Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #679 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 42

DVD Description
In 1994, Star Trek had to take a backseat to a new kid on the block, science-fiction series Babylon 5, created by Michael Straczynski. In a nutshell, it's the 23rd Century and the Babylon 5 space station has become an interplanetary peaceful negotiation centre. Humans and aliens attempt to settle differences in a reasonable fashion here under the stewardship of President John J. Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner), which makes for some fantastical plot arcs throughout its five year run.
This stylishly compact yet comprehensive box set contains every Babylon 5 episode ever made, the series Crusade and all six Babylon 5 feature films with extras, plus the brand-new feature The Lost Tales, which has never been shown on television.

Customer Reviews

Series one disc one blues
Well I have always liked B5 and took the oppotunity to pick up the 5 series in one complete compact box.

It duly came and series 1 disc 1 episodes 3 and 4 were unplayable. I checked out the rest of the box and in a woefully short period of timwe watched the other 108 episodes crusades 13 and all the films.. even the aweful lost tales. Square eyes indeed.
I then contact Amazons Cust Serv. Please give me new disc1. NO. we will give u money back and you return. OR a whole new BOxed set. OH AND YOU HAVE TO POST BACK THE OTHER...what! WE WILL REFUND POSTAGE. Well new set came. Series 1 disc 1 episodes 3 and 4 are unplayable.!!!!!wtf!!!!.. ring up cust services... nice accented girl says WELL I CAN SEND ANOTHER ANOTHER SET AND YOU RETURN 2 SETS OR REFUND AND YOU RETURN 2

But all i want is 1 working disc 1. I am disabled. carying this stuff to post office is a pain.. well in fact imposible for me. Do they care . no. So I say just send me a set one which you do seperately. save you postage costs both way. Oh No cant do that have to send the entire set a third time. !! How can this make any sense for amazon... and is every one of this boxed set faulty.. looks like so far

Babylon 5: The Complete Collection + The Lost Tales
A very good product and very good value for money . If you are a Babylon 5 fan you will love this set of dvds

Its Greatest Strength Was Also its Greatest Weakness
As well as being one of the four greatest TV series ever made, Babylon 5 is also, to date, the only televised novel in existence.

Unlike most science fiction which is driven by its characters and technology, requiring the writers to create dozens of `stand alone' episodes which are based upon a thousand different clichés, every single episode of Babylon 5 was simply a chapter of the novel.

Even those episodes that appeared to `stand alone' all introduced characters, plot points and character development which were vital to the overall story. And so the only way that anyone can ever appreciate this programme is to watch every episode in order at least once, from the pilot to the end of series five.

You can't start a novel from the middle without feeling confused, and you usually have to wait until the end before all of the pieces fit together. Indeed, the creator of Babylon 5 was always being told that the programme would be axed, because nobody who was used to seeing a story wrapped up at the end of each episode would wait five YEARS for the conclusion of Babylon 5.

In the end though, these people were proven wrong. Every single episode was made according to the creator's wishes, and Babylon 5 is still one of the most incredible and enthralling stories ever told.

The people who don't like it are usually, without fail, the ones who saw a few episodes out of context or who didn't possess the stamina to stay the course. But if you've never seen Babylon 5 and you really enjoy a good novel, then be patient, because you're in for a spectacular treat.