The SF Site: Babylon 5.1 by Rick Norwood

Babylon 5.1
by Rick Norwood

SF on TV

Websites
Other Babylon 5.1 Columns
For more information, you can try the following sites:
Rick Norwood's Website
Worldwide TV Schedule
The Official Babylon 5 Website
The X-Files
Pocket Books: Star Trek
Paramount Star Trek

Ratings
Ratings are based on a four star system.
One star means that the commercials are more entertaining than the program.
Two stars watch if you have nothing better to do.
Three stars is good solid entertainment.
Four stars means you never dreamed television could be this good.

I was happy to see that SF Site came in tied for first on the Locus survey of online publications read (other than Locus online). Of those responding to the survey who read online publications, 42% read SF Site. To those of you in that group, your support is appreciated. Of course, I have no way of knowing how many SF Site readers also read Locus, but if you do, I encourage you to vote in the Locus poll and respond to the Locus survey. I also encourage you to nominate and vote for the Hugo Award. Make your voice heard.

Last issue, I mentioned Howard Chaykin. I usually think of him as a comic book writer, and that is where he has done his major work, but his television work is well worth following. Here is a brief filmography:

The Flash (all scripts with John Francis Moore) 1990–1991
"Watching the Detectives"
"Honor Among Thieves" (story only)
"Child's Play" (from a story by Stephen Hattman & Gail Morgan Hickman)
"Shroud of Death"
"Ghost in the Machine"
"The Trickster"
"Deadly Nightshade"
"Done With Mirrors"
"The Trial of the Trickster"

In UK, pairs of episodes were released as "movies," Flash II ("The Trickster" and "The Trial of the Trickster") and Flash III ("The Ghost in the Machine" and "Deadly Nightshade")

The complete series is available on DVD.

Earth Final Conflict (season 3) 1999–2000
"Emancipation"
"A Little Bit of Heaven"
"Pad'ar"
"Scorched Earth"
"Sanctuary"
"Abduction"

Available on DVD as Earth Final Conflict – No Refuge.

Mutant X (2001 – 2002)
"The Shock of the New"
"I Scream the Body Electric"
"In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
"Ex Marks the Spot"
"A Breed Apart"
"Past as Prologue"

Available on DVD as Mutant X: The Complete First Season.

Three DVDs are out on which I appear, providing commentary: The Legend of Prince Valiant: The Complete Series, Volume One, Flash Gordon: The Complete Series, and Defenders of the Earth. Filming these was a lot of fun.

Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon.