As I recall The F 16 had just entered service. The Viper instrumentation and handling looks very similar to what was at that time the most advanced fighter in the world.
But the set designs and science is much better in star trek. They have shields. Deflectors, replicators, transporters. And the ship designs and interior designs are so much nicer, especislly in the TNG era.
@@Gamble661 Starbuck baby. Jk I've never watched it. I'm sure the original bsg will be superior because of course TV shows were PEAK TV from the 60s to 90s, and starting in the 2000s shows began to suck including star trek (although enterprise was ok), and the new BSG which I also never watched. I'm sure the old bsg has a nice story and of course has John colicos, but I like Star trek because it's more philosophical and mature
Cutting edge effects for the time period, and the stories were pretty good. Anyone notice that in the 70's they had a black XO and female fighter pilots and none of us batted an eye. Seemed pretty normal...
The black XO was an officer and acted like an officer. It wasn't black black black all the time. The women were hot, tough, and were able to be portrayed as awesome without making the guys look like weaklings. Better writing.
After seeing a cast of characters like star trek tos, and strong women like wonder woman and the bionic woman, seemed like a regular show to me. I enjoyed them all.
From "Fire in Space". One of my favorite scene from the original series. Wish they did more like this. Anne Lockhart is still my favorite space fighter pilot.
I loved this series, it was such a shame it only lasted one season, (I don't count Galactica 1980) the uniforms and western style holsters were awesome, and the Egyptian style fighter helmets were my favorites, and this episode is one of my favorites, even after 45 years this clip still gives me goosebumps as I watch it.
Same here! I thought the show was amazing as a kid. Part of my big 4 favorite scifi TV shows back then. Star Trek, Space 1999, Buck Roger's (1st season) and Battlestar Galactic. Lol, I fully agree. It is shame it lasted ONE season. (1980 does not exist in my mind. Even as a kid who loved scifi, it turned me off.) I wish someone can do to the original BSG what they did to Star Trek TOS a number of years ago. Go over all the special effects in the show and upgrade them with present day effects. Also removing recycled space scenes and creating new ones. But, keeping the story and actors untouched. That would be awesomely cool.
I don’t think Galactica 1980 is canon. It was just a show creator Glen A. Larson did for the money, just Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry for the non-canon animated series from 1973.
I had the cylon raider, but wanted a viper. The red darts would shoot out. I remember there was a recall because the darts were a choking hazard for little kids. The darts became fixed which then made it a boring toy. The original fighters with the shooting darts are probably prized collectibles now.
Being someone who's childhood was during the 70's, born in 1967, I have so many great memories of these classic Sci-Fi shows. Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rodgers, Star Trek, and other great shows. I remember the old police show, S.W.A.T. as well as the Hospital show Emergency! These were incredibly talented people who did these shows. Also the A-Team, M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard, as well as some other great shows! It was so fun to be a kid!!
Bugs Bunny [Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd] Road Runner [Wiley Coyote] Hour was replaced by Sponge Bomb. And then Sponge Bob was replaced by Y.T. uploaded, unscripted, inane, Roblox gameplay sessions.
Thats not true. Your being nostalgic! :) We had 2 sci-fi shows, or we went outside to catch fire flies or eat watermelon. Because that all we had to do. I thought the new BSG was really good if you make it through character development.
This kamikaze thing was very deadly because I remember watching Battlestar Galactica over 40 years ago when they were still airing it back on television.
I remember watching this TV show when I was a kid on Sunday Night when it first came out. Each night I would be excited about a new episode but all of sudden the show stopped and I was super bummed out
Good direction and a good budget make all the difference. This attack is so much more intense than the one at the end of the season in "The Hand of God," despite that battle being a bigger one on paper. Also, shout out to the blast shield over the main view window. It's deployed in virtually every battle but only here do we actually see why.
The first orginal BSG was a series about Hope, The reboot BSG was a series about paranoia. The orginal series was a joy to watch The reboot was disgusting.
Not for me. All the characters were selfish, arrogant brats. The only character I had any respect for, by the end, was Starbuck, and they ruined her. And, the scripts were to predictable.
Now there's a blast from the past - I used to love watching this when I was a kid, and I say that as a guy whose childhood was one long Star Trek obsession. There was just something about Battlestar Galactica that can be summed up in one word: epic.
@@fjccommishLOL, I knew someone like you would say something about "woke." How was the reboot "woke" but not this version? You freakshows love to pick and choose just to suit your nutjob views.
