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In article <119ssn1$3lq6r$1@dont-email.me>, weberm@polaris.net wrote

They buried three hours of Battlestar Galactica, and a Star Wars
lawsuit nearly ended the show before it began.

In 1978, Universal launched a science-fiction epic that blurred
television and cinema. Battlestar Galactica started as a TV pilot that
hit international box offices before it ever aired on ABC, survived a >multi-million-dollar Star Wars lawsuit, and ran a punishing weekly
schedule that pushed cast and crew to the brink. From John Dykstra’s
team at Apogee to Cold War subtext that network standards softened,
this is the chaotic dual life of Glen A. Larson’s original space opera. >Theatrical cut vs the three-hour pilot, Count Baltar dying twice, Fred >Astaire in the deleted scenes, and more than three hours of unseen
footage locked away for decades.

We trace Saga of a Star World from $9 million pilot ambitions through >casting Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, and Dirk Benedict, the Cylon
onslaught that defined the look, why ABC cancelled Battlestar Galactica
in 1979, and the legacy that led to the 2003 reimagining.

Chapters:
00:00 The Villain Who Died Twice: A Theatrical TV Pilot
00:51 Glen A. Larson & The Origins of Battlestar Galactica
02:28 The Star Wars Lawsuit Against Universal
03:49 A $9 Million Television Movie Budget
05:52 John Dykstra, Apogee, and the Galactica Visual Effects
08:35 Casting Commander Adama, Apollo, and Starbuck
10:20 The Theatrical Film vs. The Three-Hour TV Pilot
14:39 The Chaos of a Weekly Network Television Schedule
20:09 3 Hours of Deleted Scenes
22:46 Why ABC Cancelled Battlestar Galactica in 1979
25:24 The Legacy of Kobol and the 2003 Reimagining

#BattlestarGalactica #SciFiCinema #GoldenFlicker #DeletedScenes >#ClassicSciFi

https://youtu.be/r7f2QCWhvxM?si=3pnosVvg2sWzKmvu

Galactica 1980 was a huge mistake (only redeeming episode "The Return of Starbuck").
If they were going to end the show, they should have ended it with the episodes when
the Galactica found the planet Terra.
It should have been that Terra was the 'Earth' that they had been looking for.

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