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Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Good, but came out at the wrong time.
The original Galactica was in my opinion, good, but the reason why it only lasted one season in my opinion are as follows:
-The effects did not look original, so it was seen as a Star Wars Ripoff.
-It was seen mostly as something for kids at the time, so adults felt no use in watching it.
-The sociopolitical sitcoms of the time(All in The Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffesrsons, etc)were winding down and prime-time soap-operas like Dallas and Knots Landing were starting to get big, so it was doomed from the beginning since most people at the time would rather watch a prime-time version of daytime drama like Dallas than a sci-fi epic series on television. Dallas debuted at the same time period as Galactica.
-No such thing as "first-run syndication" existed at the time. It probably would have gone on longer if it had. I don't think frist-run syndication existed until Star Trek: The Next Generation came on the air in thae late 1980s.