When Col. Tigh is first looking at the radar screen, you can see a whole lot more Cylon fighters than just a mere "combat probe" - it looked like a full-on onslaught.
This clip holds up pretty well, even today. The battlestars were the first true space-borne fighter carriers, and the concept has been used often since.
They weren't being done by Apogee/John Dykstra after they started on "Long Patrol" and "Gun on Ice Planet Zero". The producers switched to Universal Hartland Visual Effects - a new in-house effects division of Universal in the former Douglas Trumbull Future General Corporation/Entertainment Effects Group studios in Marina Del Ray now tasked with working on _Buck Rogers in the 25th Century_ and _The Concorde... Airport '79._
I remember this one well. My father wondered why another squadron of Cylons didn't come to finish them off (Of course, then there wouldn't be a series)
@@zorkmid1083 Well, if they found the Galactica, they would have contacted their fleet. So, the Base Ships should have arrived to finish them off. (At least that's how I see it)
@@SJHFoto DID YOU SAY "WELL, IF THEY FOUND"?!!!. YOU MUST'VE MEANT TO SAY "WELL, IF THEY "HAD" FOUND(OR LOCATED, IF YOU WILL) , DIDN'T YOU?!!!. GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT ETYMOLOGY & GRAMMATICAL USAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!.
@@lloydacklinjr.2032 I'm Canadian. "If they found" is the proper way the sentence is structured at least in Canada. I always thought that adding a "had" was incorrect English, but perhaps that differs depending on where you are from (I assume you are from the States-I live here now, and still am surprised at the way some people talk)
_UNLESS_ that target was one of the major cast members (i.e. Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer, etc.) -- then, their aim did falter a little bit. Yes, Starbuck and Apollo were brought down in a few episodes, but they returned to fight another day.
And it also shows what a terrible design these ships are when they have such obvious weak points like the bridge module and the completely open landing bays
Except the Battlestar Atlantia was destroyed in this manner during the pilot episode. The Cylons did kamikaze attacks on the bridge, landing strip and other critical areas, ultimately obliterating the ship. The defense fleet wised up in time, preventing the Galactica from suffering the same fate.
........that was SUCH.....a gooood f'kin show. I was 12 yrs old and obsessed! ..just watching this clip, now..& it aint just rose colored classes saying it is amazing.. got a bit misty eyed its so good, aha. amazing A/V fx & acting..the sets..and those glorious Colonial Vipers! 🎥🎞🍿💛🌌☄🚀 ..anyone else see BSG in Sensurround at the theater, back when? That was 1 amazing day!
I loved BSG as a kid. I remember my parents (RIP Dad) took me to a sci-fi double bill at one of the old Derby cinemas (the ABC, I think): Battlestar Galactica 2 and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It was fantastic!! My Mum fell asleep . . . . I never did understand why! 😂😂😂😂
A massive explosion rocks the entire ship. And causes a massive shockwave that ripples within the ship. In the rejuvenation center, massive damage causes many to be injured from the blast. Athena: "I thought we were too far inside to take a laser hit." Boomer: "We are! That was something else!" While Boomer and Athena take stock of the damage.they start attending to the wounded members.
I did. It was great. The Sensurround sound system was used. Large amplifier in each corner, aimed at the center of the theater. The floor rumbled, like the Galactica's engines were under the floor. In the theatrical release, Baltar was beheaded.
Yeah, remember that. Baltar is beheaded. More aliens at the casino, no mention of the Cylons being robots. And Starbuck being(apparently) naked when getting steam blasted.
This show was awesome and Athena was probably one of my first celebrity crushes. Favorite episode was Starbuck crash landing and facing the Cylon “Red Eye”, I think that was the name the locals gave him.
That was the episode "The Lost Warrior", where Apollo crash lands on the planet Equellus. When Apollo goes to town, it's like a wild West atmosphere. The Cylon named "Red Eye" thinks that LaCerta (the town boss) is the Imperious Leader. LaCerta resembles Boss Hogg in that white hat and suit. Loved it when Apollo smoked Red Eye in that duel.
Thanks for the update, I had my pilots switched, didn't he also kinda fall for one of the female townspeople, I think she had a son also?@@lindaoneil5085
One thing I always loved about this episode was that there was two NEW spaceship model scenes, and not just recycling of the same old ones (though they were in this episode as well. 1) @2:34 When the Cyclon Raider was turning in front of the Galactica to make its suicide run on the bridge. 2) @3:30 When the Cyclon Raider suicide runs into the landing bay. First time either of those model scenes were shown.
