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Galactica 1980 - The Super Scouts
episode 4 & 5
USA 1980
produced by Jeff Freilich, Frank Lupo, Dean Zanetos, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/ABC
directed by Vince Edwards, Sigmund Neufeld jr
starring Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene, James Patrick Stuart, Allan Miller, George DelHoyo, John Quade, Mike Kellin, Michael Swann, Fred Holliday, Carlene Watkins, Caroline Smith, Jack Ging, Herbert Jefferson jr, Simon Scott, Helen Page Camp, Ken Scott, Mike Brick, Jeff Cotler, Nicholas Davies, Ronnie Densford, Mark Everett, Georgi Irene, Tracy Justrich, Lindsay Kennedy, D.G. Larson, Eric Larson, Michelle Larson, Jerry Supiran, Eric Taslitz, Ronald Gans (voice)
written and 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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At the advice of the Galactica's child genius Dr. Zee (James Patrick
Stuart), children are trained in the ways of the earth to properly
infiltrate it and ultimately prepare earth for the arrival of the
Galacticans. But then the school ship is attacked by the Cylons, and the
evacuation shuttle piloted by Troy (Kent McCord) and Dillon (Barry Van
Dyke) is somehow cut off from the Galactica and makes an emergency landing
on earth. And now it's up to Troy and Dillon to see to it that they kids
they have with them aren't discovered, but they run into a lot of
troubles, including Dillon accidently robbing a bank. But they get camping
gear and scout uniforms for the children to successfully pose as a scout
group - and they're soon joined by their one earth friend, reporter Jamie
Hamilton (Robyn Douglass). Oh, and also the kids develop super strength,
due to the lower gravity on earth. But then three of the kids fall
critically ill, but they can be gotten to a clinic in time for an earth
doctor, Spencer (George DelHoyo) to stabilize them. Apparently the kids
have had a sip of water from a river that's polluted by waste water from a
nearby chemical plant. Troy and Dillon ultimately take the manager of the
plant, Stockton (Mike Kellin), captive, force him to drive them and the
children to a rendez-vous point with a medical ship from the Galactica,
and there the children's lives are saved, and Dr. Zee shows Stockton a
simulation what will happen in ten years time if he doesn't mend his ways
and continues to pollute the river - upon which Stockton emerges a changed
man. There's also a subplot of an Air Force colonel (Allan Miller) and a
bitter sheriff (John Quade) trying to get their hands on Troy, Dillon and
the kids, but they're never able to quite catch up ... The time
travel concept that was teased in the opening
three-parter of the series was dropped for this one, probably for
budgetary reasons, to instead tell another fish-out-of-water tale about
Troy and Dillon ultimately doing good, with the stock elements firmly in
place, from the hick sheriff to the evil big business manager to the
sympathetic doctor to the arrogant Air Force colonel unsuccessfully
chasing UFOs, and this time also peppered with children with superpowers
... and it's really just tired and repetitive, both of itself but of
science fiction series of its time at a larger scale. And a rather tired
directorial effort does little to add excitement to this. Of course, it's
got a certain charm seen through the mist of nostalgia, and has its at
least in hindsight exhilarating moments, but that doesn't make this good
TV.
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