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From a private collection, this is an early original painting measuring 23 x 17 inches by sci-fi illustrator Bill Wright of a scene from Battlestar Galactica. The details of his space ships are remarkable. This painting is on art board the paint medium is. I think it is acrylics (according to Bill Wright) There are bumps on the corners of the art board. Bill Wright’s work is bold and provocative in its portrayal of science fiction aircraft and astronomical art. Starting out using traditional media he was well represented on the Science Fiction convention scene for many years. With a science background and a bachelors degree in microbiology, some of Bill’s work deals with the representation and discovery of alien life forms. The spacecraft in his work is both realistic and plausible in design, beauty and function. Recently Bill has transitioned his work to the digital palette using Photoshop to create his unique vision of the future conquest of space. His work has been published by The Planetary Society and used in promotional campaigns for The National Space Society Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction media franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the original television series in 1978 and was followed by a short-run sequel series (Galactica 1980), a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games. A re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica aired as a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick in 2003. That miniseries led to a weekly television series, which aired until 2009. A prequel series, Caprica, aired in 2010. All Battlestar Galactica productions share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human race. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to be a ruse. With the aid of a human named Baltar, the Cylons carry out a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them. These attacks devastate the Colonial Fleet, lay waste to the Colonies, and virtually destroy their populations. Scattered survivors flee into outer space aboard a ragtag array of available spaceships. Of the entire Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the Cylon attack. Under the leadership of Commander Adama, the Galactica and the pilots of “Viper fighters” lead a fugitive fleet of survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth. Contents1Original series1.1Battlestar Galactica (1978)1.2Galactica 19801.3Cinema releases2Attempted revivals3Reimagined series3.1Miniseries revival3.2Battlestar Galactica (2004)3.3Razor3.4Webisodes3.5The Plan3.6Caprica3.7Blood & Chrome4Feature film5Second reboot6Comic books7Books7.1Original series books7.2Reimagined series books7.3Academic analysis8Games8.1Video games8.2Tabletop games9Theme park attractions10See also11References12Bibliography13External linksOriginal seriesBattlestar Galactica (1978)Main article: Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)Glen A. Larson, the creator and executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, claimed he had conceived of the Battlestar Galactica premise, which he called Adam’s Ark, during the late 1960s. As James E. Ford detailed in “Battlestar Galactica and Mormon Theology,” a paper read at the Joint Conference of the American Culture and Popular Culture Associations on April 17, 1980 (and published as “Theology in Prime Time Science Fiction: Battlestar Galactica and Mormon Doctrine,” Journal of Popular Culture #17 [1983]: 83–87), the series incorporated many themes from Mormon theology, such as marriage for “time and eternity”, a “council of twelve,” a lost thirteenth tribe of humans, and a planet called Kobol (an anagram of Kolob), as Larson was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1][2] However, he was unable to find financial backing for his TV series for a number of years. Battlestar Galactica was finally produced in the wake of the success of the 1977 film Star Wars. The original Cylons of Battlestar Galactica, robotic antagonists bent on destroying all humankind, owe much to Fred Saberhagen’s berserker stories, including Saberhagen’s fictional race The Builders whose “sliding single red eye” became the signature design element for the Cylons. Larson had envisioned Battlestar Galactica as a series of made-for-TV movies (a three-hour pilot program and two two-hour episodes) for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). A shortened version of the three-hour pilot, Saga of a Star World, was screened in Canadian theaters (before the TV series was telecast) and in American, European and Australian theaters later on. Instead of two additional TV movies, ABC decided to commission a weekly TV series of one-hour episodes. In 1979 at the sixth annual People’s Choice Awards, the TV series won in the category of “Best New TV Drama Series”.[3] The first episode of the TV series (the long pilot TV movie) was broadcast on September 17, 1978. However, about 30 minutes before the end, that broadcast was interrupted by the announcement of the signing of the Egyptian–Israeli Camp David Accords. After the interruption (which was nearly an hour in length), the episode picked back up where it left off. During the eight months after the pilot’s first broadcast, 17 original episodes of the series were made (five of them two-part shows), equivalent to a standard 24-episode TV season. Citing declining ratings and cost overruns, ABC canceled Battlestar Galactica in April 1979. Its final episode “The Hand of God” was telecast on April 29, 1979. Further information: List of Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series) and Galactica 1980 episodesGalactica 1980Main article: Galactica 1980During the autumn of 1979, ABC executives met with Battlestar Galactica’s creator Glen Larson to consider restarting the series. A suitable concept was needed to draw viewers, and it was decided that the arrival of the Colonial Fleet at present-day Earth would be the storyline. A new TV movie called Galactica 1980 was produced. Again, it was decided this new version of Battlestar Galactica would be made into a weekly TV series. Despite the early success of the premiere, this program failed to achieve the popularity of the original series, and it was canceled after just ten episodes. In this 1980 sequel series, the Colonial fleet finds the Earth, and then it covertly protects it from the Cylons. This series was a quick failure due to its low budget (e.g., recycling footage from the 1974 Universal Studios movie Earthquake during a Cylon attack sequence), widely panned writing, and ill-chosen time slot (Sunday evenings, a time generally reserved for family-oriented programming and, more specifically, also for the 60 Minutes newsmagazine program). The TV series also had to adhere to strict content restrictions such as limiting the number of acts of violence and being required to shoehorn educational content into the script and dialogue. To cut costs, the show was set mostly on the contemporary Earth, to the great dismay of fans. Another factor for fan apathy was the nearly complete recasting of the original series: Lorne Greene reprised his role as Adama (working unpaid),[citation needed] Herb Jefferson, Jr. played “Colonel” Boomer in about half of the episodes (with little screentime), and Dirk Benedict as Starbuck for one episode (the abrupt final episode, though his character was to have also appeared in the unfilmed episode “Wheel of Fire”, which was a semi-sequel to “The Return of Starbuck”). Richard Hatch (Apollo in the original series) was sent a script for Galactica 1980, but he turned it down since he was not sure what his part in the series would be now that all the characters had changed.[4] Some TV syndication packages for Battlestar Galactica incorporate the episodes of this series. Cinema releasesBesides a re-edited version of the pilot, released in Canada, Europe, parts of Latin America, and, following the broadcast of the series, in the U.S., two other Battlestar Galactica feature films were released in cinemas. Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack and Conquest of the Earth were made up of various episodes of the original series and Galactica 1980 respectively. (See List of Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series) and Galactica 1980 episodes § Theatrical releases) Attempted revivalsThe original series maintained a cult fandom, which has supported efforts by Glen A. Larson, Richard Hatch, and Bryan Singer (independently of one another) to revive the premise. Richard Hatch produced a demonstration video in 1998–99 which featured several actors from the original series combined with state-of-the-art special effects. This video, titled Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, was screened at some science fiction conventions, but it did not lead to a new series. In 1999, the producer of Wing Commander, Todd Moyer, and the producer of the original TV series, Glen Larson, announced plans to produce a motion picture based on the TV series.[5][6][7] It would have featured Battlestar Pegasus. In 2000, the director and an executive producer of the X-Men movie, Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, began developing a Battlestar Galactica TV miniseries under the auspices of Studios USA for the Fox TV network. A continuation of the original series but set 25 years later, Singer and DeSanto’s version included several members of the original cast reprising their original roles and the introduction of newer characters. It was intended to be telecast as a backdoor pilot in May 2002, and pre-production commenced and sets had even been partially constructed with a view to filming starting in November 2001.[8] However, production delays caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks meant that Bryan Singer had to drop out, due to his commitment to direct the X-Men 2 movie. This caused the executives of Fox TV to lose interest in this project. Reimagined seriesMiniseries revivalMain article: Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries)Despite attempts to revive the series over the years, none came to fruition until it was reimagined in 2003 by Universal Television as Battlestar Galactica, a three-hour miniseries. Commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel, screenwriter Ronald D. Moore and producer David Eick were the creative forces behind it. Academy Award-nominated actor Edward James Olmos was cast in the role of Commander Adama, while two-time Academy Award nominee Mary McDonnell was cast as President Laura Roslin. Starbuck and Boomer were now female characters, portrayed by Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park respectively. Other cast members included Jamie Bamber (Captain Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama), James Callis (Dr. Gaius Baltar), and Tricia Helfer as a Cylon known as “Number Six”.[9] The mini-series was a ratings success for the Sci-Fi Channel and they commissioned a new weekly Battlestar Galactica series to follow. Battlestar Galactica (2004)Main article: Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)See also: List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) episodesThe new TV series was co-funded by the UK’s Sky Television, and premiered in the United Kingdom on the Sky1 satellite channel in October 2004. The series was then broadcast in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel in January 2005. Continuing where the 2003 mini-series left off, the main cast all returned to reprise their roles. Several new characters were introduced, and Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo in the 1970s Battlestar Galactica TV series, also appeared in several episodes as Tom Zarek, a former political terrorist who later becomes part of the new Colonial government. An edited version of the pilot miniseries was aired on NBC on January 9, 2005, five days before the Sci-Fi series premiere. NBC also aired three selected first-season episodes to promote the show in advance of the second-season premiere in July 2005. The series ran for four seasons between 2004 and 2009. The second season was split into two halves screened several months apart. Due to production delays caused by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild strike, the fourth season was also split into two parts, with a seven-month hiatus in between. The series has won widespread critical acclaim among many mainstream non-SF-genre publications. Time[10] and New York Newsday[11] named it the best show on television in 2005. Other publications such as The New York Times,[12] The New Yorker,[13] National Review[14] and Rolling Stone magazine[15] also gave the show positive reviews. The show has received a Peabody Award for overall excellence, several Emmy Awards for Visual Effects, and Emmy nominations for Writing and Directing. Time Magazine named it one of the 100 Best TV Shows of All Time.[16] RazorMain article: Battlestar Galactica: RazorBattlestar Galactica: Razor is a 2007 television movie produced and broadcast in the gap between Seasons 3 and 4 of the re-imagined series. Razor is also the first two episodes of Season 4 though it chronicles events on Battlestar Pegasus in two time periods, both of which are “in the past” with respect to the Season 4 continuity. The “present day” framing scenes are set during Lee Adama’s command of the Pegasus in the latter half of Season 2, while “flashback” scenes depict Helena Cain’s command in the period between the Cylon attack (shown in the 2003 mini-series) and the reunion with the Galactica in the second season. It aired in the United States and Canada on November 24, 2007 and in the UK and Ireland on December 18, 2007. An expanded version of the movie was released on DVD on December 4, 2007. WebisodesMain articles: Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks, and Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the EnemyThe first set of webisodes were a series of shorts produced in 2006 to promote the third season of the re-imagined show. Made as an “optional extra” to Season 3, the webisodes filled in some of the events between the second and third seasons and featured some of the main cast, though did not reveal what would happen in the beginning of Season 3, nor was viewing them essential to follow the story of the third season. Each of the ten webisodes was approximately three minutes long, and they were released twice a week leading up to the U.S. Season 3 premiere in 2006. The Razor Flashbacks were a series of seven webisodes produced in 2007, set some 40 years earlier during William Adama’s fighter pilot days during the later stages of the First Cylon War. They were released on the Internet as “webisodes” leading up to Razor’s release. They are now available on the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Battlestar Galactica: Razor, and some are inserted into both the broadcast and extended cuts of the movie on DVD and Blu-Ray. The installments that did not make the final cut include 1, 2, and the latter half of 7. In May 2008, a set of 10 webisodes were announced to be in the works which were released during the seven-month hiatus between episodes 10 and 11 of Season 4.[17] Titled The Face of the Enemy, the web series premiered on December 12, 2008 on SciFi.com. Again, viewing of the webisodes was optional prior to the second half of Season 4. The PlanMain article: Battlestar Galactica: The PlanIn August 2008, the Sci Fi Channel announced the production of a two-hour TV movie which was planned to air after the final episode of the series in 2009. The movie began production on September 8, 2008.[18] The movie premiered exclusively on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download on October 27, 2009 and aired on January 10, 2010, on Sci Fi. Written by Jane Espenson and directed by Edward James Olmos, The Plan storyline begins before the attack on the 12 colonies and shows events primarily from the perspective of the Cylons.[19] Edward James Olmos reprised his role as Adama, and ten of the eleven actors who played Cylons appeared, including Michael Trucco, Aaron Douglas, Dean Stockwell, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Rick Worthy, Matthew Bennett, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Hogan and Rekha Sharma.[18] The only “Cylon” actor not present was Lucy Lawless (although previously filmed footage of her was included).