I was 17 when this hit the airwaves. Liked the show, the characters, the space saga story, the Egyptian style helmets, guess they where hinting at that their ancestors visited earth in ancient times. It was pretty wild how the viper would shoot out of the launch tube with that very extremely loooong exhaust flume. Thought it was going to burn all of its fuel up. Prob. a lot of guys back then fantasized about meeting and hooking up with Sheba ( Anne Lockhart ), me included. Oh well I guess a lonely boy can dream. In 1980 I even bought one of those fake knockoff colonial warrior jackets( but didn't know it at the time) from the back of Starlog magazine I believe. When it arrived it was med thick cotton and drab olive green, NOT brown like the TV show. And it lost it's shape after 2 or 3 machine washings ! Yeah my family and I used to watch and enjoy this show in it's first and only season 78'-79'. I specifically remember the episode were they were down on a ice planet to destroy a Cylon super weapon and avoid being detected by those chrome headed toasters. it was a nail biting 2 parter I believe.Yeah those were some fond memories. Wish I could go to Comic Con or a convention and meet the rest of the surviving cast.
“The Cylons had developed the revolutionary tactic of targeting the bridge. Even more remarkable was that this tactic was not done earlier - for decades the exposed ship bridge was a common warship design. Why no strategist had thought of this sooner remains a mystery.”
The Cylon fighters were the coolest looking ships in sci-fi media at the time. And that's going against everything Star Wars at that period. There... I said it.
I remember seeing this and my dad came in the room and told me to turn it off because it reminded him too much of WW2 and the pacific and Japanese Kamikaze attacks.
If 8 Raiders made it... Galactica would have ended up like Atlantia lol. Solonite seems to be the C-4 of the OG BSG universe. Mainly used for demolition.
A fan of nBSG always said to me BSG78 was camp, cheese, crap etc but growing up you buy into things a certain way. But beyond childish innocence, for 1978 this was cutting edge tv. The SFX, budget... Besides, it's not a true Starbuck if it's not Benedict 😀
How the times goes by, must be 44 yrs now when i watch this in cinema. Yes, following the big success of Star Wars everybody wants to make money with this SciFi, like Star Trek the Movie, Disneys the Black hole and this... They glued three episodes from TV together and brings that in theatres, 1. Battlestar Galactice and 2. Attack of the Cylons, in Sensorround sound system. The TV show wasnt here in german TV that time. my friend and i were so impressed about (14 yrs old) and ordered the Soundtrack (record)... Today i am shocked how cheap it looks, i mean the stages, clothes, the cheap TV acting...only the SFX are great, but for to save money they used the space fights and explosions ever and ever again, repeat for repeat. And i never understand why the helmets have so many lamps INSIDE. My wife loves Star Wars and all that stuff but when BG was in TV last year here we tried to watch but...naa, impossible. One episode and we were off.
Always wondered why in most SciFi movies and series they place the bridge of the large ships in such a vulnerable location when there are cameras and screens and in space direct visual is of very limited use anyway and you'd mostly rely on various sensors. Even on WW2 battleships the actual command center is buried deep within the heavily armored citadel and the exposed bridge is mostly used when not in combat so why would a spaceship from future have an unprotected bridge with huge windows sticking out just begging to be blown to pieces?.
I look at the placement of the reinforcement bars in the cockpit glass of the Vipers. Good thing they have a targeting screen for firing - talk about blind spots for the pilot!!
I always wondered by they didn't have half their raiders fight back and the other half do a sort of flank and ram. And not just ram the Galactica, but other ships as well. And with the Galactica largely taken out, why didn't the base ships keep attacking?
@@gregorydahl Other way around. Raiders ram every ship. Without the civilian ships, the rest is kind of pointless and resupply and support becomes a real issue.
This had to be a massively expensive show to make in the late 70’s. I’m grateful it happened and exists.
It was. That's the main reason it was cancelled. If I remember correctly it actually had decent ratings.
It was the first TV show to go over $1 Million per episode...
@@jimmyjohnjames6397 Yes, a friend told me those graphics are on REAL '70's era computers, not props.
Yes. That was one of the reasons it got canceled.
@@Eddie42023 correct
I always loved the design of the Vipers.
