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Babylon 5 Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1993 - 1994
Episode 0
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Mon, Feb 22, 199389 mins
This TV movie is the pilot for the "Babylon 5" TV series. Set on a space station in the late 23rd Century, Babylon 5 is a centre of diplomacy and trade, in neutral space located between many rival space empires. The project's success, already shaky, is put further in doubt when incoming Commander Jeffrey Sinclair is the key suspect in the attempted assassination of Kosh, a mysterious alien ambassador.
Episode 1
Midnight on the Firing Line
Wed, Jan 26, 199444 mins
The Narn attack a Centauri colony, while Raiders attack transport ships. Talia Winters arrives at the station.
Episode 2
Soul Hunter
Wed, Feb 2, 199444 mins
A mysterious alien who steals the souls of the living arrives on the station, putting Delenn's life in danger.
Episode 3
Born to the Purple
Wed, Feb 9, 199444 mins
When it comes to political manipulation, Londo Mollari knows where the skeletons are buried: his "purple files" hold scandalous secrets about Centauri's royal families. But when it comes to love, even wily Londo may fall victim to a plan to seduce those hush-hush tales from him.
Episode 4
Infection
Wed, Feb 16, 199444 mins
A living weapon wreaks havoc on the station.
Episode 5
The Parliament of Dreams
Wed, Feb 23, 199444 mins
A week long cultural festival is takes place on board the station. Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's old girlfriend, arrives on the station and G'Kar receives a death threat.
Episode 6
Mind War
Wed, Mar 2, 199444 mins
The Psi Cops arrive at the station to capture Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine is warned not to survey a sector of space by G'Kar.
Episode 7
The War Prayer
Wed, Mar 9, 199444 mins
A pro-Earth group attacks a Minbari poet. Two Centauri lovers seek Londo's help.
Episode 8
And the Sky Full of Stars
Wed, Mar 16, 199444 mins
Sinclair is kidnapped by two men who want to know what happened to him when he disappeared in the final battle of the Earth-Minbari War, something that even Sinclair does not know.
Episode 9
Deathwalker
Wed, Apr 20, 199444 mins
A war criminal scientist who is the last of the notorious Dilgars is discovered on Babylon 5 bearing an extraordinary medication that all the powers want.
Episode 10
Believers
Wed, Apr 27, 199444 mins
An alien family refuses surgery to save their dying child.
Episode 11
Survivors
Wed, May 4, 199443 mins
Garibaldi is blamed for an accident aboard B5, leading to his return to the bottle.
Episode 12
By Any Means Necessary
Wed, May 11, 199444 mins
While the station's dock workers stage an illegal strike, G'Kar tries to hold a Narn religious ceremony, but Londo holds the plant he needs and won't relinquish it.
Episode 13
Signs and Portents
Wed, May 18, 199443 mins
Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact and a stranger visits each alien ambassador asking only one question.
Episode 14
TKO
Wed, May 25, 199444 mins
A disgraced boxer comes to Babylon 5 to compete in the Mutai, an alien fighting match. Meanwhile, an old friend visits Ivanova so that she can mourn the loss of her father.
Episode 15
Grail
Wed, Jul 6, 199444 mins
A man searching for the Holy Grail arrives. Ambassador Kosh may be behind a string of attacks on the station.
Episode 16
Eyes
Wed, Jul 13, 199444 mins
Colonel Ari Ben Zayn of Earthforce Internal Affairs investigates Sinclair and his command staff for recent station actions.
Episode 17
Legacies
Wed, Jul 20, 199442 mins
A Minbari military leader's dead body disappears on the station.
Episode 18
A Voice in the Wilderness: Part 1
Wed, Jul 27, 199444 mins
Delenn's old friend and mentor Draal arrives on the station at the same time that an extinct civilization is found on the planet that Babylon 5 orbits. A revolt against the Earth Alliance breaks out on Mars.
Episode 19
A Voice in the Wilderness: Part 2
Wed, Aug 3, 199444 mins
Earthforce Captain Ellis Pierce and an alien race both lay claim to Epsilon III, the planet which Babylon 5 orbits. The revolt on Mars continues, leading to many casualties.
Episode 20
Babylon Squared
Wed, Aug 10, 199444 mins
Babylon 5's immediate predecessor, Babylon 4, suddenly reappears after mysteriously vanishing four years earlier.
Episode 21
The Quality of Mercy
Wed, Aug 17, 199444 mins
Talia must enter the mind of a convicted murderer while Dr. Franklin goes to Downbelow to investigate a doctor who apparently is 'magically' healing people.
Episode 22
Chrysalis
Wed, Oct 26, 199443 mins
Garibaldi investigates a death on the station which leads him to a terrible discovery.