[20] CapricaMain article: Caprica (TV series)Caprica is a prequel television series to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. It premiered on Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi) on January 22, 2010, and was described as “television’s first science fiction family saga”. It was a two-hour back door pilot for a possible weekly television series, but on December 2, 2008, Syfy gave the go-ahead to expand the project into a full, 20-episode series. Caprica is set on the titular planet, 58 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica. The show revolves around two families, the Adamas and the Graystones, and the creation of the Cylons. The pilot was directed by Jeffrey Reiner and starred Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani, and Polly Walker.[21] The pilot was released on DVD on April 21, 2009[22] and the series was broadcast in January 2010. On October 27, 2010, Syfy canceled Caprica due to low ratings. The final five episodes were aired in the US on January 4, 2011[23] though they had aired a couple of months earlier on the Canadian network Space. The entire series was released on DVD in 2011. Blood & ChromeMain article: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & ChromeBattlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome was to be a spin-off series from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.[24] Syfy approached show runner Ronald D. Moore to produce another spin-off set in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica universe, which was to begin as a two-hour pilot focused on William “Husker” Adama (portrayed by Luke Pasqualino) during the First Cylon War (as was glimpsed in Razor and the corresponding webisodes). Syfy decided against moving forward with the Blood and Chrome TV series, but on November 5, 2012 it was announced that a 10-part webseries would begin on November 9, 2012 and be released over four weeks via Machinima.com. The webseries was also aired as a 2-hour movie on Syfy on February 10, 2013,[25] and was released on DVD shortly afterwards.[26] Feature filmCreator Glen A. Larson entered negotiations with Universal Pictures for a film adaptation of the 1978 series in February 2009.[27] Bryan Singer signed on to direct the reboot the following August, but was obliged to direct Jack the Giant Slayer.[28] In October 2011 John Orloff was hired to write the script. “I have wanted to write this movie since I was 12 years old, and built a Galactica model from scratch out of balsa wood, cardboard, old model parts and LEDs,” Orloff told Deadline Hollywood[29] By August 2012 the script was being rewritten, with Singer explaining that “It will exist, I think, quite well between the Glen Larson and Ron Moore universes”.[30] On April 7, 2014, the studio hired Jack Paglen to write the script for the film.[31] On February 12, 2016, Universal signed Michael De Luca, Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark to produce the Battlestar Galactica film.[32] On June 9, 2016, Lisa Joy was reportedly writing the film, and Francis Lawrence was in talks to direct.[33] On December 18, 2018, it was reported that Jay Basu (The Girl in the Spider’s Web) had been hired to rewrite Joy’s script.[34] Second rebootOn September 17, 2019, NBCUniversal announced a straight-to-series order of a reboot of Battlestar Galactica, produced by Sam Esmail as part of their new Peacock streaming service, set to premiere in 2020.[35] Comic booksMain article: Battlestar Galactica (comics)A series of comic book publishers have adapted Battlestar Galactica since its inception. Marvel Comics published a 23-issue comic book series based upon the show between 1978 and 1981. Walt Simonson, who later wrote and drew Thor and had a long stint on Marvel’s Star Wars comic, was the artist for the series at its conclusion. Other comics have since been published by Maximum Press, Grandreams, Look-in magazine, Realm Press, and Dynamite Comics. Dynamite Entertainment was the last company to publish comic books featuring both the classic and reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. They also released a 4-issue Galactica 1980 comic miniseries written by Marc Guggenheim. The limited miniseries was a re-imagining of the original series but at the end featured a second, smaller Battlestar (replacing the original which was destroyed) also named Galactica but strongly resembling the ship seen in the reimagined Sci-Fi Channel series.[citation needed] BooksBoth the original and the reimagined series have had books published about the series, academically oriented analysis, novelizations, and new works based on the characters. Original series booksThese Battlestar Galactica softcover novelisations were written by Glen A. Larson with the authors listed below.[36] They were critically disparaged, but proved popular, with the first novel selling over a million copies within its first year.[37] The first ten novels adapt the episode of the same title except as indicated. All novels except Battlestar Galactica 14: Surrender the Galactica! (ACE publishing) were originally published by Berkley, and have been republished, recently, by I Books, which called them Battlestar Galactica Classic to differentiate it from the reimagined series. The episodic novels featured expanded scenes, excerpts from “The Adama Journals,” more background on the characters, and the expansion of the ragtag fleet to almost 22,000 ships as opposed to the 220 in the TV series. A new book series written by series star Richard Hatch starting in the 1990s continued the original story based on his attempt to revive the series, and ignored the events of Galactica 1980. His series picked up several years after the TV series ended, and featured Apollo in command of the Galactica after the death of Adama, a grown-up Boxey, who was now a Viper pilot, and the rediscovery of Commander Cain and the battlestar Pegasus, who had started a new colony and was preparing to restart the war with the Cylons. Episodic novels Battlestar Galactica, with Robert Thurston (novel version of “Saga of a Star-World”)Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine, with Robert Thurston (novel version of “The Gun on Ice Planet Zero”)Battlestar Galactica 3: The Tombs of Kobol, with Robert Thurston (novel version of “Lost Planet of the Gods”)Battlestar Galactica 4: The Young Warriors, with Robert Thurston (adapts “The Young Lords”)Battlestar Galactica 5: Galactica Discovers Earth, with Michael Resnick (adapts the Galactica 1980 three part episode)Battlestar Galactica 6: The Living Legend, with Nicholas YermakovBattlestar Galactica 7: War of the Gods, with Nicholas YermakovBattlestar Galactica 8: Greetings from Earth, with Ron GoulartBattlestar Galactica 9: Experiment in Terra, with Ron Goulart (adapts the titular episode as well as “Baltar’s Escape”)Battlestar Galactica 10: The Long Patrol, with Ron GoulartOriginal novels Battlestar Galactica 11: The Nightmare Machine, with Robert ThurstonBattlestar Galactica 12: “Die, Chameleon!”, with Robert ThurstonBattlestar Galactica 13: Apollo’s War, with Robert ThurstonBattlestar Galactica 14: Surrender the Galactica!, with Robert ThurstonOriginal novels by Richard Hatch Battlestar Galactica: Armageddon, with Christopher GoldenBattlestar Galactica: Warhawk, with Christopher GoldenBattlestar Galactica: Resurrection, with Stan TimmonsBattlestar Galactica: Rebellion, with Alan RogersBattlestar Galactica: Paradis, with Brad LinaweaverBattlestar Galactica: Destiny, with Brad LinaweaverBattlestar Galactica: Redemption, with Brad LinaweaverReimagined series booksTor Science Fiction has published the following works in both hardcover and paperback format. Battlestar Galactica by Jeffrey A. CarverThe Cylons’ Secret by Craig Shaw GardnerSagittarius Is Bleeding by Peter DavidUnity by Steven HarperAcademic analysisCylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica[38]So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica, edited by Richard HatchBattlestar Galactica and International Relations[39] by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann (editors)An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica[40] by John Kenneth MuirGamesVideo gamesFurther information: List of Battlestar Galactica video games Mattel Battlestar Galactica game, circa 1978In 1978, Mattel Electronics released a handheld electronic LED game based on the series. The player tries to defend Galactica from kamikaze Cylon Raiders by manipulating a switch on the game unit to direct their fire, triggered by a red button to the left of the unit.