skippercollecto
January 5th, 2005, 07:42 PM
Do any of you remember when Galactica aired in syndicated reruns on your local stations in the early 80s? I have some memories of this which no one else seems to be able to remember or verify:
1. Dayton's channel 2 (the NBC affiliate at the time) ran the movies in week-long segments beginning in 1981 from 4-6 p.m. weekdays. One week it aired all but one of the telemovies that had been multi-parters; about a month later it aired Greetings from Earth and all but one of the combination episodes. The Phantom Signal was eventually aired on a weekend. Eventually, Cincinnati's Channel 19 (now the Fox affiliate) also ran the entire telemovie sequence. The oddest thing that aired was the pilot. The first time Dayton aired the pilot it was greatly condensed to fit into the two-hour time slot; that version has never aired since and was never repeated by Channel 2 or Channel 19.
2. When Channel 19 began showing the telemovies, it showed a version of the pilot that fit into a two-hour and 45 minute time slot, which included commercials. It was NOT the theatrical version. There were scenes in Channel 19's version that were not in the pilot, and vice versa. This version never showed up on Channel 2. This was still being aired as late as 1987, and by that time we had our first VCR, so I taped it (don't ask me to copy it for you because it is deteriorating).
3. Also in the early 1980s, WOR (now the New York UPN affiliate) began showing the entire series on Saturday nights at 6 p.m. It aired all 24 hours in order over a six-month period. I believe that these episodes were unedited, and it was the last time the series aired the way it was probably envisioned for syndication purposes.
4. Have any of you ever learned who did the dubbing to make the combination telemovies into a (somewhat!) cohesive storyline? I am positive that Laurette Spang, Anne Lockhart and even Dirk Benedict must have been brought back to tape additional lines, because from what I remember, it sure sounded like them. However, it was definitely NOT Richard's voice in short pieces in The Phantom Signal. If it wasn' t them, who did it?
5. Along the same lines, who did the re-editing for all the telemovies? Universal? Glen Larson?
6. There is one scene I remember in Space Casanova that did not end up in deleted footage for Take the Celestra. Apollo is asking Starbuck if he really wants to search for Aurora. The camera pans to a shot of Starbuck's torso and arm, and he removes a wallet (at least, I think it was a wallet) and pulls out three photos--of Athena, Cassiopeia and Aurora, and Starbuck's voice (it sure sounded like Dirk) says something along the lines of "they were the three women I really loved."
Mary
1. Dayton's channel 2 (the NBC affiliate at the time) ran the movies in week-long segments beginning in 1981 from 4-6 p.m. weekdays. One week it aired all but one of the telemovies that had been multi-parters; about a month later it aired Greetings from Earth and all but one of the combination episodes. The Phantom Signal was eventually aired on a weekend. Eventually, Cincinnati's Channel 19 (now the Fox affiliate) also ran the entire telemovie sequence. The oddest thing that aired was the pilot. The first time Dayton aired the pilot it was greatly condensed to fit into the two-hour time slot; that version has never aired since and was never repeated by Channel 2 or Channel 19.
2. When Channel 19 began showing the telemovies, it showed a version of the pilot that fit into a two-hour and 45 minute time slot, which included commercials. It was NOT the theatrical version. There were scenes in Channel 19's version that were not in the pilot, and vice versa. This version never showed up on Channel 2. This was still being aired as late as 1987, and by that time we had our first VCR, so I taped it (don't ask me to copy it for you because it is deteriorating).
3. Also in the early 1980s, WOR (now the New York UPN affiliate) began showing the entire series on Saturday nights at 6 p.m. It aired all 24 hours in order over a six-month period. I believe that these episodes were unedited, and it was the last time the series aired the way it was probably envisioned for syndication purposes.
4. Have any of you ever learned who did the dubbing to make the combination telemovies into a (somewhat!) cohesive storyline? I am positive that Laurette Spang, Anne Lockhart and even Dirk Benedict must have been brought back to tape additional lines, because from what I remember, it sure sounded like them. However, it was definitely NOT Richard's voice in short pieces in The Phantom Signal. If it wasn' t them, who did it?
5. Along the same lines, who did the re-editing for all the telemovies? Universal? Glen Larson?
6. There is one scene I remember in Space Casanova that did not end up in deleted footage for Take the Celestra. Apollo is asking Starbuck if he really wants to search for Aurora. The camera pans to a shot of Starbuck's torso and arm, and he removes a wallet (at least, I think it was a wallet) and pulls out three photos--of Athena, Cassiopeia and Aurora, and Starbuck's voice (it sure sounded like Dirk) says something along the lines of "they were the three women I really loved."
Mary