 Despite the early success of the premiere, this program failed to achieve the popularity of the original series, and it was canceled after just ten episodes.In this 1980 sequel series, the Colonial fleet finds the Earth, and then it covertly protects it from the Cylons.This series was a quick failure due to its low budget (e.g., recycling footage from the 1974 Universal Studios movie "Earthquake" during a Cylon attack sequence), widely panned writing, and ill-chosen time slot (Sunday evenings, a time generally reserved for family-oriented programming and, more specifically, also for the "60 Minutes" newsmagazine program).