History Trivia / BattlestarGalactica1978

* YouLookFamiliar: The Imperious Leader voice actor is the same actor that plays Count Iblis: Creator/PatrickMacnee. This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] when Baltar realizes Iblis speaks with Imperious Leader's voice and gets ''seriously'' creeped out by it, because the voice of the Imperious Leader had been transcribed over a thousand years earlier, implying that Iblis was at least that old.

** [[Creator/{{Mattel}} Mattel Electronics]] was originally intending to develop an UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} game based on the property, but the parent company Mattel couldn't secure the rights, so it simply became ''VideoGame/SpaceBattle''.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://galactica.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Battlestar Galactica Wiki]].

* RelationshipVoiceActor: We don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but the Japanese dub of the series has some voice actors who worked into another famous SpaceOpera franchise: ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'': [[Creator/IsaoSasaki Captain Apollo]] is Daisuke Shima, [[Creator/KeiTomiyama Lt. Starbuck]] was Susumu Kodai and [[Creator/KenichiOgata Lt. Boomer]] is Analyzer UO-9.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/PatrickMacNee voices the Imperious Leader and portrays Count Iblis. [[LampshadeHanging Baltar points out the similarity.]]

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish-speaking countries, the series is known as ''Galactica: astronave de combate'' ("Galactica: Combat Spaceship"). In Germany, it is called "Kampfstern Galactica" (which arguably cleaves a little closer to "'''War'''star Galactica" than "Battlestar").

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Spanish-speaking countries, the series is known as ''Galactica: astronave de combate'' ("Galactica: Combat Spaceship"). In Germany, it is called "Kampfstern Galactica."

* ActingForTwo: Creator/PatrickMacNee voices the Imperious Leader and portrays Count Iblis.

* YouLookFamiliar: The Imperious Leader voice actor is the same actor that plays Count Iblis: Creator/PatrickMacnee. This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] when Baltar realizes Iblis speaks with Imperious Leader's voice and gets ''seriously'' creeped out by it. This was [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the suggestion that Iblis' voice had been transcribed into the Imperious Leader a long time ago.

* YouLookFamiliar: The Imperious Leader voice actor is the same actor that plays Count Iblis: Creator/PatrickMacnee. This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] when Baltar realizes Iblis speaks with Imperious Leader's voice and gets ''seriously'' creeped out by it.

* Glen Larson, the show's creator, is a [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon Mormon]], and deliberately peppered the series with Mormon imagery. For example:
** The star closest to God's throne, in Mormon theology, is named Kolob. The human homeworld in ''Galactica'' is named Kobol.
** Ancient Egypt factors strongly into Mormon theology. The Viper pilots' helmets were designed to resemble King Tut's mask, and Kobol is shown with Egyptian pyramids on it.
** Mormons have an eternal marriage ceremony called "Sealing". Getting married in the ''Galactica'' universe is called getting sealed.
** In the history laid out in the Book of Mormon, a "lost tribe" of Israelites sailed to North America and became the American Indian tribes. ''Galactica'' is all about finding the "lost 13th tribe" of humans who colonized a remote planet named Earth.
** Count Iblis is unable to take direct action against anyone who hasn't ''allowed'' him to gain influence over them - rather like the Mormon version of Satan.
** The Seraphs use the line "as you are now, we once were. As we are now, you may become," which is straight out of Mormon theology.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In its original Sunday night broadcast run, the series got very positive reviews and grew a fan following comparable to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', leading some to pin it as the next big science fiction universe in a field that was already crowded with the likes of ''Star Trek'' and the newly-released ''Film/ANewHope''...and yet ABC chose to cancel the series after its one and only season. Not only did the series, which as mentioned above was forced by the network to be a weekly series instead of the original idea of TV movies where the budgetary demands could have been manageable, get hammered by ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' on rival Creator/{{CBS}}, who moved that series on ''Galactica'''s slot with the intention to turn up the heat on ABC, but the network was beginning to lose money because of the show's high budget. However, creator-producer Glen A. Larson claimed ABC deliberately screwed over the series in an attempt to give their then-number-one program, ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', a more favorable time-slot. Regardless, fans were not too pleased with ABC's behavior, and a year later the network tried to redeem itself by green lighting ''Series/Galactica1980'', but that series ended up being poorly received and canned after just ten episodes, putting the [[FranchiseKiller kibosh on the original franchise]].

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In its original Sunday night broadcast run, the series got very positive reviews and grew a fan following comparable to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', leading some to pin it as the next big science fiction universe in a field that was already crowded with the likes of ''Star Trek'' and the newly-released ''Film/ANewHope''...and yet ABC chose to cancel the series after its one and only season. Not only did the series, which as mentioned above was forced the network to be a weekly series instead of original idea of TV movies where the budgetary demands could have been manageable, get hammered by ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' on rival Creator/{{CBS}}, who moved that series on ''Galactica'''s slot with the intention to turn up the heat on ABC, but the network was beginning to lose money because of the show's high budget. However, creator-producer Glen A. Larson claimed ABC deliberately screwed over the series in an attempt to give their then-number-one program, ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', a more favorable time-slot. Regardless, fans were not too pleased with ABC's behavior, and a year later the network tried to redeem itself by green lighting ''Series/Galactica1980'', but that series ended up being poorly received and canned after just ten episodes, putting the [[FranchiseKiller kibosh on the original franchise]].

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In its original Sunday night broadcast run, the series got very positive reviews and grew a fan following comparable to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', leading some to pin it as the next big science fiction universe in a field that was already crowded with the likes of ''Star Trek'' and the newly-released ''Film/ANewHope''...and yet ABC chose to cancel the series after its one and only season. Not only did the series get hammered by ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' on rival Creator/{{CBS}}, who moved that series on ''Galactica'''s slot with the intention to turn up the heat on ABC, but the network was beginning to lose money because of the show's high budget. However, creator-producer Glen A. Larson claimed ABC deliberately screwed over the series in an attempt to give their then-number-one program, ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', a more favorable time-slot. Regardless, fans were not too pleased with ABC's behavior, and a year later the network tried to redeem itself by green lighting ''Series/Galactica1980'', but that series ended up being poorly received and canned after just ten episodes, putting the [[FranchiseKiller kibosh on the original franchise]].