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  1. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death!

    S1:E1

    A young woman is raped and strangled on a Los Angeles beach. Further down the coastline a young boy is shot and arrested for her murder. Quincy doesn't think that it would have been possible for the boy arrested to strangle the woman and decides that he is going to go out and begin a little investigation of his own. He visits City Hall where the woman worked to ask some questions and, after a little checking, finds out that there seem to have been a rash of unexplained deaths there.

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    Director:N/A
  2. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - A Star Is Dead

    S1:E3

    Roberta Rhodes, a famous movie star, is found dead in her bedroom. The police think that it was probably suicide, but Quincy thinks not. A gossip newspaper editor approaches Quincy and tells him that on the night of her death his friend, and prospective senator, Congressman Charles Sinclair was with her. Quincy cannot believe that his friend could have killed Roberta but if he didn't then why does he keep lying to Quincy?

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    Director:Noel Black
  3. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Awakening (2)

    S1:E2

    In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William ""Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its life support system and sends it into a long elliptical orbit of the Earth. In the year 2491, Ranger III again approaches the Earth, and is intercepted by the alien flagship Draconia, which is on a peace mission to Earth. Aboard the Draconia, Buck is revived by Princess Ardala and her second-in- command, Kane, whose true plan is to attack and conquer Earth. Buck is sent to Earth with a hidden homing device, which is soon discovered by Earth's Defense Directorate. After Buck convinces the humans of his true identity -- a man from the past -- he helps them to repel the Draconians' attack, with the aid of the mechanoids Dr. Theopolis and Twiki.

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  4. 7.9/10(7 votes)

    #4 - The Living Legend (1)

    S1:E10

    While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus, commanded by the living legend, Commander Cain.

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  5. 7.8/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (2)

    S1:E2

    Magnum and Alice continue in their quest to find out the truth behind Lt. Dan Cook's death, and find themselves uncovering a case of gold smuggling, and a criminal mastermind whom Magnum and Dan once knew in Vietnam. But in trying to find out what really did happen to his deceased friend, Magnum puts his own life on the line as someone tries to stop him from investigating, using any means necessary...

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  6. 7.6/10(7 votes)

    #6 - The Living Legend (2)

    S1:E11

    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.

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  7. 7.5/10(12 votes)

    #7 - Saga of a Star World

    S1:E1

    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.

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  8. 7.4/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

    S1:E2

    Apollo and Starbuck discover a void in space. Commander Adama is convinced that this void will lead them to the planet Kobol, and orders they go through.

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  9. 7.3/10(6 votes)

    #9 - War of the Gods (1)

    S1:E13

    While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

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  10. 7.3/10(6 votes)

    #10 - War of the Gods (2)

    S1:E14

    While the fleet is plagued by glowing lights that constantly fly past them too fast to be followed, Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba find the remains of a shipwreck, with a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful being named Count Iblis, who helps them capture Baltar.

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  11. 7.2/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

    S1:E3

    While Commander Adama leads the rag-tag fleet of ships to the planet Kobol, where he hopes to find clues of Earth's location, the Viper pilots contract a disease, making it necessary for the women to take on fighter patrol duties. But the traitor Baltar leads the Cylons in an attack on the Galactica.

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  12. 7.2/10(8 votes)

    #12 - The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (1)

    S1:E6

    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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  13. 7.0/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Knight of the Phoenix

    S1:E1

    When a young detective is ambushed in a failed police stakeout, he is believed to have been killed. In reality, he survives and learns that his face has been altered and his identity has been changed to Michael Knight. The man responsible for this is Wilton Knight, a dying billionaire who, convinced that one man can make a difference, has selected Michael for the role as a crime-fighter.

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  14. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Colt chases a crooked sheriff and tries to protect a friend and his family.

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  15. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda

    S1:E2

    Milton Bach is a computer hacker who ripped off the bank and ran. His wife, Rhonda, and friend Jerry stole the money and went to Mexico. He wants her back.

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  16. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - License to Kill (1)

    S1:E9

    Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

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  17. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - License to Kill (2)

    S1:E10

    Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

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    Director:N/A
  18. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The I'ves Have It

    S2:E2

    Terri sends Colt to Aruba to bring back a burglar, but it turns out she is one of twins and had a good reason for the breaking and entering, but which one did it?

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  19. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - How Do I Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

    S2:E9

    A man is tricked into supplying computer tapes by using a fake auto accident and telling him the other victim died, thus making him a murderer. Two bumbling detectives take the case

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  20. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Spaced Out

    S2:E16

    While the town is held spellbound by a purported UFO, the bank is being robbed. Jody is kidnapped and Colt traces the origin of the UFO, and it seems to rain money.

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  21. 6.8/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Gun on Ice Planet Zero (2)

    S1:E7

    Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet.

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  22. 6.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Awakening (1)

    S1:E1

    In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William "Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its life support system and sends it into a long elliptical orbit of the Earth. In the year 2491, Ranger III again approaches the Earth, and is intercepted by the alien flagship Draconia, which is on a peace mission to Earth. Aboard the Draconia, Buck is revived by Princess Ardala and her second-in- command, Kane, whose true plan is to attack and conquer Earth. Buck is sent to Earth with a hidden homing device, which is soon discovered by Earth's Defense Directorate. After Buck convinces the humans of his true identity -- a man from the past -- he helps them to repel the Draconians' attack, with the aid of the mechanoids Dr. Theopolis and Twiki.

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  23. 6.7/10(6 votes)

    #23 - The Return of Starbuck

    S1:E10

    Dr. Zee tells Adama about a dream where he sees Starbuck, crashed on a distant planet, befriending an injured Cylon Centurion and a mysterious alien woman who gives birth to a baby boy.

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    Director:Ron Satlof
  24. 6.5/10(8 votes)

    #24 - The Magnificent Warriors

    S1:E8

    When a Cylon attack destroys most of the fleet's food supply, the Galactica must trade equipment for grain on a rural planet plagued by the Borays, a group of pig-like marauders.

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  25. 6.1/10(14 votes)

    #25 - Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (1)

    S1:E1

    When Thomas's childhood friend and Naval comrade Dan Cook turns up dead, Thomas is adamant that the official cause of death, a burst bag of smuggled cocaine, is bogus, and enlists the aid of Dan's sister Alice in taking on the Navy to uncover the true nature of the top-secret assignment Dan was working on before his death.

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Glen A. Larson Ratings Summary

"Go Fight City Hall -- To the Death!" is the best rated episode written by Glen A. Larson. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 10/3/1976 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Star Is Dead".