Dr. Who vs. Battlestar Galactica

ozpass

I was just wondering what people preferred....

1) The low-rent but classy british timelord

OR

2) The FX-laden yank space-'em-up with Face from the A-Team ?

Dont be at yourself

Both were before my time, and so I've only watched them in the last few years.

For me, BSG is the clear winner.

ozpass

You just got the 1000th post to the All Things Retro boards, NekkidBibleMan. Well done!

d0gb0y

Cylons rule its a pity knightrider nicked their little red light gimmic

Pigman II

Battlestar Galactica of course! They had a cool looking spaceship, Dirk Benedict and Cylons (but no Garfunkel)!

Dr.Who is just a piece of cheap boring tat that seems to only be watched by obsessive 'sci-fi only' geeks (probably the exact same people who like Red Dwarf.)

Originally posted by d0gb0y
Cylons rule its a pity knightrider nicked their little red light gimmic

Eh, it wasn't 'nicked'. Both shows were by the same guy (Glen Larson AFAIK?) so he was basically just making a signature out of his own creation.

daveirl

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mike65

The two progs have nothing in commen but I voted Dr Who as what it lacked in money it made up for in ideas. BG was just expensive cardboard junk.

Mike.

Raskolnikov

Battlestar Galacita was the ****, i think i still have a few of the toys from when i was a kid.

LoGiE

Battlestar Galactica for me. Its on this week on sky one:) Dr.Who well in my opinion what it lacked in money it made up for with good looking lady companions (except Bonnie Langford...the mutant) but often let itself down by with gimps like that Turlough guy
:rolleyes:

Space Coyote

Was never much of a fan of Dr Who, although Davros was a bit of a laugh.
Battlestar Galactica was class. A million times better than poxy Star Wars anyway

:eek: :eek: :eek:

LoGiE

Originally posted by Space_Coyote
A million times better than poxy Star Wars anyway

That kind of talk can get a person really badly hurt;)

ciano

Battlestar Galactica was pure class. Aren't Sky 1 showing the movie length episode on Wednesday??

Ixidor

it'll always be Dr. Who.... that guy was cool and his scarf.... now that should have been the real star

The Reaper

ITS Battlestar Galactica

The Reaper

ITS Battlestar Galactica i tell ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ciano

Originally posted by ciano
Aren't Sky 1 showing the movie length episode on Wednesday??

For anyone who is interested .... its on SkyOne @ 21.00 tonight!

sutty

Wheren't they meant to make a new or remake of Battlestar Galactica the movie?

Panda

i thought i heard something a while back about a remake of the film aswell, if it does happen itll make millions and millions imo.

battlestar galactica, thought that was a great show,
tbh tho i never watched dr who, it was so **** looking i usually changed the channel.

sceptre

Battlestar Galactica was one of my shows when I was a wee bairn. I've only started watching Dr Who more recently and like it (depending on the timelord TBH. I find one of the Bakers good but I don't know who is who (:D) if you get my drift.). There are a few crappy Galactica shows too IMHO.

Hmmm, divided, I'll think about it.


With regard to the movie, there's a trailer that Richard Hatch (Apollo) is hawking around conventions. He probably burned his credit rating forever making it and it's supposed to be pretty hot (I've not come across a copy of it online). That's as far as the movie project had gone last I heard. He certainly wants to make one, it's a matter of getting the funding.

In the meantime, after getting your fill of the BG movie tonight (or last night if you watched it then) and watching closely at the screen to see the box around all the vipers when they're on screen you can get your fill of Dr Who on UK Gold - about six hours every weekend (late) and repeats (early) as well.

Occidental

Always thought Blakes 7 was about as good as British space stuff got. Other stuff from around the period that I can remember:

Space 1999
Logans Run
Buck Rodgers

and worth a mention just for general weirdness
Sapphire & Steel

aine

Battlestar Galactica was by FAR better! btw is there any channel doing repeats?

Mewzel

i aint familiar with battle star but doctor who was an absolutely class programme! should be repeated i say

User45701

i just saw this topic and had to post, bump it to the front page and get this poll fixed 37% of people think Dr.Who is better? i dont think so

Goodshape

This poll was made before either of the new shows were out, so it's a bit unfair to start voting on it again now.

Never really watched old Dr. Who or old Battlestar Galactica, but both of the new shows are fantastic.

monkeyfudge

User45701 wrote:

i just saw this topic and had to post, bump it to the front page and get this poll fixed 37% of people think Dr.Who is better? i dont think so

Look at the year on the thread... people are comparing old Doctor Who with old Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who easily wins out in that battle.

But I'd rate new Battlestar much higher than the current Doctor Who series.

User45701

ye i didnt read the whole thread i thought it was comparing the new episodes

MisterAnarchy

Old Doctor Who was very good the new series is childish drivel.

lostexpectation

ask this in the dr who board :P

see how many actually say dr who is better

Stark

Of the old series: Doctor Who was way better than the Disco Galactica ****e.

Of the new series: Battlestar Galactica. Though they are very different shows. Battlestar Galactica is dark and grim, Doctor Who is fun, they complement each other nicely. It's a bit unfair to make a comparison.

_Kaiser_

Galactica (both generations) ftw... Dr Who is just terrible cheap rubbish imo.

Takeshi_Kovacs

BSG hands down.. Dr.Who can't come close, (not much else on tv can..)

eamon234

d0gb0y wrote:

Cylons rule its a pity knightrider nicked their little red light gimmic

Actually they had the same producer at the time he was nicking from his own shows!

Speaking of which there's a great episode of the A-Team with Dirk Benedict on a film lot and a Centurion walks past - hilarious!

_Kaiser_

eamon234 wrote:

Speaking of which there's a great episode of the A-Team with Dirk Benedict on a film lot and a Centurion walks past - hilarious!

That shot actually made it to the title sequence if I remember right.