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Battlestar Galactica: Season 1

21 episodes · first aired Sep 17, 1978

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1 Saga of a Star World Sep 17, 1978 · 2h 14m 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…
2 Lost Planet of the Gods (1) Sep 24, 1978 · 47m 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 Lost Planet of the Gods (2) Oct 1, 1978 · 47m 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…
4 The Lost Warrior Oct 8, 1978 · 47m 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 The Long Patrol Oct 15, 1978 · 47m 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…
6 The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1) Oct 22, 1978 · 47m 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 The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2) Oct 29, 1978 · 47m 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 The Magnificent Warriors Nov 12, 1978 · 47m 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 The Young Lords Nov 19, 1978 · 47m 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 The Living Legend (1) Nov 26, 1978 · 47m While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.
11 The Living Legend (2) Dec 3, 1978 · 47m 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 Fire in Space Dec 17, 1978 · 47m 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…
13 War of the Gods (1) Jan 14, 1979 · 47m 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…
14 War of the Gods (2) Jan 21, 1979 · 47m 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…
15 The Man with Nine Lives Jan 28, 1979 · 47m 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…
16 Murder on the Rising Star Feb 18, 1979 · 47m 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 Greetings from Earth Feb 25, 1979 · 1h 34m 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 Baltar's Escape Mar 11, 1979 · 47m 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…
19 Experiment in Terra Mar 18, 1979 · 47m 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…
20 Take the Celestra Apr 1, 1979 · 47m 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.
21 The Hand of God Apr 29, 1979 · 47m Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.