[41] In November 2003, shortly before the premiere of the re-imagined TV series, Sierra released a 3D space combat Battlestar Galactica computer game for the original Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC. The game took place 40 years before the original series and featured an ensign Adama flying a Viper during the Cylon war. The game was developed by Warthog.[42] There is also a 2D Xbox 360 Live Arcade title called Battlestar Galactica wherein players can co-op or dogfight with up to 8 people over Xbox Live.[43] Battlestar Galactica Online was a 3D browser-based MMOG released as an open beta on February 8, 2011 by Bigpoint Games.[44] Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is a 2017 3D turn based strategy game (released on PC, Xbox One and PS4) featuring the First Cylon War. The game is developed by Black Lab Games and published by the Slitherine Software. Tabletop gamesThe original series inspired a Battlestar Galactica board game. The game is set during a training mission, where two to four players maneuver pieces representing Colonial Vipers to capture a damaged Cylon Raider. Play includes using terrain elements and a number of special-ability cards to the players’ advantage.[citation needed] In 1979, FASA released a tabletop counter piece game for Battlestar Galactica based on the fighter combat, which included the Galactica and a Cylon Basestar to be launched from, attack with and be attacked/defended. The counters for the Vipers and the Raiders included three model versions MKI/MKII/MKIII, not just the MKII Viper and Raider MKI.[45] Wiz Kids, Inc. (a collectible game manufacturer) produced the Battlestar Galactica Collectible Card Game based on the 2003 mini-series and 2004 TV show. The premier set of this game was released in May 2006. After the release of one expansion set, Wizkids announced the game’s cancellation on March 13, 2007.[46] A Battlestar Galactica role-playing game was released in August 2007 by Margaret Weis Productions at Gen Con.[47] In 2008 Fantasy Flight Games produced Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game, based on the 2003 re-imagined series. It is a semi-cooperative game of strategy for 3–6 players with some players being Cylon agents, either aware at start of the game or become aware later, as sleeper agents. Each of the 10 playable character has its own abilities and weaknesses, and they must all work together in order for humanity to survive, as well as attempt to expose the traitor while fuel shortages, food contaminations, and political unrest threaten to tear the fleet apart.[48] The game had three expansions, Pegasus, Exodus and Daybreak.[49][50] In 2018, Ares Games released Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles, a miniature game by Andrea Angiolino and Andrea Mainini simulating space duels between Vipers and Raiders. Expansions with further models including capital ships have been announced. The game is based on the 2003 re-imagined series, but the license will also allow use of spaceships from the original series, with a game approach similar to Wings of War.[51] Theme park attractionsBattle of Galactica opened June 9, 1979 as an event on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood at a cost of $1 million, the most expensive special effects attraction ever built at the park at the time.[52] This high-technology attraction featured animatronics and live actors in a spectacular laser battle based on the television series, with a 200-foot long spaceship that “swallowed” the passengers.[52] This was the first themed attraction to feature Audio-Animatronics characters outside Disney Parks, and was the first dark ride to combine sophisticated animatronics and lasers with live actors. It was replaced in 1992 by the foundations of Back to the Future: The Ride. A Battlestar Galactica: Human vs. Cylon roller coaster opened March 18, 2010 at Universal Studios Singapore. See alsoBattlestar Galactica comicsBattlestar Galactica shipList of Battlestar Galactica charactersList of space science fiction franchises In September 2005 Mike Egnor talked to Richard Hatch, better known for his role of Capt. Apollo in Battlestar Galactica 1978 and Tom Zarek in Battlestar Galactica 2003. This interview was never published and only recently found again. Richard Hatch talks about his career and how he became an actor, the original Battlestar Galactica series, his fight to bring it back to television and his role on the new Battlestar Galactica series (at the time, halfway the second season, just before the Pegasus arc was aired). This is Mike Egnor and today I’m talking with Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica. It’s a day before Screenheroes and Mr. Hatch I’d like to take the time to thank you for agreeing to do this interview. Thank you very much, great to be here. I’d like to talk about all the facets of your life, one into the other. Let’s start near the beginning. At age eight, you were studying classical piano and wanted to be a performer. Your other big dream was to be an Olympic pole vaulter. Yet at the same, you said you were extremely shy. How do you reconcile the fact that you had these big dreams and big motivations yet you were too shy to bring them about? Right. Right. Well only because I’m neurotic and schizophrenic, so I was able to combine two sides… No, I’m kidding. (laughs) I think many performers are shy. Artists and performers tend to be very sensitive people, I think they’re — it’s not that — I mean, many people are sensitive and emotional, you know, creative and imaginative. But I think those that get drawn into the arts for the most part are extremely sensitive. Many times those people also have low esteem, low self worth based on having been very sensitive and very, you know, maybe, sensitive as a child. They felt things in very profound, deep ways. And in this world, the more sensitive you are, sometimes the more traumatized you are. Because the world, life events, family have a great impact on us. Some children are not as sensitive and it doesn’t affect them quite as much it does the more sensitive child, and yet the more sensitive child many times is the more artistic. Many times the more creative ones that go into the business tend to be sometimes the ones who have been traumatized the most, as children. In a sense their art becomes a way to express their pain, their frustration, their anger, their joy, a way to get out all the experiences that they went through as a child. Many writers write about their life. Some of them are writing romances and comedies, but they have to do with things that that writer or artist experiences in their own life, even though it’s translated into different terms. Actors are no different. They’re using a lot of their life experience to channel into the characters they play. So I think – Barbara Streisand used to say, you know, she would throw up and get sick before every concert. She was terrified until she would get out there and then she was okay, and a lot of performers feel that way. So I was very shy and very insecure and acting, actually, was a way for me to overcome my shyness and overcome maybe some of those emotional places where I was repressed and cut off, because I was embarrassed and held everything inside. Acting forces you to get it out, forces you to express those emotions and feelings. I didn’t look at acting as a way to lead me to fame and fortune; I looked at it as a way to overcome some of my life issues. As I went through the acting process and teaching process in classes, it slowly evolved into a profession and I never expected it to. That was a big surprise to me that I ever winded up on a television screen or a movie screen. actor Richard Hatch actor Richard Hatch In 1969, you took off for New York city in search of work. You ended up in a