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Word: battlestar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says Norman Glenn of MCA, the big Los Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate, which is making discs for the Magnavox player. The company has been rummaging movie company libraries for popular films. While recent releases on the MCA discs cost $15.95, older classics like Destry Rides Again and TV movies (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) sell for $9.95; how-to features like a Julia Child cooking course or films of Ali's boxing bouts are priced at $5.95 and up. RCA, which is producing its own discs, expects to start with about 250 offerings at a top price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Disc Duel | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...Year's Biggest Rip-Off: ABC's Battlestar Galactica, which tries to imitate Star Wars without characters or talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: NO BIZ LIKE... | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Kids may wonder which Santa is real and why there are so many of him; yet Santa Claus remains a significant symbol to most children, the fat and jolly bringer of Battlestar Galactica and Baby Tenderlove. While collegians' thoughts may turn more to Santa Barbara than Santa Claus, the ubiquitous elf cannot easily be ignored. As the song goes, Santa Claus is coming to town--in force...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Which One Is Real? | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...answer, as anyone knows who has been watching TV promotion spots lately, is ABC's new series Battlestar Galactica, perhaps the most blatant rip-off ever to appear on the small screen. The show ripped off, naturally, is Star Wars, which Galactica copies in nearly everything but wit and talent. As a result, even before the show premieres this Sunday, it has been caught up in legal controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Small-Screen Star Wars | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...robots has zapped twelve of the 13 planets harboring the human race. Led by a human renegade called Count Baltar, a first cousin to Darth Vader, the robots take off in hot pursuit of the survivors of the dozen planets, who are manning a ragtag fleet hovering around the "battlestar" Galactica. The humans are desperately searching for the 13th planet, a lost, legendary human colony called Earth. Lorne Greene is the wise old man in charge, and Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch play Han Solo and Luke Skywalker . . . oops, Lieut. Starbuck and Captain Apollo. Galactica's version of Artoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Small-Screen Star Wars | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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