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			      Galactica 1980
			       Episode Guide

Cast:                                     Credits:
 
Commander Adama....Lorne Greene     Creator................Glen A. Larson
Col. Boomer..Herb Jefferson Jr.     Exec. Producer.........Glen A. Larson
Lt. Troy............Kent McCord     Music....................Stu Phillips
Lt. Dillon.......Barry Van Dyke     Producers.............David O'Connell
Jamie Hamilton...Robyn Douglass                                Frank Lupo
Dr. Zee....Robbie Rist(premier)                             Jeff Freilich
         Patrick Stuart(others)     Art Director.......Sherman Loudermilk
                                    Special Effects....Universal Hartland
                                          
{Note: For continuity's sake, from Battlestar Galactica to Galactica 1980,
several changes take place.  Apollo is dead.  Starbuck is gone (to be
explained in a later episode).  Boxey has grown up.  Tigh is gone.  Boomer
replaces him.  Adama has a beard.}

Galactica Discovers Earth
Air Dates:  I--1/27/80  II--2/3/80  III--2/10/80  
Writer:   Glen A. Larson
Director: Sidney Hayers
Guest Cast:  Robert Reed, Richard Lynch, Pamela Susan Shoop

At Last, the Galactica finds the planet Earth!  It's the year 1980 A.D.,
and their hopes are dashed when they find that the planet does not have the
technology to help defeat the Cylons.  In fact, the Earth is bad off as it
is.  The Galactica leaves Earth, so that the Cylons following do not find
it, but send down Lt. Troy (formerly Boxey, Adama's grandson) and Lt.
Dillon to contact Prof. Mortinson, a man they feel can help them to advance
Earth's technology quick enough to be of help.  There is trouble, in the
form of Xavier, one of the Council of Twelve who feels that the Galacticans
should upgrade Earth by travelling into the past and introducing modern
devices (Dr. Zee has developed a time-travel device and a cloaking device,
both outfitted into Vipers).  He goes to Nazi Germany, not caring about the
consequences, and Troy and Dillon, joined by reporter Jamie Hamilton of
Earth, follow him.  They undo his damage, but lose Xavier somewhere in
time.  Adama goes ahead with his plan to slowly upgrade Earth, Prof.
Mortinson is told that someday he will meet them again, and Jamies joins
the Colonial fleet.

The Super Scouts
Air Dates:  Part I--3/16/80  Part II--3/23/80  
Writer:  Glen A. Larson
Director: Vince Edwards
Guest Cast:  Alan Miller, Fred Holliday, John Quade

The Cylons launch a surprise attack on the fleet, doing considerable
damage.  Troy and Dillon take the children of the fleet down to Earth to
protect them.  With Jamie's help, they disguise themselves as scouts, but
they get into some trouble, such as when Dillon tries to change his gold
cubits in for American currency, and accidentally robs a bank.  With the
police after them, the group camp out in the woods.  However, some of the
children become ill from drinking polluted water from a chemical plant, and
there is a problem with the Colonists' bizarre anatomies.  The children are
saved, however, and the plant is closed down.

[The reason for using children was that ABC T.V. agreed to broadcast the
show, but only at 7:00 P.M. on Sunday, which was considered children's
time.  This meant only a minimal of violence, and morals for the kiddies.
This is what killed Galactica 1980.  Also, it was explained that due to the
relatively lighter gravity of Earth as opposed to Caprica and the other
home planets, the Galacticans could do amazing physical feats.  Enter the
super-kids!]

Spaceball
Air Date:  3/30/80  
Writers:  Frank Lupo, Jeff Freilich, Glen A. Larson
Director: Barry Crane
Guest Cast:  Fred Holliday, Bert Rosario, Paul Koslo, Jeremy Brett

Xavier returns, and gets rid of Troy and Dillon by sending them into space
in a sabotaged Viper.  They are busy repairing the ship while Xavier tries
to kidnap the kids and hold them for ransom.  Meanwhile, Jamie has taken
the children to a baseball camp for underprivileged kids where she is doing
a story.  This of course results in them playing a game with their
super-powers, saving the camp from being closed down.  Troy and Dillon
return in time to foil Xavier, but he escapes again.

