Battlestar Galactica Season 2 & Original Pilot DVD Release Details
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Kirk Siddals
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18/08/2006 03:11:32
Universal Playback will be releasing the DVDs of Battlestar Galactica Season 2 and the original 1976 Battlestar Galactica pilot movie, on the 28th of August. The retail prices are quoted as £49.99 & £15.99 respectively, here’s the full press release:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
SEASON TWO RELEASED ON DVD & ORIGINAL 1976 PILOT MOVIE RE-RELEASED
There’s no denying the popularity of Battlestar Galactica! It has thrilled generations of fans and now, for the first time, Season 2 is available to own on DVD. Starring Edward James Almos, Mary McDonnell and Katie Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica Season 2 guarantees as much, if not more, action as its predecessor.
Battlestar Galactica tells the story of the definitive battle between the last surviving human colony and an evil robotic race – an epic journey of intergalactic survivors in search of a distant and unknown ‘planet earth’. It is up to the Battlestar Galactica, a recently decommissioned warship that has been turned into a flying museum, to save the human race and to divert the cylons from their path of destruction. Can Starbuck and the rest of the team save the world they hardly recognise…?
Season Two will be available to own on DVD from 28th August 2006. The 6 disc boxset contains 20 captivating episodes - providing over 14 ½ hours of gripping entertainment and over 8 hours of bonus materials!
DETAILS:
Release date: Aug 28th
Price: £49.99
Certificate: 15
Discs: 6
Episodes: 20
Running time: 14 hrs 42 mins
EXTRAS:
Episode commentaries, deleted scenes, extended episodes
© 2005/2006 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – ORIGINAL 1976 PILOT MOVIE
A must-have for every Battlestar Galactica fan is the original pilot movie, available now on DVD for the very first time since its original release in 1976. Starring Richard Hatch, Lorne Green, Jane Seymore and the A-Team’s Dirk Benedict, Battlestar Galactica – The Pilot Movie tells the story of how the 12 colonies of man are destroyed after a 1,000-year war with the evil Cylon Empire. As the sole survivors of the colonies, it is up to the crew of Battlestar Galactica to gather up the few remaining humans and help them to re-build their lives in a place of safety – the mythical planet Earth.
The pilot movie is available to own from 28th August from all good retailers, priced £15.99. It’s the perfect opportunity to complete your collection.
© 1978 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved
BATTLESTAR BLOG
To coincide with these two fantastic releases Universal Playback have developed a Battlestar Blog which is going to have some great content including:
- Some words on Battlestar from Dirk Benedict
- Q & A feature - Battlestar fans will be invited to send in questions for Dirk - each week, the top 5 questions will be put to Dirk and published on the Blog
- Search for the biggest Battlestar fan - fans will be invited to send in a video explaining why they are the No.1 Battlestar fan - the winner will get a one-to-one telephone conversation with Dirk
Check it out at: www.universal-playback.com/battlestar/
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FACTFILE
Battlesar Trivia…
• The original series was nominated for two Golden Globes, and won an Emmy in 1979 for outstanding costume design.
• The original TV series lasted for only 15 episodes between 1978 and 1979 and, although it rated well, it was pulled from the air because it was then the most expensive TV series ever made at $750,000 per episode, with the movie coming in at an estimated budget of $3,000,000.
• For the 1979 film, the role of Starbuck (played by Dirk Benedict) was originally offered to Don Johnson.
• A classic Cylon makes a cameo appearance in an episode of Futurama, "Bendin' in the Wind", as part of the musical duo Cylon and Garfunkel, a parody of Simon and Garfunkel.
• The classic Cylons have also made cameo appearances on The Simpsons on several occasions. The most notable was in “Mayored to the Mob” during a sci-fi convention in which Centurions square off against R2-D2 and C-3PO from Star Wars in a boxing ring.
• Glen A. Larson produced both the original Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider. He incorporated the Cylon scanning moving eye into Knight Rider’s famous K.I.T.T. car.
• In the original Battlestar Glactica series, Count Iblis’ name was derived from the Arabic word meaning “Satan”.
• Dennis Haysbert, aka President Palmer from “24”, played the voice of the Imperious Leader, leader of the Cylon Alliance, in the original series.
Then and now…
THEN: In the original 1979 series and pilot movie, Cylons were an inhuman species created for, and singularly devoted to, the destruction of humanity
NOW: Today Cylons are robotic workers and soldiers – created by humans to be used in wars between the human colonies
THEN: Starbuck was a male character
NOW: Starbuck is a female character
THEN: Cylons looked like reptiles, robots or machines
NOW: Humanoid Cylons look exactly like humans - distinguishable only by their inability to sexually reproduce
THEN: There were five models of Cylons
NOW: In the new series there are 12 models of humanoid Cylons
THEN: The old series had a fleet of nine known ships
NOW: The new series has a fleet of only six known ships (although only two are regularly seen)
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