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First Aired: September 17th, 1978
Status: Ended
Network: ABC
Summary: When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
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# of Episodes: 22
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Season 1
Episode 1: Saga of a Star World
Air Date: September 17th, 1978
Summary: The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.
Episode 2: Lost Planet of the Gods
Air Date: September 24th, 1978
Summary: Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.
Episode 3: Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2
Air Date: October 1st, 1978
Summary: While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.
Episode 4: The Lost Warrior
Air Date: October 8th, 1978
Summary: Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.
Episode 5: The Long Patrol
Air Date: October 15th, 1978
Summary: Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.
Episode 6: The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 1
Air Date: October 22nd, 1978
Summary: Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.
Episode 7: The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2
Air Date: October 29th, 1978
Summary: Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.
Episode 8: The Magnificent Warriors
Air Date: November 12nd, 1978
Summary: When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.
Episode 9: The Young Lords
Air Date: November 19th, 1978
Summary: Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.
Episode 10: The Living Legend: Part 1
Air Date: November 26th, 1978
Summary: While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.
Episode 11: The Living Legend: Part 2
Air Date: December 3rd, 1978
Summary: The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.
Episode 12: Fire in Space
Air Date: December 17th, 1978
Summary: A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.
Episode 13: War of the Gods: Part 1
Air Date: January 14th, 1979
Summary: While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.
Episode 14: War of the Gods: Part 2
Air Date: January 21st, 1979
Summary: While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.
Episode 15: The Man with Nine Lives
Air Date: January 28th, 1979
Summary: An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.
Episode 16: Murder on the Rising Star
Air Date: February 18th, 1979
Summary: When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.
Episode 17: Greetings from Earth: Part 1
Air Date: February 25th, 1979
Summary: When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.
Episode 18: Greetings from Earth: Part 2
Air Date: February 25th, 1979
Summary: When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.
Episode 19: Baltar's Escape
Air Date: March 11st, 1979
Summary: When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.
Episode 20: Experiment in Terra
Air Date: March 18th, 1979
Summary: Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.
Episode 21: Take the Celestra
Air Date: April 1st, 1979
Summary: Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.
Episode 22: The Hand of God
Air Date: April 29th, 1979
Summary: Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.
Episode 23: Take the Celestra
Air Date: April 1st, 1979
Summary: Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.
Episode 24: The Hand of God
Air Date: April 29th, 1979
Summary: Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.
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