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Andromus: [Surprised at the size of human children who has just greeted him a Happy Halloween] Happy Halloween little people.
Cy: I’m sorry if you are displeased, there wasn’t much of a selection.
- Captain Troy: [after taking off in a Viper from the Galactica] Well, how did you like that?
- Jamie Hamilton: Don’t bother me, I’m praying..
- Lt. Dillon: I wonder if they’d let me take over the controls for awhile?
- Capt. Troy: I wouldn’t even let you.
- Lt. Starbuck: Angela, what did you mean by “Judgement Day”? Who is going to be judging me?
- Angela: We all judge ourselves, Starbuck.
- Lt. Starbuck: I hope so, because I plan on being very easy on myself in certain categories.
- Lt. Starbuck: She is going to bear another human life.
- Cy: I am rapidly being surrounded.
- Cy: I may not find your incessant talk fascinating, but at least I don’t walk off.
- Lt. Starbuck: Did you say something, Cy?
- Cy: [sarcastically] No, of course not. What could I possibly say to you? I’m nothing but a machine.
Commander Adama: [to himself] Goodbye, Starbuck. I love you. We all love you.
Lorne Greene (Adama) and Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Boomer) are the only regular cast members from the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) to appear in this sequel series. As a last ditch effort to raise ratings, the producers brought back Dirk Benedict as Starbuck for one episode.
At the end of several episodes a message appeared on the screen that said: “The United States Air Force stopped investigating UFOs in 1969. After 22 years they found no evidence of extra-terrestrially visits and no threat to national security.”
Capt. Troy was the same character as Boxey (Apollo’s adopted son) from the original Battlestar Galactica (1978), twenty years later.
Humanoid Cylons were first seen on Galactica 1980 not the (2003) reimaging of the Battlestar Galactica series produced Ronald D. Moore and David Eick.
Galacticans have no fingerprints – as revealed by the arrest of Troy and Dillon.
Before her job at United Broadcasting – Jamie Hamilton worked in Reno.
Commander Xavier time travelled back to 1944 Nazi Germany’s town of Peenemunde to assist in the V2 development. He arrived there shortly before D-day, possibly in late-May 1944.
The Nazi General Jodl was portrayed examining the V2 test in 1944. The ‘real’ General Jodl later signed the Nazi surrender to the Allies, thus ending the European part of WWII.
Troy, Dillon and Jamie Hamilton rescued a group of Jews in Germany – en-route to concentration camps – during the initial hours of the D-Day landings.
During the attack on the Gemeni freighter (aka the schooling ship) one of the Cylon attack craft is actually the newer-advanced ship design used in the later episode, “Night the Cylons Landed”. The scene featuring the attack sequence is used twice from one angle and then reversed in another angle. It last about 4 seconds each time.
According to the doctor treating the sick Galactica scouts, the kids had different blood cells to Earth humans.
At the end of several episodes a message appeared on the screen that said: “The United States Air Force stopped investigating UFOs in 1969. After 22 years they found no evidence of extra-terrestrially visits and no threat to national security.”
Before flying to the Galactica – Jamie Hamilton thought Troy and Dillon were terrorists, drug runners, and while in space – she thought they were super-NASA or super-CIA people.
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Run Date: Status: Ended Premiered: January 27, 1980 Last Aired Finale: May. 04, 1980
Galactica 1980 Overview
Set 30 years after Battlestar Galactica (1978) and guided by the mysterious teenage genius prodigy Dr. Zee, the refugees from the Twelve Colonies finale reach Earth. Commander Adama, now wearing a beard, remains in command of both the Galatica and the fleet, with Col. Boomer as his second in command. Upon realizing Earth of 1980 cannot face the Cylons, and hearing Doctor Zee’s warning that the Cylons have followed them, Adama turns the fleet away, sending his grandson Troy (now the grown up Boxey) and his wingman Dillon to explore Earth and aid in speeding up its technological development. They are helped by a reporter named Jamie Hamilton, and thanks to Doctor Zee some new technology such as personal cloaking shields, flying motorcycles and even a time machine.
But there is a a traitor among the fleet named Xavier who steals a ship and travels into Earth’s past in an effort to speed up Earth’s technological development by introducing technology into the past. His first target is to help the Nazi rocket program, but is stopped by Troy, Dillon and Jamie but escapes their custody and returns to 1980 Earth.
Troy and Dillon are then assigned to protect a select group of Galactican children who will be sent to Earth to learn and live among Earths unknowing population so one day they can be ambassadors between the Twelve Colonies refugees and Earth.
The Cylons find Earth but are also dealing with the evolution of the Cylon race and the first humanoid Cylons!
