The Best Episodes Written By Glen A. larson

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   9.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Staying Alive While Running a High Flashdance Fever

   S1:E212/22/1983

   Walter and Automan investigate a judge that appears to be corrupt and involved with the mob.

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   #2 - Automan

   S1:E112/15/1983

   Walter Nebicher is a young police officer who wants desperately to get out on the streets and experience some action. Unfortunately, his superior Captain Boyd has assigned Nebicher to a desk job where he can utilize his skills as a computer expert. Still wanting to make a difference, Nebicher goes to work creating the ultimate crime-solving computer program. It turns out so well that the program actually takes on a life of it's own, by taking the holographic form of a man called Automan. Due to the large amount of power needed to exist outside of the computer, Automan can only exist at night, when the rest of the city's power usage is low. Together, he and Walter become one of television's most unusual crime fighting teams. They jump into their first case when Walter's friend Lt. Jack Curtis disappears while investigating the disappearances of several top scientists. Their investigation uncovers an international plot to kidnap the world's top scientific minds, who are then taken to a

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   7.9/10(10 votes)

   #3 - The Living Legend (1)

   S1:E1011/26/1978

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

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   7.7/10(10 votes)

   #4 - The Living Legend (2)

   S1:E1112/3/1978

   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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   7.6/10(16 votes)

   #5 - Saga of a Star World

   S1:E19/17/1978

   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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   7.6/10(10 votes)

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

   S1:E212/11/1980

   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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   7.4/10(9 votes)

   #7 - War of the Gods (1)

   S1:E131/14/1979

   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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   7.4/10(14 votes)

   #8 - Lost Planet of the Gods (1)

   S1:E29/24/1978

   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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   7.3/10(9 votes)

   #9 - War of the Gods (2)

   S1:E141/21/1979

   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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    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #10 - Knight of the Phoenix

    S1:E19/26/1982

    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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    7.2/10(11 votes)

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

    S1:E610/22/1978

    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.

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    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Lost Planet of the Gods (2)

    S1:E310/1/1978

    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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    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #13 - A Knight in Shining Armor

    S1:E19/24/2008

    Mike and KITT must deliver a package -- a task that seems easy enough until they learn the package is a man with a code built into his DNA. The task becomes more difficult when a mysterious woman gets in their way.

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    6.8/10(11 votes)

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

    S1:E710/29/1978

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

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    6.3/10(11 votes)

    #15 - The Magnificent Warriors

    S1:E811/12/1978

    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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    6.2/10(21 votes)

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

    S1:E112/11/1980

    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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    6.1/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Experiment in Terra

    S1:E193/18/1979

    Apollo and Starbuck follow the escaped Eastern Alliance ship back to Terra, where they help the Terrans overcome a nuclear holocaust, with the help of the race of white lights that had earlier helped them defeat Count Iblis.

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    5.9/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Greetings from Earth

    S1:E172/25/1979

    When Apollo and Starbuck find a primitive sleeper ship carrying a man, a woman, and four children, speculation spreads in the fleet that the people are from Earth.

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