BEHIND THE SCENES: TUNNEL VISION!

At Apogee, effects legend Richard Edlund handles the camera for the background shots of the Viper tunnel, to be used as back projection for the launching pilots, in this great shot from Saga of a Star World that I'd never seen before.

BEHIND THE SCENES: SPACE LUXURY THE 'RISING STAR' WAY...

Before but also during the Cylon War, the humans of the Twelve Colonies would carry on enjoying the realms of commercial space travel where they could, and what better way for them to begin their vacations than boarding the beautiful and luxurious Rising Star passenger vehicle (created by the people of Scorpio), which, with the original TV series pilot launcher, would become a home to women and children refugees for the most part. It would ultimately return back to a more leisure-related existence with the regular series, once the Galactica's Rag-Tag fleet had become more organised and efficient for its surviving peoples.

Enjoy these behind the scenes images from the Apogee filming for Saga of a Star World in Summer, 1978.

Concept design.

Jon Erland works on the model at Apogee.

Model filming.

Photographed by Richard Edlund with the Dykstraflex camera. Interesting that the model is quite small but looks bigger on screen. The same visual trick was used with the original Star Destroyer model used with the beginning of the first Star Wars movie of 1977.

Rear view of the impressive model ultimately sold at auction.

'ICE PLANET ZERO' AT 45: CRASH-LANDING!

The Cylon Raider attack has crippled the Colonial shuttle. Nonetheless Starbuck's talents piloting skills alongside Boomer sees their vessel ultimately crash-land on Arcta.

A terrific behind the scenes shot of the crash-landed model landing in a pile of baking soda. Note a mask protected Richard Edlund handling the camera for the scene at Apogee.

As seen in the episode.

BEHIND THE SCENES: A MAN AND HIS VIPERS!

Visual effects legend Richard Edlund checks the positioning of three Viper ships in readiness for blue screen filming at Van Nuys, California- for use in the opening episodes of GALACTICA's weekly debut in 1978.

BEHIND THE SCENES: DREAMS TURNED REALITY

On location handling effects photography linked to the GALACTICA weekly series episode The Long Patrol, special effects icon-to-be Richard Edlund surveys the area.

Check out this great interview with Edlund where he talks about his work on the super effects of GALACTICA, working alongside John Dykstra and the APOGEE company in 1978: CineMagic: VFX Maestro Richard Edlund Talks Original ‘Galactica’ | CINEMASPY.COM