As I recall The F 16 had just entered service. The Viper instrumentation and handling looks very similar to what was at that time the most advanced fighter in the world.
Based on F-104 starfighter.
@@georgethomas6744 The F-16 was nicknamed the "Viper" as it resembled the BSG Vipers.
The launch scenes were SO cool!!!
Wow, what an awesome time to be a young boy. Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999 and Star Wars!!! That was great time in my life.
Same here. I miss those days.
Agreed! There’s been nothing like this since or before
I was 18.
Same here..in 1978 I was 9 years old . What a time. Then we had Buck Rogers.
@@Daehawk Right!!!! I was 10 in 1978. Buck Rogers was awesome.
The Original Star Trek and original Battlestar Galactica are my 2 favorite sci-fi shows of all time. And that will never change.
But the set designs and science is much better in star trek. They have shields. Deflectors, replicators, transporters. And the ship designs and interior designs are so much nicer, especislly in the TNG era.
@@davidt8087Lol. He said it will never change. Nice try, though.
@@harley2704 not sure why you need to say lol.
Love Star Trek, the older ones anyway, but the original BSG will always be my favorite sci-fi series. Followed by Firefly.
@@Gamble661 Starbuck baby. Jk I've never watched it. I'm sure the original bsg will be superior because of course TV shows were PEAK TV from the 60s to 90s, and starting in the 2000s shows began to suck including star trek (although enterprise was ok), and the new BSG which I also never watched. I'm sure the old bsg has a nice story and of course has John colicos, but I like Star trek because it's more philosophical and mature
Cutting edge effects for the time period, and the stories were pretty good. Anyone notice that in the 70's they had a black XO and female fighter pilots and none of us batted an eye. Seemed pretty normal...
The black XO was an officer and acted like an officer. It wasn't black black black all the time. The women were hot, tough, and were able to be portrayed as awesome without making the guys look like weaklings. Better writing.
@@richardthomas5362 Totally. This is representation without wokeness.
Accurate observation. That is true in science fiction.
Good writing!
After seeing a cast of characters like star trek tos, and strong women like wonder woman and the bionic woman, seemed like a regular show to me. I enjoyed them all.
I love that Lorne Greene went from Bonanza to Battlestar Galactica, The man owned both roles.
I liked how the experienced Adama is still giving smart orders even while barely conscious
And "Roots"
The same for Lee Majors.
And him narrating the animal show Wild Kingdom.
Man this is crazy! The budget on this series was insane. So good for its time!
From "Fire in Space". One of my favorite scene from the original series. Wish they did more like this. Anne Lockhart is still my favorite space fighter pilot.
Lockhart? That name sounds familiar.
@@andrewvelonis5940her mother was in lost in space
@@brettthebassistLooking for Lassie....
Anne Lockhart was/is so stunningly beautiful.
I loved this series, it was such a shame it only lasted one season, (I don't count Galactica 1980) the uniforms and western style holsters were awesome, and the Egyptian style fighter helmets were my favorites, and this episode is one of my favorites, even after 45 years this clip still gives me goosebumps as I watch it.
Same here! I thought the show was amazing as a kid.
Part of my big 4 favorite scifi TV shows back then. Star Trek, Space 1999, Buck Roger's (1st season) and Battlestar Galactic.
Lol, I fully agree. It is shame it lasted ONE season. (1980 does not exist in my mind. Even as a kid who loved scifi, it turned me off.)
I wish someone can do to the original BSG what they did to Star Trek TOS a number of years ago.
Go over all the special effects in the show and upgrade them with present day effects. Also removing recycled space scenes and creating new ones.
But, keeping the story and actors untouched. That would be awesomely cool.
I don't think anyone counts Galactica 1980 for much of anything. They did the same thing to Buck Rogers with its second season.
I liked the episode where Starbuck & Boomer steal a Cylon fighter to infiltrate a Cylon basestar
I loved the pilots jackets....
I don’t think Galactica 1980 is canon. It was just a show creator Glen A. Larson did for the money, just Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry for the non-canon animated series from 1973.
I still have all of my original BSG toys from the late 70's. I spent many hours playing with them in my pre-teen years.
They were fabulous. Had hard plastic 'darts' that would shoot out.
When we went to the stores everybody had bought the colonial fighters, there were none left! I still have my Cylon fighter!
