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Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: 33
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 101
First Aired: Jan. 14, 2005

Season 1 » Episode #01 - 33

Summary: The fleet's exodus has not been clean and easy. After every jump, the Cylons appear exactly 33 minutes later to send them on the run again. Working with little to no sleep, everyone is being pushed to their limit.Baltar himself is put into stress when someone from the Olympic Carrier claims to have evidence he fears could link him to the Cylons' successful attack on the Twelve Colonies.

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Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Commander William Adama	played by Edward James Olmos
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace	played by Katee Sackhoff
Chief Galen Tyrol	played by Aaron Douglas
Officer Anastasia Dualla	played by Kandyse McClure
Billy Keikeya	played by Paul Campbell (VIII)
Crashdown	played by Sam Witwer
Crewman Specialist Socinus	played by Alonso Oyarzun
Crewman Specialist Cally Henderson	played by Nicki Clyne

Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 1: - 33

Crewman Specialist Cally: Why do the Cylons come every thirty-three minutes? Why isn't it thirty-four, thirty-five...
Chief Petty Officer Tyrol: [interrupting] Cally.
Crewman Specialist Cally: What?
Chief Petty Officer Tyrol: Shut up.

Season 1 / Episode 1: - 33

Petty Officer 2nd Dualla: [to Adama] Comm traffic two from the President.
Commander William Adama: [to Tigh] Is this my ten minutes or is this yours?
Col. Saul Tigh: Yours. I took ten last time.
Commander William Adama: All right, I'll see you guys in combat.

Petty Officer 2nd Dualla: I believe it was your ten minutes, sir.
Col. Saul Tigh: The old man's so tired he can't remember, then it's his turn.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

SYNC: When the Olympic Carrier returns, Cmdr. Adama calls out "Mr. Gaeta!" Lt. Gaeta turns and goes to Parade rest. When the camera switched back to Adama, and he calls out "Restart the clock, thirty-three minutes", Gaeta is in the background, going to parade rest again. When the camera switches back to Lt. Gaeta, he turns and opens the clock face in front of him. When the camera refocuses on Adama, Gaeta is in the background, opening the clock face again.
SYNC: The clock counts down to the next Cylon attack. It reads 10 seconds, then we see Adama and Tigh looking off-screen at the clock as we hear ten seconds tick off, followed by a shot of the clock reading 7 seconds.
MISC: When the clock in CIC is kept running after the Cylons fail to make the 240th appearance, the Electronic display above the Situation Table is shown counting up to 45 minutes. However after +44:49:99, the numbers roll over to show +45:00:00, completely skipping the last 10 seconds.
CONT: As Dee admits to Commander Adama that she's lost the Olympic Carrier, her headphone changes sides in the middle of the conversation.

TRIVIA

The pilots in the briefing room touch a picture of a man looking out at the destruction of his city. Although not explained in the episode that aired, the picture was introduced in a scene cut from the episode where it was presented to President Roslin ('Mary McDonnell'). It was supposed to have been ...
Won 'Hugo Award' for Dramatic Presentation, Short Form at the World Science Fiction Convention (LACon IV) in Anaheim, August 26, 2006.
Won 'Hugo Award' for Dramatic Presentation, Short Form at the World Science Fiction Convention, Interaction, at Glasgow, UK (Scotland), in August 2005.
Sci-Fi Channel offered the entire episode #1.1, "33", uncut and commercial-free from its Web site, along with deleted scenes. It was taken down roughly a year later and replaced by the entire season finale episode #1.13 "Kobol's Last Gleaming", in anticipation of Season 2.

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