"Galactica 1980" The Night the Cylons Landed (TV Episode 1980) Poster

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LSD-inspired Galactica...
robrosenberger18 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Why does whale music play whenever Dr. Zee appears? In the ONLY good space scouts scene ever (due to an incidental MST treatment years later), they watch a screening of THIS ISLAND EARTH. Then they're dispensed of and replaced by cylons, returning this entire two-part episode to the "so silly and wrong it's hysterical" groove. Troy and Dillon go to NY where a ship is about to crash...but it's not colonial, it's a highly advanced cylon craft with a new breed inside - human replicas (during the BSG re-boot years later, one forgets that "human" cylons actually started here - isn't repressed memory a funny thing?). A humanoid and a centurion survive the crash, and set off for a radio station to send a signal back to the Empire. Coincidentally it's Halloween, and a couple (including William Daniels - THE GRADUATE, KNIGHT RIDER) who work at a radio station pick them up, thinking they're in party attire. And it looks like another actor asked for a raise, as there's a new air force colonel on their tail, played by Peter Mark Richman (THREE'S COMPANY, THE NAKED GUN 2 1/2). Stay tuned for part 2, the most LSD-inspired Galactica ever.
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