little old theatre in Hell’s Kitchen on 54th Street. An empty, ballet studio where you did one act plays, slept on the floor, and lived on Campbell’s soup. All the rest of them gave up and went back, but you. Well, I loved the adventure. I think because I wasn’t looking for an end result. It wasn’t like, “Oh, if I don’t make it I’ll be a failure. Oh, it’s not happening for me so I might as well go find another profession.” For me, it wasn’t that at all. I loved the adventure of being in New York. I loved the excitement. I loved meeting all of these new people; such an interesting and different place from the west coast. I loved going to class, learning about myself, learning about life, learning about the art of acting. I got so involved in the process of it, that the outcome didn’t concern me. So I think I wasn’t looking at it in the same ways of many others. It was like, fame and fortune and money, obviously if it wasn’t going to happen then people would say, “Oh, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. I’m not going to waste my time.” I fell in love with the process. I fell in love with art of it. And I fell in love with the adventure of it so, for me, I was enjoying the process. I think that allowed me to stay more focused on what I was doing and step by step, just like any business, it takes time to grow any business. Sometimes artists forget that, you know, art is a business, if you want to make it your life. And so if you give up, most people give up way too soon on everything. I think the one thing that I learned about myself is that I don’t give up, that I do stay the course, that I’ve learned that even about myself later in life when I started developing my own projects, that I realized I was not one to give up no matter how long it took. That’s wonderful. Let’s go on to Battlestar Galactica. You’ve done certain pieces of work before then. Did you know any of the actors before you started the series? I met Jane Seymour once at The Battle of the Network Stars, which was a show that was on back there in the seventies where they took stars from different T.V. and movies and put them together in these competitions against each other; ABC against CBS and NBC. Jane Seymour was on one of the teams. Maren Jensen was on there, but I think it was after the show. Yeah, that was after the show, but I had met Jane then. But that was the only one, everybody else I had never met before. Richard Hatch as Apollo and Jane Seymour as Serina on Battlestar Galactica 1978 Richard Hatch as Apollo and Jane Seymour as Serina on Battlestar Galactica 1978 Let me throw out some names for you and you give me a little blurb about them. Lorne Greene who played Commander Adama. The father we all would have loved to have had. For those who worked with him and got close to him, a father that we all got to share. He became a father to everyone. A father that was always there, always had a kind, warm word to say, always was a gentlemen, down to earth real, human, approachable. I mean he was everyone’s quintessential father and a role model. So for me it was a… what an amazing experience to have someone like that in your life. Let’s try the other end. Noah Hathaway who played Boxey. Noah was very young, but since I loved children, for me — some actors would say don’t ever act with a child because the child always steals the scene — for me, children always made me better because children always brought out my sensitivities and my strengths. I love family. I love children. It always brought out the magic in me. So I enjoyed working with Noah and having a son on the series was something that I actually asked for. After they brought Noah on, they were going to not continue with my son. And I said no, would it be possible to continue in the series having my son? They agreed. I was the one who actually asked for that. Well that makes Apollo look like a stand-up guy. Here he marries a woman, becomes a stepfather, the mother gets killed and yet he’s right there as the father and a lot of us forget that he’s the stepfather. Right, I think the thing for Apollo was he lost his parents, his first father, he lost his brother [Zac] and so I think family was important to Apollo just like it is to me as one of the areas where I and Apollo meet. I think having a child was something that gave him a sense of family, you know, a connection to somebody he could love and care about. I think he was very much, very close to his brother Zac and when he lost that it was a big hole in his and that child filled it. Let’s talk about Zac. He was played by Rick Springfield. Weren’t you two on the soap opera All My Children? No, I was on All My Children with Jack Stauffer who played Bojay. When we found the Pegasus they brought on two new characters. One was Anne Lockhart playing Sheba, and the other was Bojay, played by Jack Stauffer. Jack and I were both on All My Children. We found out from Anne Lockhart — who we talked to this morning — that she was originally cast as Serina, but initially it was Lyra. Glen Larson obviously had her in mind as a love interest for Apollo, but of course she didn’t do it at the time. So later when the opportunity came, he brings her in as part of the Pegasus. Well that was good for me, because I got to have two beautiful ladies in my life, both Anne Lockhart and Jane Seymour (who was cast as Serina). Richard Hatch as Apollo and Dirk Benedict as Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica 1978 Richard Hatch as Apollo and Dirk Benedict as Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica 1978 You were approached for Galactica 1980 but turned it down because of work conflicts? Well, you know, it’s a little fuzzy. We were sent the script and we were asked if we would be interested in doing it. But when I read the script and they changed the name of Apollo and Starbuck to the characters that were in 1980 (Troy and Dillon). So I didn’t know what they were offering us. I was a little surprised when they sent us that script. So it sounded to me like they had already made the decision to have the two new characters, but they were still offering it to us. So I don’t know about Dirk [Benedict] but I turned it down. But it was a little foggy in terms of what they were exactly offering us. So you don’t even know if you were going to be Apollo in the series. Well, no we (sic) would have been Apollo but I think that they were — in their minds — had already either decided to go the other direction? Or, or if we decided to do it they would have changed it back. I don’t know. I think what they would have done is changed it back. Maybe by mistake, they sent us the script with the different names and had it been me and Dirk, they just would have switched the names, that’s all. For years, you yourself tried to continue the series. It pretty much concluded in the trailer of Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999), which is wonderful. You got Terry Carter, John Colicos, George Murdock and Richard Lynch playing in that. Were there any other actors that you tried to get that you couldn’t? Everyone. Richard Hatch as Apollo and Jack Stauffer as Bojay on Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming Richard Hatch as Apollo and Jack Stauffer as Bojay on Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming Everyone that you asked? I tried to get Dirk [Benedict]. I tried to get Anne Lockhart, Laurette Spang. I tried to get everybody in it, but everybody was terrified to say yes because number one, they thought it would probably be some little cheesy, little unprofessional, little trailer that would look stupid. And also, I think because they felt uncomfortable because I didn’t have the official rights to the show, so I think it made them uncomfortable. But I had made it very clear to them that I wasn’t trying – I wasn’t going to sell this or make money from this. It was simply a presentation to use to sell the concept of continuing the series to Universal, so that they could see how doing a new Battlestar Galactica using the original actors and then adding a second generation of our children in space, they would actually be able to see how that would work and realize that that would be a very beneficial way