Battlestar Galactica episode guide - original series 1978-1979

This is the Battlestar Galactica episode guide for the classic series.
Watch the Battlestar Galactica leading a small, remaining fleet across the universe in order to find a rumored thirteenth tribe after The Twelve Colonies of Man are destroyed by the Cylons.

1) Saga of a Star World
The Twelve Colonies of Man are destroyed by their ancient enemies, the Cylons in a battle that reminds us of the Trojan War.
The battlestar Galactica, a military spaceship, leads a handful of survivors in a civilian starship fleet to safety amongst the stars. The Galactica's commander, Adama, intends to search for a lost Thirteenth Tribe who inhabit the planet Earth. The Colonials are pursuited by the Cylons and the traitor who was behind the destruction of the Colonials: Baltar.


2) Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I
Apollo is planning to marry Serina. Boomer and Jolly, returning from a Cylon steroid, bring with them a dangerous virus, affecting laa the Viper squadron pilots. Now the Colonials are forced to train new pilots while Dr. Salik tries to find a cure for the unusual plague. Adama does everything possible to keep the safe.

3) Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II
Apollo and Serina are getting married while Galactica is led by a lone star to a dead planet, a possible key for the survival of the Colonials. Adama thinks that the planet is Kobol ,the cradle of life itself. Starbuck is capured by the Cylons. The Cylons attack the fleet and the planet Kobol . The new pilots are outnumbered but Dr. Salik manage to cure the ill pilots. Starbuck escapes and returns to the Colonials, but Serina is killed.

4) The Lost Warrior
Captain Apollo leads some Cylon squad away from the fleet. A thug treateness his life in a remote world where he has to land.

5) The Long Patrol
Flying with the new Recon Viper, Lieutenant Starbuck goes from a trouble to another. His ship is stolen and, after that, by confusion, he is emprisoned instead of someone else.

7) Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I
In this episode the Colonial fleet is almost traped when a Cylon force belonging to Baltar forces them to head towards an ice planet. The planet, controlled by the Cylons, has a powerful laser pulse weapon designed by a former Colonial scientist. In the fights that follows the Colonials lose one of their patrols. The Colonials has to work together and form ground assault teams in order to destroy the laser weapon.

8) Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part II
The struggle to destroy the powerful laser weapon continues and the time is not kind with the Colonials in this situation. On the ice planet they discover a colony of clones : a possible solution to destroy the weapon that has the same creator as the clones do.

9) The Magnificient Warriors
In a Cylon attack two Colonial agro ships are destroyed and a third one is almost lost. Because of this, Adama goes on a mission to obtain supplies from an agricultural outpost of the Colonies.

10) The Young Lords
Lieutenant Starbuck goes to Atilla, a planet being under the control of Cylons, to find a guerilla resistance lead by human children.


11) The Living Legend, Part I
Commander Cain, a legend amongst the Colonials, meets up with the Colonial survivors in a plan to start a new campaign against the Cylons. The meeting results in an increased morale among the Colonials. But Adama realise that the plans of Commander Cain are a threaten to the survival of the fleet.

12) The Living Legend, Part II
Commander Cain, together with the Galactica's warriors finds out that the Cylon forces at Gamoray are overwhelming ans yet he continues the fight regardless of the cost. He loses his battleship, The Pegasus in this campaign and his nightmare becomes the thought that the battleship escaped and that he will have to meet again with the fleet.

13) Fire in Space
Some kamikaze Cylon fighters smash into the Galactica and the crew is fighting with internal fires that almost destroy Galactica.


14) War of the Gods, Part I
Bojay and Jolly dissapear together with some Vipre patrols while some strange lights harass the Colonials. On an arid world Appolo Starbuck and Sheba meet the Count Iblis, a lone survivor of a spaceship crash. Iblis promise them salvation but for an extreme price. While the desperate Colonials embrace the promise of Iblis, Apollo, Adama, Tigh and Starbuck realised that he becomes a growing threat for the Colonials.

15) War of the Gods, Part II
As he performs miracles, Count Iblis becomes more and more powerful over the Colonial fleet. Adama, Tigh, Apollo and Starbuck seek to uncover the truth about Count Iblis. The Ships of Light belonging to the Beings of Light are revealed. They ofer the coordinates to find Earth to Sheba, Starbuck and Apollo. It seems that the Beings of Light needed the Colonial help.

16) The Man with Nine Lives
A (Chameleon like) man that seems to be running from the Borellian Nomen claims to be Starbuck's father. The man is trying to save his life.

17) Murder of the Rising Star
Starbuck is framed for the murder of Ortega, a rival Colonial Warrior. His only cance is now...Baltar.

18) Greetings from Earth
An alien spacecraft containing six human fugitives is discovered by Starbuck and Apollo. The time reveals that humans are from Terra but they moved to the colony of Paradeen in order to escape the Eastern Alliance a faction from Terra somehow related to the Cylons. Starbuck, Cassiopeia and Apollo continue their journey with the Terrans to Paradeen, followed by the Eastern Alliance.

19) Baltar's Escape
The captured Eastern Alliance crew, Baltar and the Borellian Nomen escape the Colonial Prison Barge and proceed to capture the Council of the Twelve, Boomer and Sheba. Apollo and Starbuck organise a dangerous rescue mission.

20) Experiment in Terra
The Beings of Light chose Apollo to save the planet Terra from the Eastern Alliance.


21) Take the Celestra
A Colonial vessel, Celestra, comes under the command of Commander Kronus, a Colonial war hero, and a special ceremony is organised to celebrate his career. Starbuck finds his long-lost love, Aurora. Aurora is committing espionage on the Celestra and she is fighting against the exploitive conditions under Kronus, as the purported leader.

22) The Hand of God
This is the final episode of Battlestar Galactica before cancellation by ABC-TV in the Spring of 1979.
Sheba, Apollo, Cassiopeia and Starbuck retreat to an ancient navigation dome aboard the battlestar, where they intercept mysterious, fragmented transmissions. The fleet faces a Cylon basestar. Instead of running, Adama orders a military strike. Apollo and Starbuck volunteer to take Baltar's Cylon Raider to the basestar to infiltrate and destroy the ship's systems, to give the Galactica a better chance of victory.
Baltar bargains for his freedom in return for tactical data. The departure of Baltar is not seen in the movie, but it is assumed.
The Galactica is successful and the Cylon base ship is destroyed. Finally, the fleet of human survivors departs their galaxy, in search of Earth.


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