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Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain...
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Season 1

  • Midnight on the Firing Line
    7.2/101,205 votes
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    Midnight on the Firing Line

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/1994

    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

  • Soul Hunter
    6.8/101,117 votes
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    Soul Hunter

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/1994

    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

  • Born to the Purple
    7.0/101,035 votes
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    Born to the Purple

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/9/1994

    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: Larry DiTillio

  • Infection
    6.4/10982 votes
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    Infection

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/1994

    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

  • The Parliament of Dreams
    7.3/10973 votes
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    The Parliament of Dreams

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/1994

    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

  • Mind War
    7.6/10996 votes
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    Mind War

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/1994

    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

  • The War Prayer
    6.8/10925 votes
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    The War Prayer

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1994

    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

  • And the Sky Full of Stars
    7.9/10979 votes
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    And the Sky Full of Stars

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/1994

    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

  • Deathwalker
    7.5/10917 votes
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    Deathwalker

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/20/1994

    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: Larry DiTillio

  • Believers
    7.0/10956 votes
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    Believers

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/1994

    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

  • Survivors
    6.8/10834 votes
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    Survivors

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/1994

    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

  • By Any Means Necessary
    7.2/10860 votes
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    By Any Means Necessary

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/11/1994

    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

  • Signs and Portents
    8.3/10950 votes
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    Signs and Portents

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/18/1994

    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

  • TKO
    5.8/10888 votes
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    TKO

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/25/1994

    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

  • Grail
    6.6/10840 votes
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    Grail

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/6/1994

    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

  • Eyes
    7.2/10831 votes
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    Eyes

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/13/1994

    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

  • Legacies
    7.1/10784 votes
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    Legacies

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/20/1994

    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

  • A Voice in the Wilderness (1)
    7.8/10840 votes
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    A Voice in the Wilderness (1)

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/27/1994

    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

  • A Voice in the Wilderness (2)
    8.0/10839 votes
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    A Voice in the Wilderness (2)

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/3/1994

    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

  • Babylon Squared
    8.5/10933 votes
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    Babylon Squared

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/10/1994

    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

  • The Quality of Mercy
    7.3/10815 votes
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    The Quality of Mercy

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/17/1994

    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

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

  • Chrysalis
    8.6/10929 votes
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    Chrysalis

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 10/3/1994

    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