I had the cylon raider, but wanted a viper. The red darts would shoot out. I remember there was a recall because the darts were a choking hazard for little kids. The darts became fixed which then made it a boring toy. The original fighters with the shooting darts are probably prized collectibles now.
Being someone who's childhood was during the 70's, born in 1967, I have so many great memories of these classic Sci-Fi shows. Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rodgers, Star Trek, and other great shows. I remember the old police show, S.W.A.T. as well as the Hospital show Emergency! These were incredibly talented people who did these shows. Also the A-Team, M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard, as well as some other great shows! It was so fun to be a kid!!
Dont forget the black sheep
The pilot episode of SWAT is on here now! Just saw it last night. Check it out.
No wonder woman or bionic woman?
Space:1999 , ark II , STAR TREK ANIMATED SERIES , planet of the apes , land of the lost '74
Bugs Bunny [Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd] Road Runner [Wiley Coyote] Hour was replaced by Sponge Bomb.
And then Sponge Bob was replaced by Y.T. uploaded, unscripted, inane, Roblox gameplay sessions.
Great childhood memory for me. I had models of both fighter ships and ran a marathon in my backyard chasing each other.
Never missed an episode of BSG when it was first on! Great show!
As a young teen I loved watching this show back in the 70's.
Best show ever made for television. Nothing has ever been as good since.
Thats not true. Your being nostalgic! :) We had 2 sci-fi shows, or we went outside to catch fire flies or eat watermelon. Because that all we had to do. I thought the new BSG was really good if you make it through character development.
lol what did you expect from a boomer? Sense? Nah. that's too much to expect
Don't forget about 'Greatest American Hero' :)
This kamikaze thing was very deadly because I remember watching Battlestar Galactica over 40 years ago when they were still airing it back on television.
I remember watching this TV show when I was a kid on Sunday Night when it first came out. Each night I would be excited about a new episode but all of sudden the show stopped and I was super bummed out
Thank you so much for posting this part of "Fire In Space". Even after all these years, the suspense has me sitting on the edge of my seat! Love it! ❤
One of my favorite stand alone episodes-FIRE IN SPACE.
Absolutely loved this growing up,way ahead of it's time.
Good direction and a good budget make all the difference. This attack is so much more intense than the one at the end of the season in "The Hand of God," despite that battle being a bigger one on paper. Also, shout out to the blast shield over the main view window. It's deployed in virtually every battle but only here do we actually see why.
The original show was awesome for the day,but the re-imagination in the 2000’s took it to another level.
A awful level could not make it through the first esp.
They did a great job on the reboot
The first orginal BSG was a series about Hope,
The reboot BSG was a series about paranoia.
The orginal series was a joy to watch
The reboot was disgusting.
Not for me. All the characters were selfish, arrogant brats. The only character I had any respect for, by the end, was Starbuck, and they ruined her. And, the scripts were to predictable.
The reboot was terrible
Now there's a blast from the past - I used to love watching this when I was a kid, and I say that as a guy whose childhood was one long Star Trek obsession. There was just something about Battlestar Galactica that can be summed up in one word: epic.
Watched this (and the entire series) with my older siblings when it first came back in the day. I was only 5, but it was such a good time!
Great show that was cut short for main reason of expense. The 2003 reboot was excellent and very well written.
The 2003 reboot was WOKE crap.
@@fjccommishnope. It was great.
A bit too much religion for me, but still awesome.
It started off great, but fizzled out at the end.
It was a load of felgercarb and sucked!
@@fjccommishLOL, I knew someone like you would say something about "woke." How was the reboot "woke" but not this version? You freakshows love to pick and choose just to suit your nutjob views.
Η καληυερη διαστημική σειρά επιστημονικής φαντασίας. Σας αγαπαμε απο Ελλάδα...❤
Dude, it may have been a little cheezy at times, but BSG's special effects are still AWESOME.
When Col. Tigh is first looking at the radar screen, you can see a whole lot more Cylon fighters than just a mere "combat probe" - it looked like a full-on onslaught.
They reused so much footage
The episode "Fire in Space" a classic.
Love the original..
As do I.❤
@@kevinknight9950 Me, too! 🥰🥰🥰😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤
This clip holds up pretty well, even today. The battlestars were the first true space-borne fighter carriers, and the concept has been used often since.
Galactica was a wonderful mix of "hard scifi" and space opera as this episode demonstrates
Interesting to see the contrast in quality between the in-house effects created for the episode and the reused ones by Dykstra and Co.
