What was New - 1995

December 22, 1995

Much delayed by my lack of time, a synopsis of "Passing Through Gethsemane" is online.

December 14, 1995

A transcript of a December 11 Prodigy chat session with Bruce Boxleitner is available.

December 12, 1995

Poll 5 results for "Passing Through Gethsemane" are available.

December 10, 1995

JMS's messages from America Online are now being archived (see the file "latest" for the current month's messages.) They are also searchable via the Find page.

The history of Babylonia file has been HTMLified. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth.

Switched to the table-based Newsflash section on the home page. The vast majority of responses were positive; the only complaints came from users of NCSA Mosaic for X, which has had extremely broken table support recently. However, such users can upgrade to the latest beta release of Mosaic, which should make the Newsflash section readable. Users of non-table-enabled browsers probably won't notice any difference.

The onscreen credits for "Divided Loyalties" are online. Thanks to Dan Dassow.

December 7, 1995

The flow of JMS CompuServe messages should be back up to speed now.

December 6, 1995

Some episode pages have been shuffled around in the past couple days. If you select an episode and get a different episode's page, use your browser's reload function and you should get the right page.

I'm considering a slight format change to the Newsflash section on the home page. Have a look at the alternate version and let me know if you object. I know some people are pretty religious about not using tables for formatting, but this is tabular information. In particular I want to know if it breaks anyone's browser; I believe I've structured it such that it'll look fine on browsers without table support. (No need to tell me it works in Netscape.) If you're using Mosaic for X, you might want to upgrade to the latest beta release, which doesn't break horribly on tables like the most recent previous releases have.

December 5, 1995

A list of character appearances for the first part of season three is available.

The onscreen credits for "Passing Through Gethsemane" are online.

December 4, 1995

A transcript of a real-time chat session with JMS on CompuServe on December 2 is available.

November 29, 1995

A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

A synopsis of "A Day In the Strife" is online.

November 28, 1995

Poll 5 results for "A Day in the Strife" are available.

November 27, 1995

A new version of the TV station address list is online.

The onscreen credits for "A Day In the Strife" are online.

November 23, 1995

Poll 5 results for "Convictions" are available.

November 21, 1995

The onscreen credits are now searchable via the Find page.

The onscreen credits for "Convictions" are online.

A new version of the TV station address list is online.

November 18, 1995

New versions of the science-fiction television schedule and titles files are online.

A full synopsis of "Convictions" is online.

November 16, 1995

The synopsis of "The Long, Twilight Struggle" is illustrated.

November 15, 1995

The synopsis of "Divided Loyalties" is illustrated.

November 13, 1995

Poll 5 results for "Matters of Honor" are available.

The onscreen credits for "Matters of Honor" are online.

The synopsis of "The Fall of Night" is illustrated. Other recent episodes will follow shortly.

A new version of the TV station address list is online.

A full synopsis of "Matters of Honor" is online.

November 10, 1995

A new version of the German B5 FAQ is online. See also the hypertext version.

November 9, 1995

A schedule for Hong Kong is online.

The listing of past reruns has been removed from the US/Canada episode list and moved to a new historical schedule page. That should cut down on loading time for the regular episode list.

November 7, 1995

The onscreen credits for "The Fall of Night" are online.

November 6, 1995

Poll 5 results for "The Fall of Night" are available.

A new version of the TV station address list is online.

New copies of the spoiler and non-spoiler chronology files are online.

November 5, 1995

A batch of JMS GEnie messages from September and October (mostly October) is online. If any GEnie users out there have been saving JMS' messages, please let me know; the archive is missing a lot of them.

November 4, 1995

A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

October 30, 1995

Poll 5 results for "Comes the Inquisitor" are available.

The onscreen credits for "Comes the Inquisitor" are online.

October 29, 1995

The Background pages for most of the season-two episodes now contain a more concise summary of season one. Thanks to Katrina Glerum (kat@gol.com).

October 28, 1995

The onscreen credits for "The Long, Twilight Struggle" have been transcribed.

October 27, 1995

A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

October 26, 1995

A transcript of the Oct. 25 America Online chat session with Bruce Boxleitner and JMS is available.

Hyperion's Web server has been upgraded; problems with hung connections ought to be cleared up as a result. Let me know if you have problems.

October 24, 1995

Poll 5 results for "The Long, Twilight Struggle" are available.

October 20, 1995

The last several months' worth of JMS CompuServe messages are now searchable via the Find page. Earlier messages won't be indexed for a while since they're stored in the archive in a different format.

