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Premiered

Sunday, September 17, 1978

Ended: Sunday, April 29, 1979

When does Battlestar Galactica Season 1 come out?

Battlestar Galactica Season 1 premiered Sunday, September 17, 1978 on ABC and ended Sunday, April 29, 1979. The season has 21 episodes.

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Battlestar Galactica Season 1 release schedule

Battlestar Galactica Season 1 episode release dates
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1. Saga of a Star World

The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.

Sunday · 48 years ago

2. Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

Sunday · 48 years ago

3. Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

Sunday · 48 years ago

4. The Lost Warrior

Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.

Sunday · 48 years ago

5. The Long Patrol

Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.

Sunday · 48 years ago

6. The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.

Sunday · 48 years ago

7. The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

Sunday · 48 years ago

8. The Magnificent Warriors

When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

Sunday · 48 years ago

9. The Young Lords

Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

Sunday · 48 years ago

10. The Living Legend (1)

While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

Sunday · 47 years ago

11. The Living Legend (2)

The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

Sunday · 47 years ago

12. Fire in Space

A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.

Sunday · 47 years ago

13. War of the Gods (1)

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

Sunday · 47 years ago

14. War of the Gods (2)

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

Sunday · 47 years ago

15. The Man with Nine Lives

An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.

Sunday · 47 years ago

16. Murder on the Rising Star

When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.

Sunday · 47 years ago

17. Greetings from Earth

When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

Sunday · 47 years ago

18. Baltar's Escape

When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.

Sunday · 47 years ago

19. Experiment in Terra

Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

Sunday · 47 years ago

20. Take the Celestra

Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.

Sunday · 47 years ago

21. The Hand of God Finale

Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.

Sunday · 47 years ago

Battlestar Galactica Season 1 guest stars

  • Melody Anderson

    Melody Anderson

    Brenda Maxwell

  • Peter MacLean

    Peter MacLean

    President

  • Edward Mulhare

    Edward Mulhare

    John

  • Nehemiah Persoff

    Nehemiah Persoff

    Eastern Alliance Leader

  • Logan Ramsey

    Logan Ramsey

    Moore

  • Ken Swofford

    Ken Swofford

    General Maxwell

  • Fred Astaire

    Fred Astaire

    Chameleon / Captain Dimitri

  • Ana Alicia

    Ana Alicia

    Aurora

  • Paul Fix

    Paul Fix

    Commander Kronus

  • Nick Holt

    Charka

  • Randy Stumpf

    Damon

  • Richard Styles

    Hermes

  • Jonathan B. Woodward

    Robus

  • Barry Nelson

    Barry Nelson

    Bogan

  • Lew Ayres

    Lew Ayres

    President Adar

  • Wilfrid Hyde-White

    Wilfrid Hyde-White

    Anton

Battlestar Galactica Season 1 FAQ

When does Battlestar Galactica Season 1 come out?

Battlestar Galactica Season 1 premiered Sunday, September 17, 1978 on ABC.

How many episodes are in Battlestar Galactica Season 1?

Battlestar Galactica Season 1 has 21 episodes.

Are new episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Battlestar Galactica Season 1 finale?

The Battlestar Galactica Season 1 finale (Episode 21) aired Sunday, April 29, 1979.

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