The week-long national syndication window opens for the 77th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Marjorie Monaghan (Space Rangers) guest stars. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 77th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Marjorie Monaghan (Space Rangers) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 44th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 117th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. David Graf (Police Academy) guest stars.
UPN airs the 64th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
SuperTracks releases the Doctor Who soundtrack, with music by John Debney, John Sponsler, and Louis Febre. As with many other SuperTracks releases during this period, this soundtrack is not studio-sanctioned.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 78th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Tony Todd guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 118th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
UPN airs the 65th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 79th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Guy Siner (‘Allo ‘Allo) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 46th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. This episode, guest starring Karl Urban and Ted Raimi, brings the series’ second season to a close.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 119th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kenneth Marshall (Krull) guest stars.
UPN airs the 66th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 80th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 120th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Marjean Holden (Crusade) guest stars.
UPN airs the 67th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, ending the third season. John Rhys Davies (Sliders) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 81st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
The 85th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Tim Thomerson (Quark) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 82nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Efram Zimbalist, Jr. guest stars.
The 86th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 83rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Efram Zimbalist, Jr. guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 121st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Louise Fletcher guest stars.
The 87th and final episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Beverly Garland and Harve Presnell guest star in the final episode.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 84th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 122nd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode concludes the show’s fifth season, and kicks off the Dominion War storyline which is resolved with an unprecedented six-episode arc in the sixth season.
Renaissance Records releases Joined Like Notes, an album by Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5), including a song chronicling the further adventures of Mumy’s Lost In Space character.
George Lucas films the first footage for the hotly-anticipated Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace at England’s Leavesden Film Studios, a facility that Lucasfilm has rented out for the duration of the movie’s expected long production period. By this point, even details of minor cast members have been leaked to the public, possibly making the production of Episode I the beginning of the modern age of internet spoilers. The cast includes Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Nataline Portman and Jake Lloyd, with veteran cast members such as Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Ian McDiarmid reprising their roles from the original trilogy. Cameras are expected to roll through September, with a 1999 release date already set.
Cable channel TNT announces that, in addition to ordering two made-for-TV movies continuing the story of syndicated science fiction series Babylon 5, it will be picking up the series for a full fifth season of new episodes. Additionally, work is underway on a sequel/”side story” set in the same universe, provisionally titled The Babylon Project: Crusade, which will also air on TNT. The series’ current cast, already locked down for the TV movies, is presumed to be returning for the fifth season. The first new episode produced will actually be seen in syndication as the final Babylon 5 episode aired on PTEN, since the final episode of the fourth season – always intended to be the very last episode of the series as a whole – will now be held back.
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Dell Books releases the Babylon 5 novel “To Dream In The City Of Sorrows“, written by Kathryn M. Drennan (also writer of the first season B5 episode By Any Means Necessary). The book chronicles the life of Commander Sinclair following his departure from Babylon 5, his arrival on Minbar, and his eventual rise to the position of Entil’Zha – leader of the Rangers. The novel fills in many gaps left in Sinclair’s story on television, and is considered an official part of the show’s storyline.
Actress Claudia Christian, having completed four seasons on the syndicated science fiction series Babylon 5, allows her contract to lapse prior to the start of production on the show’s fifth season (slated to air on cable channel TNT). Within days, rumors circulate on the internet that Christian has been fired from the show, touching off a fandom firestorm. The first scripts for the fifth season are revised accordingly to feature a new character, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, and actress Tracy Scoggins is cast as the new character within weeks. Christian’s appearances in the two upcoming Babylon 5 TV movies (set to premiere in 1998) and the final episode of the series itself (already filmed) are unaffected.
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