Babylon 5: Season 1: Signs and Portents
Warner Bros. (1994)
TV Series  /  Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
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IMDB   8.4
956 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Andreas Katsulas G'Kar
Claudia Christian Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Stephen Furst Vir Cotto
Peter Jurasik Londo Mollari
Mira Furlan Delenn
Bill Mumy Lennier
Richard Biggs Dr. Stephen Franklin
Jerry Doyle Michael Garibaldi
Andrea Thompson Talia Winters
Michael O'Hare Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair
Julie Caitlin Brown Na'Toth
Marianne Robertson Tech #1
Bill Blair Alien
Mark Hendrickson Grey Council #1
Ardwight Chamberlain Kosh
Julia Nickson-Soul Catherine Sakai
Haley McLane Computer
Peter Wick Alien worker
Michael McKenzie Narn Captain
Thomas Rosales Jr. Panicked Man
Director
Richard Compton
John C. Flinn III
Bruce Seth Green
Janet Greek
Producer Richard Compton
John Copeland
J. Michael Straczynski
Douglas Netter
Writer J. Michael Straczynski
Lawrence G. DiTillio
Kathryn M. Drennan
D.C. Fontana
Cinematography John C. Flinn III
Musician Christopher Franke


Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    1/26/1994  1.  Midnight on the Firing Line
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    2/2/1994  2.  Soul Hunter
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    2/9/1994  3.  Born to the Purple
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 UdenioClive Revill, Jimm Giannini,  Robert Phalen, Robert DiTillio, Tom Lowe, Katharine Mills, Mike Norris, Laura Peterson,  Marianne Robertson, Momo Yashima
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    2/16/1994  4.  Infection
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 McCallumMarshall R. Teague, Patricia Healy, Sav Farrow, Daniel Hutchison, Sylva Kelegian, Tony Rizzoli,  Marianne Robertson, Paul Yeuell
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    2/23/1994  5.  The Parliament of Dreams
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 McKenzieMarianne Robertson, Glenn Robinson, Erich Martin Hicks
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    3/2/1994  6.  Mind War
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 GabrielliMichael McKenzie, Kevin Page, Mark S. Porro, Macaulay Bruton,  Marianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    3/9/1994  7.  The War Prayer
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, Mike Gunther,  Marianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    3/16/1994  8.  And the Sky Full of Stars
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    4/20/1994  9.  Deathwalker
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 HendricksonMarianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    4/27/1994  10.  Believers
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'NeilStephen Lee, Jonathan Charles Kaplan, Silvana Gallardo,  Ardwight Chamberlain
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    5/4/1994  11.  Survivors
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 HendricksonRod PerryMarianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    5/11/1994  12.  By Any Means Necessary
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    5/18/1994  13.  Signs and Portents
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,  Marianne Robertson, Robert Silver,  Ed Wasser, Lynn 'Red' Williams
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    5/25/1994  14.  TKO
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 McKenzieMarianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    7/6/1994  15.  Grail
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    7/13/1994  16.  Eyes
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    7/20/1994  17.  Legacies
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'BrienMarianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    7/27/1994  18.  A Voice in the Wilderness (1)
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, Jerry Weil, Joshua Cox
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    8/3/1994  19.  A Voice in the Wilderness (2)
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 TurenneRon Canada, Curt Lowens, Denise Gentile, Aki Aleong, Joshua Cox, Chip Heller, Lenore Kasdorf, Michelan Sisti,  Marianne Robertson
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    8/10/1994  20.  Babylon Squared
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    8/17/1994  21.  The Quality of Mercy
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
    Seen it: Yes   45 mins    10/26/1994  22.  Chrysalis
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,  Gianin Loffler, David Anthony Marshall, Gary McGurk, Juan A. Riojas,  Ed Wasser, Bergen Williams
Edition Details
Edition 6 Discs
Series Babylon 5
Distributor Warner Home Video
Release Date 11/5/2002
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.78:1)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned); French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [French]
Dolby Digital Stereo [French]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 6

Features
Disc 01 Commentary Making Of... Movie Trailer Scene Access series introduction by J. Michael Straczynski