Amazon is offering the chance for sci-fi fans to own one of the most influential series in TV history at a great price. Babylon 5: The Complete Series was released in late 2023, bringing the iconic show first broadcast between 1994 and 1998 to HD physical media for the first time, and right now, it's on a limited deal with an impressive 44% discount.
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It's been a great few years for fans of Babylon 5. In 2023, they were amazed when creator J. Michael Straczynski announced an animated feature: The well-regarded The Road Home was the first video spin-off from the main series in 21 years. That was followed by this high-definition release of the complete original show, something fans feared they would never see. With rumors of further exciting expansions to the Babylon 5 franchise ahead, now is the perfect time to catch these 21 discs packed with some of the best TV sci-fi ever made!
Babylon 5: The Complete Series
Babylon 5 is the 5-mile-long space station at the outermost regions of space that's the last best hope for peace between a hundred worlds. J. Michael Straczynski's ambitious series pioneered arc-based television over 5 incredible years that followed commanders Sinclair and Sheridan and their embattled station crew overcoming the highs and lows of uneasy alliances and betrayal in a war-scarred galaxy at the dawn of a new age.
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The main appeal of this compact set is owning the remastered high-definition episodes. Fans picking up this set will enjoy:
- All 5 seasons (110 episodes) remastered over 21 discs.
- DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio mixes
- The Gathering — The feature-length 1993 test pilot written by J. Michael Straczynski and directed by Richard Compton.
- Babylon 5: The Road Home Trailer — a short promo for the 2023 animated feature, which is available separately on Blu-ray and 4K.
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Younger fans may know Babylon 5 best from unflattering jokes in The Big Bang Theory, prompted by the show's difficult production history and fervent fanbase. But it's hard to imagine TV today being the same without Straczynski's "Novel for Television," which helped pioneer the serialized storytelling that has dominated television's "Golden Age" in the 21st century.
Babylon 5: The Complete Series
In 2021, Straczynski, the franchise's ever-prolific creator, announced that a reboot was in development with The CW. After delays caused by 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, the latest news is that this refreshed take on Babylon 5 is being shopped around networks by Warner Bros. Discovery. While we wait to see what the future is for this influential space opera, this remastered set is almost certainly the best way fans will ever have to watch the original.
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