The New Imperious Leader Spares Baltar | Battlestar Galactica (1978) 

and Count Ibly

Known as John Steed in the TV series "The Avengers".

Yes the Late Patrick MacNee did a great job is the voice of the imperious leader and count iblis. Jonathan Harris of Lost in space was terrific as the voice of Lucifer

Jonathan Harris was Lucifer's voice.

and the Narrator

Dr. Smith😮 was Lucifer oh the pain the pain

Mcnee also played count iblis in war of the gods.

Hear the words of the "Dude"

Apparently, John Colicos was around to see the Galactica re make and said something to the effect of "Damn I wish the Cylons were that good looking when I was around"

Obvious bad guy combo

lol how the cylons drop baltar like he is garbage.

What with that voice !

He was awesome. Spector I found funny.

Lucifer was the same model as the Imperious Leader. Call it a class system if you like, but I thought their series, the I.L. series, were the administrators of the empire.

I thought Lucifer was a little light in the loafers.

No shit. He almost overacted that, almost. After all, what are we Barbarians?

Mikos Casidine.

Do you post that in _every_ comment section?

heres a bit of trivia.. to look more intimidating every actor to play a cylon had to be 6ft or over.

​​@@rodscarbrough2337 they sure did the late Richard Hatch explained during a interview one-time the actors that played the cylons were 6 ft 6 inches tall.

it was too expensive to have lasted longer. 1 million dollars per episode was insane back in the days.

"this new Imperious Leader is all woke and shit wtf"

i figured that was the case with IL-series costumes! neat to hear it from the crew

Herb Jefferson/Boomer was so under-used in that show.

Plenty more on earth’s surface in 2023….lol

Great character, but it would have been better if he had a military background and was more competent. That would have made him a more formidable foe. As it was written, he was a merchant trader with no military experience.

Calicos made the series a success as the face of evil. Excellent writing too.

Was the bloke who tortured an innocent man into confessing a crime he didn't commit so Henry VIII could do his wife in and shag another woman in Anne of the Thousand Days. Colicos played Thomas Cromwell, loyal servant of the King who later had him executed. Related to, but not a direct antecedent of Oliver Cromwell, who had Charles I executed.

Interestingly enough they did kill him off in the Feature Film Version of Battlestar Galactica. The Scene where he's Executed by the Cylons is also in the Marvel Comics Adaptation.

I think they actually killed and un-killed him twice - he was meant to die in the original pilot, and again in the follow-up serial "The Lost Gods of Kobol". But nope, he survives again, he was just too good.

There was also a thericial version of the TV pilot. In the movie they did kill Baltar. In the DVD box set there is a bonus disc that contains that scene and the production of that scene. John Colicos can be seen talking to Producer John Dykstra (out of frame) and the two actors playing the Cylons that were going to kill Baltar.

​@@williamnessanbaum7464 correct he got killed originally there's still pictures on line if you search

Earlier point in the timeline, previous Imperious Leader.

In the novel, he is beheaded and then jettisoned from the baseship along with standard Cylon trash.

And Anne Lockhart was the daughter of June Lockhart was the mom on the Jupiter 2 with Dr Smith. Love the meta casting. ❤

And Patrick McNee as the Imperious Leader. This show was SOOOO underrated and SOOOOO much better than the crap in 2004!

@@RJLNetwork I concur wholeheartedly!

I thought it was Roddy MacDowell?

@SpockBorg5 Nope, it was Johnny Harris. I can see the conflict, though they both have a similar speaking approach.

Narrator too, "Some believe...."

Especially when you learn how little time they were given to put everything together.

Heavy shades of Trigo, although I have to assume that no-one on the show had ever heard of, let alone read that comic.

"OH, the pain! The pain!"

@@whiteknightcat Yep I have seen several of his interviews seemed like a good guy who enjoyed what he did. He was also the Praying Mantis in A Bugs Life

Oh he played Kor! I thought he looked familiar! He also appeared as Kor for several episodes in Deep Space 9! He had some amazing performances in those too and must be watched. DS9: Blood Oath, DS9: The Sword of Kahless, and DS9: Once More Unto the Breach.

you must be young enjoy@@Three-Headed-Monkey

​@Three-Headed-Monkey the part of Kor was written with him in mind. Both Day of the Dove and The Trouble with Tribbles were originally written for Kor to be the antagonist but had to be re wrote because John Colicos couldn't make it. He became depressed over it because Kor was one of his favorite parts to play.

"No..Wait.. !!!

