Description: Galactica 1980 lands on DVD for the first time ever! With all ten thrilling episodes on two discs, see what happens when the original Battlestar Galactica crew finally makes the long-anticipated descent to Earth. With time running out and the Cylons closing in on their trail, Commander Adama and the Galactica must work harder than ever before to help Earth create the technology necessary for battle. Along for the action-packed fight are such stellar guest stars as Dirk Benedict, Brion James, Dennis Haysbert and more! It's an epic adventure unlike any other, and an absolute must-have for any Battlestar Galactica collection!
Good and fun This show is good, fun, family viewing. Uplifting, empowering to kids, no violence or gore. Not as adult as the original BSG series, yet definitely worth watching.
Doomed From The Start I'm a fan of the ORIGINAL series. But Galactica 1980 was doomed from the start. The biggest problem was Dr. Z. No offense to the kid that played the part, it's just that the character was not needed and even took away from the series. To see Adama go to Z for advice or even instruction was demeaning and degrading to the character of Adama. If I had the software to edit DVD's, I'd take out every scene with Z in it.
Battlestar Galactica 1980 - The Final Season This series is good, but it is not as good as the orignal "Battlestar Galactica", but it is a good followup. I just wished that the series would have continued longer. Sorry to see it go away.
Not as good as the original, but still good. No battlestar collection is complete without the final episodes. Set thirty years after the events of the original series, we see the Galactica and her ragtag fleet finally reaching Earth only to discover that Earth is not yet advanced enough to combat an attack from the approaching Cylons. The battle for Earth has begun. If you are a true fan of the original series then buy this. The episodes aren't that bad. You might actually enjoy them. Well, most of them. Don't watch "Spaceball", you'll regret it. And to all you fans of the re-imagined series, guess where they got the idea for humanoid Cylons?
List of episodes
Galactica Discovers Earth (3-part pilot), The Super Scouts (2 parts), Spaceball, The Night the Cylons Landed (2 parts), Space Croppers, The Return of Starbuck (series' final).
A Flop One summer I saw that they were having a marathon of sorts of "Galactica 1980" on TV, so I taped a few episodes and watched them. The first episodes of the series, involving the main characters traveling back in time to World War II is pretty cool.
The rest.....not so much.....
I'll admit that I haven't seen all the episodes, but from what I saw the series just doesn't work. This show could be for kids, and that's why it doesn't work. There's nothing wrong with a kids show, but Galactica doesn't fit in the realm of a saturday-morning children's program, as 1980 appears to be. There aren't as many cool special effects, stock footage from the original series is annoyingly used here and there are plot holes (for example, Troy and Dillan visit Earth in the two-parter first episode. Some time later they tell the children of the fleet that because they were raised on ships, the atmosphere and gravity will be different for them on Earth and thus they will posess the power to jump really high and whatnot. This is a good idea, but why didn't they incorporate this into the first episode?!)
Compared to the original Galactica, 1980 is bland, unepic, and too goofy. The only real good parts are the comedy scenes when the "Galacticans" get confused with Earth technology and culture.
Trust me, you don't need to add this one to your sci-fi collection. You're not missing much.
Anything Goes Trivia
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