October 19, 1995

A new version of the writers/directors list has been installed. It uses tables, but is designed to look nearly as good on browsers without any table support. (It breaks on recent versions of NCSA Mosaic for X, which has severely buggy tables.)

October 18, 1995

The Cache Loader page now exists. Visit it before you explore the Guide and you'll preload most of the navigational images into your browser for faster access. There's a link to it toward the bottom of the home page.

The Last Updated List is back in a much friendlier, more useful form. See the link near the top of this page.

October 16, 1995

Poll 5 results for "Divided Loyalties" are available.

A new version of the TV station address list is online.

New versions of the cast and character lists are online.

October 14, 1995

A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

A guide page for the third novel, "Blood Oath," is available.

The guide page for comic #11, "The Psi Corps and You," has been fleshed out.

October 8, 1995

New versions of the sci-fi TV schedule and titles files are online.

October 7, 1995

A new version of the station/airtime list is online. I have taken over maintaining the list; please send me corrections and additions. The list is also now available via the Air Times page in the Reference section.

October 3, 1995

A new version of the TV station address list is online.

September 25, 1995

A new version of the soundtrack index is online.

September 22, 1995

A transcript of a real-time chat with Jerry Doyle and Richard Biggs on eWorld is available.

September 18, 1995

Fleshed out the guide page for the mercifully quick conclusion of the current comic storyline, "Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat."

September 15, 1995

A new version of the FAQ List is online.

September 11, 1995

A new version of the soundtrack index is online.

September 6, 1995

New versions of the non-spoiler and spoiler B5 Chronologies are online.

September 3, 1995

Matthew Murray's synopses for the final four episodes are online.

August 30, 1995

Added a schedule page for the Netherlands.

August 21, 1995

The full, spoiler-filled versions of the guide pages for "Comes the Inquisitor" and "The Fall of Night" are online here. Many thanks to Jason Snell for maintaining them until now.

A new version of Edwin Yau's UK episode guide is available on the FTP server. Presumably it contains major spoilers for the final four episodes.

August 20, 1995

Steven Orso <snorso@facstaff.wisc.edu> has scoured the JMS archives from top to bottom and come up with hundreds of new items for the "jms speaks" sections of just about all the episode-guide pages, especially first-season ones. See them in the Episodes section of the Guide.

The Other Resources page now has an extensive list of B5 articles in British magazines. Thanks to Peter McQuillan.

August 16, 1995

Jason Snell's spoiler page for "The Fall of Night" now has a synopsis.

A new version of the season two appearances chart is online.

August 13, 1995

A separate schedule for Melbourne is available, since it doesn't match up with the schedule in the rest of Australia.

August 12, 1995

The "The Episodes" link from the home page will now take you to the appropriate episode list for your country, if your domain name indicates which country you're connecting from. If you get the US/Canada episode list and there's an active schedule page for your country, please send me mail and I can update the guide to know where your particular domain is. You can get to a list of countries from any schedule page.

August 10, 1995

Jason Snell's spoiler page for "Comes the Inquisitor" now has a synopsis.

August 9, 1995

Fleshed out the guide page for comic issue 9, "Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp."

August 8, 1995

Jason Snell's spoiler pages for "Divided Loyalties" and "The Long, Twilight Struggle" are now online here. Please continue to send information about the last two episodes to Jason.

August 7, 1995

Season one has started again in Costa Rica.

August 3, 1995

A transcript of a July 20 real-time chat session with Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi) on CompuServe is available.

Jason Snell's spoiler page for "The Long, Twilight Struggle" now has a synopsis.

July 31, 1995

A new version of the FAQ List is online.

July 27, 1995

A new version of Un-CGI, a utility to aid in the processing of HTML forms, is available.

July 26, 1995

Jason Snell's spoiler page for "Divided Loyalties" now has a synopsis. For your convenience there's a link to that synopsis from the Lurker's Guide as well.

July 24, 1995

Australian users may want to try the FTP server's newest mirror site, econ-www.newcastle.edu.au.

July 22, 1995

A new version of the B5 Quote Generator is available from the ftp server.

There are now guide pages for the first six season-three episodes. They're all just about empty, but they're there.

July 17, 1995

European users may want to try the FTP server's Swedish mirror site, ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se.

July 15, 1995

The following guide pages and synopses are now illustrated:

• "There All the Honor Lies"
• "And Now For a Word"
• "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
• "Knives"
• "Confessions and Lamentations"

July 14, 1995

Hyperion's Web server should be much, much faster now; we're getting connectivity from Interactive Marketing Ventures, resulting in significantly higher available bandwidth than we had before. As a result, a lot of the links that used to point to the ftp.uml.edu mirror site are now local instead. We hope you enjoy the new, faster Lurker's Guide. Please let us know if you encounter any problems with our new setup.

