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Galactica 1980 - Spaceball
episode 6
USA 1980
produced by
Jeff Freilich, Frank Lupo, Dean Zanetos, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/ABC
directed by Barry Crane
starring Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene, James Patrick Stuart, Allan Miller, Paul Koslo, Bert Rosario, Fred Holliday, Jeremy Brett, Mike Brick, Nicholas Davies, Ronnie Densford, Mark Everett, Georgi Irene, Tracy Justrich, Lindsay Kennedy, D.G. Larson, Eric Larson, Michelle Larson, Jerry Supiran, Eric Taslitz, Marla Heasley, Gil Stratton
written by Frank Lupo, Jeff Freilich, Glen A. Larson, created by Glen A. Larson, music by Stu Phillips, John Andrew Tartaglia, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series
Battlestar Galactica, Classic Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Reporter Jamie (Roby Douglass) figures to do a human interest story
about an orphanage might be just the thing she needs as she has to look
after Galactica's super scouts (see last
episode), especially since Troy (Kent McCord) and Dillon (Barry
Van Dyke) are called away on a mission. And as the laws of TV drama of
that era demand, the orphanage in question, run by former baseballer Billy
Eheres (Paul Koslo), is about to close its gates due to lack of funds. The
place's only chance would be to win a certain championship baseball game,
but the kids of the orphanage are just crap at the sport. Good thing that
the super scouts have super powers and could easily win the game - but
then on the day of the game the UFO-chasing Colonel Sydell (Alan Miller)
is among the audience, which is why the kids have to lay low, and it seems
the game is lost, until ... Back to Troy and Dillon, sent away on a
mission, when their Viper loses power in the middle of nowhere, the
galaxy, and they have to manually repair their ship. But why have they
even been called away, and who sabotaged their ship? Well, Commander
Xaviar (now played by Jeremy Brett) has returned from his time travel
adventures and has decided to be evil in the present time, and posing as
one of the Galacticans, he has called Troy and Dillon away and told Jamie
he's their replacement, to do some evil. But when Troy and Dillon manage
to fix their ship, they return, encourage the super scouts to win the game
after all, and then they all manage to give Colonel Sydell the slip, while
of course Xaviar gives them the slip, to do more evil in future episodes.
With this episode, Galactica 1980, never on par
with the already uneven Battlestar
Galactica to begin with, descends further into TV drama
mediocricy by unashamedly employing a tired "save the orphanage"
tearjerker plotline without even trying to put much of an original,
science fiction spin to it. The result is camp at best, but pathetic at
worst, and just another indicator why the series never really caught on.
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