CLASSIC IMAGE: THE 'STARCHASER' AWAITS...

It would normally be a routine patrol but things are different for Starbuck this time, volunteering the chance to pilot a new experimental Viper with greater speed (known as Starchaser on its nose side), and housing a computer with an attitude - CORA, as the Galactica heads further out from the once colony worlds, in a great moment from comedy adventure, The Long Patrol.

For years, who knew the Viper had a name, until a keen Classic Galactica Facebook group fan spotted it on HD Blu-ray. Well spotted!

CLASSIC IMAGE: HOME VIDEO HEROES AND VILLAINS!

Key icons of the series in Adama, Starbuck and a Cylon Centurion made for a memorable image composition in Universal Home Video's promotion of the original Battlestar Galactica as single episode tales released in the US during the noughties. Who out there managed to get a complete set, and who still has them?

BEHIND THE SCENES: (BATTLE)STAR TREKKIN'!

Always enjoying his work in the realms of diverse model making and special effects, the late Grant McCune flies with the superb vehicle creations of the classic series in this terrific 1978 behind the scenes image composite.

CLASSIC IMAGE: BROTHERS ON PATROL!

A respected warrior and commander, and an eager to please but no less talented pilot in the raw, Apollo and his youthful brother Zac would be the two fateful Colonial patrollers who'd discover an apocalyptic tragedy too late to prevent, in another great posed publicity image of actors Richard Hatch and Rick Springfield from the series ever-impressive pilot episode, Saga of a Star World.