Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Name: Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Genre: Sci-Fi

1978–1979ABCSci-Fi

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Stu Phillips's fanfare over Colonial Vipers and a narrated prologue about a lost tribe of humanity — the version the 2004 series would later strip of every ounce of that grandeur.

One opening sequence is catalogued for Battlestar Galactica (1978), covering season 1.

It arrived on ABC in 1978, when One Life to Live, All My Children and The Bugs Bunny Show were also on the network.

1 sequence69th most looked up of 151 in the 1970sIMDb ↗

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The opening titles

Season 1

The original opening, as posted by NBC.

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