Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Tower Rats 2020

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Battlestar Galactica - The Young Lords

episode 9

USA 1978
produced by
David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive), Donald P. Bellisario (supervising) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/ABC
directed by Donald P. Bellisario
starring Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson jr, John Colicos, Noah Hathaway, Laurette Spang, Terry Carter, Charles Bloom, Bruce Glover, Audrey Landers, Brigitte Muller, Jonathan B. Woodward, Adam Mann, Murray Matheson (voice), Felix Silla, Jonathan Harris (voice), Patrick Macnee (voice)
written by Donald P. Bellisario, Frank Lupo, Paul Playdon, created by Glen A. Larson, music by Stu Phillips, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson

TV-series
Battlestar Galactica, Classic Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica (original series)

review by
Mike Haberfelner



While on a patrol, Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is shot down by the Cylons and can only just make it to planet Atilla, where he crashlands. Now the planet is ruled by the Cylons under their silly-looking robot leader Specter (voiced by Murray Matheson), but Starbuck is lucky enough to be found by a bunch of human children and young adults led by Kyle (Charles Bloom) and his sister Miri (Audrey Landers), who lead a guerilla war against the local Cylons - and are pretty good at it, too. Problem is, the Cylons hold the kids' father, Megan (Bruce Glover) captive, and they now suggest to exchange Megan against Starbuck, whom they need to give them the coordinates of the Galactica. Kyle agrees to it, to Miri's dismay, and it takes Starbuck some time to convince Kyle that the hostage exchange is just a trap -  which it really turns out to be. But Starbuck sees how much fight is in the children, so he makes up a plan to take the Cylon castle and save Megan, despite being grossly outnumbered, and since most of them are young children, he packs the plan into verse to make the whole thing a singalong attack. Of course the kids succeed in the end, and the Cylons take flight, just before he's picked up by Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Boomer (Herbert Jefferson jr) from the Galactica.

 

Pretty much a run-of-the-mill "alien world of the week" episode, and this one, for no reason at all, is stuck in the middle ages, and well, at least the Cylons look a bit like knights in shining armor. But one can't but notice how far-fetched this episode actually is, when the force on the verge of taking over the universe is tricked by a bunch of children - and it seems that lazy writing has much more to do this than anything else, where it's really more important that the episode fits the series' mold than narrative reason when it comes to the bigger picture. Exactly these shortcomings of course make this episode fun when seen through the lense of nostalgia - just not great (or even particular good) television no matter how you look at it.

 

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Battlestar Galactica - The Young Lords
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Battlestar Galactica - The Young Lords here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Battlestar Galactica - The Young Lords at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!