Galactica 1980 Redux - Attack on Earth 

And National Inquirers! Don't forget those!!!

Don't forget Cherry and OUI,😎

Damn, where's dirty old George gonna get his skin magazines from now?

Came here to say that. Clearly the The Twelve Colonies know what's what.

Pluto's still a planat...!!!

@@ricks_talented_tongue In my heart , if nothing else!

Lorne Green said it, it must be so!

We had the best toys back then! Lawn darts, chemistry sets. When men were men. And children were men too! 😂

I had one of those too. I remembered when they switched them out for versions whereby the plastic bullet just moved forward a bit instead of coming off the front the the Viper.

Best toys ever back then when little parts would fly off and create a choking hazard...we all took it and survived....

Hollywood is already under alien control.

Aliens really hate the Capitol Records building though.

LOL

Exactly and the damn freeways our as we call them parking lots

I was amazed they Cylons couldn't hit any cars.

Nah Stormtroopers are deadly if you are not main character protected by plot armor.

Yeah, but then to discover one of the Cylons had defected and found a job at Universal Studios!

Yea he saved face

Face's Corvette had a slight Viper look to it.

La flota estelar habría destrozado a los Cylons

And Picard would have led efforts to negotiate with the Cylons. They will meet for a treaty signing near some old moon, and back in San Fran they will have a big celebration with a giant "PEACE" sign. Data would have been sympathetic with their cause--"Having dealt with humans for so long, I totally understand their desire to wipe them out. And having been the target of a plot-inconsistent effort to disassemble me, I won't support disassembling them. Dropping shields... [Picard's voice] Computer, initiate Transporter Program Data1: Destination: The Cylon bridge. And then lock out all Enterprise controls: Password: sdjfsdfsd7d77fs77fsd77fssds&&Dfdsshjie!. Engage." Then the Romulans would show up to save Earth, as they don't mess with silly negotiations or allow androids in command positions. And the people of Earth say goodbye to all that democracy and stuff, and welcome rule by the Romulan Star Empire. "If only we'd allowed the veterans to seize control, and set up a Citizen's Federation." ... Oops. Jumped universes.

Starfleet would have had a little trouble with the raiders. The raiders lasers couldn't do much to the shields but the starships would have a problem destroying the raiders. The raiders would be more maneuverable and doge the phasers or photon torpedoes. The bas4e stars would be easier to destroy. They would need to launch the attack sleds to destroy the raiders.

But Starfleet has not only long-range detection but also warp technology, neither of which the Cylons have. The Cylons would be picked up long before they even reached Earth, probably even before they hit the solar system. And once their hostile intentions are confirmed, Starfleet would be all over them like white on rice. The raiders might prove a problem against Federation cruisers, but not much of one and not for long, with ship after ship suddenly turning up out of nowhere to join the fight. Meanwhile, the unshielded base ships would be cut to pieces by the fleet. Patrick MacCylon would almost certainly find his "final annihilation of the lifeform known as Man" proclamation premature, to say the least.

No. The moment we deserved this was when anxiety medication lists "anxiety" as a side effect.

Yea

My coffee maker says do not use in shower...

@@sarahwolf6754 Nah, that was when microwave instructions finally warned against using them as cat dryers.

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Yeah, I love The Day After sequences!

I'm disappointed there was no followup where Count Iblis appears to make a copyright claim for using stock footage with his voice.

Reality now is even worse

And there's Adama in the audience pretending to be surprised.

@@zephyr8072 He'd licensed it to the Cylons a thousand years prior.

@@zephyr8072 That's not Count Iblis it's the Cylons Imperious leader. Patrick Macknee played both. These Cylons were supposedly 100% mechanical.

As a fan of the 70's disaster movie "Earthquake", where most of the footage is from, I was very excited the first time I saw this sequence. Always loved that you could superimpose spaceships, remove the shake, and get a convincing Cylon attack using footage of an earthquake - a fake looking one at that! (But the low budget was a repeated theme on Galactica 1980.)

Universal Studios never lets any film go to waste! 😁

@@transitfan954 Indeed! The failure of the Hollywood Reservoir Damn and subsequent flooding from the movie Earthquake was also used for the flood sequence in Damnation Alley. If you grew up watching 70's Universal movie FX in the 70's, you got to watch them again in the 80's in completely different movies.

