Galactica

See also: Battlestar Galactica (homonymy)

Galactica ( Battlestar Galactica or Battlestar Galactica 1978 ) is a Televised series American into 1 pilot (sometimes presented in three parts) of 135 minutes and 20 45 minutes episodes, created by Glen A. Larson and diffused between on September 17th, 1978 on television and on April 29th, 1979 on television on the network ABC. In France, several episodes (of which the pilot) were gone up in the form of two feature-length films - Galactica, the battle of space (distributed in SenSurround) and Galactica, let us cylons them attack , left in the French cinemas in 1979, before the series is not diffused starting from July 4th, 1981 on television on TF1.

Synopsis

Humanity lives on the 12 colonies, in a remote solar system. After thousand years of war, a race reptilienne, Cylons, disappears. But they do not have time to order with their servants robots arréter to fight. Taking themselves the name of Cylons, those thus continue their programmed task: the war. They thus attack by surprised and demolish the 12 human colonies.

Undergoing the continual attacks of these enemies helped by human, Doctor Baltar (John Colicos), the human survivors form a fleet under the protection of the last vessel of combat, the Battlestar Galactica . The Adama commander takes the head of this assembly the fugitive ones, and puts himself at the research of mythical the 13th colony, a planet called Ground.

Distribution

Lorne Greene : Commander Adama
Richard Hatch: Captain Apollo
Dirk Benedict (VF: Jose Luccioni) : Lieutenant Starbuck
Herb Jefferson Jr.: Lieutenant Boomer
John Colicos: Count Baltar/Gaius Baltar
Maren Jensen: Lieutenant Athena
Noah Hathaway: Boxey
Laurette Spang : Cassiopeia

Rewards

Emmy Award 1979 : Better costumes
Emmy Award 1979: Better special effects for the episode Galactica, the battle of space

Episodes

1: Galactica, the battle of space (Saga off has Star World)
2: Tombs of Kobol - 1st part (Lost Planet off the Gods - Share 1)
3: Tombs of Kobol - 2nd part (Lost Planet off the Gods - Share 2)
4: Lost Combatants (The Lost Warrior)
5: Remote Patrol (The Long Patrol)
6: The Canon of the frozen mountain - 1st part (Gun One Ice Planet Zero - Share 1)
7: The Canon of the frozen mountain - 2nd part (Gun One Ice Planet Zero - Share 2)
8: Victorious Warriors (The Magnificent Warriors)
9: The Young warriors (The Young Lords)
10: Cylons tackle - 1st part (The Living Legend - Share 1)
11: Cylons tackle - 2nd part (The Living Legend - Share 2)
12: Flames in the sky (Fire in Space)
13: The War of the Gods - 1st part (War off the Gods - Share 1)
14: The War of the Gods - 2nd part (War off the Gods - Share 2)
15: The Voice of blood (The Man with Nine Lives)
16: Murder in space (Murder one the Rising Star)
17: Better wishes of the Earth (Greetings from Earth)
18: The Escape (Baltar' S Escape)
19: Operation Terra (Experiment in Terra)
20: Celestra (Take The Celestra)
21: The Hand of God (The Hand off God)

Derivative products

Novels

Christopher Golden delicious and Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galactica Armageddon , Byron Preiss, 1997
Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galactica Warhawk , Byron Preiss, September 1st 1998
Richard Hatch and Stan Tillers, Battlestar Galactica Resurrection , IBooks,
Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galactica Rebellion
Richard Hatch, Battlestar Galactica Paradise , Byron Preiss, September 1st 1998
Richard Hatch and Brad Linaweaver, Battlestar Galactica Destiny , iBooks, December 10th 2005
Richard Hatch and Brad Linaweaver, Battlestar Galactica Redemption , iBooks, October 10th 2005

Comics

Board games

Battlestar Galactica (1978), from 2 to 4 players, published by Parker Brothers.
Battlestar Galactica (1979), from 2 to 12 players, conceived by Jordan Weisman and L Ross Babcock III, published by FASA.

Video game

2003 : Battlestar Galactica on XBox and Playstation 2. Play of Vivendi Universal Games

See too

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