On a January evening nearly 40 years ago, I was 13 years old, and eagerly awaiting the return of a favorite TV series of mine that had been unceremoniously cancelled the previous year. “Battlestar Galactica”, created by Glen Larson (“The Fall Guy”), was the TV-sized, Star Wars-styled opus chronicling the exodus of humans from a…
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The original “Battlestar Galactica” 40 yahrens later…
A year ago, I wrote of the excitement and anticipation my then-11 year old self felt back in the fall of 1978 with the television premiere of “Battlestar Galactica”: Remembering Richard Hatch and Battlestar Galactica With this post, I wanted to take an in-depth look at the three-hour pilot episode, “Saga of a Star World”…
Remembering Richard Hatch, and Battlestar Galactica…
In September of 1978, when I was all of 11 (a few months shy of 12), a TV show blasted onto my family’s 25″ Zenith’s phosphors that captured my grade school imagination; the Star Wars inspired exodus-in-space story of “Battlestar Galactica.” I remember reading the preview article in TV guide, and I eagerly awaited the…