Seconde saison / season two : Galactica 1980 (Suite de la série Battlestar Galactica)

Créé par : Glen A. Larson - Exec. Producer : Glen A. Larson - Music : Stu Phillips - Producers : David O'Connell, Frank Lupo, Jeff Freilich.

New cast : Lorne Greene (Commander Adama), Herb Jefferson Jr. (Col. Boomer), Kent McCord (Lt. Troy), Barry Van Dyke (Lt. Dillon), Robyn Douglass (Jamie Hamilton), Robbie Rist(premier) - Patrick Stuart(others) (Dr. Zee).

Boxey, dans cette suite, est appelé lieutenant Troy, et il est incarné par le comédien Kent McCord.

Note: For continuity's sake, from Battlestar Galactica to Galactica 1980, several changes take place. Apollo is dead. Starbuck is gone(to be explained in a later episode). Boxey has grown up (actor Kent McCord takes the place of Noah Hathaway). Tigh is gone. Boomer replaces him. Adama has a beard.

Le résumé en anglais et les fiches techniques des épisodes de cette série sont dus à Elliott Buchholz, d'après STARLOG's Photo Guidebook of TV EPISODE GUIDES, Vol. I

Episodes :

22) 23) 24) Galactica Discovers Earth

Air Dates: I--1/27/80 II--2/3/80 III--2/10/80

Writer: Glen A. Larson

Guest Cast: Robert Reed, Richard Lynch, Pamela Susan Shoop

Synopsis : At Last, the Galactica finds the planet Earth! It's the year 1980 A.D., and their hopes are dashed when they find that the planet does not have the technology to help defeat the Cylons. In fact, the Earth is bad off as it is. The Galactica leaves Earth, so that the Cylons following do not find it, but send down Lt. Troy (formerly Boxey, Adama's grandson) and Lt. Dillon to contact Prof. Mortinson, a man they feel can help them to advance Earth's technology quick enough to be of help. There is trouble, in the form of Xavier, one of the Council of Twelve who feels that the Galacticans should upgrade Earth by travelling into the past and introducing modern devices (Dr. Zee has developed a time-travel device and a cloaking device, bothoutfitted into Vipers). He goes to Nazi Germany, not caring about the consequences, and Troy and Dillon, joined by reporter Jamie Hamilton of Earth, follow him. They undo his damage, but lose Xavier somewhere in time. Adama goes ahead with his plan to slowly upgrade Earth, Prof. Mortinson is told that someday he will meet them again, and Jamies joins the Colonial fleet.

25) 26) The Super Scouts

Air Dates: Part I--3/16/80 Part II--3/23/80

Writer: Glen A. Larson

Guest Cast: Alan Miller, Fred Holliday, John Quade

Synopsis : The Cylons launch a surprise attack on the fleet, doing considerable damage. Troy and Dillon take the children of the fleet down to Earth to protect them. With Jamie's help, they disguise themselves as scouts, but they get into some trouble, such as when Dillon tries to change his gold cubits in for American currency, and accidentally robs a bank. With the police after them, the group camp out in the woods. However, some of the children become ill from drinking polluted water from a chemical plant, and there is a problem with the Colonists' bizarre anatomies. The children are saved, however, and the plant is closed down.

[The reason for using children was that ABC T.V. agreed to broadcast the show, but only at 7:00 P.M. on Sunday, which was considered children's time. Thismeant only a minimal of violence, and morals for the kiddies. This is what killed Galactica 1980. Also, it was explained that due to the relatively lighter gravity of Earth as opposed to Caprica and the other home planets, the Galacticans could do amazing physical feats. Enter the super-kids!]

27) Spaceball

Air Date: 3/30/80

Writers: Frank Lupo, Jeff Freilich, Glen A. Larson

Guest Cast : Fred Holliday, Bert Rosario, Paul Koslo, Jeremy Brett

Synopsis : Xavier returns and gets rid of Troy and Dillon by sending them into space in a sabotaged Viper. They are busy repairing the ship while Xavier tries to kidnap the kids and hold them for ransom. Meanwhile, Jamie has taken the children to a baseball camp for underprivileged kids where she is doing a story. This of course results in them playing a game with their super-powers, saving the camp from being closed down. Troy and Dillon return in time to foil Xavier, but he escapes again.

28) The Night The Cylons Landed

Air Date: 4/13/80

Writer: Glen Larson

Guest Cast : Roger Davis, William Daniels, Peter Mark Richman, Lara Parker

Synopsis : The Cylon Empire has built a new type of Cylon, a humanoid android. One of them, Andromus, along with a centaurian, crashland on Earth. Troy and Dillon attempt to catch them, but the Cylons are picked up by a group of people on their way to a Halloween party. The Cylons learn that the party is associated with a New York radio station, and seek to take control of the station to send a message to a nearby Cylon Base ship that they have found Earth. [Note: Microwave ovens screw up Cylon circuitry.]

29) So This Is New York

Air Date: 4/20/80

Writer: Glen A. Larson

Guest Cast : William Daniels, Roger Davis, Lara Paker, Peter, Mark Richman,Wolfman Jack.

Synopsis : Continuation of previous episode, where Cylons attempt to take over a radio station(where Wolfman Jack is the D.J.). Troy and Dillon are slowed in their attempt to stop them when they have to save a child in a penthouse fire started by the Cylons. They save the child and stop the Cylons.

30) Harvest Home

Air Date: 4/27/80

Writer: Robert L. McCullough

Guest Cast : Ned Romero, Ana Alicia, Dana Elcar

The Cylons again attack the fleet, taking out the Agroships. With their food supply destroyed, Troy and Dillon enter a partnership with Hector Alonzo, a farmer being threatened by a powerful and prejudiced land baron, John Steadman. (Sounds like a job for the A-Team!) The Galacticans bring down Dr. Zee's anti-grav ship, and Steadman spots this and calls in the police. The Galacticans hide the evidence of their presence, put Steadman out of business, and get their food.

31) The Return of Starbuck

Air Date: 5/4/80

Writer: Glen A. Larson

Guest Cast : Dirk Benedict, Judith Chapman, Rex Cutter

Synopsis : At last, the fate of Starbuck is revealed. Prof. Zee was revealed in the premier to be a mutant. He is a child genius. He has a dream about Starbuck, which he relates to Adama, who knows the story to be true. Fourteen years earlier, while in a battle, Starbuck's Viper was gravely damaged, and Boomer watched him wildly fly towards a planet. The fleet could not go back for him, since the Cylons were on their tail. Starbuck crashed onto the barren planet, his ship all but destroyed. There he finds the remains of a Cylon fighter, of which one Cylon he is able to fix. He does this out of lonliness. Cy, as he names him, first wishes to kill Starbuck, because he is a human, but soon learns that they need each other, and they become friends (to both of their surprise). Then a mysterious pregnant woman appears, and Starbuck does his all to care for her, which makes Cy jealous. However, Cy helps Starbuck build a tiny ship out of the remains of both their ships, and after the woman gives birth, launches the baby into space, the mysterious woman is gone. It was surmised that she was from another dimension. Soon after, a Cylon patrol lands on the planet, and when they find Starbuck they attempt to kill him. However, Cy gives his life? to save Starbuck, killing two of the Cylons before the third guns him down. Starbuck finishes off the third Cylon, but Cy is too far gone to be fixed. Starbuck is left alone again. Adama reveals to Zee that he had come to the fleet in a small ship, and his identity is revealed.

End Of Series