Season 1

Battlestar GalacticaSeason 1

1978
21 Episodes

Episodes

Saga of a Star World
S01E01
7.5

Saga of a Star World

The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.

17 Sept 1978134m
Lost Planet of the Gods (1)
S01E02
7.3

Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

24 Sept 197847m
Lost Planet of the Gods (2)
S01E03
7.1

Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

01 Oct 197847m
The Lost Warrior
S01E04
6.4

The Lost Warrior

Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.

08 Oct 197847m
The Long Patrol
S01E05
7.1

The Long Patrol

Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.

15 Oct 197847m
The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)
S01E06
7.1

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.

22 Oct 197847m
The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)
S01E07
6.7

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

29 Oct 197847m
The Magnificent Warriors
S01E08
6.5

The Magnificent Warriors

When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

12 Nov 197847m
The Young Lords
S01E09
6.4

The Young Lords

Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

19 Nov 197847m
The Living Legend (1)
S01E10
7.7

The Living Legend (1)

While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

26 Nov 197847m
The Living Legend (2)
S01E11
7.4

The Living Legend (2)

The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.

03 Dec 197847m
Fire in Space
S01E12
6.1

Fire in Space

A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.

17 Dec 197847m
War of the Gods (1)
S01E13
7.4

War of the Gods (1)

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

14 Jan 197947m
War of the Gods (2)
S01E14
7.2

War of the Gods (2)

While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

21 Jan 197947m
The Man with Nine Lives
S01E15
6.7

The Man with Nine Lives

An old con man known as Chameleon meets Starbuck and convinces him that he may be Starbuck's father, to gain Starbuck's help in evading a trio of bloodthirsty Borellians who are after him in revenge for another con.

28 Jan 197947m
Murder on the Rising Star
S01E16
7.0

Murder on the Rising Star

When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.

18 Feb 197947m
Greetings from Earth
S01E17
5.8

Greetings from Earth

When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

25 Feb 197994m
Baltar's Escape
S01E18
7.2

Baltar's Escape

When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.

11 Mar 197947m
Experiment in Terra
S01E19
6.1

Experiment in Terra

Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

18 Mar 197947m
Take the Celestra
S01E20
6.0

Take the Celestra

Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.

01 Apr 197947m
The Hand of God
S01E21
7.2

The Hand of God

Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.

29 Apr 197947m