What are the Battlestar Galactica telemovies?
After Galactica’s demise on television, Universal cut the entire first season into twelve “telemovies”, to be sold to television stations for syndication. The pilot episode is an edited variant of the standard U.S. theatrical version, and is 2h30 in length with commercials. There are ten minutes of material that have been cut from two scenes. The other main difference between the two versions is Baltar surviving his execution, and the inclusion of the epilog sequence with Baltar and Lucifer, both from the network version. The remainder of the telemovies are each two hours in length, including commercials. The four two-part episodes, Lost Planet of the Gods, Gun on Ice Planet Zero, The Living Legend, and War of the Gods, each feature about five minutes of new scenes, which were originally filmed for the episodes, but never made it in the original broadcast version. With one significant exception [see E4], nearly all of these scenes are available as bonuses on The Complete Epic Series DV