They weren't being done by Apogee/John Dykstra after they started on "Long Patrol" and "Gun on Ice Planet Zero". The producers switched to Universal Hartland Visual Effects - a new in-house effects division of Universal in the former Douglas Trumbull Future General Corporation/Entertainment Effects Group studios in Marina Del Ray now tasked with working on _Buck Rogers in the 25th Century_ and _The Concorde... Airport '79._
Just an amazing and outstanding scene!!
I loved how the pilots' helmets made them look like futuristic pharaohs.
They should've played Steve Martin's "King Tut"
I remember this one well. My father wondered why another squadron of Cylons didn't come to finish them off (Of course, then there wouldn't be a series)
My dad thought the same thing :)
The Cylons probably threw everything they had in the suicide run.
@@zorkmid1083 Well, if they found the Galactica, they would have contacted their fleet. So, the Base Ships should have arrived to finish them off. (At least that's how I see it)
@@SJHFoto DID YOU SAY "WELL, IF THEY FOUND"?!!!. YOU MUST'VE MEANT TO SAY "WELL, IF THEY "HAD" FOUND(OR LOCATED, IF YOU WILL) , DIDN'T YOU?!!!. GOT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT ETYMOLOGY & GRAMMATICAL USAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!.
@@lloydacklinjr.2032 I'm Canadian. "If they found" is the proper way the sentence is structured at least in Canada. I always thought that adding a "had" was incorrect English, but perhaps that differs depending on where you are from (I assume you are from the States-I live here now, and still am surprised at the way some people talk)
Sounds of my childhood the Cylon voice, the six million dollar man bionic sounds and Buck Rodgers Twiki.
A-bidi-bidi - 'Buck'
Good old BSG (this and the 2000's one) . I had been watching too much Star Wars lately and forgot that the Cylons fire straight and hit their targets.
_UNLESS_ that target was one of the major cast members (i.e. Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer, etc.) -- then, their aim did falter a little bit. Yes, Starbuck and Apollo were brought down in a few episodes, but they returned to fight another day.
That's how tough of a battleship the Battlestars were. They can take it and keep fighting!
And it also shows what a terrible design these ships are when they have such obvious weak points like the bridge module and the completely open landing bays
@@Lightsoul1987 Yeah, lack of proper laser turrets to counter those types of attacks. That always annoyed me.
Except the Battlestar Atlantia was destroyed in this manner during the pilot episode. The Cylons did kamikaze attacks on the bridge, landing strip and other critical areas, ultimately obliterating the ship. The defense fleet wised up in time, preventing the Galactica from suffering the same fate.
And THAT'S why you don't put the bridge on outer skin of the ship! Most CIC's on ships are in the center.
Something they changed in the reboot. CiC was in the center of the ship.
@@yellowprime8491 Yes... a much more sensible place to put your command center.
The CICs in Star Wars were worse, like the Star Destroyers for example.
In Star Trek they had Auxiliary Control.
In the series The Space Battleship Yamato had 3, three bridges.
I used to watch this 45 year's ago.
I LOVED this series when I was a kid!
Une d'est meilleur des meilleures séries des années fin 70.❤❤❤
........that was SUCH.....a gooood f'kin show.
I was 12 yrs old and obsessed! ..just watching this clip, now..& it aint just rose colored classes saying it is amazing..
got a bit misty eyed its so good, aha. amazing A/V fx & acting..the sets..and those glorious Colonial Vipers!
🎥🎞🍿💛🌌☄🚀 ..anyone else see BSG in Sensurround at the theater, back when? That was 1 amazing day!
Loved this show as a kid. Great TV
I loved BSG as a kid. I remember my parents (RIP Dad) took me to a sci-fi double bill at one of the old Derby cinemas (the ABC, I think): Battlestar Galactica 2 and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It was fantastic!! My Mum fell asleep . . . . I never did understand why! 😂😂😂😂
I remember going to see the movie they made by stitching these episodes together Mission Galactica The Cylon Attack
A massive explosion rocks the entire ship. And causes a massive shockwave that ripples within the ship. In the rejuvenation center, massive damage causes many to be injured from the blast.
Athena: "I thought we were too far inside to take a laser hit."
Boomer: "We are! That was something else!"
While Boomer and Athena take stock of the damage.they start attending to the wounded members.
I had such high hopes for this show.
How many of you watched the original pilot 2-part episode in the theaters in 1978? I was there. Where did the time go?