It could be implied something changed between the time of this and when he's seen again

I was wondering about that? if he had Disobeyed orders from the Imperious Leader because of his thirst for power I guess not.

I remember!

I saw the movie in the theater, but I only remember that scene from the book. It's been a while. :)

Well, it showed the blade hitting his throat, but they did not show him being beheaded.

Memory says that like all the best productions they let your mind fill in the blanks. The Cylon drew its blade, held it high and then swung it down to an instant blackout. You knew what happened next and they didn't need to show it.

Movies liuke that are why our generation isnt a bunch of limp wristed nancy boys being offended at everything.

You CAN get one! Look up Kropserkel. They make all kinds of cool sci-fi stuff!.

I heard the guy in charge of special effects for _Star Wars_ decided to leave ILM and make this movie/show.

maybe hinting that the cylon have such a lack of creativty that they don't even assume the posibilty that they are more powerfull forces in this space sector...

The producers were less than nurturing.

The new one is a soap opera in space. And not a space opera, just a soap opera with special effects.

Ran its course

It was killed due to Network Politics. It was Still getting Ratings when It was Canceled.

it's inconsistent because they only had most of the pilot and some of the mythology nailed down by the time the series began production. following lost planet of the gods they were more or less just making it up as they went along, so the various villains' motivations were kind of all over the place

In other words, "What we have here, is failure to communicate."

C3PO?

There's a Ton of Biblical and Roman/Greco Names all over Battlestar Galactica. In Fact the Basic Plot ot the Show Resembles The Exodus.

You can praise this series without shitting on the other.

​@@jamesxiaolong2199touchy touchy ouch!

Also in Star Trek DS9, Kor the Dahar Master

But which one is Satan?

@@Argumemnon The one imprinted on the Imperious Leader.

Baltar was a Klingon on Star Trek and Lucifer's voice is Dr. Smith's from Lost in Space.

CHILDREN'S BOOK?! 😨 In the U.S. we talk about "Censorship in the media" as a bad thing, we discourage it to keep away from controlling political thought. But, over here you cannot show people things that are especially violent, gory, or morbid! And that is a good idea! But, you have children's stories that deliberately have decapitating people as a core part? Don't your children get traumatized and / or disturbed by being exposed to that?

@@TheNoiseySpectator Again like i said the photo used was not really that clear. Another example is transformers the comic series. They could get away with showing a robot have its guts hanging using oil as blood,

i like james callis, it's moreso his baltar's writing i take issue with 😅

just the military

In Lost Planet of The Gods this scene was edited to take out the reference that the Cylons had become Omnipotent and more tolerant and wanting to extend the hand of peace to the humans with Baltar being the one to send the message. Instead the re-edited scene just has the new Imperious Leader telling Baltar he has examined his epistle about locating the humans and assigns Lucifer to Baltar and a Basestar to continue the plot point of the Cylons still wanting to find and exterminate the Galactica and the survivors of the destruction of The Colonies.

@@northernstudioworks Except there is no reason to suppose the new Imperious Leader was any more inclined to spare the last remnant of humanity than his predecessor, despite all that folderol about tolerance being possible now that the Cylons were omnipotent. Baltar himself knows or very reasonably suspects the Leader is lying and says as much to Adama (yes, even granting that Baltar is not the most reliable witness to anything) and knows what is actually expected of him, hence his attempt to trick Adama into going along with his half-assed scheme to attack Cylon and seize power. Of course, an alternative possibility is that the Leader may actually have been initially inclined toward tolerance, then observed Baltar changing the object of his mission to annihilation of the surviving human remnant, thereby proving the previous Leader's point that humans were too unstable and treacherous to be allowed to live, therefore allowed Baltar to pursue the destruction of the Galactica fleet and even facilitated him in achieving that objective. If he succeeds, the human problem is solved and Baltar can then be killed once his usefulness has ended. And if he fails, he can be killed when Lucifer determines nothing more is to be learned from observing him and that his usefulness has ended.

That *is* the loo. The big cylinder he's sitting on is in fact a giant septic tank.

@@jkkay477 😂😂

He's a Cylon, too, their leader. Their outer robotic bodies come in different forms, but they are actually aliens within them with something of a caste system and hierarchy.

He is a true Cylon, which was actually a flesh and blood sentient reptilian like race. They are the true builders and masters of the Centurians and the servant androids like Lucifer.

In the novelizations the Cylons are an insectoid race born with a primitive brain. Those to be promoted to Centurion get a second brain implanted, boosting their intelligence. The Imperious Leader gets a third brain implanted, making him the single most intelligent of his species.