Babylon 5 The Complete Third Season
Warner Bros. (1996)
Action, Science Fiction
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IMDB   8.0
966 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Bruce Boxleitner Captain John Sheridan
Richard Biggs Dr. Stephen Franklin
Jason Carter Marcus Cole
Claudia Christian Susan Ivanova
Jeff Conaway Zack Allen
Jerry Doyle Michael Garibaldi
Mira Furlan Ambassador Delenn
Stephen Furst Vir
Peter Jurasik Ambassador Londo Molari
Andreas Katsulas Ambassador G'Kar
Michael O'Hare
Tracy Scoggins
Bill Mumy Lennier
Director
Tony Dow
Richard Compton
Producer John Copeland
Robert Latham Brown
Writer J. Michael Straczynski
Peter David


"Matters of Honor" launched Babylon 5's third season with the introduction of the White Star, a spacecraft added to enable more of the action to take place away from the station. Also introduced was Marcus Cole (Jason Carter)--in another nod to The Lord of the Rings, a Ranger not so far removed from Tolkien's Strider. In "Voices of Authority" the show finds an epic scale as Ivanova seeks the mysterious "First Ones" for allies against the Shadows, and evidence is discovered pointing to the truth behind President Santiago's assassination. A third of the way through the season "Messages from Earth," "Point of No Return," and "Severed Dreams" prove pivotal, changing the nature of the story in a way previously unimaginable on network TV. Earth slides into dictatorship, the fascistic Nightwatch takes control of off-world security, and Sheridan take decisive action by declaring Babylon 5 independent.

"Interludes and Examinations" presented the death of a major supporting character, while the two-part "War Without End" reached apocalyptic dimensions in a complex tale resolving the destiny of Sinclair and the fate of Babylon 4 (dovetailing elegantly with the events of the first season's "Babylon Squared"), resolving a 1,000-year-old paradox and presenting a vision of a very dark future for Sheridan and Delenn. All this was trumped by the monumental "Z'ha'dum." In the preceding "Shadow Dancing" Anna Sheridan (Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner's real-life wife) returned from the dead, no longer entirely human. In the mythologically resonant climax Anna invited Sheridan back to the Shadow homeworld with no hope of survival. Just as in The Lord of the Rings Gandalf fell into the abyss at Khazad-Dum, so Sheridan took a comparable leap into the unknown on an alien world. --Gary S. Dalkin

Episodes
 45 mins    11/9/1995  1.  Matters of Honor
An Earthforce investigator comes to B5 with Lt. Keffer's last recording, asking the ambassadors if they recognize the ship in it. Meanwhile Londo takes steps to remove himself from the Shadows, and Sheridan takes the White Star out for its first mission.
Director:  Kevin G. Cremin  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Tucker Smallwood, Nils Allen Stewart, Jonathan Chapman, Kitty Swink, Andrew Walker
 45 mins    11/16/1995  2.  Convictions
A bomber is loose on Babylon 5; setting of bombs with seemingly no pattern. G'Kar blames the Centauri, Londo blames the Narn - and in it all, Lennier is critically injured. At the same time a group of monks request permission to live on the station.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Patrick Kilpatrick, Louis Turenne,  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Flinn, Rick Johnson, Jason Larimore, Gwen McGee, Mike McKenzie, Tom Simmons
 45 mins    11/23/1995  3.  A Day in the Strife
The new Centauri appointed Narn government send a replacement for G'Kar while an alien probe threatens to destroy Babylon 5 unless is gets the answers for a series of complicated scientific questions.
Director:  David J. Eagle  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Stephen Macht, Marshall Teague,  Anne Betancourt, Neil Bradley, Mark Hendrickson, LaRita Shelby, John Saint Ryan, Michael Bailey Smith, Joshua Coxx
 45 mins    11/30/1995  4.  Passing Through Gethsemane
One of the monks starts having disturbing visions and realizes that his past may not be how he remembers it. Meanwhile Lyta causes a bit of commotion when she returns from the Vorlon homeworld.
