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Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

Season released 17th Sep, 1978Rated M22 episodes

IMDb7.2/ 10

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Battlestar Galactica Season 1 episodes

  1. S01 E01

    Saga of a Star World

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 17 Sep 1978

    The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.

  2. S01 E02

    Lost Planet of the Gods

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 24 Sep 1978

    Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

  3. S01 E03

    Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 1 Oct 1978

    While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

  4. S01 E04

    The Lost Warrior

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 8 Oct 1978

    Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.

  5. S01 E05

    The Long Patrol

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 15 Oct 1978

    Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.

  6. S01 E06

    The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 1

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 22 Oct 1978

    Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.

  7. S01 E07

    The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 29 Oct 1978

    Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

  8. S01 E08

    The Magnificent Warriors

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 12 Nov 1978

    When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

  9. S01 E09

    The Young Lords

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 19 Nov 1978

    Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

  10. S01 E10

    The Living Legend: Part 1

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 26 Nov 1978

    While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

  11. S01 E11

    The Living Legend: Part 2

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 3 Dec 1978

    The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

  12. S01 E12

    Fire in Space

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 17 Dec 1978

    A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.

  13. S01 E13

    War of the Gods: Part 1

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 14 Jan 1979

    While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

  14. S01 E14

    War of the Gods: Part 2

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 21 Jan 1979

    While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

  15. S01 E15

    The Man with Nine Lives

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 28 Jan 1979

    An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.

  16. S01 E16

    Murder on the Rising Star

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 18 Feb 1979

    When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.

  17. S01 E17

    Greetings from Earth: Part 1

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 25 Feb 1979

    When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

  18. S01 E18

    Greetings from Earth: Part 2

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 25 Feb 1979

    When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, the inhabitants reveal that they are from Terra, an Earth-like planet at war with the evil Eastern Alliance.

  19. S01 E19

    Baltar's Escape

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 11 Mar 1979

    When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.

  20. S01 E20

    Experiment in Terra

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 18 Mar 1979

    Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

  21. S01 E21

    Take the Celestra

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 1 Apr 1979

    Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.

  22. S01 E22

    The Hand of God

    1 h 0 mins · Sun, 29 Apr 1979

    Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.