The REAL Battlestar Galactica. RIP.
Interestingly, Hatch died just a year younger than Lorne Greene when he passed in 1987 and the same age as John Colicos (Baltar) when he died in 2000.
The original BG cast really got screwed. Universal should have brought them back for a revival at least by the late 1990s during Hatch’s revival efforts and when Colicos was still alive (Glen Larson, too, and he could have played a role). And if the studio was too worried about the cast “being too old,” Hatch had plans to have a young cast eventually take up the baton. It could have worked out.
Instead we got the reboot series, which pretty much slammed the door on getting the old cast back ever. To this day, I still haven’t seen the new series (though I plan to look at it eventually, if only to render a final judgment on it).
And Maren Jensen should have worn that flight suit from the pilot throughout the entire show. ALWAYS.