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Spaceball

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Spaceball
"Spaceball"
An episode of the Galactica 1980 series
Episode No. Season 1, Episode 6
Writer(s) Frank Lupo
Jeff Freilich
Glen A. Larson
Story by
Director Barry Crane
Assistant Director
Special guest(s) {{{guests}}}
Production No. 1.6
Nielsen Rating
US airdate USA 1980-03-30
CAN airdate CAN {{{CAN airdate}}}
UK airdate UK
DVD release
Population survivors
Additional Info
Episode Chronology
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The Super Scouts, Part II Spaceball The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I
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Listing of props for this episode
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Overview

The Super Scouts travel to a camp for underprivileged children, and help out an aging baseball star, while Troy and Dillon search for Xaviar, a crewman from Galactica who has the ability to transport through time.

Summary

  • Troy and Dillon arrive in a field on their turbo-cycles.
  • A Viper that has been hidden behind an invisibility screen comes into view, and out climbs Lieutenant Nash, a Colonial Warrior.
  • Nash explains he has been ordered by Commander Adama to deliver the Viper to the two. Programmed into its computron are the coordinates of the last known sightings of Xaviar.
  • Nash offers to look after the children until Troy and Dillon return.
  • At UBC broadcasting studios, Mr. Brooks is handing out assignments. Jamie Hamilton draws the task of covering a camp for underprivileged kids run by Billy Ayers, a former baseball star. Hamilton decides to take the Super Scouts there for a day out. Brooks assigns a cameraman named Hal to assist Hamilton.
  • The kids arrive at the studio, where they show off their skills by dismantling a television camera.
  • A cameraman panics when he sees expensive camera in pieces and runs off to find Hamilton, but when she returns to investigate, the kids have put it all back together again.
  • Meanwhile, Colonel Sydell of the Air Force is again working to try and catch Troy and Dillon.
  • Arriving at the baseball camp, Hamilton and the kids have a chat with Billy Ayers, who complains that the future of his Little League operation is looking bleak.
  • He manages a team scheduled for local playoffs, but all his players down with the flu. Hamilton offers up her own kids, but confesses that they don't know the game.
  • A baseball rolls toward Starla, and she picks it up to throw it back to its owners. Her throw goes clean over the horizon. Hamilton warns the kids once more to make sure to hide their skills.
  • Troy and Dillon are headed into space in the Viper that Nash left.
  • They punch in the coordinates they were given and the engines stop functioning.
  • They try to contact Galactica, but as they are explaining the situation they drift out of radio range.
  • Adama dispatches a patrol to find them.
  • Dillon decides to go to sleep, while Troy works on attempting to fix the ship. Then Dillon notices that their air is starting to run out.
The Polecats
  • The fellow that poses as Lieutenant Nash is in fact Xaviar, who has changed his appearance using epidermal transformation.
  • Hamilton is unaware of this and brings Nash (Xaviar) along to the baseball game.
  • She learns that if the Polecats (which is the name chosen for the Super Scouts team) lose the game, Billy Ayers will go bust, and lose the camp to developers.
  • The Super Scouts hide their powers, and soon fall behind in the game.
  • Meanwhile, under the bleachers, Xaviar rings up Adama and demands amnesty, and the liberty to live wherever and whenever he chooses.
Adama next to the real Nash
  • Adama does not agree, so Xaviar threatens to kill the kids. Hamilton tries to stop Xaviar, but is unsuccessful.
  • Colonel Sydell, in the meantime, has come to the game, looking for Troy and Dillon.
  • Hamilton coaches the kids at half-time and changes her previous instructions, ordering them to use all their skills. Her hope is that the press will swarm all over the winning team, and that will protect the kids from both Xaviar and Sydell.
  • Troy and Dillon put on spacesuits and go outside the Viper to repair it. With repairs complete, they hurry back to Earth.
  • The Polecats meanwhile have turned the tide in the baseball game. Using their super powers they brings the score to even, and then in the closing seconds win the game, saving Billy Ayers' baseball camp.
  • Xaviar grabs Hamilton and heads off to the gym.
  • Sydell spies this and confronts Xaviar, who pulls out a gun.
  • Suddenly, Troy and Dillon arrive on the scene and Xaviar runs off.
  • In a brief gun battle, Sydell is shot, and Troy and Dillon allow Xaviar to escape while they make sure Sydell is alright.
Starla and basketball
  • In the closing sequence, Hamilton decides maybe the kids shouldn't play baseball again.
  • While they are saying this, Starla picks up a basketball and sinks a 30 foot basket by throwing the ball behind her head.

Notes

Analysis

Questions

Noteworthy Dialogue

  • Adama makes a log entry:
Adama: The Galactica continues to lead the Cylons away from the planet Earth. But so far, our brother Council member Xaviar, who has turned outlaw, continues to elude us. Two of our most able Warriors, Troy and Dillon, remain down on the planet Earth, seeking a place where we can send our young to prevent their destruction in what we know will be an imminent and final Cylon battle. With each day, it becomes increasingly difficult for our children to live as Earth's children. Being accustomed to a much denser gravity causes them to display super skills that are jeopardizing their ability to blend in down on Earth without detection. Still, they must try. Surely they face imminent destruction out in space.

Guest Stars

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