Cast and Characters
- Lorne Greene as Commander Adama
- Kent McCord as Captain Troy
- Barry van Dyke as Lieutenant Dillon
- Herbert Jefferson, Jr. as Colonel. Boomer
- Robyn Douglass as Jamie Hamilton
- Robbie Rist as Doctor Zee #1
- James Patrick Stuart as Doctor Zee #2
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Galactica 1980 Wallpapers and Desktops
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1×01 Galactica Discovers Earth (1) First Aired: Jan. 27, 1980 Thirty years after its voyage began, the Galactica finally nears Earth, but to their utter disappointment they find Earth’s technology is no match for the Cylons. Adama dispatches two pilots with a mission to secretly speed up Earth’s defence development. |
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1×02 Galactica Discovers Earth (2) First Aired: Feb. 03, 1980 When treacherous Xavier travels back in time, Troy and Dillon must race to capture him before the space-age technology falls into the hands of the Nazis. |
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1×03 Galactica Discovers Earth (3) First Aired: Feb. 10, 1980 Xavier appears on Earth before the arrival of the Galactica and it is up to Tory and Dillon to stop his schemes before all hope for a future colony is lost. |
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1×04 The Super Scouts (1) First Aired: Mar. 16, 1980 When the Cylons launch a surprise attack on the fleet, Adama sends Troy and Dillon to take the children to Earth for their own safety. |
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1×05 The Super Scouts (2) First Aired: Mar. 23, 1980 Troy, Dillon and the children all become involved in efforts to stop a chemical company from polluting a town’s water supply. |
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1×06 Spaceball First Aired: Mar. 30, 1980 While Troy and Dillon try to stop the renegade Xavier from altering Earth’s history, the Galactica children find themselves at a baseball camp for underprivileged children. |
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1×07 The Night the Cylons Landed (1) First Aired: Apr. 13, 1980 The Cylon Empire has built a new type of Cylon, a humanoid android; and when one of them survives a crash near New York City, Troy and Dillon must hunt the Cylon down. |
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1×08 The Night the Cylons Landed (2) First Aired: Apr. 20, 1980 Still chasing the humanoid Cylon, Troy and Dillon track him to a radio station, where he tries to send a signal to his Base Star. |
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1×09 Space Croppers First Aired: Apr. 27, 1980 Troy and Dillon form a partnership with an immigrant farmer to produce crops to feed the Galactica refugees after the Cylons destroy the fleet’s agroships. |
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1×10 The Return of Starbuck First Aired: May. 04, 1980 Dr. Zee tells Adama about a dream where he sees Starbuck, crashed on a distant planet, befriending an injured Cylon Centurion and a mysterious alien woman who gives birth to a baby boy. |
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1×01 Galactica Discovers Earth (1) First Aired: Jan. 27, 1980 Thirty years after its voyage began, the Galactica finally nears Earth, but to their utter disappointment they find Earth’s technology is no match for the Cylons. Adama dispatches two pilots with a mission to secretly speed up Earth’s defence development. |
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1×02 Galactica Discovers Earth (2) First Aired: Feb. 03, 1980 When treacherous Xavier travels back in time, Troy and Dillon must race to capture him before the space-age technology falls into the hands of the Nazis. |
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1×03 Galactica Discovers Earth (3) First Aired: Feb. 10, 1980 Xavier appears on Earth before the arrival of the Galactica and it is up to Tory and Dillon to stop his schemes before all hope for a future colony is lost. |
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1×04 The Super Scouts (1) First Aired: Mar. 16, 1980 When the Cylons launch a surprise attack on the fleet, Adama sends Troy and Dillon to take the children to Earth for their own safety. |
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1×05 The Super Scouts (2) First Aired: Mar. 23, 1980 Troy, Dillon and the children all become involved in efforts to stop a chemical company from polluting a town’s water supply. |
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1×06 Spaceball First Aired: Mar. 30, 1980 While Troy and Dillon try to stop the renegade Xavier from altering Earth’s history, the Galactica children find themselves at a baseball camp for underprivileged children. |
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1×07 The Night the Cylons Landed (1) First Aired: Apr. 13, 1980 The Cylon Empire has built a new type of Cylon, a humanoid android; and when one of them survives a crash near New York City, Troy and Dillon must hunt the Cylon down. |
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1×08 The Night the Cylons Landed (2) First Aired: Apr. 20, 1980 Still chasing the humanoid Cylon, Troy and Dillon track him to a radio station, where he tries to send a signal to his Base Star. |
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1×09 Space Croppers First Aired: Apr. 27, 1980 Troy and Dillon form a partnership with an immigrant farmer to produce crops to feed the Galactica refugees after the Cylons destroy the fleet’s agroships. |
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1×10 The Return of Starbuck First Aired: May. 04, 1980 Dr. Zee tells Adama about a dream where he sees Starbuck, crashed on a distant planet, befriending an injured Cylon Centurion and a mysterious alien woman who gives birth to a baby boy. |