I'm sure at least some of the footage here was from "The Day After".

I guess Cylon weapons contracts are always won by the lowest bidder as well. 😛

Yeah, thatxwas my reaction. Apparently those lasers are reduced to .30 caliber or 7-8 mm machineguns by the atmosphere.

The new Toyota Raider one-seater was defective! 🤣

Well you know it’s always going to happen in LA area even today it’s a waste land

Wish it was the state of Florida or Texas

To bad the Cylons didn't cut the enire state off the back end of this country. They would have done us a huge favor.

@@TexasDog3 Besides the obvious is less expensive to film in Hollywood for this TV show clip and other SciFi movies, do you really believe the US could afford to lose the World’s 5th largest economy? CA pays in Taxes 15% of individual taxes of the national total $100 billion more than 3rd place TX. CA produces 13% of the US GDP while Texas is a distance 2nd Place. Texas doesn’t produce 1/2 of the world’s almonds most of the world’s iceberg lettuce, more Peaches than the other States combined, more dairy products than the dairy State. And for businesses, which other State would Texas go to hat in hand to sell them on moving to Texas if California became an independent country? But we don’t hate Texas or your stupid Governor, who is as dumb as a sack of hammers, his current border stops rerouted shipments from Mexico for agricultural imports that has increased jobs and income for the state. It’s hurt Texas truckers and cost jobs in Texas, possibly some Californians will start a charity if the absurdity continues after the election. Then again, as far as Texas is concerned, You can’t fix stupid. Enjoy your electric grid…

Based on this line of thought, we are our own worst enemy. We (you) glorify the destruction of a human city knowing that only a few humans (in this reality) are left. Petty divisions and squabbles are the order of the day. Makes me wonder if we deserve to survive. "It’s Not Enough To Survive. One Must Be Worthy Of Survival." ~Adama BSG

They studied at the Storm Trooper school of marksmanship.

@@tonyrome655 My feelings exactly!

Best comment 🎉

Definitely best comment here

I thought I was the only person who wondered about that.

I don't think Threads was in there. I think it was all Day After.

@@sarahwolf6754 ah ok.

And 1978's "Meteor" - a splinter hit New York skyscrapers after they launched the missiles from Hercules and Peter the Great.

Or “Earthquake”….

Yeah, it does!

So like this never happened, The Reptiles guys from V got to earth before the Galactica.

Joe Biden is a cylon....just sayin'

@@druunderwood5602 Actually the Galactica arrived before V. Galactica was 1980, and V was 1983 and 1984.

@@josephhinkofer9516 I know but its a great idea, The Reptiles are the last of the original Cylons, Plot twist.

@Timothy Mckee I wonder when David Icke was going to get here, Iv seen V You're Not Fooling Anyone.

Of course, this was before Pluto was re-classified as a "dwarf planet".

And don't forget about Season 2 of Buck Rogers with the Robot Creighton(sp?) that had the Cylon Eye as well.

@@josephhinkofer9516 I remember Crichton's optical sensor, it didn't have the Larson sweep as far as I remember. Crichton was named after The Admirable Crichton, the title character in the J.M. Barrie play of that name.

So that's why John disguised himself as Devon. To keep an eye on things.

Very nice Knight Rider tie in!

You mean "Conquest of the Earth."

@@dalethelander3781 Yes, I sit corrected. Oddly, there was a line in that version where the Cylon says 'Robots are not new to Earth'... which seems odd, considering the Cylons knew nothing of Earth. The line isn't in the original episode.

The nuke footage is from the movie The Day After.

I've got the entire Redux collection. It's a really interesting edit of the series.

@@sarahwolf6754 very nice! How might one acquire the Kerlin redux edits?

@@richardched6085 The David Kerin edits are only for Battlestar Galactica. (Except for Return of Lt. Starbuck.) The Redux edits are only for Galactica 1980. For either one, I don't know where to find them currently.

I was looking for his last fan edit ‘The Promised Land’ but that seems the be gone now along with the others he had done. The Promised Land and Greetings From Earth are the only one of his edits I don’t have.

the scene at 5:27 is from the day after

@@ihl8608 Now that you mention it, I recognise part of that movie here. The one with John Lithgow at a university.

