List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) episodes

Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson. The series first aired as a three-hour miniseries (comprising four broadcast hours) in December 2003 on the Sci-Fi Channel. The television series debuted in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on October 18, 2004, and premiered in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel on January 14, 2005.

The story arc of Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant star system, where a civilization of humans live on a series of planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies had been at war with a cybernetic race of their own creation, known as the Cylons. With the self-serving and venal help of a human named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons, some now in human form, launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. Out of a population numbering in the billions, only approximately 50,000 humans survive, most of whom were aboard civilian spaceships that avoided destruction. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the eponymous Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of Colonial Fleet officer Commander William "Bill" Adama and President Laura Roslin, the Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	Miniseries	2		December 8, 2003	December 9, 2003
	1	13		October 18, 2004 (UK) January 15, 2005 (U.S.)	January 24, 2005 (UK) April 1, 2005 (U.S.)
	2	20		July 15, 2005	March 10, 2006
	3	20		October 6, 2006	March 25, 2007
	Razor			November 24, 2007
	4	21		April 4, 2008	March 20, 2009
	The Plan			October 27, 2009 (Blu-ray/DVD) January 10, 2010 (TV)

Miniseries (2003)

Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
"Part 1"	Unspecified	Michael Rymer	Ronald D. Moore and Christopher Eric James	December 8, 2003
The decommissioning of the Battlestar Galactica is interrupted by a surprise attack on the Twelve Colonies by the Cylons.
"Part 2"	50,298	Michael Rymer	Ronald D. Moore and Christopher Eric James	December 9, 2003
Recently sworn in as the new Colonial President, Laura Roslin manages to gather up all surviving elements of humanity into a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" and seeks the protection of the Galactica. Faced with the reality of being hopelessly outgunned and outnumbered, Adama decides to escape with the civilian craft and seek out a new home for humanity — a mythical planet of fellow humans somewhere in the galaxy known only as "Earth."

Television series

Season 1 (2004–05)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"33"	49,998	Michael Rymer	Ronald D. Moore	October 18, 2004 (Sky1) January 14, 2005 (Syfy)
2	2	"Water"	47,973	Marita Grabiak	Ronald D. Moore	October 25, 2004 (Sky1) January 14, 2005 (Syfy)
3	3	"Bastille Day"	47,958	Allan Kroeker	Toni Graphia	November 1, 2004 (Sky1) January 21, 2005 (Syfy)
4	4	"Act of Contrition"	47,958	Rod Hardy	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	November 8, 2004 (Sky1) January 28, 2005 (Syfy)
5	5	"You Can't Go Home Again"	47,945	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Carla Robinson	November 15, 2004 (Sky1) February 4, 2005 (Syfy)
6	6	"Litmus"	47,945	Rod Hardy	Jeff Vlaming	November 22, 2004 (Sky1) February 11, 2005 (Syfy)
7	7	"Six Degrees of Separation"	47,942	Robert Young	Michael Angeli	November 29, 2004 (Sky1) February 18, 2005 (Syfy)
8	8	"Flesh and Bone"	47,938	Brad Turner	Toni Graphia	December 6, 2004 (Sky1) February 25, 2005 (Syfy)
9	9	"Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"	47,905	Edward James Olmos	Jeff Vlaming	December 13, 2004 (Sky1) March 4, 2005 (Syfy)
10	10	"The Hand of God"	47,905	Jeff Woolnough	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	January 3, 2005 (Sky1) March 11, 2005 (Syfy)
11	11	"Colonial Day"	47,898	Jonas Pate	Carla Robinson	January 10, 2005 (Sky1) March 18, 2005 (Syfy)
12	12	"Kobol's Last Gleaming (Part 1)"	47,897	Michael Rymer	Story by : David Eick Teleplay by : Ronald D. Moore	January 17, 2005 (Sky1) March 25, 2005 (Syfy)
13	13	"Kobol's Last Gleaming (Part 2)"	47,887	Michael Rymer	Story by : David Eick Teleplay by : Ronald D. Moore	January 24, 2005 (Sky1) April 1, 2005 (Syfy)

