I gave this one my first good watching last night and I have to ask : where were the captive women? There were lots of captive men, a bunch of captive kids but only one captive woman who Herc saved thirty seconds after she showed up. This movie has the most inaccurate title since "Future War" !

Look and listen to the guy in the diner (black hair on the left) at 18:35. It's none other than Jody "Critter Jones" Daniels ! Girl in Gold Boots was made three years later but that voice is unmistakable. Especially the way he exagerates the 'wh' at the beginning of words.

- The space battle between the Cylons...err, pirates and colonials...uh, I guess that works, is a lot longer and Ryder, Starbuck and Apollo shoot down a lot more enemies before Ryder crashes during landing. Commander Santa, the Captain and Lea watch the victory from a window.
- If all of the inhabitants on the Southern Sun are mulitgeneration ship colonists on a lonely journey to a distant planet, where does Biff Hardcheese come from? Why does he need to be introduced when he arrives? Where was he picking up the Professor from?
- After Lt. Lamont is killed, the floor waxer chase is a lot longer and ends when a pipe falls in front Bulk McLargehuge (who says some naughty words) and Lea forcing them to escape on foot. Kalgan orders the Enforcers to track then down with "extreme prejudice."
- That was Lt. Lamont's twin sister, not a continuity error when she returned from the dead.
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Just Kidding! It was a continuity error.
- Lea doesn't know where the Enforcer's Office is? And she's the Commander's daughter?
- After meeting Mr. Monster Mash, Beef Buttroast and Lea execute a perfect "after you" when the enforcers barge in. (Commercial cut)
- Before Mass Musclebound is appointed chief mutineer fighter, they discuss Kalgan's motives. An important point cut out (due to commercial) Kalgan intends to sell the non-mutineers into slavery to the pirates.
- Commander Jansen's first name is Alex. You probably didn't know that.
- One Rider's viper squadron injured Engineer Mac Pherson (The guy with the cane), so he has a personal motive to mutiny.
- When Slab and Lea have sex in the greenhouse, they talk about growing up on the Southern Sun and that Bulk's dad and grandad also were pilots.
- The Battle between the Galactica and the Cylon Base Star (sorry Southern Sun and Pirate Ship) is a bit longer in the original version. (They used all of the availabale BSG footage)
- McPherson calls Smash Lampjaw am as----ole and sh!+.
- Crunch Squatthrust gets in a fight with 2 mooks while coming to save Lea. One of mooks misses on a punch hits a wall (OUCH!)
- After Lea and Tank escape a long, long, long chase sequence is cut until they steal the enforcer's masks.
- When MacPherson roasts on an open fire, they cut a scene where he climbs out of the gas expulsion sump, completely aflame before he dies. It looked cool.

(Spoiler alert) So the judge agrees that Jimmy's parents are the reason he's so screwed up and ended up killing someone, so he remands Jimmy into the care of -- his parents! There, ladies and gentlemen, is the U.S. justice system.

I was watching an episode of 'The Rifleman' recently (episode 164 : 'Requiem at Misson Springs') and was pleasantly surprised to see Dean Fredericks (Frank Chapman in this movie) as the lead bad guy. He ended up getting shot by Lucas McCain (big surprise) but his ... distinctive countenance was unmistakable !

Here's a little continuity error I noticed for those of us interested in aviation.

In this movie the General says that "Warshington" has dispatched a B-52 armed with an A Bomb to wipe out the locusts in Chicago (as if an A Bomb would do less damage than a bunch of big grasshoppers). But when he contacts the plane by radio, the stock footage shows a Convair B-36.

I know it's hard to believe that a high quality production like this could make that kind of glaring error, but there it is.

Remember : Aviate, Navigate & Communicate.

I just noticed the actor who plays Captain Birdman of Homicide in this episode is the same guy who plays Day Drinking Grandpa in 'Teenagers From Outer Space'.

Apparently Servo noticed too because he uses the same riff - singing the theme song from 'New Zoo Review' - in both episodes (01:08:00 in this one and at 00:33:45 in 'Teenagers...')

In at least one dialect of Australian Aboriginal language "Goona" is a swear word referring to fecal matter.

The more you know.

So he learned he loves violence and enjoys killing like a man ought to! - Girl In The Gold Boots

Joel's jumpsuit and Dr. F's green lab coat are iconic enough that if I see someone else wearing them I immediately think of them. It got me pondering about other garb in tv history if you saw someone wear that you would think instantly of a tv character. Being a big fan, I immediately thought of Columbo. Maybe Archies Bunker's white shirt( with or without his fuzzy jacket) and Urkel's suspenders. Oh, and Matt Dillon's pinkish shirt and vest. Oh, 1 more Fred Sanford's outfit. Dang, I'm old.

I chuckle often still when I see Trace raise his eyebrows in the opening. I was curious to hear who are some of the best eyebrow archers of all time. John belushi jumps to my mind first.

Today I find myself in San Francisco International Airport (Where the Big B Actors Roar!) for a connecting flight. I'm somewhat disappointed that they've moved on from the browns-and-tans color scheme.