Battlestar Galactica
One of the great generational memories which seems to exist for guys born between 1972 and 1976 is Battlestar Galactica, the great 70s sci-fi epic born in conjunction with Buck Rogers. I have some very early memories of my dad recording the original broadcasts on to a tank-sized VHS recorder (and being careful to pause it at each commercial). He had (and probably still has) a long tape of several of the original episodes, with a yellowing cut-out from TV Guide taped to the front.
Occasionally (like twice a decade), the Sci-Fi channel re-broadcasts some of the series, and for the past several years we’ve heard stories about them filming a completely new series (with Edward James Olmos). Tivo picked up a block of about ten episodes earlier this week. I was hoping to get a chance to dump these to tape (I’d pay a lot to be able to just drag them to a hard drive somewhere), but it looks like I won’t have to:
Complete DVD series, released next week!
All of this (I think) is in preparation for the premier of the mini-series (not until December 8th!) I think I’ll have to plan a party.
When you watch it this time, see if you catch all the crazy Old Testament references in there. The captain is named Adama, and there are 12 “battlestars,” giant spaceships with entire cities (tribes even) in them. They are looking for a promised land, and they are lost… too bad the series didn’t last for 40 seasons! I wonder if this was the inspiration for Mel Brooks’ “Jews in Space” at the end of The History of the World Part I ?
Starbuck! Apollo! Cassioepia!
Cylons!
woohoo!
buck rogers versus battlestar galactica
blog^2 Rand is excited about the DVD release of Battlestar…
aaargh…. diane’s friends got her the boxed DVD set of Battlestar Galactica… it’s literally every episode in the series. The box is shaped like the head of a Cylon Centurion. If she decides to watch it all in one sitting I may not survive.