July 13, 1995

Fleshed out the guide page for comic issue 8, "Silent Enemies." Note that it contains a spoiler for the as-yet-unaired TV episode "Divided Loyalties."

July 12, 1995

The text-only versions of the guide pages will now be updated automatically from the hypertext versions once a day.

The "About the Lurker's Guide" and "Mini-FAQ" pages have been combined, with extra additions, into the new Lurker's Guide FAQ page.

July 6, 1995

A new version of the FAQ List is online.

July 3, 1995

Matthew Murray's synopsis of "Knives" is online.

July 2, 1995

A new version of the soundtrack index is available on the ftp server.

July 1, 1995

An alternate ordering of the episodes is available.

June 29, 1995

• A German version of the FAQ List is online.

June 23, 1995

• Babylon 5 begins in Germany on August 3.

June 22, 1995

• Babylon 5 returns to Greece in July.
• New on the Behind the Scenes page: "What's an 'executive producer?'" by JMS; The Three Ds of 3D by Mojo of Foundation Imaging.
• A version of the home page without the background is available.
• The This Week's Episode link from the home page should work reliably through caching proxy gateways now. Some people had complained that their proxy servers weren't noticing when it was changed to point to new episodes. (It may take a little while for this change to be noticed by your proxy, but after that there shouldn't be a problem. If you're getting an old episode's page from the link, try hitting your browser's reload button.)

June 21, 1995

• B5 is now being shown in Malaysia.
• Jacquelyn J. Smith's synopsis of "Knives" is online.

June 20, 1995

• The summary of Poll 5 results now includes all 41 episodes (counting the pilot.)
• The Lurker's Guide home page has been redesigned a bit, to look spiffier (especially on Netscape 1.1, though it looks fine on other browsers too) and to be more succinct. Let me know what you think.

June 18, 1995

• The hole in the JMS Usenet archive (January - May 1995) has been filled, thanks to Jacque Marshall.

June 17, 1995

• Jacquelyn J. Smith has generously written a synopsis of "Confessions and Lamentations" to serve until Matthew Murray's is ready.

June 15, 1995

• By popular demand, you can now look at a list of all the guide entries with their last modification dates. Thanks to Uttam M. Narsu for reminding me that this could be done without lots of work!

June 11, 1995

• JMS' messages on Usenet are now archived automatically as they arrive at Hyperion.
• Added links to introductions to Assyrian/Babylonian and Sumerian mythology to the Literary and Historical References page.
• The Lurker's Guide's section on the comic series has been nominated for a Best of COMIX.WEB award in the "Crossover" category.

June 10, 1995

• Fleshed out the guide page for comic issue 7, "Survival the Hard Way."

June 8, 1995

• B5 has been renewed for a third season. As announced on America Online:

  Date: 95-06-08 22:22:38 EDT

  Well you can all relax, break out the champagne, or whatever your pleasure is -- we got official notification for the third season this afternoon. We're good for 22 more eps. Prep will start next week, and we intend to start production in late July. The third season will premiere in Nov. We feel pretty good here, I hope all of you do as well. Thanks to all of you fans for your support. We'll try to live up to your expectations.

  John Copeland
  Producer - Babylon 5

• A new version of the FAQ List is available.

May 31, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "Confessions and Lamentations" are online.
• A transcript of a May 1995 real-time conference with JMS on Delphi is available.
• A collection of JMS' May 1995 CompuServe messages is online.

May 30, 1995

• Version 1.4 of Un-CGI, a tool to ease processing of WWW form results, is now available.

May 29, 1995

• Updated all the text-only copies of the guide pages on the FTP server.

May 28, 1995

• Created a separate page for places where B5 can be seen, which used to be on the episode list page.

May 27, 1995

• A new version of the FAQ List is available.
• Most of the schedule of US reruns has been added to the episode list.

May 25, 1995

• Some more video clips from the America Online promotion have been uploaded; many of them have been integrated into the Guide in appropriate places.

May 24, 1995

• The credits for "Confessions and Lamentations" are online.
• A variety of sound and video clips from Warner Bros.' B5 promotion on America Online are on the FTP server.

May 22, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "Knives" are online.

