Seriously it almost killed Sci-fi? A generation of children saw this and turned away from Sci-fi. Good thing Star Wars had sequels and V came out in 83 and 84. If not then there would never have been sci-fi again.
PS/V the series was god awful but it was Citizen Kane compared to Galactica 1980.
Anyone else agree with my assessment?
Unfortunately the only things I remember about Galactica 1980 are the flying bikes and invisible vipers. At the time I remembered Kent McCord from "Emergency!" and thought Barry Van Dyke was no Dirk Bennedict (this series had absolutely no sense of humor) and that Zee was absolutely creepy (an adolescent Guinan without any of the wit).
V: The Series messed up by becoming a toy franchise. It stopped being adult Science Fiction somewhere during "The Final Battle" and became more of an "A-Team" with lizards. They could have made the characters much richer and the social commentary much sharper if they'd aimed their sights just a little higher. The best episode was the last, which was a cliffhanger that has never been resolved. If only Kenneth Johnson had been able to stay with the series, it might have rivaled his take on "Alien Nation".
All-in-all, I guess both series didn't live up to their promise but I guess V had the better set-up.
I meant the 2 miniseries of V!
The show V was just as bad as BSG 1980!
I think Galactica 1980 was better than the second season of Buck Rogers. At least there were cylon attacks on the fleet. As for buck rogers there were no space battles in it. I hated to see Galactica 1980 get cancelled I think it would have become a better show. They could have had reconstructed a brand new battlestar fleet and could have taken back caprica.
shareI agree, the episodes got better towards the end. It was cancelled too soon. It gave us the human-like Cylons that you see on the new series.
shareKent wasn't in Emergency, he was in Adam 12.
Wasn't me
My memory isn't as good as some others, perhaps... but I do know that if nothing else, Star Trek TOS ran almost continuously in syndication pretty much everywhere in the country from sometime shortly after it's being cancelled until at least the beginning of Star Trek TNG.
It is also a well-known fact that true sci-fi fans are on average more intelligent than the general public. Given this, there will always be a, while perhaps small, eternally loyal fan base of 'dreamers' who like myself, want to have a window into the possible future of man and technology.
There has never been a large enough audience out there to support the amount of sci-fi I would like to see made, but neither has there ever been any real threat significant enough to doom the genre.
I remember a lot of people getting angry when original Galactica got pulled, and then angrier when this thing aired.
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