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| Our heroes captured by the Cylons, in this great posed publicity image for The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, taken on the studio backlot of Universal Studios in 1978. |
'The Guns of Navarone in space', that was how many fans and critics of the original Battlestar Galactica series described this terrific and effects ambitious two-part story, The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, which premiered on US ABC TV in late 1978 and saw the Galactica and her rag-tag fleet in the targeting sights of a massive Cylon-controlled pulsar weapon located on the ice planet world of Arcta, unless it can be stopped by a unique demolitions team led by Captain Apollo and Lt. Starbuck.
Originally planned as a feature-length TV movie to have followed Saga of a Star World, Gun ultimately became an extended two-part version with some fascinating additions/ deletions/re-shoots to the originally filmed story by a changing production team. As we finish the celebratory year of the classic series, I thought it would be a great idea to concentrate fully on this particular special story and reveal what the originally crafted version looked like before the changes, via all the info/imagery sources available to me.
I hope site readers enjoy this fascinating journey, with daily blogs starting from August 26th up to November, 2023...
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