Director:  Adam Nimoy  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Brad Dourif, Louis Turenne, Robert Keith, Lynn Blades, Natalie Brunt, Mark Folger, Steven Gonzalez
 45 mins    2/1/1996  5.  Voices of Authority
Delenn decides its time to try to contact some of the first ones and enlists the help of Draal, while Babylon 5 is assigned a political officer.
Director:  Menachem Binetski  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  John Schuck, Shari Shattuck, James Black, Vimi Mani, Gary McGurk, Joshua Coxx
 45 mins    2/8/1996  6.  Dust to Dust
Bester comes to the station to track down a dealer of Dust - an illegal drug that gives normal people temporary telepathic powers. G'Kar is also interested in the drug. He sees it as a potential weapon against the Centauri, but first he has to test it...
Director:  David J. Eagle  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Julian Neil,  Jim Norton, Harry Hutchinson, John-Frederick Jones, S. Marc Jordan, Judy Levitt, Gwen McGee,  Philip Moon, Walter O'Neil, David Fralick
 45 mins    2/15/1996  7.  Exogenesis
Marcus starts snooping around Downbelow when some of his contacts start behaving unusually and a lurker is found dead with a strange creature bonded to his spine. Ivanova investigates Corwin's loyalties when he receives a promotion.
Director:  Kevin G. Cremin  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  James Warwick, Wylie Small,  Aubrey Morris, Ross Gottstein, Eric Steinberg, Donald Willis, Michael McKenzie, Carrie Dobro, Kathryn Cressida, Roger Rook
 45 mins    2/22/1996  8.  Messages from Earth (1)
An archeologist is brought Babylon 5 with a grave massage - a dormant Shadow ship has been found on Ganymede. It must be destroyed before it falls into the hands of President Clark.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Nancy Stafford, Vaughn Armstrong, Merrin Dungey, Vimi Mani, Loraine Shields
 45 mins    2/29/1996  9.  Point of No Return (2)
Clark has just declared marshal law, and while Nightwatch prepare to take control of the station, Zack has to decide whose side he's on. In an exercise of bad timing, the prophetic widow of emperor Turhan finally comes to the station, granting Londo the visit he's been begging her for for a long time.
Director:  Jim Johnston  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Majel Barrett, Marshall Teague, Vaughn Armstrong, Lewis Arquette, Ed Trotta, Jonathan Chapman, Milton James, Gunther Jensen, Tony Rayner, Maggie Egan
 45 mins    4/4/1996  10.  Severed Dreams (3)
The renegade destroyer ""Alexander"" arrives at Babylon 5 and Sheridan is forced to announce the station's secession from the Earth Alliance, and prepare for an attack by Clark's forces. Meanwhile Delenn is forced to go to Minbar when the Grey Council refuses to act upon increased Shadow activity.
Director:  David J. Eagle  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Kim Miyori, Rance Howard,  Phil MorrisBruce McGill, James Parks, Jonathan Chapman, Matt Gottlieb, Kim Strauss, Maggie Egan
 45 mins    4/11/1996  11.  Ceremonies of Light and Dark
Delenn prepares for a ceremony of rebirth, the station's computer goes through an interesting change, Londo "encourages" Refa to stop associating with the Shadows, and the remains of the Nightwatch on Babylon 5 plan to strike at Sheridan through Delenn.
Director:  John C. Flinn III  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Don Stroud, Paul Perri, Kim Strauss, Vincent Bilancio, Harlan Ellison, Doug McCoy, Jim Cody Williams, William Forward
 45 mins    4/18/1996  12.  Sic Transit Vir
Vir returns to Babylon 5 to find that he now has a wife and that two Narns are out for his blood. Meanwhile Ivanova investigates the activities of the mysterious Centauri Abrahamo Linconi.
Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Carmen Thomas, James Jude Courtney, Damian London
 45 mins    4/25/1996  13.  A Late Delivery from Avalon
A mysterious man comes to Babylon 5 dressed in chainmail and armed with a sword. His name? King Arthur - Son of Uther Pendragon, come to help when he is needed most.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Michael York, Michael Kagan, Roger Hampton, Dona Hardy, Michael Francis Kelly, James Kiriyama-Lem, Robert Schuch, Jerry D. O'Donnell
 45 mins    5/2/1996  14.  Ship of Tears
Bester comes to Babylon 5, this time seeking help against a common enemy - the Shadows. Meanwhile G'Kar demands to be included in the War Council.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Joan McMurtrey, Diana Morgan, Debra Sharkey
 45 mins    5/9/1996  15.  Interludes and Examinations
Morden returns to secure Londo's cooperation again, Garibaldi confronts Franklin about the stims and Kosh gives Sheridan a victory against the Shadows - but at a price.
Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Jennifer Balgobin, Rance Howard, Jan Rabson, Jonathan Chapman, Mark Ciglar, Glenn Martin, Doug Tompos
 45 mins    5/16/1996  16.  War Without End (1)
Ivanova gets a distress call from herself pleading for help as the Shadows destroy Babylon 5. It is dated eight days into the future. At the same time, on Minbar, Sinclair is given a nine-hundred-year-old letter from Valen, telling him that a drastic action must be taken to prevent that future.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Tim Choate, Time Winters, Michael O'Hare, Kevin Fry, Eric Zivot
 45 mins    5/23/1996  17.  War Without End (2)
While Sheridan is unstuck in time, seeing a glimpse of a future Centauri Prime in ruins, the others continue with their plan to take Babylon 4 back in time.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Tim Choate, Kent Broadhurst, Bruce Morrow, Michael O'Hare, Kevin Fry, Eddie Mui
 45 mins    10/3/1996  18.  Walkabout
The new Vorlon ambassador arrives, Sheridan decides it's time to test just how effective telepaths are against the Shadow ships, and Franklin is on walkabout in Downbelow and falls in love with a singer.
Director:  Kevin G. Cremin  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Erica Gimpel, Jennifer Balgobin,  Robin Sachs, Michael McKenzie
 45 mins    10/10/1996  19.  Grey 17 Is Missing
Garibaldi investigates an area where a maintenance worker disappeared and finds a whole floor that was forgotten after construction, including its rather strange inhabitants. Meanwhile Delenn is about to take on the role of Ranger One, but Neroon swears to stop her.
Director:  John C. Flinn III  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Robert Englund, Katherine Moffat, Eamonn Roche, Time Winters, Thom Barry
 45 mins    10/17/1996  20.  And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
Londo forces Vir to participate in a plan to kill G'Kar. Sheridan struggles with figuring out the Shadows' tactics.
Director:  David J. Eagle  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Erick Avari, Louis Turenne,  Mel Winkler, Francois Giroday, Paul Keith, Wayne Alexander, Marva Hicks, William Forward
 45 mins    10/24/1996  21.  Shadow Dancing
With the Shadows next target known, a massive counterattack is prepared. Ivanova and Marcus scout ahead in the White Star, while the fleet stands by in hyperspace. At the same, time Franklin finally has to face his problems as he lies fatally wounded in Downbelow.
Director:  Kim Friedman  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Shirley Prestia, Melissa Gilbert, John Grantham, J. Gordon Noice, Jonathan Chapman, Mark Hendrickson, Nicholas Ross Oleson, Doug Cox
 45 mins    10/31/1996  22.  Z'ha'dum
After he has recovered from the shock of seeing her, Anna gives Sheridan an ultimatum - come to Z'ha'dum with her, or never know what happened to her there.
Director:  Adam Nimoy  Writer:  J. Michael Straczynski 
Guest starring:  Jeff Corey, Ron Campbell, Melissa Gilbert
Edition Details
Edition Special Edition
Series Babylon 5
Distributor Warner Home Video
Chapters 132
Release Date 8/12/2003
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed)
Widescreen (16:9)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 6

Features
Disc 01 "The Making of..." Documentary Bonus Feature Interactive Menus Scene Selection Theatrical Trailers