Greetings from Earth
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| Battlestar Galactica (1978) episode | |
|---|---|
| “Greetings from Earth” | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 19/20 |
| Guest star(s) | Randy Mantooth as Michael, Bobby Van as Hector, Ray Bolger as Vector, Kelly Harmon as Sarah, Lloyd Bochner as Leiter and Murray Matheson as Geller |
| Writer(s) | Glen A. Larson |
| Director | Ahmet Lateef |
| Production no. | |
| Original airdate | February 25, 1979 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Murder on the Rising Star" | "Baltar's Escape" |
Greetings From Earth is an episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series.
Captain Apollo and Lieutenant Starbuck aboard their Colonial Viper fighters intercept a primitive spacecraft which fails to respond to communication. They take it in tow and bring it back to one of the Battlestar Galactica's hangar decks.
Once there, the Colonials discover the ship contains six humans - two adults and four children - who are lying in transparent tubes in a state of suspended animation. Speculation arises that these humans may be from Earth. Despite the objections of Commander Adama, the Council of Twelve demands that Dr. Wilker and Dr. Salik bring the travellers out of their sleep-like state.
When the aliens awaken, they have difficulty breathing, and it becomes clear they cannot survive in the Galactica's atmosphere. While the Fleet begins to demand information from the travellers, Adama chooses a different course and the six escape.
Apollo, Starbuck and Cassiopeia escorts the humans back to their original destination, the planet Paradeen. Arriving at Paradeen, the Galacticans are introduced to the family's android caretakers, Hector and Vector. The colonials discover that the aliens are from the planet Terra, part of which is enslaved by the Eastern Alliance, a cruel Nazi-like empire responsible for destroying the majority of the population on Paradeen.
Unknown to the group, an Eastern Alliance spacecraft is in pursuit of the aliens Apollo and the others have befriended.
[edit] Trivia
- Originally Greetings From Earth was aired as a two hour special on ABC on February 25, 1979. In later broadcasts, and in syndication, it was broken out into two parts.
- Part of the episode was filmed in Montreal, Quebec at the site of Expo 67. The futuristic but by then dilapidated structures filled in for devastated Paradeen.
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