As the series progressed, the ratings began to decline, even though the show still consistently won its coveted Sunday evening timeslot. Although each episode had a budget of about $1 million, the show reused so many special effects shots due to budgetary constraints that many critics derided it as “overplayed into tedium.”

In mid-April 1979, ABC executives cancelled the still strongly-rated show. Some sources indicate that the million-dollar-per-episode cost led to the show’s demise.[citation needed] Others believe that it was a failed attempt by ABC to position its hit comedy Mork & Mindy into a more lucrative timeslot.[citation needed] (The ratings for Mork plummeted far below what they had been for Battlestar Galactica.) The cancellation led to viewer outrage, protests outside ABC studios, and even contributed to the suicide of Eddie Seidel, a 15-year-old boy in Saint Paul, Minnesota who had become obsessed with the program. [2] On May 18, 1979, the theatrical version of the pilot was released in U.S. theaters.

ABC executives have noted that the problem lay not in Galactica, but in the time slot. The four or five shows that filled that slot after the cancellation of Battlestar Galactica never reached the ratings achieved by the series.

Tosin kai aineski sellainen ero on, että toinen oli networkin korkeaprofiilinen prime time -sarja ja toinen kaapelikanavan yritys murtautua ulos scifighetosta.

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