January 27, 1980
Galactica 1980 first aired.
A spin-off from the original Battlestar
Galactica television series.
It was first broadcast on the ABC
network in the United States from
January 27 to May 4, 1980, lasting for 10 episodes. Set during the year 1980,
and a generation after the original series, the Galactica and
its fleet of 220 civilian ships have finally discovered Earth, only to find that its
people are not as scientifically advanced and that the planet can neither
defend itself against the Cylons nor
help the Galactica as originally hoped. Therefore, teams of
Colonial warriors arecovertly sent to the planet to work incognito
with various members of the scientific community, hoping to advance Earth's
technology.Commander Adama and Colonel Boomer —
now second-in-command — on the advice of Doctor Zee, a teenage prodigy
serving as Adama's counsellor, sends Captain Troy,
who is the adopted son of Adama's own son Apollo, and
Lieutenant Dillon to North America,
where they become entangled with TV journalist Jamie Hamilton. After an
initial, epictime travel adventure to Nazi Germany in
the 1940s (to stop rebel Galactican Commander Xavier, trying to change the future to improve Earth's technology level), the
three friends devise ways to help Earth's scientists and outwit the Cylons in
the present day. Meanwhile, Adama sends a group of children from the Galactica fleet
(the Super Scouts) to Earth in order to begin the process of
integrating with the population. However, due to differences in gravity and
physiology, the children must deal with the fact they have nearly super-human
powers on Earth.
The
fates of several characters from the original series are explained during the
course of the series. Apollo is apparently dead, the cause of his seeming death
not addressed. Starbuck was marooned on a desert planet, although the script
for the episode "The Wheel of Fire" (unfilmed at the time of
cancellation) indicated that Starbuck was eventually rescued from the planet by
the inhabitants of the Ships of Light and became one of their inhabitants. Captain Troy is revealed to be Boxey, and Lt. Boomer has
risen to the rank of Colonel and has become Adama's second in command. Baltar
was apparently rescued from the planet he was marooned on in "Hand of
God", and is now Commandant Baltar of the Cylon fleet pursuing the
Galacticans. The fates of several other characters, including Adama's
daughter Athena, Colonel Tigh,
Starbuck's girlfriend Cassiopeia, and Muffit the robot dog are not revealed. These
characters are absent from the second series.
January 27, 1980
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe preimered
on the ABC network.
The series was created and executive
produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The one-hour program revolved around two detectives who
had their own detective agency in Los Angeles. E. L. ("Early Leroy") "Tenspeed"
Turner (Ben Vereen) was a hustler who worked as a detective to satisfy
his parole requirements. His partner Lionel "Brownshoe" Whitney (Jeff Goldblum)
was an archetypal accountant, complete with button-down collars and a nagging
fiancee (at least for the pilot episode), who had always wanted to be a
1940s-style Bogart P.I. A running joke was his penchant for reading
a series of hard-boiled crime novels, sub-titled, "A Mark Savage
Mystery", written by Stephen J. Cannell (though he never wrote such a
series of novels), with Goldblum reading particularly purple passages in
voice-over. He was sharper than he seemed, although a little naïve and more
reasonable than his career path demanded, and had picked up karate to Black Belt
standard.
This
was the first series to come from Stephen J. Cannell Productions as an
independent company (it was distributed throughParamount
Television, one of only two such
collaborations - the other was Riptide) and is also the only one not to carry the famed
Cannell logo on any episodes, having "A Stephen J. Cannell
Production" appearing in-credit (the logo was introduced in 1981 whenThe
Greatest American Hero began
airing). It was heavily promoted by ABC at the time it premiered in late
January 1980. The series attracted a substantial audience for its first few
episodes (indeed, the series was the 29th most-watched program of the 1979–80
U.S. television season, according to Nielsen ratings),
but viewership dropped off substantially after that and the series was not
renewed for the 1980–81 season.
January 28, 1985
American recording artists gather to
record "We Are the World"
February 2, 1950
What's My Line debuted on CBS
television.
What's My
Line? is a panel game show which
originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to
1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals. The
game tasks celebrity panelists with
questioning contestants in order to determine their occupations. It is
the longest-running
U.S. primetime network television game-show. Moderated by John
Charles Daly and with panelists Dorothy
Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett
Cerf, What's My Line? won three Emmy Awards for
"Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show" in 1952, 1953, and 1958
and the Golden Globefor Best TV Show in 1962.