Season 2 (2005–06)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
Season 2.0
14	1	"Scattered"	47,875	Michael Rymer	David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	July 15, 2005
15	2	"Valley of Darkness"	47,874	Michael Rymer	David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	July 22, 2005
16	3	"Fragged"	47,862	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin	July 29, 2005
17	4	"Resistance"	47,861	Allan Kroeker	Toni Graphia	August 5, 2005
18	5	"The Farm"	47,857	Rod Hardy	Carla Robinson	August 12, 2005
19	6	"Home (Part 1)"	47,858	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	David Eick	August 19, 2005
20	7	"Home (Part 2)"	47,855	Jeff Woolnough	David Eick & Ronald D. Moore	August 26, 2005
21	8	"Final Cut"	47,853	Robert Young	Mark Verheiden	September 9, 2005
22	9	"Flight of the Phoenix"	47,853	Michael Nankin	David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	September 16, 2005
23	10	"Pegasus"	49,605	Michael Rymer	Anne Cofell Saunders	September 23, 2005
Season 2.5
24	11	"Resurrection Ship (Part 1)"	49,604	Michael Rymer	Story by : Anne Cofell Saunders Teleplay by : Michael Rymer	January 6, 2006
25	12	"Resurrection Ship (Part 2)"	49,604	Michael Rymer	Michael Rymer & Ronald D. Moore	January 13, 2006
26	13	"Epiphanies"	49,598	Rod Hardy	Joel Anderson Thompson	January 20, 2006
27	14	"Black Market"	49,597	James Head	Mark Verheiden	January 27, 2006
28	15	"Scar"	49,593	Michael Nankin	David Weddle & Bradley Thompson	February 3, 2006
29	16	"Sacrifice"	49,590	Rey Villalobos	Anne Cofell Saunders	February 10, 2006
30	17	"The Captain's Hand"	49,584	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Jeff Vlaming	February 17, 2006
31	18	"Downloaded"	49,579	Jeff Woolnough	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	February 24, 2006
32	19	"Lay Down Your Burdens (Part 1)"	49,579	Michael Rymer	Ronald D. Moore	March 3, 2006
33	20	"Lay Down Your Burdens (Part 2)"	49,550	Michael Rymer	Anne Cofell Saunders & Mark Verheiden	March 10, 2006

Season 3 (2006–07)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
34	1	"Occupation"	Unspecified	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Ronald D. Moore	October 6, 2006
35	2	"Precipice"	Unspecified	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Ronald D. Moore	October 6, 2006
36	3	"Exodus (Part 1)"	Unspecified	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	October 13, 2006
37	4	"Exodus (Part 2)"	Unspecified	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	October 20, 2006
38	5	"Collaborators"	41,435	Michael Rymer	Mark Verheiden	October 27, 2006
39	6	"Torn"	41,422	Jean de Segonzac	Anne Cofell Saunders	November 3, 2006
40	7	"A Measure of Salvation"	41,420	Bill Eagles	Michael Angeli	November 10, 2006
41	8	"Hero"	41,421	Michael Rymer	David Eick	November 17, 2006
42	9	"Unfinished Business"	41,422	Robert Young	Michael Taylor	December 1, 2006
43	10	"The Passage"	41,420	Michael Nankin	Jane Espenson	December 8, 2006
44	11	"The Eye of Jupiter"	41,402	Michael Rymer	Mark Verheiden	December 15, 2006
45	12	"Rapture"	41,401	Michael Rymer	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	January 21, 2007
46	13	"Taking a Break from All Your Worries"	41,403	Edward James Olmos	Michael Taylor	January 28, 2007
47	14	"The Woman King"	41,401	Michael Rymer	Michael Angeli	February 11, 2007
48	15	"A Day in the Life"	41,398	Rod Hardy	Mark Verheiden	February 18, 2007
49	16	"Dirty Hands"	41,400	Wayne Rose	Jane Espenson & Anne Cofell Saunders	February 25, 2007
50	17	"Maelstrom"	41,400	Michael Nankin	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	March 4, 2007
51	18	"The Son Also Rises"	41,399	Robert Young	Michael Angeli	March 11, 2007
52	19	"Crossroads (Part 1)"	Unspecified	Michael Rymer	Michael Taylor	March 18, 2007
53	20	"Crossroads (Part 2)"	Unspecified	Michael Rymer	Mark Verheiden	March 25, 2007

Razor (2007)

No.	Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
54 55	Razor	49,579	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Michael Taylor	November 24, 2007
A series of flashbacks reveals the chronicles of the Battlestar Pegasus and its crew from the initial Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, up to its meeting with Galactica, while Apollo's new XO deals with the harsh reality of Admiral Cain's legacy. Chronologically, this fits into Season 2 between the episodes "The Captain's Hand" and "Downloaded."

