After broadcast of the second episode, "Lost Planet of the Gods", Glen Larson announced the format change to a weekly series, catching his writing and production staff off guard, resulting in several 'crash of the week' episodes until other scripts could resume. The pilot had originally been announced as the first of three made for TV movies. After the pilot aired, the 125-minute theatrical version was given a nationwide U.S cinema release in May 1979. This interruption did not occur on the West Coast. After the ceremony, ABC resumed the broadcast at the point where it was interrupted.
Two thirds of the way through the broadcast, ABC interrupted with a special report of the signing of the Camp David Accords at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, witnessed by U.S. On September 17, 1978, the full 148 minute pilot premiered on ABC to high Nielsen ratings. The pilot to this series, budgeted at $8 million (one of the most expensive at that time), was released theatrically (in Sensurround) in various countries including Canada on July 8, 1978, Japan and some in Western Europe in an edited 125-minute version. Larson, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, incorporated many themes from Mormon theology into the shows.
The later Galactica 1980 series is expressly set in the year 1980 after a 30-year voyage to Earth. The implication of the final aired episode, " The Hand of God", was that the original series took place after the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969 (as the Galactica receives a television transmission from Earth showing the landing).
At the start of the series, it is mentioned as being "the seventh millennium of time", although it is unknown when this is in relation to Earth's history. The era in which this exodus took place is never clearly stated in the series itself. However, the Cylons continued to pursue them relentlessly across the galaxy. They began a quest to find the long lost thirteenth tribe of humanity that had settled on a legendary planet called Earth. The Commander of the Galactica, Adama ( Lorne Greene), led this "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of 220 ships in search of a new home. Protected by the last surviving capital warship, a "battlestar" (from " battle starship"), named Galactica, the survivors fled in available ships. Humanity was ultimately defeated in a sneak attack on their homeworlds by the Cylons, carried out with the help of a human traitor, Baltar ( John Colicos). In a distant star system, the Twelve Colonies of Mankind were reaching the end of a thousand-year war with the Cylons, warrior robots created by a reptilian race which expired long ago, presumably destroyed by their own creations.
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