Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1886 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-02-18
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 463 minutes

Synopsis
After its initial cancellation, fan outcry led to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA being restored to TV screens--albeit in revamped form. Set 30 years after the original series, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 1980 finds the star cruiser of the title finally reaching the glimmering oasis of Earth. Unfortunately, they've also led their dreaded enemies, the robotic Cyclons, to the planet. In order to prepare 1980s-era earthlings for intergalactic battle and save the human race from destruction, Captain Troy (Kent McCord) and Lieutenant Dillon (Barry Van Dyke) are sent down to meet with the planet's scientists and jump-start their primitive technology. Along the way, they get in some interesting culture clashes with bikers, police, and an intrepid TV anchor (Robyn Douglass). Though the premise is altered, the series is still full of the laser battles and deep-space sequences that made the original so popular with legions of fans. Features the complete first series.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing!
This is just not good. It lacks all of the charm and excitement of the first series. It is clearly low budget, has a weak plot and you hardly see any cylons at all!

Barry Van Dyke is good in his Apollo-like role, but without a character like Starbuck to bounce off it just doesn't work. Troy (Boxey) is just boring and expressionless. What happened to that fun loving kid in the first series? Kent McCord displays absolutely no emotion throughout the entire series (or what they made of it). Maybe the writers were planning to reveal that Boxy has actually been replaced by a cylon in a bizarre plot twist, but then it was axed so they never got the chance!!!

My advice - don't bother!!!

This is sad
Easily amongst the worst SF ever written for TV. In this list i would include the original "BSG", "war of the worlds the tv series" "buck rogers" "primevil" "the tomorrow people" you know where i'm coming from!? I am a huge sf fan brought up on Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Ellison, Blish, Aldiss etc so compared to these guys visions this stuff is truly crap. Do yourself A FAVOR don't buy this but get hold of the new BSG series or a decent sf novel by any of the above authors instead.

Battlestar Galactica 1980
This series is ultimately for those who watched the series when they were in there childhood and want to re-live that memory. It is also for those who want a complete collection of the orginal Battlestar franchise. It is not for those who think they are going to get a repeat of the first series as it lacks pretty much everything the first series made it famous for. There are very few battles with the cylons and when there are they are not great. This is because of the interfering studio bosses who cut the budget and tried to make it 'educational'. When they were told Dirk Benedict was apparently unavailable at the time, and Richard Hatch didn't want to be connected with the series they should have cancelled the show full stop because they are the cast who the fans wanted to see back. But after a quick, cheap re-think it was decided the series would take place twenty years after the end of the original series rather than five, and that Boxey would take Apollo's role, while "Lt. Dillon" would take over the Starbuck part. President Baltar was written out entirely, and Xavier was created to take up his role as resident bad guy. However, the series was still watched by many and it was going somewhere until they cancelled it. Even the last episode with Dirk Benedict is poor. This is previous footage which was shot for the orginal series but never made it for the final cut so why would it be acceptable for the failing series? Neither orginal actors wanted anything to do with this new series as it had gone away from what the orginal was about. So overall, buy it if your an old fan like me or not at all because to be honest, it's not that great.