Season 4 (2008–09)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
Season 4.0
56	1	"He That Believeth in Me"	39,698	Michael Rymer	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	April 4, 2008
57	2	"Six of One"	39,676	Anthony Hemingway	Michael Angeli	April 11, 2008
58	3	"The Ties That Bind"	39,676	Michael Nankin	Michael Taylor	April 18, 2008
59	4	"Escape Velocity"	39,675	Edward James Olmos	Jane Espenson	April 25, 2008
60	5	"The Road Less Traveled"	39,676	Michael Rymer	Mark Verheiden	May 2, 2008
61	6	"Faith"	39,675	Michael Nankin	Seamus Kevin Fahey	May 9, 2008
62	7	"Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"	39,673	Wayne Rose	Michael Angeli	May 16, 2008
63	8	"Sine Qua Non"	39,674	Rod Hardy	Michael Taylor	May 27, 2008
64	9	"The Hub"	39,673	Paul Edwards	Jane Espenson	June 6, 2008
65	10	"Revelations"	39,665	Michael Rymer	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	June 13, 2008
Season 4.5
66	11	"Sometimes a Great Notion"	39,651	Michael Nankin	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	January 16, 2009
67	12	"A Disquiet Follows My Soul"	39,644	Ronald D. Moore	Ronald D. Moore	January 23, 2009
68	13	"The Oath"	39,643	John Dahl	Mark Verheiden	January 30, 2009
69	14	"Blood on the Scales"	39,603	Wayne Rose	Michael Angeli	February 6, 2009
70	15	"No Exit"	39,556	Gwyneth Horder-Payton	Ryan Mottesheard	February 13, 2009
71	16	"Deadlock"	39,556	Robert Young	Jane Espenson	February 20, 2009
72	17	"Someone to Watch Over Me"	39,556	Michael Nankin	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	February 27, 2009
73	18	"Islanded in a Stream of Stars"	39,521	Edward James Olmos	Michael Taylor	March 6, 2009
74	19	"Daybreak (Part 1)"	39,516	Michael Rymer	Ronald D. Moore	March 13, 2009
75 76	20 21	"Daybreak (Part 2)" "Daybreak (Part 3)"	39,406[1]	Michael Rymer	Ronald D. Moore	March 20, 2009

The Plan (2009)

Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
The Plan	Unspecified	Edward James Olmos	Jane Espenson	October 27, 2009 (Blu-ray/DVD) January 10, 2010 (TV)
As two John Cavil Cylons wait to be blown out of a Galactica airlock, they discuss their opposing opinions on the plan to annihilate humankind. They reflect on their own experiences with the humans since the attack on the Twelve Colonies, their roles in the orchestration of the Cylon agents onboard the Galactica, and efforts to sabotage the resistance effort on Caprica come to light. The film provides an alternate perspective on many events already known to the viewer.

Webisodes (2006–09)

Title	Survivor count	Directed by	Written by	No. of Installments	Original release
The Resistance	Unspecified	Wayne Rose	Bradley Thompson & David Weddle	10	September 5, 2006 – October 5, 2006
The Cylons' occupation of New Caprica results in the formation of a human resistance movement determined to undermine the Cylons' attempt to assimilate the remainder of humanity.
Razor Flashbacks	Unspecified	Wayne Rose & Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Michael Taylor	7	October 5, 2007 – November 16, 2007
During the later stages of the First Cylon War, a young Lt. William Adama discovers, by chance, an abandoned lab where the Cylons conducted gruesome experiments with live human subjects.
The Face of the Enemy	Unspecified	Wayne Rose	Jane Espenson & Seamus Kevin Fahey	10	December 12, 2008 – January 12, 2009
Nine days after finding Earth, Lt. Gaeta is onboard a Raptor with several of Galactica's crew and Cylon Eights en route to the Zephyr when a Cylon threat forces the fleet to jump. During the chaos, the Raptor is separated from rest of the fleet and while waiting for a rescue, the passengers and crew mysteriously begin to die off one by one.

