The TRUE story of GALACTICA 1980!
Once upon a time one of the most successful creators of television shows sat down and wrote a treatment on a bunch of space cowboys chasing across the galaxy, pursued by some funky hot-shot alien hooligans who resembled Mr T before he met Rocky, searching for a new home since their old cribs were pulled down because they had no planning and building permissions in the Cyranus galaxy. Now then, aforementioned creator (whose true name won't be stated here because that would cause the entire galaxy to collapse) wrote AND produced
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TV SERIES EVER:
GALACTICA 1980!
This show was made at a time when science fiction on television was innocent and pure, with cute children disguised as daggits and chimpanzees disguised as actors, a well-thought premise which made Isaac Asimov wonder why the heck he didn't invent this piece of shi...ning entertainment, and which made people laugh and laugh and learn important things of our culture long lost and forgotten (and laugh).
However, they made a mistake. A grave mistake that doomed the whole project. The opening sequence was composed of bits and pieces of another show that aired one and a half year earlier, a mediocre Star Wars rip-off which nowadays is seen as a major failure which destroyed not only the reputation of aforementioned writer and creator, but the minds of thousands of followers all over the world. It drove people completey mad, seduced them to skip the Emmy's, caused major law-suit trouble spanning TWO entire galaxies and therefore got banned from television for more than thirty yahrens.
Well then. That opening sequence. That damned opening sequence.
Today many people asked themselves, how could they do that? Why in the name of the Lords did they take bits and pieces of a television show which had absolutely no connection to this new piece of shi...ning entertainment. Well, they did it. And maybe they did it for good.
This infantile sci-fi inferno was called "Battlestar Galactica". And as its name indicated, its only purpose was to glorify
WAR. Right at the beginning of the series the body count was higher than in all Schwarzenegger, Willis and Stallone films together and should be surpassed only by "The A-Team" later-on (there they were so smart not to use the actors as cannon fodder but the poor stunt guys). 12 entire planets were devastated and one completely destroyed, two civilizations annihilated (one being super-intelligent insects which made a living out of cattle breeding, one being a bunch of not so super-intelligent human space invaders ruled by stupid politicians). And then we learned that these "humans" were even worse than their so-called "enemies": Prisoners were used as living shields, people zapped everyone and everything with their laser pistols, they even killed themselves when they lost a ball game. They were living in Space, in compact starships, with the bridge being a constant red-light district (many of the supporting actors are still half blind because of those bad lights), there were no toilets, everything smelled like in a submarine. There was absolutely no privacy, everyone was hanging around gambling, smoking or having a party or doing all of it together. In addition, the crew spent so much money on special effects that Lorne Greene's farm had to be sold. They even were forced to eat his
horse to survive (and thus taking every chance from him to escape).
Well then. That opening sequence. That damned opening sequence.
It was certain that the new series would require a new title every year. In its first year it would be "1980", in its second "1981", in the third "1982" and so on. So it was imperative that the bits and pieces of the opening sequence were to be exchanged by new bits and pieces from the predecessing show. And then the writer and producer was struck: After some 400 years they would have re-used the footage of the whole predecessing show, leaving no material to make any new opening sequences! That would have meant to go back in time and shoot more of the previous unsuccessful show, which at that time seemed impossible (he couldn't know that Doc Brown would build a time machine in a DeLorean only 4 years later). So it was decided to let the show die, on its hiatus, in the year... 1981 (wiping a tear off the cheek). The maker hid the secret of its success by keeping the show away from any TV station ever since so that it could not be seen again and analysed.
Thank the Lords some cunning Gollums managed to get it released on DVD some time ago. I tried to ask them how they were able to do that, but they have never been seen again after this major coup. However, time and Zeitgeist change. Today it is not very likely that the show would be continued. What a pity, because its premise was so unique and so compelling that it had the potential to run
FOREVER....
And if you believed all that.... 
