Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4584 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-01-12
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 7
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 7
• Running time: 999 minutes

DVD Description
The seven-disc Complete Epic Series Box Set features all 24 x 45min episodes of the original series and is loaded with over 3.5 hours of newly produced and never-before-seen bonus features. The entire series has been re-mastered from original source materials for optimal picture and sound quality. It features both a newly created 5.1 Dolby Digital surround track and the original monotrack.

Special Features

• Interview with series creator Glen A. Larson
  
• x 14 deleted scenes (3 ½ hours in length)
  
• Making of … documentary
  
• Working with Daggit
  
• Inside Battlestar Galactica: The Cyclons
  
• Composing the Score
  
• Photo Gallery

DVD Technical Information:

• Running Time (features): 5 hours
  
• Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround track/original monotrack

Synopsis
All 22 episodes of television's answer to Star Wars from 1978. In a far-away galaxy 12 tribes of humans live a peaceful existence on separate planets. They are totally unprepared for a devestating surprise attack from the evil Cylon Empire, as a result of which the survivors are forced to flee their homeworlds in a rag-tag fleet of ships protected by the one remaining Battlestar, Galactica. Harried by Cylons who send base ships to destroy what is left of the humans; the mission for the Galactica and its convoy is to find the fabled 13th tribe of humans who live on a distant planet called Earth, only their can they hope to find peace again.

Customer Reviews

Those where the days
Hi
I know the old version of BG is not really up to the production values of the New Series. But hey its nostalgic fun, and far better then anything else around at its time on TV such as Lost in Space, Buck Rodgers etc. For me I really enjoyed looking back over this old icon from the 70s & 80s. Its a must have for my collection.

Steve

don't bother with this
I read in a sf magazine in the late 70s an interview with Lorne Greene (Adama) that on getting the part in the old BSG he went into a bookstore and asked for the 10 best SF novels ever written. He had no knowledge of literary sf and wished to educate himself. Depending on what the bookshop actually gave him, he must have realised very quickly what a complete Turkey he was going to have to act in. But maybe he had already signed the contract, poor man.

Don't bother with this. Please check out the new BSG it is far far better made, infinitely better acted and above all far better scripted.

The original BSG is lame by comparison and scripted by morons, it's a pity it lasted as long as the few episodes it did. Even worse was the attempt at redoing it in 1980. I am a big SF fan but found both these series to be amongst the worst sf ever made for TV. Save your money check out some quality thought provoking SF like The new BSG, The original twilight zone, the original trek series 1 & 2 and Babylon 5. Or broaden your horizons and even fork out for Tarkovsky's "solaris" Kubricks "2001".

Don't buy the movie if you get this!
As others have noted, the first three episodes in this box set are joined together into a single long film, which is equivalent to the 1978 movie that's available as a separate purchase.

However, what's interesting is that the version in this box set is considerably longer than the separate release: I think about 9 or 10 minutes longer.

The most obvious difference is the presence of an Epilogue at the end that shows what happens to Baltar. However, there are other extra or longer scenes interwoven into the entire film, such as an explanation of where the Cylons came from (it wasn't humans who created them).

All in all, if you buy this box set, don't waste your money on the separate 1978 movie release as well. This version is 'the same but better'.