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J. Michael Straczynski

Michael O'Hare

Tamlyn Tomita

Jerry Doyle

Mira Furlan

Blaire Baron

John Fleck

Paul Hampton

Peter Jurasik

Andreas Katsulas

Richard Biggs

Patricia Tallman

Stephen Furst

Bill Mumy

Bruce Boxleitner

Claudia Christian

Jeff Conaway

Bill Blair

Jason Carter

Andrea Thompson

Joshua Cox

United States

John Copeland (Producer, 110 episodes, 1994-1998)

Douglas Netter (Executive Producer, 110 episodes, 1994-1998)

J. Michael Straczynski (Executive Producer, 110 episodes, 1994-1998)

George Johnsen (Associate Producer / Co-Producer, 88 episodes, 1994-1997)

Susan Norkin (Associate Producer, 44 episodes, 1996-1998)

Skip Beaudine (Co-Producer, 23 episodes, 1997-1998)

Richard Compton (Co-Producer, 9 episodes, 1994)

Robert Latham Brown (Producer, unknown episodes)

Michael Vejar (14 episodes, 1994-1998)

David J. Eagle (13 episodes, 1995-1998)

Janet Greek (12 episodes, 1994-1998)

Jim Johnston (12 episodes, 1994-1996)

John C. Flinn III (9 episodes, 1994-1998)

Kevin G. Cremin (5 episodes, 1994-1996)

Richard Compton (5 episodes, 1994)

Jesús Salvador Treviño (5 episodes, 1995-1998)

Tony Dow (5 episodes, 1997-1998)

Bruce Seth Green (4 episodes, 1994)

Mario DiLeo (3 episodes, 1994-1995)

John Copeland (3 episodes, 1997-1998)

Stephen Furst (3 episodes, 1997-1998)

John Lafia (3 episodes, 1997)

Menachem Binetski (2 episodes, 1995-1996)

Adam Nimoy (2 episodes, 1995-1996)

Kevin James Dobson (2 episodes, 1996-1997)

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February 22, 1993 – November 25, 1998

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Music:

Christopher Franke & Stewart Copeland

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

2003 Nominated Saturn Award Best DVD TV Programming Release for: season 1

1999 Won Saturn Award Best Genre Cable/Syndicated Series

1999 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre TV Actor Bruce Boxleitner

1999 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre TV Actress Claudia Christian

1998 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre Cable/Syndicated Series

1997 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre Syndicated TV Series

1997 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre TV Actress Claudia Christian

American Cinema Editors, USA

1997 Won E Pluribus Unum Award Television Series - Drama (Babylonian Productions, Inc. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution) for: episode "Passing Through Gethsemane"

Art Directors Guild

1998 Nominated Excellence in Production Design Award Television Series John Iacovelli (production designer); Mark Walters (art director); Allardice-Rae, Julie (assistant art director)

Cinema Audio Society, USA

1997 Nominated C.A.S. Award Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series Terry O'Bright & Keith Rogers (re-recording mixers); Linda Coffey (production mixer) for: episode "Severed Dreams"

Emmy Awards

1997 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Makeup for a Series Cinzia Zanetti (key makeup artist); Ron Pipes (makeup artist); John Vulich (effects makeup creator); John Wheaton (effects makeup sculptor); Mike Measimer (effects makeup supervisor); Gabriel De Cunto, Rob Sherwood, Liz Dean & Fionagh Cush (effects makeup artists) (Syndicated) for: episode "The Summoning"

1996 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series John C. Flinn III (Syndicated) for: episode "Comes The Inquisitor"
1995 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series John C. Flinn III (director of photography) (Syndicated) for: episode "The Geometry Of Shadows"

1995 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series Tracy Smith (key hairstylist) (Syndicated) for: episode "The Geometry Of Shadows"
1995 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series John Vulich & Everett Burrell (supervising makeup artists); Cinzia Zanetti (key makeup artist); Ron Pipes, Greg Funk, Fionagh Cush, John Wheaton, Nik E. Carey, Will Huff, Tania Wanstall & Mike Measimer (Syndicated) for: episode "Acts Of Sacrifice"

1994 Won Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series Everett Burrell, Ron Pipes, John Vulich, Mary Kay Morse & Greg Funk (makeup artists) (Syndicated) for episode "The Parliament of Dreams"

Hugo Awards

1999 Nominated Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation for: episode "Sleeping in Light"

1997 Won Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation J. Michael Straczynski (writer); David J. Eagle (director); John Copeland (producer) for: episode "Severed Dreams" for: episodes "War without End" and "Z'Ha'Dum" received enough votes to be nominated too, but J. Michael Straczynski declined

1996 Won Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation J. Michael Straczynski (writer) for: episode "The Coming of Shadows" for: episode "The Fall of Night" received enough votes to be nominated too, but was withdrawn by J. Michael Straczynski and the prodction team

SFX Awards, UK

1997 Won SFX Award Best Individual Episode of an SF/Fantasy TV Show in 1996 for: episode "Z'ha'dum"

1997 Won SFX Award Best SF/Fantasy Actor in 1996 Andreas Katsulas

1997 Won SFX Award Best SF/Fantasy TV Show of 1996

1997 SFX Hame of Fame for Contributions to SF/Fantasy TV in 1996 J. Michael Straczynski

Sci-Fi Universe Magazine, USA

1996 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Actor in a Genre TV Series Bruce Boxleitner

1996 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Genre TV Series

1996 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Special Effects in a Genre TV Series unknown

1996 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Supporting Actor in a Genre TV Series Peter Jurasik

1996 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Supporting Actress in a Genre TV Series Mira Furlan

1995 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Actor in a Genre TV Series Bruce Boxleitner. Tied with David Duchovny for "The X Files" (1993)

1995 Won Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Supporting Actor in a Genre TV Series Andreas Katsulas

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

1999 Won Bradbury Award J. Michael Straczynski

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A space opera set in the year 2258 aboard Babylon 5, a space station where beings from different worlds worked and played together. It was big enough to include seamy slums as well as areas housing aliens whose environmental needs were decidedly non-human. It was also neutral turf, a place to keep the peace, its regularly scheduled council meetings with government representatives from many worlds serving as an interplanetary UN trying to resolve disputes among the League of Non-aligned Worlds. Visitors to Babylon 5 included diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. The series opened ten years after the end of the Earth-Minbari war, at a time when the Centauri and the Narn, longtime enemies whose ambassadors barely tolerated each other, were on the verge of starting a war of their own.

The two-hour pilot episode for Babylon 5 was produced in 1992 and aired early in 1993, but the series did not premiere until a year later.

The actors were never told in advance what was in store for their characters. Each new episode was just as much a surprise for them as it was for the viewers.

During the first season, Commander Sinclair said, "This station creates [artificial] gravity by rotation, so the room never stops spinning." Reportedly, the animating team had the station spinning at a near-Earth gravity simulation. This was determined by a physicist who was also a fan of the show, who determined the approximate size of the station by comparing it to the image of a human being on the edge of the station and extrapolating.

Series creator J. Michael Straczynski made television history by becoming the first person to write an entire 22-episode season of a television series (Babylon 5's 3rd season).

Many of the plot elements and the storyline itself were inspired by the poem, "Ulysses", by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poem is mentioned four times throughout the series.

Claudia Christian was originally scheduled to appear in season 5. According to series creator J. Michael Straczynski, she backed out of the final season due to a contract dispute. However, according to Christian, she was fired by the producers.

Babylon 5 filmmakers received informal technical advice on the series from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The Medlab was deliberately designed to display few tools and instruments. The designers considered less to be more in guessing future medical technology.

When B5 entered production, there were claims that the creators of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had stolen the basic Babylon 5 premise. It was never proven, though both shows share striking similarities. This controversy led to friction between Babylon 5 and Star Trek fans over the course of both series.

The inspiration for the design of the Vorlon ships was a clove of garlic.

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J. Michael Straczynski: (series creator) as the technician who turns off the station's lights in the series finale

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Jeffrey Sinclair: The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship. One of ours.

Jeffrey Sinclair: Sooner or later everyone comes to Babylon 5.

Delenn: I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.

Ambassador Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!

Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.

Citizen G'Kar: We all believe in something... greater than ourselves, even if it's just the blind forces of chance.

Citizen G'Kar: The Earthers have a saying: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." I believe they stole it from us.

Kosh Naranek: Ah, you seek meaning?
Talia: Yes.
Kosh Naranek: Then listen to the music, not the song.

Citizen G'Kar: The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.

Susan Ivanova: Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen.

Captain John Sheridan: Delenn, I have been working up a good mad all day and I am NOT about to let you ruin it by agreeing with me!

[Opening narration, season 1]
Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

Delenn: The third principle of sentient life is the capacity for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one.

[Opening narration, season 2]
Captain John Sheridan: The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace, a self-contained world five miles long located in neutral territory, a place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens, a shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, the year the great war came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

[Opening narration, season 3]
Susan Ivanova: The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope for victory. The year is 2260. The place - Babylon 5.

[Opening narration, season 4]
Lennier: It was the year of fire,
Zack Allan: The year of destruction,
Citizen G'Kar: The year we took back what was ours.
Lyta Alexander: It was the year of rebirth,
Ambassador Vir Cotto: The year of great sadness,
Marcus Cole: The year of pain,
Delenn: And a year of joy.
Ambassador Londo Mollari: It was a new age.
Dr. Stephen Franklin: It was the end of history.
Susan Ivanova: It was the year everything changed.
Michael Garibaldi: The year is 2261.
Captain John Sheridan: The place, Babylon 5.

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The only US science fiction series in over three decades to offer a serious challenge to Paramount's mighty Star Trek juggernaut, veteran writer/producer J. Michael Straczynski's creation is a richly textured, grandly sweeping televisual epic novel. Reviewed by: Stephen R. Hulse of Television Heaven.

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