The Best Episodes Written By Leslie Stevens

#1 - Awakening (2)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1979

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.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Leslie Stevens

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

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1978

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.

Director: Alan J. Levi

Writer: Leslie Stevens

#3 - The Galaxy Being

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1963

A radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth where its radioactive nature causes havoc.

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

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

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1978

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

Director: Alan J. Levi

Writer: Leslie Stevens

#5 - A Thief is a Thief

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1968

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

#6 - Awakening (1)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1979

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.

Director: Daniel Haller

Writer: Leslie Stevens

#7 - The Borderland

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1963

A scientist named Ian Fraser invents a machine which can pierce the borderland between this world and... The Afterlife? Maybe. Fraser convinces an industrialist to finance future experiments with the possibility of contacting the rich man's dead son.

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

#8 - Controlled Experiment

Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1964

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens