Babylon 5
Warner Bros. (1994)
TV Series  /  Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
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#78
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IMDB   8.6
956 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
Michael O'Hare Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
Claudia Christian Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
Jerry Doyle Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
Mira Furlan Minbari Ambassador Delenn
Richard Biggs Dr. Stephen Franklin
Andrea Thompson Talia Winters
Stephen Furst Vir Cotto
Bill Mumy Lennier
Catlin Brown Na'Toth
Andreas Katsulas Narn Ambassador G'Kar
Director
John C. Flinn III
Bruce Seth Green
Richard Compton
Producer Richard Compton
John Copeland
Writer Harlan Ellison
Peter David
J. Michael Straczynski
Cinematography John C. Flinn III
Musician Christopher Franke


Babylon 5, a neutral space station built to service the needs of all species throughout the galaxy, is the result of the peace following the Earth-Minbari war--a war that almost saw the annihilation of the human race. Inexplicably, when the Minbari had the humans pushed back to Earth and near the brink of utter destruction, they surrendered to the human forces. Now Jeffrey Sinclair, who disappeared and was unaccounted for during a brief battle in the war, heads up Babylon 5 and all the headaches that go along with it. Now the humans, Minbari, Narn, Centauri, Vorlons and the rest of the Alligned and Non-Alligned Worlds struggle to maintain a galactic peace, balancing on the edge of a very sharp sword that threatens to plunge them all into utter darkness.
Episodes
 45 mins    1/26/1994  1.  The Gathering
When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
Director:  Richard Compton  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Paul Hampton, Peter Trencher, Jeff Austin, Ardwight Chamberlain, Maggie EganMark Hendrickson, Doug McCoy, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    2/2/1994  2.  Midnight on the Firing Line
A badly damaged ship is brought into the station and the strange alien inside is identified as a soul hunter - an immortal race who can sense death and supposedly steal someone's soul.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  William Morgan Sheppard, John Snyder, Toni Attell, Jim Bentley, Mark Conley, David D. Darling, Ted Henning, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    2/9/1994  3.  Soul Hunter
Londo unknowingly falls for a beautiful slave, whose owner wants her to steal sensitive information. Garibaldi discovers that someone is using a restricted communications channel.
Director:  Bruce Seth Green  Writer:  Lawrence G. DiTillio 
Guest starring:  Mary Woronov, Fabiana Udenio, Clive Revill, Jimm Giannini, Robert Phalen, Robert DiTillio, Tom Lowe, Katharine Mills, Mike Norris, Laura Peterson
 45 mins    2/16/1994  4.  Born to the Purple
Dr. Franklin gets a visit from an old friend and former mentor, xenoarchaeologist Dr. Vance Hendricks who wants Franklin's help to analyze some organic artifacts he found on a dead world. But the artifacts seem to have a will of their own and start to manipulate Hendricks' assistant.
Director:  Richard Compton  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  David McCallum, Marshall R. Teague, Patricia Healy, Sav Farrow, Daniel Hutchison, Sylva Kelegian, Tony Rizzoli, Marianne Robertson, Paul Yeuell
 45 mins    2/23/1994  5.  Infection
Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a week-long festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their dominate religious beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Julie Caitlin Brown, Julia Nickson, Thomas Kopache, Joy Hardin, Mark Hendrickson, Calvin Jung, Randall Kirby, Michael McKenzie, Marianne Robertson, Glenn Robinson
 45 mins    3/2/1994  6.  The Parliament of Dreams
The Psi-Cops arrive at the station to capture a rogue telepath, Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine Sakai is warned not to survey Sigma 957 by G'Kar.
Director:  Bruce Seth Green  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  William Allen Young, Felicity Waterman, Julia Nickson,  Walter Koenig, Don Dowe, Elisa Gabrielli, Michael McKenzie, Kevin Page, Mark S. Porro, Macaulay Bruton
 45 mins    3/9/1994  7.  Mind War
A racist group is terrorizing non-humans on Babylon 5. Meanwhile Londo has trouble with two young Centauri who want to break with tradition by ignoring their arranged marriages, and instead marry for love.
Director:  Richard Compton  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Tristan Rogers, Nancy Lee Grahn, Michael Paul Chan, Rodney Eastman, Danica McKellar, Diane Adair,  Richard Chaves, Mark Hendrickson, Chuck Butto, Ardwight Chamberlain
 45 mins    3/16/1994  8.  The War Prayer
Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by two men determined to prove he betrayed earth during the Battle of the Line.
Director:  Janet Greek  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Christopher Neame, Judson Earney Scott, Jim Youngs, Justin Williams, Joe Banks, Gary Carlos Cervantes, Mark Hendrickson, Fumi Shishino, Macaulay Bruton, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    4/20/1994  9.  And the Sky Full of Stars
Na'Toth attacks an alien woman that has just arrived on the station, claiming that she is the Dilgar war criminal Jha'dur - known as Deathwalker. Meanwhile, Talia is hired by Kosh to oversee some rather strange negotiations.
Director:  Bruce Seth Green  Writer:  Lawrence G. DiTillio 
Guest starring:  Julie Caitlin Brown,  Sarah Douglas, Robin Curtis, Cosie Costa, Aki Aleong, Ardwight Chamberlain, Robert DiTillio, Sav Farrow, Mark Hendrickson, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    4/27/1994  10.  Deathwalker
An alien couple comes to Dr. Franklin with their fatally ill son. The child could be cured by a simple operation, but the parents' religion specifically forbids it. Meanwhile, Ivanova escorts a damaged star liner through raider territory.
Director:  Richard Compton  Writer:  David Gerrold 
Guest starring:  Tricia O'Neil, Stephen Lee, Jonathan Charles Kaplan, Silvana Gallardo, Ardwight Chamberlain
 45 mins    5/4/1994  11.  Believers
There is an explosion in one of the fighter bays just days before the president is to visit Babylon 5. A dying man implicates Garibaldi, which is just what the head of presidential security wants to hear, as she blames him for her father's death.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  Marc Scott Zicree 
Guest starring:  Elaine Thomas, Tom Donaldson, David A. Cook, David L. Crowley, Maggie Egan, José Ramón Rosario, Robin Wake, Mark Hendrickson, Rod Perry, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    5/11/1994  12.  Survivors
The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike after an accident in the docking bays. G'Kar tries to take part in a Narn religious ceremony, but must find a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant that was destroyed in the accident.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  Kathryn M. Drennan 
Guest starring:  Julie Caitlin Brown, Katy Boyer, John Snyder, Aki Aleong, Patricia Healy, Michael McKenzie, José Rey, Ricardo Martínez, Marianne Robertson, Floyd Van Buskirk
 45 mins    5/18/1994  13.  By Any Means Necessary
A Centauri noble comes to Babylon 5 to transport an important relic in Londo's possession back to the homeworld. And a mysterious man visits all the alien ambassadors asking them an unusual question.
Director:  Janet Greek  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Gerrit Graham, Fredi Olster, Whip Hubley, Anita Brabec, Ardwight Chamberlain, Joshua Cox, Garry Kluger, Lee Mathis, Doug McCoy, Héctor Mercado
 45 mins    5/25/1994  14.  Signs and Portents
Garibaldi is surprised when an old friend comes to Babylon 5 to fight in the "Mutai" - a savage alien fighting arena. Meanwhile, Ivanova has trouble dealing with her father's death.
Director:  John C. Flinn III  Writer:  Larry DiTillio 
Guest starring:  Gregory McKinney, Soon-Tek Oh Don Stroud, Theodore Bikel, James Jude Courtney, Robert Phalen, Lenore Kasdorf, Michael McKenzie, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    7/6/1994  15.  TKO
A man comes to Babylon 5 asking the alien ambassadors for information that can help him with his quest to find the Holy Grail, while a Downbelow gangster gives security problems by mind-wiping all who oppose him.
Director:  Richard Compton  Writer:  Christy Marx 
Guest starring:  David WarnerWilliam Sanderson, Tom Booker, Jim Norton, Linda Lodge, Ardwight Chamberlain, John C. Flinn III, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    7/13/1994  16.  Grail
Sinclair's decisions the last year catch up with him, when an internal affairs investigator arrives to test the crew's loyalty to Earth Force with the help of a telepath. And Lennier shows great interest in Garibaldi's attempt at assembling a 1990's motorcycle.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  Larry DiTillio 
Guest starring:  Gregory Paul Martin,  Jeffrey Combs, Macaulay Bruton, Marie Chambers, David L. Crowley, Frank Farmer, Drew Letchworth, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    7/20/1994  17.  Eyes
A Minbari war cruiser comes to Babylon 5 to display the body of a recently dead Minbari leader, while Ivanova and Talia battle for the fate of a young girl with newly discovered telepathic powers.
Director:  Bruce Seth Green  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Julie Caitlin Brown, John Vickery, Grace Una, Joshua Cox, Richard Henry, Patrick Thomas O'Brien, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    7/27/1994  18.  Legacies
Strange signals start coming from Epsilon 3, the planet below Babylon 5. A science ship is sent to investigate, but is fired upon by a defense system on the planet. Meanwhile Garibaldi worries about a lover he left back on Mars, when fighting breaks out there.
Director:  Janet Greek  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Louis Turenne, Curt Lowens, Craig Barnett, Langdon Bensing, Kelly Coyle, Kathryn Cressida, Jim Ishida, Lenore Kasdorf, Marianne Robertson, Patty Toy
 45 mins    8/3/1994  19.  A Voice in the Wilderness (1)
The situation heats up when an Earth Force heavy cruiser arrives to "protect Earth's interests", and the fusion reactors on Epsilon 3 start going out of control, and may blow up the planet and Babylon 5.
Director:  Janet Greek  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Louis Turenne, Ron Canada, Curt Lowens, Denise Gentile, Aki Aleong, Joshua Cox, Chip Heller, Lenore Kasdorf, Michelan Sisti, Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    8/10/1994  20.  A Voice in the Wilderness (2)
Babylon 4 reappears at the same place it disappeared four years before, and Sinclair and Garibaldi lead an expedition to evacuate its crew. Meanwhile Delenn is summoned by the Grey council. They inform her that they have selected a new leader - her.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Kent Broadhurst, Tim Choate, Denise Gentile, Frank Costa, Mark Hendrickson, Doug McCoy, Thomas Rosales Jr., Marianne Robertson
 45 mins    8/17/1994  21.  Babylon Squared
Dr. Franklin investigates an unlicensed medical practitioner in Downbelow, while Londo takes Lennier for a tour of Babylon 5's seedier locales. And in the brig, a convicted murderer waits for his sentence to be carried out - the death of personality.
Director:  Lorraine Senna Ferrara  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  June Lockhart, Kate McNeil,  Mark Rolston, Damian London, Jim Norton, Lynn Anderson, Philippe Bergeron, David L. Crowley, Kevin McBride, Constance Zimmer
 45 mins    10/26/1994  22.  The Quality of Mercy
The Centauri are about to withdraw from a quadrant of space because the Narn are harassing them, when Londo gets an offer to take care of the problem. Meanwhile, Garibaldi tries to find out what his informant stumbled upon that got him killed.
Director:  Janet Greek  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Julie Caitlin Brown, Julia Nickson, Macaulay Bruton, Liz Burnette, Edward Conery, Maggie Egan, Cheryl Francis Harrington, Mark Hendrickson, James Kiriyama-Lem, Wesley Leong
23.  Chrysalis
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Series Babylon 5
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