of going. I was trying to show them, to sell a concept that I felt would serve not only the fans – what the fans wanted to see – but also would serve the studio agenda of seeing it updated, added new characters and also the younger element, bringing in our children, so that it was a way of building your bridge between the past and the future. But I understand. Obviously, I didn’t have any credentials as a producer or director and so I think that they were very nervous about saying yes. But you know, Terry Carter, the minute I said, “Would you do it?” (snaps fingers) He said, “Tell me when and where.” John Colicos, same thing, he had no qualms at all. He was more than willing to do it. And so everybody else that I asked said yes right away, but I do understand why the other actors felt a little nervous about doing it. And to tell you the truth, when I went to play the trailer for Universal, they were almost a little weird about me playing it, because I think they were terrified that it was going to be a little piece of, you know, like a backyard production. When I played it for them, they were really quite shocked. They didn’t expect something to be that good. So you didn’t have any of the rights to the movies, to the TV series, you wanted to show Universal. No. I wouldn’t have tried to do something behind their back, I was trying to create a presentation in order to inspire them to move forward with a remake or continuation of the original series. It was only as we got involved in creating the trailer that it became clear to me that maybe we came up with some other company, you know, because we started meeting Sony. We got to know many professionals such as Volker Engel, who won the Academy Award for writing ID4 (Independence Day) special effects supervisor, he and his company Dreamscape (Dreamscape Imagery, Inc, a visual effects CG studio, 1997 Academy Award winner for Independence Day) got involved with helping us develop the trailer. I kept thinking maybe we should just put together a team, because he was an Academy Award winner, then we had WonderWorks (WonderWorks, Inc. an Emmy winning, Academy Award nominated visual effects miniatures studio). Dean Cundey, who was the DP (director of photography) for Jurassic Park and Apollo 13 with Spielberg, came on to film for us. We had all these wonderful people helping us and I thought maybe we should just put together a whole team and pitch the concept. I actually had one of the biggest companies, who had developed and produced Armageddon and big movies like that, who wanted to help take me to Universal and put together a team and develop a new Battlestar Galactica series, and they were willing to fund it. So there was a lot of interest in bringing back the series, continuing it. Richard Hatch as Apollo on Battlestar Galactica 1978 Richard Hatch as Apollo on Battlestar Galactica 1978 Did you talk to Glen Larson at all? Did you work with him? No, because when I had talked to Glen, originally, he had basically said he was at a point in his career where he was unable to really do anything at that point, and that he needed to work on creating success in other series, other ideas, before he could go back to Universal at some later point and maybe leverage himself into a stronger position with Universal so that he could maybe redo the series years later. But I got involved in the comic books and writing the books and I was exploring ways to bring it back now. At some point, had we gotten Universal’s interest, I would have gone to Glen and said, “Hey, we’ve got this going.” Because Glen was the originator, I would have definitely gone back to Glen and said, “Glen, we’ve got interest to do this show. Do you want to be part of this?” I definitely would have done that, because I had… from the beginning, you have to understand, I was just learning about producing. I was just learning about directing and putting things together. It was through the project of The Second Coming that I actually got my college education and discovered that I really loved doing it and putting things together and developing it. For Battlestar, it always would have been — the most viable way — would have been to bring back Glen, and then to add obviously some other really wonderful producers, writers, artists, directors, bring them all in to create the best Battlestar possible. Okay, so Universal comes out with its own version. You expressed strong negative feelings. You have since changed your mind and come back and you’ve talked about that. It’s a good thing that you turned down the role of the priest, because the priest didn’t make it through… By the way, I didn’t change my mind. People mistake changing your mind. To clarify that, I have always been for continuation. I think the most viable way of going with the series would have been a continuation. If I was Universal I would have even hired Ron Moore and Tom DeSanto and those people to do the continuation. Because I think Ron Moore is an incredible visionary, a talented, gifted writer. The only difference would have been, he would have kept the same back-story. He would evolved the story forward twenty-five years. And then you could have evolved the Cylons and you could have done… got into the cutting edge, provocative story-lines that the new show is getting into. But you would have had a continuation. That would have been the difference and obviously, that was my preference. But they, Universal, made a decision not to do that. So for me, it wasn’t about being against the new show because I didn’t know what the new show was. It was always for the original continuation. But I always, even twenty five years ago, I was fighting to get into the darker, more provocative story-lines, getting into the struggle to survive in space, getting into the meat of what Battlestar’s story is all about. But we couldn’t do that twenty five years ago, the network (ABC) wouldn’t let us. I was always frustrated as an actor and also as a creative artist. I felt it was such a great story, but we were barely touching the surface of what that story was all about. The network, the studio, everybody was afraid of science fiction. Everybody was afraid of rocking the boat. Everybody was afraid of getting too deeply into something that might alienate somebody, so they played it very safe. The story, and the chemistry of the characters, and the premise still was powerful enough to really, obviously, inspire a lot of people’s imaginations and a lot of love for that show. But I was always fighting, struggling, to bring more of the core story together. So for me, the thing that I loved about the new show, once I segued and looked at the new show for what it was, and was no longer trying to compare these two shows, as a science fiction lover, I loved the intelligent, down to earth, darker approach that Ron Moore was bringing to the new series. But I would have loved to have done that with the original series, and not lost the chemistry and the humor and all things that the original series had. I must say, for me, I mean knowing the new actors as I do, and the writers and the producers, you could have used eighty percent, ninety percent of all those people on a continuation. Edward Olmos could have been the commander even though he wasn’t Adama. You could have still had Mary McDonnell as the President. Jamie Bamber could have been my son. Starbuck could be Starbuck’s daughter. You could have had a continuation very easily but, the point is, that wasn’t done. So the point is, as I look at the new series for what it is, it’s quality science fiction and it’s the kind of science fiction that I personally love. I love getting into provocative, cutting edge, sociological, political, story lines that kind of mirror where we are in the world and I think that Ron Moore does that exceptionally well. Also, he creates characters that are very multi-layered, conflicted and enigmatic. They are very juicy, ripe characters that actors love to play. Twenty five years ago, characters tended to be more one to two dimensional, and today we have more permission to develop more fully, well rounded characters and we don’t have to be so politically correct. We’re able to get into the darker side of characters. I