Editing Battlestar Galactica (section)

==== ''Galactica 1980'' (1980) ====
[[File:DF-ST-83-00093.JPEG|thumb|right|The Viper as it appears in ''Galactica 1980''.]]
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During the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with ''Battlestar Galactica''{{'}}s creator Glen Larson to consider restarting the series. A suitable concept was needed to draw viewers, and it was decided that the arrival of the Colonial Fleet at present-day Earth would be the storyline. A new [[TV movie]] called  ''[[Galactica 1980]]'' was produced. Again, it was decided this new version of ''Battlestar Galactica'' would be made into a weekly TV series. Despite the early success of the premiere, this program failed to achieve the popularity of the original series, and it was canceled after just ten episodes.

In this 1980 sequel series, the Colonial fleet finds the Earth, and then it covertly protects it from the Cylons. This series was a quick failure due to its low budget (e.g., recycling footage from the 1974 [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] movie [[Earthquake (1974 film)|''Earthquake'']] during a [[Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)|Cylon]] attack sequence), widely panned writing, and ill-chosen time slot (Sunday evenings, a time generally reserved for family-oriented programming and, more specifically, also for the ''[[60 Minutes]]'' newsmagazine program). The TV series also had to adhere to strict content restrictions such as limiting the number of acts of violence and being required to shoehorn educational content into the script and dialogue.

To cut costs, the show was set mostly on the contemporary Earth, to the great dismay of fans. Another factor for fan apathy was the nearly complete recasting of the original series: [[Lorne Greene]] reprised his role as Adama, [[Herb Jefferson Jr.]] played "Colonel" Boomer in about half of the episodes (with little screentime), and [[Dirk Benedict]] as Starbuck for one episode (the abrupt final episode, though his character was to have also appeared in the unfilmed episode "Wheel of Fire", which was a semi-sequel to "The Return of Starbuck"). [[Richard Hatch (actor)|Richard Hatch]] (Apollo in the original series) was sent a script for ''Galactica 1980'', but he turned it down since he was not sure what his part in the series would be now that all the characters had changed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-1978---interviews/richard-hatch-galactica.tv-interview.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803050806/http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-galactica-1978---interviews/richard-hatch-galactica.tv-interview.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2012 |title=Richard Hatch GALACTICA.TV interview |author=Mike Egnor |publisher=www.galactica.tv |date=December 30, 2008 |access-date=December 30, 2008 }}</ref>

Some [[television syndication|TV syndication]] packages for ''Battlestar Galactica'' incorporate the episodes of this series.