The three-hour premiere movie kicking off Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC… only to be interrupted by a live special report covering the ratification of the Camp David peace accords. The full movie is shown after the interruption, however, making its planned three-hour time slot a four-hour time slot. Despite this, the audience seems to stick with the show, the first major TV American science fiction series to try to venture into Star Wars territory.