think Babylon 5 was the first series that explored the fact that nobody is all good or all bad. You don’t just have the hero and the bad guy. Sometimes the bad guy’s the hero. Sometimes the good guy’s the bad guy. Sometimes the bad guy could be a good guy and a bad guy. You know, for me, Tom Zarek is a good guy and a bad guy. He’s not a bad guy but he does bad things, sometimes tries to do good things, and sometimes he loses his way. Sometimes an idealistic character can be too damaged. Idealistic human beings have been put up on crosses or burned at the stake and tortured all through history. You know the truth of it is, is that we live in a pretty strange world. I just think that all of that lends itself to the fact that I think these two series – for me again – I think it wasn’t changing my mind about the new series. I never saw the new series. I was just for continuation. I felt that was always the best way to go, but if you don’t do a continuation and you create a really dynamic series, if you don’t compare them, then you can really get into this new series for what it is. I think, for me, I love intelligent science fiction. So, for me, this is the kind of show I enjoy. I just wish, obviously in my heart, that we would have been able to do all of this stuff they did with the new show, I would have loved to have seen that obviously with a continuation, having been one of the original actors on the original show. Who wouldn’t want that? For your first appearance as Tom Zarek in the new Battlestar Galactica series, there’s a scene between you and Jamie Bamber. You talk about the mythology behind Apollo. That’s a very poignant moment, for me, and I’m wondering was this intentional? That this is sort of a passing of the torch, a sharing of the name? Yes. I think it was a combination. I think the writers — I mean, they may not say that — on some level they wanted to create a passing of the torch. But they also wanted to clearly define and establish – Here’s the two Apollos together but we wanted to create this, if you want to call it, one was the connection between the two Apollos. So here I am talking about Apollo, who Apollo is, and mythology and getting into that. It helps in a sense to understand what Apollo is and maybe understand what the character is. And here’s Tom Zarek being the one who’s sharing that information. Which was kind of an interesting thing — dynamic — but at the same time it was showing that the two of us shared something in common; this understanding of Apollo. At the same time, it was creating the division which would separate the two Apollos. So it was bringing the two Apollos together and separating them at the same time. In a sense, [it was] kind of creating the uniqueness of each character. Here’s Tom Zarek. Apollo is now Tom Zarek, not Apollo. Jamie Bamber is now Apollo. You see what I’m saying? At the same time though, building the bridge and at the same time delineating and clarifying the difference between Richard Hatch and Jamie Bamber. So I thought it was an excellent way of doing that and very skillfully done. I really loved playing those scenes because it gave me a chance to establish a character that was totally different than Apollo and yet at the same time, to be able to share a moment, a powerful scene like that, with the new Apollo. He’s always made it clear to me, these characters are not — they’re not Apollo and Starbuck — those are their call signs. So in a sense, we were Apollo and Starbuck, those were our names. So as he says; my name is Lee Adama, my call sign is Apollo. So there is that difference. Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek and Jamie Bamber as Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama on Battlestar Galactica 2003 Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek and Jamie Bamber as Lee “Apollo” Adamaon Battlestar Galactica 2003 Tonight in the U.S., in a few hours, fans are going to get to see the Pegasus. Admiral Cain is played by the actress who played Ensign Ro in Star Trek: The Next Generation. A lot of fans said they would have loved to have seen Anne Lockhart in that role. I asked Anne this morning, would you have taken it? She said, “I would have called up and said, ‘Tell me where to come.'” If the new series were to ask some of the other actors from the original series, would you see that as a gimmick or do you think it would add more in the way that you did, when you came aboard? I think there’s a lot of ways to look at this. Number one, it built value into Next Generation when they brought the original actors to guest on the show. Obviously, they were guesting though, in their original roles. So that was a difference. All of a sudden, the fans who had not quite embraced the Next Generation could see the original stars giving it their stamp of approval, coming on the show and it kind of helped to make that transition easier. I think it was when they started doing that, the show actually started to take off. And you can’t do that now, because the original series never really exists in the new one. No, that’s right, in the time-line, in the same time-line and you’re right about that. But I do think that fans love – especially those that were big original Battlestar Galactica fans – I think it would be, that they would love to see, some of the original stars on the show coming on in guest star roles. And very much like the role I did, I came on as a guest star role. We didn’t know what would happen to the role. Ron Moore didn’t say it was going to be a continuation, he says there’s always that possibility, but obviously you’re coming on to play a role and I thought of it as a one-shot thing. Then when they asked me to come back and be on show eleven, I was very surprised and obviously very appreciative. Then when the new season came in, they came back and offered me a bunch more shows if I would continue the character, so it was something that evolved. I think very much because of the way Ron Moore writes, he’s developing plots, character arcs, and so he’s always looking how he can create challenges for each of these characters because he’s always looking for ways to put each of these characters into a predicament, that will make them deal with their dark side. Which is, I think, probably where great drama comes from. I mean every character struggling with their good and bad side, in different ways. I think that every… no character is all good or all bad in the new Battlestar. I think that my character turned out to be an interesting kind of provocateur that could polarize and create conflict. Those kinds of characters are always good because it always creates interesting scenarios. You can kind of put them in different places, different slots, where they cause problems between the main characters of the show. Tom Zarek can come and go, but whenever he comes, he’s always creating some kind of major issue or problem. I think that character evolved into that. I don’t know if that was in Ron Moore’s planning, maybe it was, maybe because I happen to fit that character. Maybe because I’ve kind of been a political, artistic revolutionary terrorist, you know, when I was trying to bring back the original show. I think that maybe he kind of saw some parallels in my character and maybe what I was doing in my life. I think he was very smart and I think he picked a character – you know when he originally sold the character, he told me it was a Nelson Mandela style political revolutionary. For me, I really, really love Nelson Mandela, so for me to play a character like that, but obviously Tom Zarek’s a darker version of that. But I love the character, I fell in love with the character. So again, you never know when a character comes on a show, if they’re going to fit or not fit. So I think with any of the new actors coming on the show, I think it would be no different. I think that if they are developing their story-lines with their main characters, because obviously the shows are about the fleet, and about main characters that are on the show. I think if guest star roles come up that would fit any of the original actors, whether its Dirk or Herb or Anne Lockhart or whoever, I think they would very much maybe think about bringing on some of those actors on occasion. Again, I can’t speak for them, but I think it would be valuable when there’s a fit, when a character fits, I think having those actors come on would really be an advantage to the show because it would also excite the original fans and it helps them to make the transition between the original show and the new show. Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek on Battlestar Galactica 2003 Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek on Battlestar Galactica 2003 Do you know if they approached any of the other original series actors? I think they approached both me and Dirk for cameo roles. But I didn’t realize the role that I was being asked to do was more than a cameo. I didn’t know it was a – playing the role of a priest – that just basically has to die. Originally, I thought it was just a one-shot thing, but that didn’t matter. Back when I turned down the role, it was presented to me as a cameo, and because I was so frustrated at that time having worked so hard to bring back the original show, I couldn’t even conceive of doing a cameo at that time on any show, much less Battlestar. I just was too conflicted about the whole thing. In fact, I didn’t even know what the role was. I got a call from their agent and they said, “Would you be interested in doing a cameo on the show?” I said, “Listen, tell them thank very much. I appreciate the fact that you would like to have me on the show and the offer, but I just can’t. I just can’t.” It was a very emotional kind of thing for me. So I didn’t even know what the role was. I never even entertained an offer, a money offer, or a character. I only found out I was going to do the priest like a few weeks ago, when I was actually on the show with the priest (Elosha played by Lorena Gale), and she told me, “Hey, did you know that you were offered this role?” And I said, “No! Nobody told me!” Wow. All right, last question. What do we have to look forward to in the second half of Season Two for Tom Zarek? Well, I mean I don’t know how much I can say. I just came back Vancouver. I just started filming some more episodes. But I think Tom Zarek will be involved in both the political process, and obviously that is an evolving situation, the politics of Galactica and the fleet. Obviously it now includes the Pegasus, so its a much larger world. The politics become even more important. Who’s running the show? What kind of a government is this? Who are the good guys and the bad guys? Government always brings out of the woodwork power brokers and those who are vying to leverage themselves into political positions of favor. Zarek is a political revolutionary, so obviously he’s probably going to play a role in that, and however they want to shape that. But he’s always looking for positions where he can leverage himself, where he can have more influence. He obviously believes that he’s fighting for the people, but very much so often the idealistic revolutionary becomes the self-serving politician. So often, what you think is for the people ends up being for you. I think that happens to so many political leaders. They start out for beneficial reasons but they get caught up in the process for their own purposes and agendas. I think the political process corrupts many and even the idealistic human being gets corrupted sometimes. That struggle, again, is a very heroic struggle. It’s again the dark and the light side, struggling to find out which side wins. And in Tom Zarek you’re always trying to figure out what side is going to win, because sometimes it looks like the dark side. But he is going to get involved in that and most likely, you know, aboard every fleet I think there’s a black market. There’s a underbelly of every world and universe where there’s a… what to call it. What do we have? There’s a black market in our culture, where things are bought and sold. Where there’s military stuff or whether its supplies or food stuffs or whatever, there’s a black market in the world that goes on underneath the so-called marketplace. I think Galactica will also explore the underbelly of the economic processes aboard the fleet and I’m sure that my character will be involved in something like that. actor Richard Hatch actor Richard Hatch I forgot to ask you. During the original season shooting, you had a week that was always rush, rush, rush, rush and get out and do the best you can. How is it different from that now? Do you have time to go back and do it over? Well, the nice thing is because mine is a continuing character, sometimes I’m in a couple of shows, sometimes I’m in four, five or six shows back to back, and then sometimes I’m in one, sometimes I’m not in shows for several weeks. So I come up and sometimes I’ll work for a couple of days, do a couple of scenes, sometimes I’ll do one scene, sometimes I’ll do several scenes, sometimes I’m not in the show at all. Obviously, unlike when I did it twenty five years ago, I was in just about every scene. So I was working eight days a week, seven days a week, and sixteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen hour days. This is a large cast in this new show. So I mean even those characters, the lead characters, sometimes they’ll work very, very hard for a show because they’re kind of taking the lead in the show. Like the last show I just did with Jamie, it was Jamie’s show. It kind of really focused around Jamie’s character, Lee Adama, so he’s working every day, long hours. But then on another show that might feature more Starbuck — but the show always includes the other characters — and then some shows really deal with all of the character story-lines at the same time. So even they, I think, unlike back then, they kind of work very hard and then sometimes they’ll have a couple of days off. We (the original series) were on the set continuously, because maybe just the way it was being filmed and the technology was different, it took longer to shoot. I just remember that the hours were long and tedious and never ending, back then. Mr. Hatch, I want to say again, I appreciate you taking the time to do this interview. You’re welcome and thank you for your patience. Good questions. Introduction and ConceptThe original Battlestar Galactica television series premiered on the ABC television network on September 17, 1978. One of the most spectacular television programs ever produced, Battlestar Galactica ran only a single season but has retained an active fandom to this day. Battlestar Galactica (also known as the Original Series on this wiki to differentiate it from its Re-imagined Series counterpart) was created by Glen A. Larson. The show concept gradually evolved from an earlier project titled Adam’s Ark. Although Larson had first proposed Ark in the late 1960’s, it was not until 1978, after the success of Star Wars, that interest in the show developed. Production HistoryInitially envisioned as a series of TV movies for ABC, which would consist of a three hour premiere and two additional movies of two hours in length[1], Battlestar Galactica was ultimately developed into a regular television series. The “first seven hours” of the series, consisting of “Saga of a Star World”, “Lost Planet of the Gods”, and “The Gun on Ice Planet Zero”, was reported to have cost–”at over one million dollars an hour”, according to Galactica’s publicist, Joe Santley–over $7 million dollars[1]. However, this figure is contradicted by Richard Colla, who revealed that the budgets for the three-hour pilot were nine million dollars alone, despite the fact that it was sold to ABC for 1.8 million.[2] To defray costs, the three hour premiere was re-cut as a theatrical release. Several weeks before the TV series premiered in America, the series pilot appeared as a two hour film in Canada, Europe and Japan. Opening on July 7, 1978, the theatrical release did quite well, given modest expectations. The three hour Galactica pilot first broadcast on ABC on September 17, 1978. For the next eight months, 17 original episodes of the series were aired, totalling 24 hours of broadcasting. Episodes of Battlestar Galactica The artwork for the Complete Epic Series DV

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