I did. It was great. The Sensurround sound system was used. Large amplifier in each corner, aimed at the center of the theater. The floor rumbled, like the Galactica's engines were under the floor. In the theatrical release, Baltar was beheaded.
Yeah, remember that. Baltar is beheaded. More aliens at the casino, no mention of the Cylons being robots. And Starbuck being(apparently) naked when getting steam blasted.
@@brunozeigerts6379 I remember that. Athena caught Starbuck and Casseopia on video smooching in the launch tube! 😆
My dad took me to see it to shut me up, and he ended up liking it more than me. 🤣🤣🤣
This show was awesome and Athena was probably one of my first celebrity crushes. Favorite episode was Starbuck crash landing and facing the Cylon “Red Eye”, I think that was the name the locals gave him.
That was Apollo; great episode.
That was the episode "The Lost Warrior", where Apollo crash lands on the planet Equellus. When Apollo goes to town, it's like a wild West atmosphere. The Cylon named "Red Eye" thinks that LaCerta (the town boss) is the Imperious Leader. LaCerta resembles Boss Hogg in that white hat and suit. Loved it when Apollo smoked Red Eye in that duel.
Thanks for the update, had my pilots switched@@darthplagueis4626
Thanks for the update, I had my pilots switched, didn't he also kinda fall for one of the female townspeople, I think she had a son also?@@lindaoneil5085
The best laser cannon sound and the best robot voices
One thing I always loved about this episode was that there was two NEW spaceship model scenes, and not just recycling of the same old ones (though they were in this episode as well.
1) @2:34 When the Cyclon Raider was turning in front of the Galactica to make its suicide run on the bridge.
2) @3:30 When the Cyclon Raider suicide runs into the landing bay.
First time either of those model scenes were shown.
Loved this show as a kid!
My favorite episode from BOTH versions of the series.
I was 17 when this hit the airwaves. Liked the show, the characters, the space saga story, the Egyptian style helmets, guess they where hinting at that their ancestors visited earth in ancient times. It was pretty wild how the viper would shoot out of the launch tube with that very extremely loooong exhaust flume. Thought it was going to burn all of its fuel up. Prob. a lot of guys back then fantasized about meeting and hooking up with Sheba ( Anne Lockhart ), me included. Oh well I guess a lonely boy can dream. In 1980 I even bought one of those fake knockoff colonial warrior jackets( but didn't know it at the time) from the back of Starlog magazine I believe. When it arrived it was med thick cotton and drab olive green, NOT brown like the TV show. And it lost it's shape after 2 or 3 machine washings ! Yeah my family and I used to watch and enjoy this show in it's first and only season 78'-79'. I specifically remember the episode were they were down on a ice planet to destroy a Cylon super weapon and avoid being detected by those chrome headed toasters. it was a nail biting 2 parter I believe.Yeah those were some fond memories. Wish I could go to Comic Con or a convention and meet the rest of the surviving cast.
“The Cylons had developed the revolutionary tactic of targeting the bridge. Even more remarkable was that this tactic was not done earlier - for decades the exposed ship bridge was a common warship design. Why no strategist had thought of this sooner remains a mystery.”
This is the best one.
Baltar: Burn Galactica! YOU'RE FINISHED, ADAMA! 😈😈😈😈
Actually that was from the episode "The Living Legend" with Lloyd Bridges playing Commander Cain, the commander of the Battlestar Pegasus.
this was the coolest TV series as a kid. I used to draw vipers all over my duotangs.
I used to have frequent fights with my parents over bedtime hour, when this came on
The Cylon fighters were the coolest looking ships in sci-fi media at the time. And that's going against everything Star Wars at that period. There... I said it.
Yeah… and the tie fighters had two major blind spots. Lol
I used watch this as a kid on tv…..it was the coolest thing ever
Loved that show back in the day...
¡Esta serie era lo mejor para ver en aquellos años y me trae muy hermosos recuerdos muchas gracias por su realización es única!👍😊
EL MAS DRAMATICO EPISODIO DE GALACTICA , ASTRONAVE DE COMBATE.
I wish the SCI fi channel would still air old shows like this and buck Rodgers
The Vipers are such an awesome design. It. Pete Mitchell would be in heaven!
Super amazing cutting edge 8 bit computer graphics!!!
I remember seeing this and my dad came in the room and told me to turn it off because it reminded him too much of WW2 and the pacific and Japanese Kamikaze attacks.
