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| Title: | Battlestar Galactica |
| Format: | Live-action |
| Running time: | 175 min. |
| country: | USA |
| Network: | Sci-Fi Channel |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 2 |
| Production | |
| Production company: | R&D TV NBC Universal Television |
| Executive producers: | David Eick; Ronald D. Moore |
| Producers: | Harvey Frand; Glen A. Larson; Paul M. Leonard; Michael R. Joyce |
| Principal cast: | Edward James Olmos; Mary McDonnell; Katee Sackhoff; Jamie Bamber; James Callis; Tricia Helfer; Grace Park; Michael Hogan; Tahmoh Penikett; Aaron Douglas; Kandyse McClure |
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| First aired: | December 8th, 2003 |
| Last aired: | December 9th, 2003 |
Battlestar Galactica is a three-hour miniseries comprising four broadcast hours written and produced by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Michael Rymer. It was the first part of the Battlestar Galactica reimagining based on the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series, and served as a backdoor pilot for the 2004 television series. The miniseries aired originally on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States starting on December 8th, 2003. The two parts of the miniseries attracted 3.9 and 4.5 million viewers, making the miniseries the third-most-watched program on Syfy ever.
None of the previous attempts to remake or continue the story of Battlestar Galactica by Tom DeSanto, Bryan Singer, and original series star Richard Hatch, were successful. From the mid 1990s onwards, actor Richard Hatch (Captain Apollo from the original version of the series) made numerous efforts to revive the series, including co-writing several novels and a comic book series, and even went as far as to produce a proof-of-concept trailer called The Second Coming. Hatch's campaign was based on the continuation of the original series, set several years after the final episode. DeSanto and Singer's planned version, which actually went into pre-production before being delayed and then scrapped following the events of the 911 terrorist attacks of 2001, was also a continuation, set some 25 years after the original series. Both versions ignored the events which occurred in Galactica 1980. In 2002, Universal Pictures (the legal rights holder to Battlestar Galactica), instead opted for a remake rather than a sequel. Written by Ronald D. Moore, who had worked extensively within the Star Trek franchise throughout the 1990s, the remake went into production in the Greater Vancouver area of Canada in late 2002. [1]
Episodes[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
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| 1x1 | Episode 1.1 | December 8th, 2003 |
| 1x2 | Episode 1.2 | December 9th, 2003 |
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