Product 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!System Requirements:Running Time: 242 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 025195021494 Manufacturer No: 61102701
I Actually Really Liked This! I'd heard for many years how awful this show was. Well, it is, kind of. But I liked it. I was very entertained by even the most (for that time) politically correct episode (there are many environmentalist issues at hand since "higher intelligence" deals with we "dumb modern day humans"). It's about the Galactica finding earth and then two guys making sure earth is safe from Cylons, that is, making sure that we could in fact battle Cylons if they happened to attack, and follows their adventures in a modern day society with their special space skills, and flying motorcycles, and bionic children. And a cylon actually lands on earth and kidnaps Wolfman Jack. Now if I were to have read this a month ago, I'd think there wouldn't be any way for it to be good... But every episode keeps you interested, somehow. Seeing Robbie "Cousin Oliver" Rist and Robert "Mr. Brady" Reed in the same episode (although never on screen together) was kind of funny. Kent McCord as the grown up "Boxey" is good; Barry Van Dyke (son of Dick) as his sidekick (McCord is the "Apollo" while Van Dyke is the "Starbuck", per say) isn't good at all. Van Dyke is about as wooden as a log cabin as far as acting goes, and his voice sounds like an FM dj. "Adama" played by Lorne Greene and "Boomer" (who has basically replaced "Col. Tigh" as second in command) are the only original cast members, and it's kind of relaxing to have them there even though they aren't involved much since they stay in space, and most of the show is on the ground. "Starbuck" (Dirk Benedict) is the center of the final episode. The entire series (including the original) ends with our hero "Starbuck" (the "Han Solo" of BG) stranded on a barren planet. A total cliffhanger, leaving me to realize the show was canned while trying to "tease" the studios into letting it stick around. And do we ever get to hear about what happened to "Appolo" and his sister, or "Cass"? Anyhow, this show had time travelling, space dog fights, and a very, very cool visual-scenerio of Cylons blowing up earth. Pretty neat. And as I've mentioned, the stories are involving. Kept me watching. While I wasn't on the edge of my seat, I was firmly planted on the middle of my couch, and enjoyed myself the entire time.
Good I got this DVD, but it locks up all the time. One show I can't see period of the 8 shows on the two disks, because I can't get it past the blockage where it stopped. The others are fine. The others are perfect, and I would still get this set with all the problems.
Battlestar Galactica 1980 The only reason I bought this was to complete what I have on the series for Battlestar Galactica. I can see why this show was cancelled after a few episodes. I got tired of watching them chasing after that one guy who kept going to the past and watching scene after scene about the children. It was just too boring to watch them on Earth after being in outer space for so long. Only a die hard fan would want this and I guess that's why I bought it.
the start of the arid wasteland of sci-fi that was the 80's(though Y2K4-8+ makes it a darn good time in comparison) The abysmally bad Galactica "1980" titled for the turn of the decade from the first serial "Galactica 1979"- or whatever, was amusing at best to watch and at worst, not even that. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was more serious. The worst shows of all always involve some kid camp because not even kids like kids who are made out like "soccer mom's bunch". The WWII episode is also abysmally stinky and makes me light headed with embarassment. The "Starbuck Returns" Episode has some moments but nothing to write home about and Bennedict's acting was less than his usual talant and he was WAY out of character here! The rip-off here is "Alien Mine" or even older still, "Robinson/Curoso" exactly the same plot context. And why the chairs and junk in front of the Cylon's starfighter like he had a bunch of office supplies in the first place to get trashed in front of his ride, very stinky(as in causes a red flash of embarassment, ;). Do not get this unless you just want memorial junk. I've seen better home movies of middle-aged looser women lip-syncing to getto blasters playing to out-dated hippie rock songs on Youtube.
Battlestar Galasctica 1980 This was an interesting way to end the series which started in 1976. A new crew, years in the future and still looking and finally finding the "shining planet, known as Earth" some of the acting was typical of the time. but it would have been nice to have seen some of the old crew.
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