Forest inspired this post!The original Battlestar Galactica was only on TV for 1 season in 1978. It was a great show! Glen A. Larson was the creator/writer behind the series.
This is what Wikipedia says about him and Battlestar:
"Larson later secured a then-unprecedented $1 million per episode budget for Battlestar Galactica. Originally, the series was intended to be called Adama's Ark, and the show incorporated many themes from Mormon theology, such as marriage for "time and eternity" and a "council of twelve." Larson is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1] Larson had been working on it since 1968, and Gene L. Coon had been providing guidance and mentoring to him through the writing of its earliest incarnations. Larson is credited with coining the word "battlestar," a contraction of the phrase "line-of-battle starship," after being convinced to rename Adama's Ark to include the word "star" in the title in some way."
Here is one version of the narration from the beginning of the show:
"There are those who believe... that life here... began out there. Far across the universe. With tribes of humans... who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians... or the Toltecs... or the Mayans... that they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids... or the lost civilizations of Lemuria... or Atlantis... Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive... far, far away amongst the stars..."
You can purchase the whole series from Amazon for a crazy price! I have I think the first episode on DVD.
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