May 21, 1995

• Added a schedule for Colombia.
• Bad news: PTEN is showing reruns until October, delaying the last four season-two episodes until just before season three. Please don't complain to the Lurker's Guide about this -- we have absolutely no influence on the matter. The best thing to do is probably to write to your local TV station. Or plan a vacation to the UK, where the last four episodes will start airing in just over three weeks.

May 20, 1995

• The list of WWW sites on the Other Sources of B5 Information page has been broken down into rough categories.

May 18, 1995

• The credits for "Knives" are online.

May 17, 1995

• The guide pages for the comics are now in the same format as the episode and novel pages.

May 16, 1995

• Fleshed out the guide page for comic issue 6, "Against the Odds."
• A transcript of "And Now For a Word" is online.

May 15, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" are online.
• A synopsis of "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is online.
• The first four episodes have been released on video in the UK. [Details]

May 12, 1995

• A detailed index of the soundtrack CD is available.

May 10, 1995

• A synopsis of "There All the Honor Lies" is online.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.
• The credits for "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" are online.

May 9, 1995

• Upgraded the HTTP server to NCSA httpd 1.4. This should clear up the performance problems you may have noticed lately.

May 8, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "And Now For a Word" are online.
• The credits for "And Now For a Word" are online.
• Poll 5 results for "There All the Honor Lies" are online.

April 27 - May 8, 1995

On vacation!

April 26, 1995

• The credits for "There All the Honor Lies" are online.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

April 25, 1995

• Erik Oliver's guide page for the second novel, "Accusations," is online.

April 24, 1995

• The edit decision list for "There All the Honor Lies" is online. Requires a browser that can display tables (e.g. Netscape 1.1.) This new feature is courtesy of Michael Brown, <brown@ftms.com> and will be updated weekly.
• Did some initial fleshing out of the guide page for "There All the Honor Lies."
• The Lurker's Guide is now being served by new server software (NCSA httpd 1.4b5.) Please let me know if you have trouble with it.

April 17, 1995 (Black Monday)

• Added schedules for CFCF channel 12 in Montreal and WLII channel 11 in Puerto Rico.

April 13, 1995

• Fleshed out the guide page for issue 4 of the comic series, and wrote a synopsis of issue 5.

April 11, 1995

• Some new JMS CompuServe messages have been uploaded.

April 10, 1995

• John Vornholt will be speaking at the University of Arizona in Tuscon. [Details]

April 1, 1995

• A few new batches of JMS GEnie messages have been uploaded.
• Installed NCSA httpd 1.4 beta. It should offer improved performance; if you'd like to try it out, follow this link. Report problems to webmaster@hyperion.com.

March 28, 1995

• The current week's episode (for the US) is now available at a constant URL, <http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/guide/current.html>. You can add it to your hotlist if you like; it'll be changed once a week. Thanks to Juliet C. Bourne for suggesting it.

March 26, 1995

• Added a schedule for Belgium. The pilot movie is scheduled for March 27 at 7:35PM, with the series starting the next night at the same time.

March 19, 1995

• Winchell Chung's ASCII station map is online.

March 18, 1995

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

March 15, 1995

• Added a schedule for Israel.

March 14, 1995

• A very tentative schedule for France is online.
• Added pages about the next two issues of the comic series. Thanks to Jack Holt.

March 8, 1995

• Added a small FAQ detailing some of the common requests I get.

March 7, 1995

• New versions of the cast and character lists have been uploaded to the ftp server.

March 6, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "Hunter, Prey" are online.
• A new version of the season-two appearances chart has been uploaded.

March 5, 1995

• A new quick-reference guide is available, a more verbose version of the episode list.

March 4, 1995

• A synopsis of "Hunter, Prey" is online, as are its onscreen credits.
• Added some minor tidbits about upcoming episodes to their guide pages; added pages for two more new episodes, "The Long, Twilight Struggle" and "Divided Loyalties."
• A new version of the SF TV schedule is available.

March 3, 1995

• The guide page for the first novel, "Voices," has been greatly expanded thanks to Erik Oliver. Let him know what you think.

March 2, 1995

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.
• JMS' February GEnie messages have been uploaded. Thanks to Dylan Northrup.
• A tentative air schedule for Costa Rica is online.
• A synopsis of "Acts of Sacrifice" is online.

February 28, 1995

• Updated the episode list with the latest schedule info.
• Poll 5 results for "Acts of Sacrifice" are online.