The Night The Cylons Landed
Air Date:  4/13/80  
Writer:  Glen Larson
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Guest Cast:  Roger Davis, William Daniels, Peter Mark Richman, Lara Parker

The Cylon Empire has built a new type of Cylon, a humanoid android.  One of
them, Andromus, along with a centaurian, crashland on Earth.  Troy and
Dillon attempt to catch them, but the Cylons are picked up by a group of
people on their way to a Halloween party.  The Cylons learn that the party
is associated with a New York radio station, and seek to take control of
the station to send a message to a nearby Cylon Base ship that they have
found Earth.
[Note:  Microwave ovens screw up Cylon circuitry.]

So This Is New York
Air Date:  4/20/80  
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Barry Crane
Guest Cast:  William Daniels, Roger Davis, Lara Paker, Peter, Mark Richman,
             Wolfman Jack

Continuation of previous episode, where Cylons attempt to take over a radio
station (where Wolfman Jack is the D.J.).  Troy and Dillon are slowed in
their attempt to stop them when they have to save a child in a penthouse
fire started by the Cylons.  They save the child and stop the Cylons.

Harvest Home
Air Date:  4/27/80  
Writer:  Robert L. McCullough
Director: Daniel Haller
Guest Cast:  Ned Romero, Ana Alicia, Dana Elcar

The Cylons again attack the fleet, taking out the Agroships.  With their
food supply destroyed, Troy and Dillon enter a partnership with Hector
Alonzo, a farmer being threatened by a powerful and prejudiced land baron,
John Steadman.  (Sounds like a job for the A-Team!)  The Galacticans bring
down Dr. Zee's anti-grav ship, and Steadman spots this and calls in the
police.  The Galacticans hide the evidence of their presence, put Steadman
out of business, and get their food.

The Return of Starbuck
Air Date:  5/4/80
Writer:  Glen A. Larson
Director: Ron Satlof
Guest Cast:  Dirk Benedict, Judith Chapman, Rex Cutter

At last, the fate of Starbuck is revealed.  Prof. Zee was revealed in the
premier to be a mutant.  He is a child genius.  He has a dream about
Starbuck, which he relates to Adama, who knows the story to be true.

Fourteen years earlier, while in a battle, Starbuck's Viper was gravely
damaged, and Boomer watched him wildly fly towards a planet.  The fleet
could not go back for him, since the Cylons were on their tail.  Starbuck
crashed onto the barren planet, his ship all but destroyed.  There he finds
the remains of a Cylon fighter, of which one Cylon he is able to fix.  He
does this out of loneliness.  Cy, as he names him, first wishes to kill
Starbuck, because he is a human, but soon learns that they need each other,
and they become friends (to both of their surprise).  Then a mysterious
pregnant woman appears, and Starbuck does his all to care for her, which
makes Cy jealous.  However, Cy helps Starbuck build a tiny ship out of the
remains of both their ships, and after the woman gives birth, launches the
baby into space, the mysterious woman is gone.  It was surmised that she
was from another dimension.  Soon after, a Cylon patrol lands on the
planet, and when they find Starbuck they attempt to kill him.  However, Cy
gives his life? to save Starbuck, killing two of the Cylons before the
third guns him down.  Starbuck finishes off the third Cylon, but Cy is too
far gone to be fixed.  Starbuck is left alone again.

Adama reveals to Zee that he had come to the fleet in a small ship, and his
identity is revealed.

			       End Of Series

The technical information for this compilation is taken from STARLOG's
Photo Guidebook of TV EPISODE GUIDES, Vol. I

The episode summarizations and notes are by Elliott Buchholz
[BUCHHOLZ@GREEN.RUTGERS.EDU]

Edited by Saul Jaffe (Moderator, Sf-Lovers)
