Sunday, October 30, 2016

Does Cy need a "Time-Out"?


Does this line of dialogue (spoken by Cy; voiced by Gary Owens) from the famous GALACTICA: 1980 episode ("The Return of Starbuck") make any grammatical sense?  This (otherwise magnificent) episode was written by Glen A. Larson and story edited (apparently not too closely) by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole.


Battlestar Galactica / Galactica: 1980 is copyright (c) NBC / Universal; created by Glen A. Larson.

Monday, October 17, 2016

The Ovion speaks with a Cylon ("Saga of a Star World" / "Battlestar Galactica: The Movie")

How's this for nit-picking?

Battlestar Galactica: The Movie vs. Battlestar Galactica ("Saga of a Star World") TV Pilot.  Has anyone taken a close look at the scene between the Ovion and the Cylon?  In the Movie Version, the Ovion language has onscreen captions while in the TV version, their language is NOT captioned.  I wonder why this change was made?  Is the lack of onscreen captions on the TV version intentional or was it an editing error?  Photos of both versions of this scene below:


Battlestar Galactica: The Movie features
onscreen captions when the Ovion speaks with the Cylon.


Battlestar Galactica ("Saga of a Star World") - in the TV
version of this scene, the Ovion language is NOT captioned!
Battlestar Galactica is copyright (c) NBC / Universal; created by Glen A. Larson.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Reggie Nalder on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ("Saga of a Star World")


The great Reggie Nalder (1907 - 1991) has one line of dialogue in the Battlestar Galactica pilot movie ("Saga of a Star World").  In the movie version that was shown theatrically and released on both VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray, his line "Are you going to play, sir?" has been Looped (dubbed) by an unknown American actor.  In the TV version of the film - available on DVD and Blu-Ray - his line has (thankfully!) NOT been dubbed and you can hear his glorious Austrian accent unaltered.  Nalder is famous for being the first actor to play an Andorian on Star Trek ("Journey to Babel") and he also played one of the most famous vampires of all time - Kurt Barlow in the mini-series 'Salem's Lot (1979).

Reggie Nalder guest-stars as an Andorian
on Star Trek ("Journey to Babel")

Reggie Nalder co-stars as the Barlow the vampire
 in 'Salem's Lot (1979)

All photos are used for illustrative purposes only and are copyright (c) the respective copyright holders.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Horsing Around :-)

Two ways to say the same thing...!  Galacti-speak and English!  :-)

Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch) in Battlestar Galactica
 ("The Man with Nine Lives")

Inspector Dan Robbins (Richard Hatch) in
  The Streets of San Francisco
("Once a Con")
Battlestar Galactica - copyright (c) NBC / Universal; created by Glen A. Larson.
The Streets of San Francisco - copyright (c) CBS / Paramount.

Photos used for illustrative purposes only.

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Captain Apollo meets Luke Skywalker! :-)

Probably the closest fans ever got to a crossover between Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica was The Streets of San Francisco episode "Innocent No More" (02/24/1977).  In this episode (filmed after Star Wars: A New Hope - but aired 3 months before the film was released), Mark Hamill guest-stars as a 16 year-old juvenile delinquent.  Unfortunately, Richard Hatch (Inspector Dan Robbins) and Mark Hamill don't interact at all in this episode - they're together only in the final scene where Robbins saves Hamill's character from being shot but they never speak to each other. Here's a photo from the episode:

Richard Hatch and Mark Hamill on The Streets of San Francisco
("Innocent No More")


The Streets of San Francisco is copyright (c) CBS / Paramount; photo used for illustrative purposes only.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Galacti-COPS!

Before Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 79), Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Terry Carter all starred as police officers on various TV series.  Some photos below:

Lorne Greene co-stars with Ben Murphy in
Griff (1973 - 74)

Terry Carter co-stars with Dennis Weaver in
McCloud (1970 - 77)

Dirk Benedict co-stars with Jim McMullen in
Chopper One (1974)

Richard Hatch co-stars with Karl Malden in
Season 5 of The Streets of San Francisco (1976 - 77)
All photos are used for illustrative purposes only and are copyright (c) the respective copyright holders.