Marcel Damen tracked down and talked to Haleen Holt, who closely worked with Jean-Pierre Dorleac as a costume illustrator on the Emmy Award winning Battlestar Galactica costume designs. Haleen talks about how she became a costume designer/illustrator, her work on Camelot, the Battlestar Galactica series, the Centennial miniseries and other projects like the Ocean's Eleven movie.

Mike Egnor talked to Sarah Rush, better known to Battlestar Galactica 1978 fans as Fl. Cpl. Rigel (or the "Launch When Ready!" woman). Sarah talked about where she came from, how she got into the business as an actress, being a Bituminous Coal Queen, memories from working on the Battlestar Galactica series and the movie Catch Me If You Can with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

Marcel Damen talked to Jack Gill, better known to Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 fans as the stunt double of Dirk Benedict (Lt. Starbuck) and Barry Van Dyke (Lt. Dillon), as well as playing one of the Cylons. Jack talked about how he became a stunt guy, him driving the General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard, K.I.T.T. on Knight Rider, his work on Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 and what he's currently up to.

This story will try to reconstruct the history of the design of the Ovion Warrior costume. The Ovion was the insect like creature on Battlestar Galactica's "Saga of a Star World" pilot episode. The history based upon many images from my private collection begins with the concept sketches and paintings by Ralph McQuarrie, has the costume fitting of Paula Crist (creation of the costume) and concludes with some rare publicity shots.

Battlestar Galactica premiered on the ABC television network in September 1978 and it was one of the most spectacular shows ever produced for television. The special Emmy Award winning costume designs from Jean-Pierre Dorléac contributed to the unique look and feel of the Battlestar Galactica universe. One of the most prolific and loved costumes is the Colonial Warrior costume, but did Jean-Pierre Dorléac really design it?

This article will attempt to reconstruct the history of the design of Battlestar Galactica's robotic Daggit: Muffit II. The history, based upon images from my private collection and talking to people who worked on it, begins with the initial sketches and paintings from Ralph McQuarrie. It continues on the work of Joe Johnston, other artists, the making of the costume itself and concludes with Evolution (aka Evie), the chimpanzee that wore the suit.

This is a blooper reel of deleted scenes from the original Battlestar Galactica series. The reel shows some unique cut material that isn't on the DVD set, like the amazing "We Gotta Find Earth" song, sung by Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch and Lorne Greene.

These are deleted scenes from the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Young Lords" that weren't on the official DVD set, but come from the various telemovies and feature film compilations of series episodes. They're a combination of stock and new material.

These are deleted scenes from the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Living Legend" that weren't on the official DVD set, but come from the various telemovies and feature film compilations of series episodes. They're a combination of stock and new material.

These are deleted scenes from the Battlestar Galactica episode "Fire In Space" that weren't on the official DVD set, but come from the various telemovies and feature film compilations of series episodes. They're a combination of stock and new material.

This is the intro of the Battlestar Galactica telemovie "Experiment in Terra". A whole new storyline how we, people on Earth, came to learn about the battlestar Galactica and their war against the Cylon race. The history of the Cylon race is told and illustrated with art by Jerry Gebr.

These are deleted scenes from the Battlestar Galactica episode "Take the Celestra" that weren't on the official DVD set, but come from the various telemovies and feature film compilations of series episodes. They're a combination of stock and new material.

Recently Marcel Damen caught up with Phil Tippett, better known for his creature designs on the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series. Phil talked about how he got in the business his work on Star Wars, his design work on the Ovion on Battlestar Galactica, his extensive career and what he's currently up to.

Paula Crist-Pickett was kind enough to answer some question by email about her work on the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series. Paula helped with the costume fittings of the Ovion creature and also played one in Battlestar Galactica's pilot "Saga of a Star World". Next to that she did some additional stunt work on the series.

Marcel Damen caught up with special effects guru Richard Edlund. He talked to him about how he got into the business, how motion control came about, his special effects work and the filming of the miniatures on both Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, signature shots in his long career and what he's currently up to.

Marcel Damen and Mike Egnor caught up with John Shourt, better known for his concept art and model building work on the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series. We talked about how he got into the business, visiting his brothers James and Bill Shourt on the Star Wars set, his work on Battlestar Galactica and what he currently does.

Upon finding this Battlestar Galactica illustration Marcel Damen had a quick chat with maker Les Katz. He said it wasn't his best piece, but the likenesses were passable. Inspired by Jack Kirby, for the background he used a marbleization technique to convey swirling things (like the cosmos). He had done some early science fiction pieces for book jackets and the bubble bearing tree thing was a favorite of his in those too.

