Galactica 1980

In the first episode of the new story, 30 years have passed and the good ship Galactica is nearing the end of its search for Earth, which is home to their ancestor brothers. But the spectre of danger from their long-time enemies, the Cylons, causes the decision to bring Earth into their own century of development by sending Troy and Dillon to California's Pacific Institute of Technology. Following an accidental encounter, Jamie, a tyro television newswoman hot on the trail of a story, attaches herself to them. When a crisis condition causes Adama to order the pilots back to the Galactica, Jamie insists on returning with them, little knowing what lies ahead of her.

The thrilling adventures of "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" continue in Part Two of "Galactica Discovers Earth, " when Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) dispatches two young pilots, Capt. Troy (Kent McCord) and Lieut. Dillon (Barry Van Dyke) to the planet Earth to prevent Galactica council member Xaviar (Richard Lynch) from altering history for the worse in his attempt to increase Earth's technological advances more quickly.

In the exciting conclusion of "Galactica Discovers Earth, " Capt. Troy and Lieut. Dillon are running out of time to stop Xaviar from bringing advanced rocket technology to the Nazis in 1944 Germany. Robyn Douglass stars as Jamie Hamilton, a tyro television newswoman who senses a big story when she meets the pilots. Also in the cast are Robbie Rist as Dr. Zee, a 14-year-old boy with a mind a thousand years ahead of his time. Earthlings include Robert Reed as Professor Mortinson, the scientist to whom Troy and Dillon give highly sophisticated data, and his secretary Carlyle, played by Pamela Shoop. On the staff of United Broadcasting are Fred Holliday and Sharon Acker.

In "The Super Scouts" - Part 1, Cylons, relentlessly tracking Galactica, attack a freighter ship containing a schoolroom. Most of the pupils are safely returned to the mother ship by shuttle but Troy and Dillon are forced to take the last 12 children to Earth.

In "The Super Scouts," Part 2, Air Force Col. Sydel, investigating the UFO report, joins forces with Sheriff Ellsworth in pursuit of the scout group, which initially eludes capture by employing force fields to become invisible. Col. Sydel realizes that Troy and Dillon cannot leave Earth without the three children, Moonstone, Starla and Jason, who are ill because they have no immunity against the chemical poisoning they have experienced.

In "Spaceball", Xaviar, in the guise of a Lt. Nash, suddenly appears, pretending he was assigned to deliver a Viper spacecraft to Troy and Dillon and take charge of the children in their absence.

In "The Night the Cylons Landed," a Galactican Viper patrol ship deliberately collides with an attacking Cylon craft piloted by look-alike humanoids Andromus and Andromidus and their Centurions, hoping to inflict enough damage to prevent them from monitoring Earth. On Galactica, Adama and Dr. Zee assume their monitors have picked up their own damaged craft drifting into Earth's gravitational pull. Fearing it will be observed by the planet's defense systems, Adama alerts Troy and Dillon to rendezvous with the landing spacecraft.

Andromus, the android Cylon, and his giant Centurion succeed at temporarily blending in at a penthouse costume party for media people including Norman, Arnie, their wives Mildred and Shirley, and Wolfman Jack. Meanwhile, to elude police, Troy and Dillon run into a theater and suddenly find themselves pushed onstage in borrowed tuxedos to dance with a temperamental star.

In "Space Croppers," Troy and Dillon become farming partners with Hector Alonzo. His family's livelihood is jeopardized because powerful and prejudiced John Steadman has convinced the local growers association to cut the water supply to the Alonzo farm.

Young Dr. Zee, troubled by the dream and longing to know its meaning, goes to Adama for counsel. He learns that Starbuck was lost in a great Cylon attack a decade earlier, as depicted in his dream.