Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7594 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

A nice gentle feel-good series
Battlestar Galactica 1980 is for anyone who likes watching nice "Saturday morning" films that are good fun and have nice people in them. There is a lot of very intelligent dry humour in this series pulled off brilliantly by the lead actors. There are also some very moving parts: the truly beauteous song that the children sing, and a few minutes of the "Space Croppers" episode where we see a time animated sequence of crops growing to the accompaniment of the most joyful little synthesizer melody that must surely bring a tear to the eye of even the most hardened viewer.

OH MY GODS!
No need for a long and deeply insightful review here. GALACTICA 1980 is quite simply the most awful piece of garbage ever broadcast on Earth. The only reason for buying this appalling trash would be to see if its fearsome legend is true; And then, once viewed, one would simply have to toss the lot into the trash where it belongs. Yes, I kid you not, it's that bad. Please believe me.

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!!!