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Are you enjoying it? For me it's the perfect microcosm of the 80s. Season 2 had a great episode, Out Where the Buses Don't Run, with another B5 alumni, Bruce McGill.

The B5 books in the UK were published by Boxtree, but I think they had a publishing deal with Channel 4 Books (I'm assuming C4 had the UK publishing license for Babylon 5). David Bassom, Jim Mortimore and Jane Killick were all UK-based writers (they were regulars in magazines such as Starburst)...

Wow, and an absolute bargain price as well! I take it you won this auction? Well done! Yes, this is the UK edition, there was a US edition as well with I think the Army of Light fleet on the cover.

Oh, we definitely had a very active and dedicated fanbase - it just wasn't huge in the way Star Trek was. So here's a graph that shows that (you can find the full page on the second page of the Collectibles thread). These are the ratings and the 'audience appreciation' values for season 4 on...

To be fair, I hardly ever see these cards in auctions either – I've just done a search of UK eBay and I can't find any. A couple more things. First while I was searching eBay I was reminded that the TNT movies were also released on VHS in widescreen. I'm assuming these are like the widescreen...

More cards! (Plus a free video, lol – at least it's my favourite cover) Got these off eBay, and I think I'm going to have to start hunting for all the cards now. And look at that price – £12.99 for two episodes. We must have been crazy spending that much money on just two episodes back then, it...

Bringing this ancient thread back to life, but the latest newsletter from Master Replicas (the company that took over all Eaglemoss' old stock when they went out of business) says that they are "tantalisingly close to doing deals for ships from one of the greatest games ever made and a classic...

The only thing I've shipped to the US in recent years was to your good self; I can't remember exactly how much it cost but $8 sounds about right. Though prices for postage do keep going up in the UK, so that might have something to do with any price increase you're seeing. Going the other way...

One more thing that I've just remembered. When WB released season 5 on VHS, they had a giveaway; each cassette included a leaflet with a voucher, collect so many vouchers and you could mail away for either a B5-branded bag or a sweater. I got the sweater back in the day (which still fits!) and...

A few days ago I watched a third season Miami Vice episode directed by Richard Compton, and thought it looked flat, with none of the stylistic elements (MTV cops) from the first two seasons when Michael Mann was more actively involved and the show had directors such as Rob Cohen. Compton's...

Almost forgot, there was a trailer that appeared on the videos for the VHS collection, which was pretty good actually! I found it on YouTube – quality isn't that great, but you can get the gist!

And today is the day! It's the 30th anniversary of Babylon 5 being shown in the UK. I shall watch Midnight on the Firing Line later to celebrate.

Babylon 5 did very well on VHS here in the UK, with new releases regularly making it into the top 10 best sellers. And with that success, the main chains – HMV, Our Price and Virgin Megastore – competed for our custom with collectable free gifts, starting with the release of the third season...

For the second season, they smartened the covers up and I think the overall production was more polished, with some sharper and striking images such as the season 2 cast photo and Ivanova in a Starfury. But there were some that were not so striking – I mean, why would the cover to the volume 17...

Since we were discussing Babylon 5 on VHS in the blu-ray thread, I thought I'd make a thread dedicated to the VHS collections. This might seem a bit boring but I seem to have suddenly developed an OCD about it! So here is the history of B5 on VHS – at least as it was in the UK. Looney has...

I wasn't going to say anything....! ;-) :) I know the Laser Discs were not all completed, but didn't all the show get released on VHS in the States? Part of me wishes I still had all my VHS. It was quite a collection. I think I've still got about a dozen tapes in my parents' loft – I kept hold...

I've just re-watched the battle again on my iTunes version of the episode, looking for the gunships in the background of the battle. We see them exit the jump gate, and on approach to B5 on the left of the screen, possibly flanking the breaching pod. I don't think we see them again in the battle...

Welcome, Marsden! The Blu-rays are definitely worth getting, especially now that their price has dropped (we all should have waited to buy it, lol!). But you're right, the Blu-ray doesn't contain the movies, or Crusade, or any of the extras that were on the DVDs. Just seasons 1 to 5 and a bad...

Welcome to the boards! I don't know of anywhere that has the DVD commentaries, but if there is I'd love to know too – I guess it would be up to WB to release them. Has JMS done new commentaries on his Patreon for all the episodes that had commentaries on the DVDs? I've watched a few of them on...

They always did say Dune was 'unfilmable' (despite this now being the third time it's been filmed). The Lynch version was, as you say, heavy on the narration and exposition, the Villeneuve version focused more on the emotional state of the characters than all the details of how the Dune universe...