Re: the original Battlestar Galactica:
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Me, too: Cheap Star Wars ripoff, all the way.
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Eh? I suppose it only got funded because of the popularity of
Star Wars, but I can't see where it was a rip-off of SW in any significant way. Completely different characters, completely different plot.
Actually, I didn't think it was that bad. Admittedly I was a kid at the time, but I read far more SF than I watched in the media, so I did have some basis for comparison. I even read the
Battlestar Galactica novel. It wasn't Heinlein, but it wasn't that bad. The problem BG faced was the "to boldly flee" problem -- it was hard to keep people interested in a situation where the protagonists were retreating all the time. Hence the introduction of the Pegasus.
Now,
Galactica 1980 was an utter disaster (other than the one flashback episode mentioned earlier, which was pretty cool). We only watched it because there was nothing better on TV at the time.
Regarding
Knight Rider, since the most likable character in the original series was the car, I suppose all they'd need to do is get a voice actor who can play the same part (maybe even the same actor, since no one would be able to see him) and they could easily have just as much success as the first one had. I don't watch broadcast TV anymore (including cable), because the commercials drive me crazy, so I don't really care what they do.
For those of you who liked
The Prisoner, I recommend the anime series
Neon Genesis Evangelion. I think it was showing on one of the anime cable stations for a while, but I'd recommend the DVD version with the original Japanese audio and English subtitles (assuming you don't speak Japanese). Another good mind-bending anime series is
Revolutionary Girl Utena, especially after the first few episodes.