In 2009 Marcel Damen bought this blueprint of concept art of the ragtag ship Moebius aka Flattop Ship for the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series. The art isn't signed and stylewise this could be either Joe Johnston or Martin Kline. On the bottom part more sketches of this ship and something that looks like Battlestar Galactica's shuttle were added.

Jay Tamminga wrote in to let us know that the art on the Canadian Battlestar Galactica movie poster and novel, wasn't done by Ralph McQuarrie, but is a carefully repainted image by Jack Gaughan, with brighter colors and more details added. Jack Gaughan was a well known scifi book cover painter (he did the covers and hand-lettered title pages of The Lord of the Rings books). Why it was repainted and Ralph McQuarrie's original image wasn't used, is not known.

Boone Narr has been training animals for over 30 years. His talents haven taken him to all parts of the world. His company, Boone's Animals for Hollywood, is one of the most widely known and highly respected animal training companies in the world. For Battlestar Galactica Boone Narr trained a chimpanzee named Evolution ("Ëve") to play the role of Boxey's robot pet, Muffit the Daggit. Marcel Damen caught up with him and talked to him about working with Eve on the Battlestar Galactica series.

To capatalize on the Battlestar Galactica series, a bunch of telemovies were brought out after the show was cancelled. One of them being "Experiment in Terra" which mixed together the "Experiment in Terra" episode of the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series, with "The Return of Starbuck" of the Galactica 1980 series and added a complete new intro, with new footage, paintings and storyline on the Cylon origin. This article shows the newly added intro footage and the Jerry Gebr art that was used.

David Stipes is a two time Emmy Award winner with over 30 years of experience in the film industry in various aspects of visual effects and animation. David created visual effects on Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980 and Buck Rogers at Universal Hartland. He also worked as a Visual Effects Supervisor on four Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise. Marcel Damen talked to him extensively about his career and what he's currently up to.

Some time ago Mike Egnor got in touch with Battlestar Galactica 1978 director Alan Levi, who took over from Richard Colla on the pilot "Saga of a Star World" after he was fired. He also later directed the episode "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero". Alan Levi talks about how he got in the business, working with the cast and crew on the Battlestar Galactica episodes he directed, the problems he had with Glen Larson, other work he did in his career, and what's he up to nowadays.

At the 30th anniversary of the Battlestar Galactica series, held in September 2008 in the form of a cruise (aka GALACTICRUISE), we had writer and story editor Terrence McDonnell as one of our special guests. He amazed everyone, that after 30 years, he still remembered so well the Battlestar Galactica series and the episodes he wrote. This is the transcript of the interview panel Mike Egnor did with him plus a follow up phone interview that went into even greater detail about the series (135 minutes of audio in total).

Some time ago Mike Egnor caught up with Chris Nyby, better known to Battlestar Galactica 1978 fans for directing the episodes "Lost Planet of the Gods", "The Long Patrol", "The Magnificent Warriors" and "Fire in Space". He talks extensively about how he got in the business and how he got to work on Battlestar Galactica. He also talks about working on the episodes he directed, the cast and crew involved, and what he's up to nowadays.

This article will attempt to reconstruct the history of the design of one of the most recognisable aliens and villains in TV history: Battlestar Galactica's Cylon Centurion. The history, based upon images from my private collection and talking to people who worked on it, begins with the initial sketches and paintings from Ralph McQuarrie. It continues on the work of Joe Johnston, Andrew Probert and Ralph Massey, and concludes with the making of the costume itself and the stunt men that wore the Cylon Centurion suits.

Ralph Massey is an American fine artist, known for his paintings, small sculptures and the use of those in his jewelry designs. For Battestar Galactica he was initially just asked to make a full size sculpture of the Ovion (which wasn't used), but later also made additional sculptures for the Cylon Centurion and the Daggit. The clay model he made for the Cylon Centurion, based on Andrew Probert's design, was used to make the screen used costume.

Phil Tippett is a movie director and an award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor and Producer, who specializes in creature design and character animation. He's better known for his stop-motion of the Imperial Walkers in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and the development of the go-motion technique. For Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode "Saga of a Star World" Phil Tippett, together with Jon Berg and Laine Liska, worked on the Ovion costume.

Joe Johnston is an American film director, responsible for such movies as Hidalgo, Jumanji and Jurassic Park III, who started out as a storyboard and concept artist for George Lucas on Star Wars. On Battlestar Galactica he worked on a great number of concept designs like the Battlestar Galactica, the Colonial Viper, the Cylon Raider, but also on the costume designs of the Ovion, Cylon Centurion and the Daggit. He might also have assisted on making the models of the ships.