February 26, 1995

• The following guide pages (and synopses, where applicable) now have inline images:
  • "A Distant Star"
  • "The Long Dark"
  • "A Spider in the Web"
  • "Soul Mates"
  • "A Race Through Dark Places"
  • "The Coming of Shadows"
  • "GROPOS"
  • "All Alone in the Night"
  • "Acts of Sacrifice"
  • "Hunter, Prey"

February 25, 1995

• Fleshed out the guide page for "Hunter, Prey" (though it's by no means complete.)
• Created guide pages for episodes 37-40. No new information is available, though.

February 24, 1995

• Michele Worley's compilation of Biblical references to Babylon now contains references from the book of Revelation.

February 23, 1995

• The onscreen credits for "Acts of Sacrifice" have been uploaded.

February 21, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "All Alone in the Night" are online.

February 19, 1995

• The synopsis of "GROPOS" is online.

February 18, 1995

• Added a link to the current (US/Canada) episode on the home page. The link will (in theory) be updated every Monday morning, California time.
• Added a Table of Contents page, as well as a brief page about the Lurker's Guide.
• Did a major rework of the Making of Babylon 5 page, breaking lots of it off into separate documents and giving it a look more consistent with the rest of the Guide.
• A synopsis of "All Alone in the Night" is online.

February 17, 1995

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

February 16, 1995

• Fleshed out the guide page for issue 3 of the comic series, "In Harm's Way."

February 15, 1995

• The onscreen credits for "All Alone in the Night" have been uploaded.

February 14, 1995

• Started a separate series of pages for the Babylon 5 novel series. The first entry is still incomplete; I'll fill in more after I've read the book!
• Poll 5 results for "GROPOS" are online.

February 12, 1995

• Babylon 5 is now being shown in Sweden Sundays at 18:00.

February 11, 1995

• Fleshed out the guide page for "All Alone in the Night."

February 9, 1995

• The onscreen credits for "GROPOS" have been uploaded.

February 8, 1995

• A new version of the Earth 2 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.
• Fleshed out the guide page for "GROPOS."

February 6, 1995

• Poll 5 results for "The Coming of Shadows" are online.

February 5, 1995

• I've been informed that KCOP, the Los Angeles B5 station, won't be showing "GROPOS" this week due to other programming. Calling the station and asking them to show it is probably a good idea if you live in LA and want to see it. (I've also been told that it will be shown Saturday at 8:00 and is only preempted on Thursday.)

February 4, 1995

• A synopsis of "The Coming of Shadows" is available. See the episode first - it's a doozy and you will enjoy it more if you haven't read the spoilers.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

February 2, 1995

• The onscreen credits for "The Coming of Shadows" have been uploaded.

February 1, 1995

• New versions of the SF TV schedule and titles files are available, as is the February Sci-Fi Channel schedule.
• Updated the guide page for "The Coming of Shadows."

January 31, 1995

• The Particles of Star Trek. 'Nuff said.
• Poll 5 results for "A Race Through Dark Places" are online.

January 28, 1995

• A synopsis of "A Race Through Dark Places" is available.

January 25, 1995

• The onscreen credits for "A Race Through Dark Places" have been uploaded.

January 23, 1995

• New versions of the cast and character lists have been uploaded to the ftp server.
• A new version of the season two appearances chart is available.
• A file full of Kosh quotes has been uploaded.

January 22, 1995

• Converted the rest of the guide pages to the new format.

January 21, 1995

• Started retooling the episode guide pages to conform to the Guide's new look. Pages up to "Grail" have been updated so far; more are on their way.
• As part of the retooling, added a "Background" link to the guide pages that gives a short summary of the overall storyline up to but not including the episode you link from. The text of the summary is mostly taken from the latest version of the FAQ List. Useful if you're just starting to watch the show and want to know what's gone on before the episode you're about to see.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.
• JMS Usenet messages from September 1994 through (part of) January 1995 are available on the FTP server.

January 20, 1995

• Reorganized the US episode list page slightly, so it's more intuitive (I hope) and more compact. Let me know if you think it's significantly better or worse; if reaction is positive, I'll apply the same general idea to other parts of the Guide to streamline it.
• The guide page for "A Race Through Dark Places" has been fleshed out, thanks to quick action by Dave Zimmerman.

January 19, 1995

• Put Dave Zimmerman's page for "Soul Mates" in place.

January 17, 1995

• An air schedule for Chile is available.

January 15, 1995

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

January 14, 1995

• A new version of the UNIX B5 quote generator has been uploaded, and its FAQ has been updated.

January 13, 1995

• Wrote a synopsis of "Treason," issue 2 of the comic series. The rest of the page will be fleshed out shortly.

January 2, 1995

• The Poll 5 results summary has been updated.

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