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  • Battlestar Galactica The Long Patrol (Season 1, Episode 5)
  • TV Episode | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Battlestar Galactica

The Long Patrol (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV Episode | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Starbuck's unplanned double-date with Cassiopeia and Athena on the recently-reopened luxury liner Rising Star is interrupted when the Galactica picks up long-range transmission traffic indicating human life in a distant solar system on the...See moreStarbuck's unplanned double-date with Cassiopeia and Athena on the recently-reopened luxury liner Rising Star is interrupted when the Galactica picks up long-range transmission traffic indicating human life in a distant solar system on the other side of a vast asteroid dust field. Starbuck is recalled to duty to pilot the Starchaser, an up-powered reconnaissance viper denuded of weaponry and bearing a voice-activated computer - Computer, Oral Response Activated, known simply as CORA - that can handle the vast increase in performance in the new viper. Starbuck is enthralled by the new viper, but less enthusiastic about CORA, who bears a personality that grates on Starbucks nerves. Starbuck picks up two star-craft from hundreds of years vintage and in the process he is double-crossed and knocked unconscious by a smuggler of liquor. Starbuck later finds himself incarcerated on Proteus, a prison planetoid that is a surviving body from hundreds of such penal facilities scattered through the stars by the Colonies during the Cylon War, facilities that made munitions and liquor for the war effort. Proteus is now manned by the distant antecedents of its original guards and prisoners and continues to make ambrosia for Colonial warriors, even though hundreds of years worth of ambrosia have never left the planet - and the planet may not even survive, as a Cylon patrol that has detected Starbuck's now-stolen viper has spotted the planetoid while the stolen viper is being pursued by Apollo and Boomer. Written by Michael Daly See less
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Writers
Glen A. Larson (created by) | Donald P. Bellisario (written by) (as Donald Bellisario)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Oct 15, 1978

Release date
Oct 15, 1978 (United States)

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24 cast members
Name Known for
Richard Hatch
Captain Apollo Captain Apollo   See fewer
Dirk Benedict
Lieutenant Starbuck Lieutenant Starbuck   See fewer
Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Lieutenant Boomer Lieutenant Boomer   See fewer
John Colicos
Count Baltar Count Baltar   See fewer
Maren Jensen
Lieutenant Athena Lieutenant Athena   See fewer
Laurette Spang
Cassiopeia Cassiopeia   See fewer
Tony Swartz
Flight Sergeant Jolly (credit only) Flight Sergeant Jolly (credit only)   See fewer
Terry Carter
Colonel Tigh Colonel Tigh   See fewer
Sean McClory
Assault 9 Assault 9   See fewer
Arlene Martel
Adulteress 58 (as Tasha Martel) Adulteress 58 (as Tasha Martel)   See fewer
Ian Abercrombie
Forger 7 Forger 7   See fewer
Sarah Rush
Rigel Rigel   See fewer
Robert Hathaway
Enforcer Enforcer   See fewer
Nancy DeCarl
Slayer Slayer   See fewer
Jonathan Harris
Lucifer (voice) (uncredited) Lucifer (voice) (uncredited)   See fewer
John Holland
Waiter (uncredited) Waiter (uncredited)   See fewer
Patrick Macnee
Opening Credit Announcer (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) Opening Credit Announcer (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)   See fewer
Cathey Paine
C.O.R.A. (voice) (uncredited) C.O.R.A. (voice) (uncredited)   See fewer
Felix Silla
Lucifer (uncredited) Lucifer (uncredited)   See fewer
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