Believe it or not, a robot dog on the original Battlestar Galactica was played by a real animal: a chimpanzee in a costume.

When Battlestar Galactica premiered in 1978, it arrived with all the spectacle television could muster at the time. Big sets, dazzling effects, and a sweeping story of survival in the stars-all of it ...

Despite being a short-lived series nearly 50 years ago, there is no question that the original Battlestar Galactica made an impact on a couple of generations of fans and certainly on the people who ...

Battlestar Galactica fans are a funny old lot. Delve just a little way into the interweb and you'll find forum threads dedicated to demanding a revival of the original 1978 Glen Larson series, ...

On Nov. 17, 1978, The Hollywood Reporter appraised a movie version of Glen A. Larson’s Battlestar Galactica. While the franchise would eventually attract an enduring fan base, THR’s critic initially ...

When people talk about the Golden Age of Television that followed in the wake of David Chase’s groundbreaking series The Sopranos, you’re likely to hear a few usual suspects touted as examples: Mad ...

Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema. Last time on Movie Gadget Friday, we entered the 8th dimension with The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the heart of it all were characters who felt like family. There was Apollo, the straight-arrow pilot who carried the burden of ...