So I'm Binge Watching Battlestar Galactica....

No, not the Sci Fi Channel reboot, the kitschy 1978 Battlestar Galactica.

We were born in 1973, which means by 1978 we acquired some concrete memories. 1979 is the first year we can really recall.

Dedicated science fiction fans know in 1978 ABC launched Battlestar Galactica, airing the show at 8PM on Sunday nights followed by ChiPs. That might be the most 1970's sentence ever written.

BSG went off the air in 1979. There were a few specials as well ass the universally loathed Galactica 1980, but after that the show was officially dead.

This was our most favorite, favorite show. It was so much more good then our stupid older sister's favorite shows, Three's Company and Eight is Enough and Charlie's Angels. We once threw an epic temper tantrum because we were out to dinner at the Benny Hanna in Ossining and we were going to miss our show. We rolled around on the floor crying, 'I want to watch Battlestar Galactica!'

Here's the BSG puzzle we coveted for what seemed like hours at the Shopwell:

Back then mothers would just let their little hellions run wild through the aisles while they shopped and did things like go to the help desk and cash a check so they had money for the weekend.

Here's a pic of some of our many BSG toys:

Man that takes us back nearly 40 years.

Funny thing, once BSG went off air the show just disappeared. It popped up in reruns in the NYC area in 84-85, but that's it.  The original two hour telemovie was available though and we rented it a few times in the early 80's.

BSG became stock footage. You'd see it on TV in the background of another show or in a Crazy Eddy commercial or a music video. There, Tom Petty, You got Lucky:

We didn't see it again till the mid 90's when the Sci Fi Channel aired it. We had not really seen BSG since.

We've been inspired to check out BSG again for a few reasons. First its an influence on our own writing, which we will go into later in the week. Second we've never really fully examined the show, and there are several episodes we have not seen since it went off air in 1979. We'd like to view it again, probably for the last time in our life.