Andrew Probert is a concept artist working for both televison and motion pictures. He's best known for his design work on the USS Enterprise for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the Enterprise-D on Star Trek: The Next Generation television series. For Battlestar Galactica he worked on the design of the Cylon Centurion costume, a matte painting of the landing bay of the Galactica, and the design of the Cylon Basestar.

Dan Goozee currently works as an award winning fine artist, but has enjoyed a successful career in creating visual art for motion picture production, film advertising, and as a long-term consultant with the Walt Disney Imagineering. For Battlestar Galactica Dan Goozee worked on the creation of the landram, the battlestar battery, several ships in the fleet (like The Rising Star) and the Ovions weapons. If you'd like to know more about his work, read the Dan Goozee GALACTICA.TV interview.

After finishing the first Star Wars movie, Ralph McQuarrie was asked to do the concept art for the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series. Ralph McQuarrie worked on the designs of the battlestar Galactica, the Viper, the Cylon Raider and Basestar and even did some preliminary artwork on the costumes of the Cylons, the Imperious Leader and the Ovions. Also his work on the Battlestar Galactica logo and poster is shown. This gallery shows a collection of these concept sketches.

Next to doing concept sketches for the designs of the ships and aliens on Battlestar Galactica 1978, Ralph McQuarrie was also asked to paint 24 color images to be used on the first script of the pilot "Saga of a Star World". This script (of which only 50 were printed) was written to convince the studios to pick up this costly project and the illustrations helped to explain and visualize the story. This gallery shows, for the first time, a complete set of those 24 color images.

An American, born in Toulon, France, Jean-Pierre Dorleac's prolific career in costume design has encompassed feature films, television, theatre, music videos and private couture. His Battlestar Galactica costume designs were nominated for several awards and in 1979 he won the Emmy for "Outstanding Costume Design for a Series" for the Battlestar Galactica episode "Furlon" ("The Man with Nine Lives"), that guest starred Fred Astaire as Chameleon.

Martin A. Kline worked for many years as a production illustrator with special effects units and principle production, and as a first unit art director on movies like Jurassic Park and Forrest Gump. He's currently working as a Senior Visual Effects Art Director for Imageworks. For Battlestar Galactica he worked on storyboards, concept art for props like the snow mask ("The Gun on Ice Planet Zero") and the Lucifer costume.

In 2009 this Battlestar Galactica concept art of the Cylon Basestar made by Steve Amos was discovered. Steve Amos was never credited for his work on Battlestar Galactica or any other concept art for movies for that matter on sites like IMDb. We have no idea who he is (or was?), what else he did on this particular series, etc. We call upon any fan who has more information about Steve Amos (or has more artwork made by him) to contact us.

Some years ago I bought this original matte painting, made for the Battlestar Galactica 1978 pilot episode "Saga of a Star World". The matte painting, made by a still unknown artist, wasn't used like this in the pilot. It was redone slightly different in the screen used version. The painting itself is on a transparant sheet which drops over a photo of a mountain landscape (both were different on the screen used version).

This document shows the original budget estimate for Battlestar Galactica's pilot movie "Saga of a Star World". The document totals on $7,062,161, a figure also mentioned by Richard Colla in the Richard Colla GALACTICA.TV interview, so this estimate might very well even made by him. The budget estimate mentions exactly how much money was to be spent on every actor, the special effect, the sets and much, much more. A unique look at the money spent on the pilot.

This is the official contract of John Dykstra and his visual effects team for Battlestar Galactica (at that time still called Starworld). The contract is co-signed by almost all the (now famous) members of the visual effects team, like Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Donald Trumbull, Joe Johnston, Ralph Massey, Carlo Rambaldi (unsigned), etc. Also included is the addtional request for a change in the contract for John Dykstra to continue his work on the Battlestar Galactica televison series.

This document shows the original budget estimate for Battlestar Galactica's episode "The Ultimate Weapon" (aka "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero"). This is just the budget estimate for the making of the special effects which already totals at $832,681! This unique document specifically shows how much money was to be spent on making models, matte paintings and specific scenes. The end of this document shows an overview of which scenes were new and which came from stock.

Lorne Greene, better known as Commander Adama on the original Battlestar Galactica series, passed away back in 1987. This audio interview with Lorne Greene is done on set during filming Battlestar Galactica's episode "Greetings From Earth". Since so little interviews like this even exist, we're extremly happy to have found this audio that hasnever been published. We also added two unique audio commercials for US Airforce Recruitment.

Recently this fantastic Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects Crew Video by Dave Berry turned up and shows the making and filming of the original series models. It gives unique backstage insight on the crash landing of the shuttle and the gun from "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero", the landram (which was also used on "Saga of a Star World") and much, much more. It also introduces some of the people that worked and filmed these models that made television history back in 1978.

