the series was so that Glen Larson could get it back on the air with a small budget. The beginning had a reasonable time travel episode (3 episodes really) and that really was as good as it got apart from the last episode, a leftover episode where what happened to Starbuck is explained. And there was the annoying boy genius Doctor Zee. Even season 2 of Larson's Buck Rogers kicked its ass, despite the lack of flying motorbikes there.

The only regular surviving original cast members were Lorne Greene as Adama with a beard and Herb Jefferson as Boomer. And it had Dick Van Dyke's son (Steve Sloan from Diagnosis Murder) starring in it. Barry Van Dyke has never demonstrated any real acting ability which probably didn't help.

On the whole: utter crud. Avoid, not necessarily at all costs but almost certainly if you liked the old series. It's the BSG equivalent of Kokomo by the Beach Boys - if it came in the box set many people would probably take the extra disc out, bury it and pretend it never happened.

monkeyfudge

Yeah Dr. Zee looked like the Milky Bar kid and I could never understand why he got to boss Adama around.

The episode where the Cylon ship crashes on Earth wasn't too bad.... there were two centurions and a cylon that looked like a human.

But other than that it was pretty awful stuff...

Apollonaire

The episode where it was revealed what happened to Starbuck was the only good episode. It brought it some aspects from the old show such as a possible being of light a.k.a Angela.

spooydermot

Apollonaire wrote:

The episode where it was revealed what happened to Starbuck was the only good episode. It brought it some aspects from the old show such as a possible being of light a.k.a Angela.

seeing as I'm probably never going to watch the show would anyone mind filling me in on that? just out of interest. I know there was something about starbuck dieing in the original series but other than that.....

Feydakeen

In the episode Starbuck crashed on a planet which had (very convenient ) a oxygen atmosphere. He made a shelter and out of sheer boredom he tried to fix a cylon who'd also crashed with his raider.

Eventually he could get it working again, and there were some tense moments when he tried to make the cylon see that they should become "friends" I really liked the dialogue in which Starbuck asked the Cylon what the cylon plans were after they killed all humans and had control over the universe..... Of course "Cy" the cylon could not answer that... :cool:
After some time Starbuck and Cy had something of a friendship....

At some time a mysterious lady arrived, Starbuck assumed she came from another crash site on the planet and took care of her (we all knew she was probably a "being of light")
Of course being Starbuck, he made her pregnant
Meanwhile Starbuck and Cy tried to make a spaceship of the wreckage of the viper and the raider.

The baby was born ( I remember a hilarious dialogue between Starbuck and Cy about the useless state of newly "manufactured" humans and the inefficiency of reproduction in contrast to new cylon model making )
and shortly after that the spaceship was ready, unfortunately it could only carry 1 person and a baby. So the woman with the baby left the planet, caught up with Galactica (and the baby became the milky way kid ZEE :eek: )

Starbuck made the ultimate sacrifice by staying on the planet, and then another tragedy...a cylon patrol and 3 cylons on the attack, "CY" leaves Starbuck, who stands alone against 4 cylons....
BUT....
Cy destroys the bewildered Cylons, and gets hit, and Starbuck takes his "friend" in his arms, while CY dies....

spooydermot

thanks for the synopsis, really appreciate it!

pretty cool stuff, this all happens in the original galactica yeah, not the kids spin off?

So how does StarBuck return in the spin off?

sorry for all the questions i'm just interested in this bit of trivia now.....

hmmm.might have to pick up the original series to fill the gap between now and the second half of season two......

ccd

Its called Galacrica 80, and I've been trying to grt my hands on it for ages. In it they finaly reach Earth. Butfind that it does not pocess the technology to defend itself from the Cylons. So Zee orders Barry Van Dyke to go back in time and to advance human progess, all while helping his day solve crimes n a weekly basis and running a youth center. Starbuck was only in the last episode. Enterprise has borrowed very hevely from this. Growing up i always wanted one ofthe flying bikes.If anyone knows where i can download or Buy this please let m know

spooydermot

ccd wrote:

If anyone knows where i can download or Buy this please let m know

and presumably one of the flyinh bikes too?

Feydakeen

spooydermot wrote:

thanks for the synopsis, really appreciate it!

pretty cool stuff, this all happens in the original galactica yeah, not the kids spin off?

So how does StarBuck return in the spin off?

sorry for all the questions i'm just interested in this bit of trivia now.....

hmmm.might have to pick up the original series to fill the gap between now and the second half of season two......

Nope, this episode IS a spin-off episode.
It was the only GOOD episode off the whole spin-off Galactica 1980 anyway (for me that is)
It was just used to situate where Dr Zee came from. And it is the ONLY episode that tells the story of one of the original pilots.

ccd

spooydermot wrote:

and presumably one of the flyinh bikes too?

I have it tucked away with my Hoverboard

spooydermot

ccd wrote:

I have it tucked away with my Hoverboard

you have NO idea how dissappointed I was when I saw the 'making of' feature on the Back To the Furture 2 DVD. When I was a kid those hover boards were the ultimate, and then as a 25 year old seeing it and gonig "awww crap, its all strings"

(i never thought they really hovered or anything, but that day the magic was broken, damn you DVD extra features!)

ccd

Dude mine works

Stark

You can still travel in time by getting a car to do 80mph in a housing estate though right?

spooydermot

Stark wrote:

You can still travel in time by getting a car to do 80mph in a housing estate though right?

if by time you mean 6 months banged up for dangerous driving in a residential area then ....yes

ccd

Stark wrote:

You can still travel in time by getting a car to do 80mph in a housing estate though right?

No Dude you need to get up near 90. 88 will probaly do it.