Episode
Battlestar Galactica: The Long Patrol
Overview
Starbuck is assigned to test a new ultra-fast, but unarmed, Viper with a talking computer named CORA; but when he meets a bootlegger, who steals the Viper, Starbuck finds himself arrested by the Galactic Police of a prison planet.
Details
- Series
- Battlestar Galactica
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1978-10-15
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
The Long Patrol is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. It aired on 1978-10-15. The runtime is 47 min.
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Episode 4: The Lost Warrior
Apollo is marooned on a Western Frontier-like planet, where he meets a woman and her son ... and a damaged Cylon, known as Red Eye, who has become a notorious gunslinger.
Episode 6: The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)
Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it.
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Episode 7: The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)
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Episode 8: The Magnificent Warriors
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Episode 1: Saga of a Star World
The Cylon Empire tricks the Twelve Colonies into believing they are striving for peace. Then they ambush the unprepared colonies and destroy the military's Battlestar fleet. One surviving Battlestar, the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, gathers the remaining humans and leads them in the search for the legendary 13th colony called Earth.
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.
Episode 10: The Living Legend (1)
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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 12: Fire in Space
A Cylon kamikaze attack leaves the Galactica burning in space, with no way to extinguish the blaze that has trapped Boomer, Athena, and Boxey except a dangerous spacewalk by Apollo and Starbuck.
Episode 13: War of the Gods (1)
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