Home media

Product		Episodes	DVD release date			Blu-ray Disc release date
			Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	Miniseries (2003)	2	December 28, 2004[2]	March 1, 2004[3]	April 16, 2004[4]	N/A
	Season 1 (2004–05)	13	September 20, 2005[5]	March 28, 2005[6]	August 15, 2006[7]	January 5, 2010[5]^1
	Season 2 (2005–06)	20	Season 2.0: December 20, 2005[5]	August 28, 2006[8]	April 4, 2007[9]	April 6, 2010[10]
			Season 2.5: September 19, 2006[5]
	Season 3 (2006–07)	20	March 18, 2008[5]	September 3, 2007[11]	November 20, 2007[12]	July 27, 2010[13]
	Razor^2 (2007)	Film	December 4, 2007[5]	December 26, 2007[14]	August 20, 2008[15]	December 28, 2010[5]
	Season 4 (2008–09)	20	Season 4.0: January 6, 2009[5]	Season 4: October 6, 2008[16]	Season 4: Part 1: December 3, 2008[17]	January 4, 2011[5]
			Season 4.5: July 28, 2009[5]	The Final Season: June 1, 2009[18]	Season 4: Part 2: July 28, 2009[19]
	The Plan (2009)	Film	October 27, 2009[5]	May 10, 2010[20]	December 7, 2009[21]	October 27, 2009[5]
Other releases
	Miniseries & Seasons 1–3	55	N/A	October 22, 2007[22]	December 4, 2007[23]	N/A
	Miniseries & Seasons 1–4^3	65 & Film	N/A	October 6, 2008[24]	N/A	N/A
	The Complete Series^4	75 & Film	July 28, 2009[5]	September 21, 2009[25]	N/A	July 28, 2009[5]
	The Complete Collection^5	75 & 2 Films	N/A	N/A	December 7, 2009[26]	N/A
	The Complete Series	75 & 2 Films	April 6, 2010[5]	N/A	March 8, 2010[27]	April 6, 2010[5]
	The Ultimate Wholeness (L'Intégrale ultime)^6	75 & 3 Films	N/A	N/A	N/A	October 6, 2015[28]

Notes:

1. ^ In addition to the Blu-ray Disc releases, this set was also released on HD DVD, on December 4, 2007.[5]
2. ^ Razor, though being a television movie, is considered to be the first two episodes of season 4, hence the fourth season is technically 22 episodes and runs from 2007 to 2009.
3. ^ This set does not contain the second half of Season 4, also known as The Final Season.
4. ^ This set does not contain The Plan.
5. ^ This set also contains the complete 1978 Battlestar Galactica series, including Galactica 1980.
6. ^ This set also contains Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the complete Caprica series, the complete 1978 Battlestar Galactica series, the complete Galactica 1980 series, and the 1978 feature film based on the original series pilot episode. This set has been released in European French speaking countries only.

Broadcast ratings

Season	Number of episodes	Premiere		Finale		Average viewership (millions)
		Date	Viewers (millions)	Date	Viewers (millions)
4	22	April 4, 2008	2.1[29]	March 20, 2009	2.4[30]	2.3[30]

Online availability

Apple iTunes

In January 2006, Apple began offering the episodes for the miniseries, season 1, and season 2 for purchase on the U.S. version of the iTunes Store.[31] In December 2007, the Battlestar Galactica episodes were removed from iTunes along with other NBC Universal content.[32] The episodes returned to iTunes when NBC Universal announced their return to iTunes in September 2008.[33] In February 2009, the series became available in high-definition format at the UK iTunes Store.[34]

Other channels

The series has also been available via Amazon Video,[35] Google Play,[36] Hulu,[37] Netflix,[38] PlayStation Network,[39] and Xbox Video.[40] 78 episodes have been made available on the BBC iPlayer as of September 2020.[41]

References

1. There is no survivor count given in the aired version of the episode. It was split into three separate episodes on iTunes, Amazon Unbox, and other online providers, and the "third part", "Daybreak, Part 3" gives a survivor count of 39,406, which is relevant to the beginning of the episode at which The Colony has just been ordered to stand down. Later in the episode, when the fleet is orbiting the new Earth, Admiral Adama gives the last survivor count of the Colonials, putting the count at approximately "38,000." Thereafter the population assimilates with/into the society of the native Earth humans, and 150,000 years later, the population of the descendants of the Colonials is 6,760,000,000.
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40. "Battlestar Galactica". Xbox. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
41. "Sci-Fi – Battlestar Galactica". BBC iPlayer. BBC. Retrieved September 8, 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Battlestar Galactica – list of episodes at IMDb
• List of Battlestar Galactica episodes at TV.com