The Classic BABYLON 5 Series is Coming To Blu-Ray For The First Time
I’ve got some great news for Babylon 5 fans! While we wait for the revival series to finally happen, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has revealed that they will release the original Babylon 5 series on Blu-ray for the first time ever!
The complete series will be available at online retailers on December 5th with all 110 original episodes fully remastered in HD. Unfortunately, there will be very few bonus features and it also won’t include a complementary digital copy that comes standard on most Warner Bros. releases.
Babylon 5 was created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski and it originally debuted in 1993. It’s a space opera series that ran for five seasons from 1994–1998.
The series is set in 2258 CE. “Five hostile federations dominate the outermost regions of space. Heroes, thieves, and rare and exotic beings find refuge in this time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war on a lone space station — the last and best hope for peace between a hundred worlds, alien and human alike — Babylon 5.”
The series stars Bruce Boxleitner, Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas, Peter Jurasik, Richard Biggs, Andrea Thompson, Stephen Furst, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, Jason Carter, Robert Rusler, Jeff Conaway, Patricia Tallman, and Mary Kay Adams.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve watched this series, but watching it in HD will give me an excuse to revisit it. There’s also an animated movie coming soon, Babylon 5: The Road Home, that fans will be able to enjoy!