@@wonniewarrior Dr Lazardo was in cahoots with the Cylons?

@@fmlazar Well he was a Alien commander in a documentary called '3rd rock from the sun'

@@wonniewarrior yes, he was the ‘Alien High Commander’! 😄

Ironically, Jeff Goldblum had a show, debuting after this. Like this, it only lasted one season. It was called "Tenspeed and Brownshoe".

I can't claim credit for making that. I'm just posting it.

Strictly speaking, mega pulsars (the giant blue beam fired by Cylon basestars) are far more potent than nukes.

He was in the episode that was filming when the cancellation order came down, "The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra," which was halted and never finished.

How'd that work out for you? The show was so bad ABC cancelled it after only 10 episodes.

He was a good actor.

@@jeffburnham6611 Kent McCord and Barry Van Dyke are fine actors, but they certainly weren't Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. The teleplays generally lacked the action, drama and suspense the original version had.

@@allenjones3130 Barry unfortunately has the distinction of being in two continuation versions of popular shows that were just terrible ie Galactica 1980 and Airwolf Season 4.

The original opening episode of Galactica 1980 did not have all this. It did use scenes from the 1974 movie "Earthquake" and added Cylon ships and their laser bolts causing buildings to fall apart. This mix adds scenes from "The Day After" and - I think - "Meteor" (1978) (when a splinter hits New York), and includes scenes from the beginning of the original series (Saga of a Star World).

They were.

Up Yours!! and its Harvey with an 'e' .

And they do again.

You beat me to it. 😁

Given their apparent lack of ability to dogfight, the Cylons would not have fared well... at least until they headed back to space.

In the book Battlestar Galactica 1980, one Cylon fighter was sent to deal with the American fighters. You have to remember, the Cylons have used faster than light travel for thousands of years. Compare that with supersonic or jet flight which has been used only on earth for fifty or sixty years?

@@siatelecomsltdLondon true but they would be finding themselves to working in the atmosphere of a planet which changes for physics in favor of Earthbound Fighters .

@@bellvnv2000 Do you remember the time travelling movie called, The Final Count down. When the modern super sonic 1980s American fighters, destroyed the slower moving early 1940s Japanese fighters planes? We are talking about a very similar situation happening here. The only difference is that if a situation like this was to happen for real, those Cylon fighters would appear as nothing but a blur, because they would be moving so rediculously fast. In the book, when Troy and Dillon entered US airspace and were challenged by American fighters, they kicked in their turbos and they ended up thousands of miles away. The television adaptation told a very different story unfortunately. ☹☹☹☹

@@siatelecomsltdLondon you know what , any thing you want , "you're right" . Nothing I can do to convince you of my argument about this fictitious scenario but obviously it matters that much to you .

We had the best pavement back then. Cylon proof!

It either came from the movie Earthquake, which Galactica 1980 used, or The Day After. Some of David Kerin's work is in there as well. I don't know what he used.

Most of the stock footage presented here is indeed from the ABC production THE DAY AFTER. Good use of this footage too.

Then again, The Day After used footage from First Strike.

@@johnthomsen8802 Really?

Indeed, as the Valley Forge spacecraft model and the forrest/garden set was reused in the series... Significantly, in the episodes ‘War of the Gods’.

I thought the classic Cylon raiders were cool, but they were too big to be maneuverable. They were more like bombers than fighters. Which probably explains why the colonials were always able to fly better and the Cylons relied on numbers. I didn't like the G80 version as it just doubled down on the bulky, impractical size. The nuGal Cylon raiders were okay. Maybe I didn't like them so much because they were just a ripoff design from the old Wing Commander game on the PC.

Ah, wrong most hate the re imagined Batman batarang looking raiders😂the originals are so much better, copied by many future sci fi movies and TV like in Stargate series sg1 ,Atlantis some shows and many movies.

They have.

What is exactly on the cylon leaders head? Its look like soul glow.

Really? You don't say.

Glen Larson used footage from Earthquake and optically printed Cylon Raiders over it.

Wow, you are just so amazing to know that. Next, maybe you can tell us that the sky is blue.