European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes Friday september 15, 1978 lome Greene As commander Adama. By Jerry buc associated press when Star wars came out a year ago handmade movie Box office history it was praised not Only As a space epic but also for its kinship to westerns and Swash Bucklers. Much the same thing is happening with Abc s new sunday night series Batt Lestar galactic. Its creator Glen Larson Calls it biblical and com pares it to Wagon train. Lome Greene likens the wid owed father figure he plays As commander Adama to his role As Ben Cartwright in Bonanza. Galactic which follows a group of space immigrant seeking Earth after devastation of their own planets premiered recently with a three hour movie. It also stars Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. The show will if Noth ing else set a record As the most expensive regular series Ever made. The movie Cost $7 million although the Cost of the set Sand costumes can be spread Over the tenure of the series. Some individual episodes Are costing $1 million twice the present rate for a one hour series. Universal studios is Al ready recovering some of its investment. The movie edited to two hours pulled in $4 million in the first eight weeks of theatrical release in Canada and will debut i Europe in october. Galactic has a biblical feel Larson says. It ties i with genesis it ties in with the Western pioneers. That s Why we can do people stories even though we re in  s not a hardware show although our special effects Are magnificent. We want to make the Midwest comfortable wit space. That s Why we have Lorne Greene. It s like Wagon train. It s exodus it s the fugitive. It s people on the one of the invaders from Batt Lestar galactic. Run. It does t matter where they re going it s what Hap pens on the Way. The gimmick the network liked was that they Are searching for Earth. So much science fiction is the opposite people leaving a devastated Earth searching for other  Greene his hair Silver attired in the dark purplish uniform and Cape of his character says these people could be our ancestors. They Are searching for Earth. But it s up to the audience to decide the time Frame whether it s the past present or  Larson is counting on the space craze generated by Star wars and Star trek reruns. But galactic also seeks to capitalize on the Public fascination stirred by Chariot Soj the gods and other works speculating that Earth was visited by astronauts far in  Larson has planted the biblical seed linking it symbolically to genesis and the 13 tribes of Israel on of which was lost. In the Story Kobol was the Mother planet the Garden of Eden which sent out space probes an found 13 planets capable of supporting life. It colonized 12 of those planets but when these civilizations Are destroyed by the nylons in a thousand year War the survivors set out in any spacecraft that will Fly in avast migration for the 13th planet Earth. Galactic is the Story of that migration and in their flight they Are harassed by the nylons. The nylons Are computerized robots who make themselves and men themselves. Their world is completely void of anything biological. It s interesting that in the series the compute should be our enemy says Greene because the computer could become our enemy Here on Earth. We have no secrets from them. There is a certain symbolism in that which is very  Lei inthe major Factor in the High Cost of the series is the. Special effects. But Larson has also taken the extraordinary step of sending a second unit Crew to film the egyptian ruins at Luxor. It will be used to represent the Deac planet of Kobol. Costumed stand ins will represent the stars in Egypt. The costumes in the series have a Fain egyptian flavor particularly in the decorative jewelry film from Luxor will also be used for front screen projection which is More realistic than rear screen projection and gives a feeling that the actors Are actually there. The set for the Bridge of the Sta ship galactic is line with computers All real and All working. There television screens at each Post and each one is hooked u to a video tape recorder so that pictures appear on them. A 20th Century Fox which released Star wars sued uni Versal to Block galactic. Fox charging copyright infringement has sought unsuccessfully so far a injunction to keep the show off the air. Mca inc., the Parent company of Universal filed to