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This contains a list of scripts that were written for any of the ''Battlestar Galactica'' series, but were never produced.
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Acronyms used in this document are as follows:
 
* '''TOS:''' the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]]
* '''1980:''' ''[[Galactica 1980]]''
* '''RDM:''' the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]]
 
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!Series  !! Prod. No.  !! Title                            !! Writers                      !! Overview
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|TOS    || #85274      || [[The Beta Pirates]]              || [[Leslie Stevens]]          || [[Athena (TOS)|Athena]], [[Boxey (TOS)|Boxey]] and [[Muffit II|Muffit]] are captured, sold at a slave auction, end up in a [[Cylon (TOS)|Cylon]] prison -- only to be rescued by [[Skyler]] ([[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]]'s original name), [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] and a pirate with a "heart of gold".
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|TOS    || Unknown    || [[The Nari of Sentinel 27]]/[[Crossfire]] || [[John Ireland]]      || An early version of "[[Gun on Ice Planet Zero]]" with many changes of note, among with the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] are reptilian, the [[Theta]]s are called "Nari" (which connections to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]] herself!), and [[Serina]] is featured in the episode as "[[Lyra]]". This version does not contain the convicts, [[Vulpa]], or Dr. [[Ravashol]].
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|TOS    || Unknown    || [[Fire in Space (script)|Fire in Space]]        || [[Michael Sloan]]          || The script that "[[Fire in Space]]" is based on. However, there are several major differences; Starbuck, Apollo, and [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] are undercover in a bar attempting to find information on the Cylon pursuit; the Cylons have a plan to attack and ram ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' called "The Delta Factor". During this, Starbuck is convicted of killing the husband of a woman he meets, Apollo is forced to seek out laser power packs for Adama's surgery, Starbuck uses his [[Viper (TOS)|Viper]] to extinguish a blaze, and Boxey, who just happens to witness the murder Starbuck is falsely charged with doing, is targeted by the real killer himself, but is saved (in a timely fashion) by Apollo. Coincidentally, this is the script that results in Sloan getting a story-by credit on "[[Murder on the Rising Star]]", since this has the murder plot in it.
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|TOS    || #50903      || [[Showdown]]                      || [[Frank Abatemarco]]        || Three of ''Galactica's'' techs, [[Masi]], [[Bule]] and [[Andor]], are disgruntled and sick of the "Chosen Few" being able to explore new planets. After Starbuck discovers sabotage on a shuttle while exploring the asteroid [[Croy]], Masi, Bule and Andor (who've modified land probes similar to the [[turbine]]s in ''[[Galactica 1980]]'') go AWOL from ''Galactica''. Meanwhile, Starbuck, Athena, [[Deitra]], Apollo and Boxey discover a millennium's old battleship that could be from Earth.
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|TOS    || #50914      || [[The Mutiny]]                    || [[Guy Magar]]              || After coming across the hospitable planet [[Zarta]], the [[Quorum of Twelve (TOS)|Quorum of Twelve]], in its infinite wisdom and tired of the journey, has decided that the Fleet and its members shall settle the planet. [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]] and [[Lucifer]] come along and place a fire underneath the Colonials' [[astrum]]s.
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|TOS    || #50911      || [[I Have Seen Earth]]              || [[Steve Krienberg]] and [[Andy Guerdat]] || A proprietor is forced to abandon an asteroid with a solid gold core when the Cylons arrive, after which endearing Boxey to tales about having been to Earth, which is proven at the end when he gives Boxey a medallion with Earth's continents engraved on it.
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|TOS    || #50916      || [[The Furlon]]                    || [[Donald Bellisario]]      || An earlier version of "[[The Man with Nine Lives]]". This version features [[Bojay]] and [[Sheba]] in far more prominent roles, with Bojay's character a bit more fleshed out. Otherwise, the bulk of the script is in line with what is shot on screen.
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|TOS    || #50923      || [[Two for Twilly]]                || [[Jim Carlson]] and [[Terrence McDonnell]] || Starbuck and Apollo's friend, Chief [[Twilly]], the only gyro specialist on ''Galactica'' juggles two wives: [[Zeena]] and [[Gayla]]. Starbuck and Apollo help him deal with his complex marital issues.
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|TOS    || Unknown    || [[The Return of Starbuck]]        || [[Glen A. Larson]]          || While adapted for ''Galactica 1980'', this script was originally written so that the character of Angela is herself a woman who merely flees from her world, is sent back to her world in a pod constructed out of Cy's and Starbuck's wrecks, and Starbuck is rescued by Boomer.
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|1980    || #55102      || [[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]] || [[Mark Jones]], [[Anne Collins]], [[Chris Bunch]] and [[Alan Cole]] || [[Xaviar]] continues in his attempts to advance [[Earth (1980)|Earth]]'s technology from the past, this time attempting to convince [[Cleopatra]] that he is a god; to prove this to be true, she poisons his drink, forcing him to seek [[Jamie Hamilton]] in 1980 so that he can turn himself in to [[Troy (1980)|Troy]] and [[Dillon]] in order to get treated by the Galactican's advanced medicine: bringing along Cleopatra for the ride to the future.
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|1980    || #55114      || [[The Wheel of Fire]]              || Written by [[Louis S. Kelly]] and [[Alan S. Young]]<br/>Story by Alan S. Young || A sequel to "[[The Return of Starbuck]]", where Starbuck himself is now a Being of Light who makes himself known to [[Troy (1980)|Troy]]. In a similar fashion to "[[Experiment in Terra]]", he asks that Troy (who the Galacticans now believe dead) track down a Cylon [[Raider (TOS)|Raider]], itself accidentally caught in the time warp from [[Xaviar]]'s Viper, before the Cylon can inflict untold damage to Earth in 592 B.C.
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== External links ==
 
* [http://www.chrispappas.com/archives/scripts.html Battlestar Galactica Scripts], written by Susan J. Paxton
 
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