After its cancellation by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily
production which ran from 1968 until 1975. There have been several
international versions, radio versions, and a live stage version.In 2013, TV Guide ranked
it #9 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.
January 27, 1980
Galactica 1980 first aired.
A spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series. It was first broadcast on the ABC network in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980, lasting for 10 episodes. Set during the year 1980, and a generation after the original series, the Galactica and its fleet of 220 civilian ships have finally discovered Earth, only to find that its people are not as scientifically advanced and that the planet can neither defend itself against the Cylons nor help the Galactica as originally hoped. Therefore, teams of Colonial warriors arecovertly sent to the planet to work incognito with various members of the scientific community, hoping to advance Earth's technology.Commander Adama and Colonel Boomer —
now second-in-command — on the advice of Doctor Zee, a teenage prodigy
serving as Adama's counsellor, sends Captain Troy,
who is the adopted son of Adama's own son Apollo, and
Lieutenant Dillon to North America,
where they become entangled with TV journalist Jamie Hamilton. After an
initial, epictime travel adventure to Nazi Germany in
the 1940s (to stop rebel Galactican Commander Xavier, trying to change the future to improve Earth's technology level), the
three friends devise ways to help Earth's scientists and outwit the Cylons in
the present day. Meanwhile, Adama sends a group of children from the Galactica fleet
(the Super Scouts) to Earth in order to begin the process of
integrating with the population. However, due to differences in gravity and
physiology, the children must deal with the fact they have nearly super-human
powers on Earth.
The
fates of several characters from the original series are explained during the
course of the series. Apollo is apparently dead, the cause of his seeming death
not addressed. Starbuck was marooned on a desert planet, although the script
for the episode "The Wheel of Fire" (unfilmed at the time of
cancellation) indicated that Starbuck was eventually rescued from the planet by
the inhabitants of the Ships of Light and became one of their inhabitants. Captain Troy is revealed to be Boxey, and Lt. Boomer has
risen to the rank of Colonel and has become Adama's second in command. Baltar
was apparently rescued from the planet he was marooned on in "Hand of
God", and is now Commandant Baltar of the Cylon fleet pursuing the
Galacticans. The fates of several other characters, including Adama's
daughter Athena, Colonel Tigh,
Starbuck's girlfriend Cassiopeia, and Muffit the robot dog are not revealed. These
characters are absent from the second series.
January 27, 1980
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe preimered on the ABC network.
The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The one-hour program revolved around two detectives who had their own detective agency in Los Angeles. E. L. ("Early Leroy") "Tenspeed" Turner (Ben Vereen) was a hustler who worked as a detective to satisfy his parole requirements. His partner Lionel "Brownshoe" Whitney (Jeff Goldblum) was an archetypal accountant, complete with button-down collars and a nagging fiancee (at least for the pilot episode), who had always wanted to be a 1940s-style Bogart P.I. A running joke was his penchant for reading a series of hard-boiled crime novels, sub-titled, "A Mark Savage Mystery", written by Stephen J. Cannell (though he never wrote such a series of novels), with Goldblum reading particularly purple passages in voice-over. He was sharper than he seemed, although a little naïve and more reasonable than his career path demanded, and had picked up karate to Black Belt standard.
This
was the first series to come from Stephen J. Cannell Productions as an
independent company (it was distributed throughParamount
Television, one of only two such
collaborations - the other was Riptide) and is also the only one not to carry the famed
Cannell logo on any episodes, having "A Stephen J. Cannell
Production" appearing in-credit (the logo was introduced in 1981 whenThe
Greatest American Hero began
airing). It was heavily promoted by ABC at the time it premiered in late
January 1980. The series attracted a substantial audience for its first few
episodes (indeed, the series was the 29th most-watched program of the 1979–80
U.S. television season, according to Nielsen ratings),
but viewership dropped off substantially after that and the series was not
renewed for the 1980–81 season.
January 28, 1985
American recording artists gather to
record "We Are the World"
February 2, 1950
What's My Line debuted on CBS
television.
After its cancellation by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production which ran from 1968 until 1975. There have been several international versions, radio versions, and a live stage version.In 2013, TV Guide ranked it #9 in its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.
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