Just did an image search for the 1980 bridge. What a crap set. Would have been better not to have even built it.
Galactica 1980
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Just did an image search for the 1980 bridge. What a crap set. Would have been better not to have even built it.
I did love Jeremy Brett as a Viper pilot.
Did any of the Super Scouts turn out to be famous or hot when they got older?
WTF?
Three of the Super Scout are called "Larson" in real life.
Glenn's kids.
Fricken nepotism.
Lindsay Kennedy did a year of Little house on the Prairie (the final year?) and then three little house movies.
This is grim. Mark Everette, was the subject of an episode of America's Most wanted.
Yikes.
WTF?
Three of the Super Scout are called "Larson" in real life.
Glenn's kids.
Fricken nepotism.
Lindsay Kennedy did a year of Little house on the Prairie (the final year?) and then three little house movies.
This is grim. Mark Everette, was the subject of an episode of America's Most wanted.
Yikes.
Brett was Xaviar himself, wasn't he?
Brett was the second actor to play Xavier, Richard Lynch played him in the three part series opener.
^ Yep, that's the one. 
His Dracula accent was ridiculous.
It's suggesting that there's a couple ships in the fleet where every one talks like Dracula.
It's suggesting that there's a couple ships in the fleet where every one talks like Dracula.
^ I don't remember that bit. IIRC, Brett's voice when he appeared in G1980 was just his normal speaking voice. He didn't sound like Dracula.
Xavier sounded "normal" but he stole Lieutenant Nash's face.
Lieutenant Nash sounded Like Dracula.
Lieutenant Nash sounded Like Dracula.
yeah.
According to the info found at http://www.kobol.com/archives/BG-FAQ.html
The bridge set cost $US850,000 (today that equates to $US3.1 and used $US3mil worth of donated Tektronix equipment.
The pilot chewed $7mil and production costs were about $750,000 per ep.
So location shooting for 1980 was probably cheaper.
Don't think it had that much in the way of standing sets if any. Dr Huer's office and Buck's apartment might be the exception or they could have easily been put up when needed.
In season 2 the Searchers bridge might have been a standing set.
Plus Buck Rogers was in production when they did Galactica:1980.
The reason Gakactica 1980 sucked so bad is because of Standards and Practices at the time. With G80 being in an early Sunday night time slot, S&P dictated that the show must:
A... Appeal to small children since that time slot was deemed "family hour"
B... The show must possess some modicum of "educational value".
C... Action violence is kept to a minimum.
Hence, the time travel back to Nazi Germany, the Super Scouts, and tons of robotic daggits running about the threadbare sets of the Galactica.
Yes, the only episode that was worth a damn was "Return of Starbuck"...it felt like the closest thing to an actual Galactica episode....although the simulated Cylon attack of Earth in the pilot episode was also worth watching.
A... Appeal to small children since that time slot was deemed "family hour"
B... The show must possess some modicum of "educational value".
C... Action violence is kept to a minimum.
Hence, the time travel back to Nazi Germany, the Super Scouts, and tons of robotic daggits running about the threadbare sets of the Galactica.
Yes, the only episode that was worth a damn was "Return of Starbuck"...it felt like the closest thing to an actual Galactica episode....although the simulated Cylon attack of Earth in the pilot episode was also worth watching.
That was largely stock footage from the movie Earthquake with Cylon Raiders and blaster bolts matted into it.
As a ten year old, I thought G1980 sucked. I tried to watch it when it was on Netflix a few years ago and remembered why; I couldn't even get one episode in. For 20-something years I had forgotten "The Return of Starbuck" was a 1980 episode, I remembered it as it had been edited into a two-hour "movie" in the 1980s rerun package.
I never knew the original Galactica bridge was such a major expense, but it makes sense. It was pretty impressive at the time, with all those displays. It was so big I was never too clear on where the vertical plot/map section was in relation to the rest of it.
The vfx shot of the three Raiders rolling into a dive over the planet sure was pretty, though. An obvious keeper for the opening credits.
Which is as good a place as any to bring up something that bugged me since I was a kid: Why do three robot Cylons have to get into a Raider and fly it? Why not just make the ship a robot itself?
I never knew the original Galactica bridge was such a major expense, but it makes sense. It was pretty impressive at the time, with all those displays. It was so big I was never too clear on where the vertical plot/map section was in relation to the rest of it.
The vfx shot of the three Raiders rolling into a dive over the planet sure was pretty, though. An obvious keeper for the opening credits.
Which is as good a place as any to bring up something that bugged me since I was a kid: Why do three robot Cylons have to get into a Raider and fly it? Why not just make the ship a robot itself?
That's exactly the question Ron Moore had when he made nuBSG.
Is that how they did it? I never saw that show.
Thought it was at the back of the bridge behind Omega's station and that looks to be the case.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NbPRRsIbFLs/UrG5ICqLNzI/AAAAAAAAlw0/QAnn3dZWOoc/s1600/controlroom1978b.png
Actually the new version's Cylon fighters did have a form of organic creature inside (there's one episode where Starbuck removes one and pilots the Viper herself, IIRC).
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