Many thanks and all the best with your blog

Keep up the good work,

William

I actually used to have both the Viper and Cylon Raider that shot the missiles (I sold those on eBay 5-6 years ago, with missiles).

I do still have one of each that don’t shoot, just for nostalgia reasons

I picked up the season set on DVD for a good price and I’ve had fun going down memory lane on these episodes.

Does anyone else remember the toy controversy? They had the ships that would shoot the rocket missiles…that is until some kid ate one or choked on it and then there was a massive recall. If you sent back your launching rocket laser things, you got a Hot Wheels car in return. Of course, I had already managed to lose mine at this point…

I was walking through the outdoor area of a nearby mall, headed for an Atomic Comics. Right outside of their doors is one of those choreographed fountain arrays, and as I was walking by them towards the comics shop, a familiar orchestral arrangement stopped me dead in my tracks.

I stood there a full 5+ minutes while they played the long version of the original series main theme. And I noticed I wasn’t the only one who snapped to attentiveness upon hearing that theme.

I felt the same swell of giddy nostalgia when I heard the theme being used in the new series episode “Final Cut”.

I liked the orginal show though. It still has some of the best intro music on TV.

I’m also reminded of an episode where a cylon was called deadeye or one eye, and was basicaly a gunfighter. Those wacky cylon-human realationships.

I remember they had a genius kid on the show in the later episodes but can’t remember how he came about being on the ship.

I loved this about the original Galactica – the ragtag fleet of human survivors are searching for the lost colony of Earth. Every week, they’d run into a small enclave of humans. They’d do, you know, whatever, and then keep on going. Ever wonder what happened to those people our heroes found? My guess – the Cylons just followed along and wiped ‘em out. Good going, Adama.

I was 17 when Galactica first aired. My favorite episode at the time was the one where all the Viper pilots got sick, and all the women had to take over wearing only lingerie. Whoops- acceleration harnesses.

But it was SF on TV, and even better, it was new – as opposed to endless Star Trek reruns (TOS, for all you youngsters). That alone made it worth watching.

But there are bad dreams with flying motorcycles and force fields that make vipers invisible being used as pratfall comedy. Fuzzy yet painful recollections of Wolfman Jack chatting up a Cylon on Halloween, and time travel to WWII scenarios that made me want to chew nails and … well, damn.

I think we managed to undo years of therapy by bringing up that show.

I’ve tried to forget it. Yet I keep seeing flying motor bikes… and super scouts.

They DID introduce human type cylons. Pity the episode was otherwise… (what’s the word?)…. crap.

Philip

I really enjoyed everyting about the original BG. Even the little boy and his robot dog boxy (or what ever its name was). But then I also adored Buck Rogers with Twiggy and ‘the doctor’.

To be honest, unless I went back and watched a bunch of these again, the plots escape me. I say here trying to think of something witty to say, but I’m at a loss. Drat.

This was quite a good episode and it is very strange that more episodes were not made.

Please explain more.