Babylon 5 - Series 5 Box Set (6 Discs)

This, I feel, is the weakest of the five series as some of the main actors were only available for short stories (as at the end of each series the actors never know if there was to be another )and they also try to feed into the series stories lines for some spin-offs (Crusade) which feel more like a quite re-write into some of the stories and does not flow quite so will as the other four series.

That said, however it is still an great series

The complete series was spread over five years with year one setting the stage, storylines, and characters, years 2 to 5 should have been the rest of the story but the networks only gave the author one more year after season 3 so he compressed the two years of storylines that he had prepared into the fourth season. The networks then allowed another year so the fifth season was not "by popular demand" at all but was essentially a number of episodes that expanded on the previous work. If the networks had kept out of it there would have been more content in seasons 3 and 4 with the finale in Season 5 as the author had planned. Having said all that, Babylon 5 IS one of the best scifi stories ever made ( a lot of people would say THE best), and my advice to anyone (scifi buff/fan or just someone looking for something different, thought provoking, exciting, top acting and direction) is just start at season 1 and buy/rent/borrow/steal the lot. You won't regret it.