Watch SPACE's Battlestar Galactica: The Classic Series Boxing Day Viewers Choice Marathon on December 26, 2005 starting at 6am ET!

Airs on SPACE: Not currently scheduled. Stay tuned for Battlestar Galactica: The Classic Series' new airdate and time on SPACE.

Originally Aired: 1978 to 1981

Number of Seasons: 2

The story of how the 12 colonies of man are destroyed by the evil Cylon Empire. Through deceit, the Cylons are able to destroy the Colonies' entire fleet, except for the Battlestar Galactica, captained by Commander Adama. Adama gathers up the few remaining humans left on all the twelve worlds and embarks on a journey to find the mythical planet Earth, the supposed thirteenth colony of Mankind, lost millennia ago when humans first left the motherworld, Kobol.

Commander Adama: Lorne Greene
Captain Apollo: Richard Hatch
Starbuck: Dirk Benedict
Athena: Maren Jensen 
Sheba: Anne Lockhart
Boxey: Noah Nathaway
Boomer: Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Cassiopeia: Laurette Spang
Col. Tigh: Terry Carter
Jolly: Tony Swartz
Baltar: John Colicos