This is a unique, never published audio interview with Dirk Benedict, better known as Lt. Starbuck of the original Battlestar Galactica series. It's a two-part set on set interview that was taped shortly before the airing of Battlesstar Galactica's pilot episode "Saga of a Star World". We hear a young, nervous Dirk Benedict, stuttering and stammering about the Battlestar Galactica series in general and his role in it, his young budding career as an actor and his future plans back in 1978.

This gallery shows the first part of the (early) storyboards (by Martin Kline?) of the Battlestar Galactica pilot "Saga of a Star World". They're based on an early version of the pilot script. We're introduced to Skyler (with beard!), later to be named Apollo and his brother Zac. They stumble upon the Cylons (early Ralph McQuarrie design), Zac gets hit and they try to warn the fleet of the upcoming attack. Adama returns to the Galactica from the Atlantia where he met the Council and the President.

This gallery shows the second part of the (early) storyboards (by Martin Kline?) of the Battlestar Galactica pilot "Saga of a Star World". They're based on an early version of the pilot script. In this part we continue on Skyler's (Apollo's) and Zac's run from the Cylon Raiders to warn the fleet. The space battle that follows is victorious, but damages Zac's ship (all the maneuvers of the battle are drawn out in great detail) and he's killed off by the Cylon fleet with the battlestar Galactica in sight.

This gallery shows the third part of the (early) storyboards (by Martin Kline?) of the Battlestar Galactica pilot "Saga of a Star World". They're based on an early version of the pilot script. We continue in the storyline of the Cylons attacking the homeworld. On Caprica Lyra, later to be named Serina, reports the attack. After the destruction of the planets, we see the exodus starting up to form the ragtag fleet which will journey on a quest to find that shining planet called Earth.

These are some of the original sketched storyboards of Battlestar Galactica's pilot "Saga of a Star World". They're made by Dan Goozee and show the first 9 pages of the "Attack on Caprica" scene at the beginning of the pilot. The storyboards were made for an early version of the pilot script where Serina was still named Lyra. These storyboard sketches were later translated into real storyboards as can be seen here in Storyboards of "Saga of a Star World".

These are three of the original sketched color storyboards of the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero". They're made by concept artist Dan Goozee and show three different scenes. The first shows the viper cockpit when its being fired upon by the Ravashol laser, the second shows the Ravashol laser gun itself and the third one shows the mountain range the Ravashol laser is hidden in (pointing out the live action vs. the matte painting).

Frank Frazetta is a fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. Frank Frazetta made several paintings for Battlestar Galactica which were later used on the covers of the Battlestar Galactica fiction novels. It's unknown if he was hired to just do poster art or if his paintings were really used as concept art for both the pilot as the series.

Robert Tanenbaum has executed numerous portraits for the movie industry and over 200 paintings of famous sports figures in Nascar, baseball, basketball, football, hockey and horse racing. Next to that his painting include, Native Americans , working cowboys, portraits and contemporary subjects. For Battlestar Galactica Robert Tanenboum painted the art used on the "Saga of a Star World" and "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" movie posters.

The body of work that John Solie has created in a career spanning over 40 years is beyond impressive. His legendary skill for depicting "dead-on likenesses" of famous people has kept John in demand by major Hollywood movie studios, television networks, book publishers and magazine editors. The art he did for Battlestar Galactica was used on posters, books, the LP cover of the music score and much more.

Don Lawrence was a British comic book artist and author and is best known for his comic strips "The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" and ;"Storm". Famous for his realistic and detailed style, he was an inspiration for later highly influentual UK comic-book artists like Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons and Chris Weston. This Battlestar Galactica poster art was made to promote the series on Dutch television.

Some time ago Mike Egnor caught up with Nehemiah Persoff, better known to Battlestar Galactica 1978 fans as the Eastern Alliance Leader in the episode "Experiment in Terra". Mike talks with him about his life long career and the many great parts he did, like with Marlon Brando in On The Waterfront, Ronald Colman in A Double Life, Humphrey Bogart in The Harder They Fall, Alfred Hitchcock on several occasions and of course his part on Battlestar Galactica.

Marcel Damen talked to Dan Goozee, better known for his concept art on the Battlestar Galactica 1978 series. In an exclusive interview Dan talked about his work on Battlestar Galactica for the first time ever and provided us with copies of the never shown concept artwork. Next to that he also talked about the work he did for the Irwin Allen movies The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, his work on the Walt Disney theme parks and his current work as an award winning painter.