"The Living Legend" is a two-part episode of the American science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica.

Written by series creator Glen A. Larson and directed by Vince Edwards, the episodes were originally broadcast on ABC on November 26 and December 3, 1978.

[citation needed] Nigel Andrews said the narrative concerning Galactica's shortage of fuel, and the Cylons' possession of an abundance of it, was influenced by the 1970s energy crisis that was happening at the time.

[8][1] John Kenneth Muir praised "The Living Legend",[2] and Krystal Sim called the episodes "memorable".

[9] The novelization Battlestar Galactica 6: The Living Legend was written by Glen A. Larson and Nicholas Yermakov, and was published by Berkeley Books in New York in 1982.