Season 1 (1978-79)
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Summary
- After the Cylons' surprise attack destroys the Twelve Colonies, Adama leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet with humanity's last survivors aboard the Battlestar Galactica seeking a shining planet known only as Earth.
Pivotal Plot Points
- After the devastation at the Battle of Cimtar, the last remaining battlestar, Galactica, provides escort for a 212-ship fleet, the last human survivors of the The Twelve Colonies.
- While fleeing the Cylons, Commander Adama convinces fleet members to follow his mystical quest: a shining planet, know only as Earth.
- The fleet takes a rest on the planet Carillon, only to realize that the planet's inhabitants, the Ovions, are in league with the Cylons.
- Entering into an vast, uncharted magnetic void, the fleet re-emerges at its proverbial homeworld, Kobol, but are followed by the Cylons before the location of Earth can be discerned from the hieroglphics.
- Staying just ahead of the ever-pursuing Cylons, the fleet must slip past a huge pulsar cannon mounted in the peak of an icy world.
- The Galactica is reunited with the Pegasus, another battlestar thought destroyed long ago; its roguish, daring commander, Cain, threatens the Cylons — as well as the fleet's unity — as a test of personalities divides the newly-joined crew
- The Galactica is nearly destroyed in a Cylon suicide attack, which causes an inferno aboard the ship.
- While encountering the strange Ship of Lights, the Galactica plays host to Count Iblis, who promises to deliver their goals, but at a significant cost.
- The fleet encounter another force called the Eastern Alliance, which turns out to be not much of a threat; unfortunately, they also shed no new light on the quest for Earth.
- Mutinies begin occurring: first, Count Baltar escapes from the prison barge and kidnaps members of the Quorum of Twelve; later, an outright mutiny occurs aboard the Celestra.
- Tired of running, the fleet turns and faces its Cylon foes (albeit with some unconventional means, thanks in part to a captured Cylon Raider) in a major showdown.
Cast
Stars
- Lorne Greene as Commander Adama
- Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo
- Dirk Benedict as Lieutenant Starbuck
Co-stars
- Terry Carter as Colonel Tigh
- John Colicos as Count Baltar
- David Greenan as Omega
- Noah Hathaway as Boxey
- Herbert Jefferson, Jr. as Lieutenant Boomer
- Maren Jensen as Athena
- Anne Lockhart as Lieutenant Sheba
- Sarah Rush as Rigel
- Laurette Spang as Cassiopeia
- Tony Swartz as Flight Sergeant Jolly
Recurring stars
- Ed Begley Jr. as Greenbean
- John Dullaghan as Dr. Wilker
- Dick Durock as Imperious Leader
- Jonathan Harris as Lucifer (voice)
- Patrick Macnee as Imperious Leader (voice)
- George Murdock as Dr. Salik
- Felix Silla as Lucifer
Production Crew
Producers
- Glen A. Larson - executive producer, writer
- Donald P. Bellisario - supervising producer, writer, director
- Leslie Stevens - supervising producer
- John Dykstra - producer
- David J. O'Connell - producer
- David G. Phinney - associate producer
- Gary B. Winter - associate producer
Directors
- Donald P. Bellisario
- A. Colla
- Vince Edwards
- Daniel Haller
- Rod Holcomb
- Winrich Kolbe
- Alan J. Levi
- Christian I. Nyby II
Writing Staff
Episodes
Season 1 (1978-1979)
- 1.01 Saga of a Star World
- 1.02 Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I
- 1.03 Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II
- 1.04 The Lost Warrior
- 1.05 The Long Patrol
- 1.06 The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I
- 1.07 The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II
- 1.08 The Magnificent Warriors
- 1.09 The Young Lords
- 1.10 The Living Legend, Part I
- 1.11 The Living Legend, Part II
- 1.12 Fire in Space
- 1.13 War of the Gods, Part I
- 1.14 War of the Gods, Part II
- 1.15 The Man with Nine Lives
- 1.16 Murder on the Rising Star
- 1.17 Greetings from Earth
- 1.18 Baltar's Escape
- 1.19 Experiment in Terra
- 1.20 Take the Celestra
- 1.21 The Hand of God