Good episode.
Original Battlestar was the best.
I loved this show as a kid
Gorgeous practical effects for the time.
If 8 Raiders made it... Galactica would have ended up like Atlantia lol.
Solonite seems to be the C-4 of the OG BSG universe. Mainly used for demolition.
More like the 'Semtex' of the Cylon Empire.
Must be a pretty powerful explosive. They mentioned it in the episode Gun on Ice Planet Zero.
I remember this show 😅👍🍻
this and Space Above & Beyond were the best on tv back then
For 1978 those effects ain't no joke
Glass on a space ship, great idea. They even had it in the remake.
"Starbuck to Battlestar. Some have broken off and headed your way and they are going to collide with the world trade center ship!"
Yeah as a kid of the 90s I'm so glad they put the bridge in the belly of the Galactica in the reboot.
Loved this show as a kid!!
As soon as Earth was found,,this was the end of a great series. It really died a death!!
Nothing better for night vision than to put a row of lights right inside your helmet.
Cool ships - Loved the toys.
R.I.P. Mr. Terry Carter, who just recently passed away.
A fan of nBSG always said to me BSG78 was camp, cheese, crap etc but growing up you buy into things a certain way.
But beyond childish innocence, for 1978 this was cutting edge tv. The SFX, budget...
Besides, it's not a true Starbuck if it's not Benedict 😀
Excellent show 👏 👌 ❤
And that's why the rebooted Galactica put CNC in the center of the ship, making it impervious from attack.
What impressed me as a kid back then was they saw the incoming attack by staring at a blank radar screen😊
How the times goes by, must be 44 yrs now when i watch this in cinema. Yes, following the big success of Star Wars everybody wants to make money with this SciFi, like Star Trek the Movie, Disneys the Black hole and this...
They glued three episodes from TV together and brings that in theatres, 1. Battlestar Galactice and 2. Attack of the Cylons, in Sensorround sound system. The TV show wasnt here in german TV that time.
my friend and i were so impressed about (14 yrs old) and ordered the Soundtrack (record)...
Today i am shocked how cheap it looks, i mean the stages, clothes, the cheap TV acting...only the SFX are great, but for to save money they used the space fights and explosions ever and ever again, repeat for repeat. And i never understand why the helmets have so many lamps INSIDE.
My wife loves Star Wars and all that stuff but when BG was in TV last year here we tried to watch but...naa, impossible. One episode and we were off.
Always wondered why in most SciFi movies and series they place the bridge of the large ships in such a vulnerable location when there are cameras and screens and in space direct visual is of very limited use anyway and you'd mostly rely on various sensors.
Even on WW2 battleships the actual command center is buried deep within the heavily armored citadel and the exposed bridge is mostly used when not in combat so why would a spaceship from future have an unprotected bridge with huge windows sticking out just begging to be blown to pieces?.
I adored this show then, I adore this show now ☺️
I look at the placement of the reinforcement bars in the cockpit glass of the Vipers. Good thing they have a targeting screen for firing - talk about blind spots for the pilot!!
The Divine Wind Corp would be proud. And state of the art effects back in those days 👍
I was around 8 or 9 when I watched this. Even then I thought the same thing! 😮😊❤
My favorite is when Apollo walked out of the house with his weapon on his hip and confronted Red Eye!
Awesome show
I always wondered by they didn't have half their raiders fight back and the other half do a sort of flank and ram. And not just ram the Galactica, but other ships as well.
And with the Galactica largely taken out, why didn't the base ships keep attacking?
The fleet could always have rammed the cylons but the galactica was the hope for survival in a stalemate .
@@gregorydahl Other way around. Raiders ram every ship. Without the civilian ships, the rest is kind of pointless and resupply and support becomes a real issue.
They have Fire, Turbo and even IM (Instant Message) on their joysticks. I love it! If they had NOS, I wouldn't have been able to get up off the floor!
I think "IM" possibly stood for "Inverse Maneuver" (that retro-thruster braking move you sometimes saw them do in a pinch)
The original Fast and Furious meets Top Gun meets Star Wars?🤣
That right button was also time travel... but that was from a show which was a fever dream.
I hated when they made a new version of this- the original was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
"Vipers will be our eyes.." Adama would have made an excellent Jedi High General.
Fire In Space... Season 1 or 2. I wish it lasted longer. Jim Caraway