[LenS]

It had only one one season of 24 episodes. The kid was there from the beginning and his robotic dog was there for most of the season. They did try a cheaper follow-up in 1980 called Galactica 1980 which only lasted ten episodes. It was supposed to be 30 years in the future when the Galactica reached Earth in 1980 AD (which was clearly unready to resist the Cylons). Only some of the old cast, including Lorne Greene, remained. The only decent episode was the final one, which showed what happened to Dirk Benedict's Starbuck in the past.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Galactica 1980 : All copies of that show should be destroyed. No, not just that, all record of it's existence should be destroyed!

Seriously, I'm impressed. The problem with the original Battlestar Galactica was, with a few exceptions, it failed to live up to it's potential.

This version is doing a much better job.

[mhking]

The original Galactica was three separate entities, the two and a half hour pilot movie, "Saga of a Star World" (which in the east was botched up in it's original 1978 airing by Jimmy Carter with Sadat and Begin signing their peace accord), the 24 episode "original series" of BG (which technically ran the last portion of the 77-78 season and the first half of the 78-79 season on ABC), and the incredibly dreadful (and incessantly forgetable) "Galactica 1980", which showed the refugees finding Earth. If you think the original series was bad, you hadn't seen how low things could sink until you saw this piece of drek.