Episode
Battlestar Galactica: Baltar's Escape
Overview
When Baltar plans his escape with the help of the three Borellians and the Eastern Alliance Enforcers, members of the Council of Twelve are taken hostage, and Adama must give in to the escapees' demands.
Details
- Series
- Battlestar Galactica
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1979-03-11
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
Baltar's Escape is Episode 18 in Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. It aired on 1979-03-11. The runtime is 47 min.
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Episode 17: Greetings from Earth
When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.
Episode 19: Experiment in Terra
Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.
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When Starbuck's rival in the popular sporting event is found murders, all the evidence points to Starbuck; and Apollo is about the only person who believes in Starbuck's innocence.
Episode 20: Take the Celestra
Starbuck runs in to his long-lost love, Aurora, who is involved with a group trying to free the passenger ship Celestra from its supposedly dictatorial captain.
Episode 15: The Man with Nine Lives
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Episode 21: The Hand of God
Rather than continue fleeing from their enemies, the crew of the Galactica commences an all-out attack on a Cylon base.
Episode 14: War of the Gods (2)
While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.
Episode 13: War of the Gods (1)
While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.
Episode 12: Fire in Space
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Episode 11: The Living Legend (2)
The brash Commander Cain insists that the Galactica join in on a frontal attack on the Cylons -- an attack that Adama believes would be a suicide mission.
Episode 10: The Living Legend (1)
While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.
Episode 9: The Young Lords
Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.