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December 30, 1996
The onscreen credits for "The Hour of the Wolf," "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi," "The Summoning," and "Falling Toward Apotheosis" are online.

A glitch in all the credits pages has been fixed; this should make the credits look a lot better under Microsoft Internet Explorer. (For the technically minded, the problem was that the alignment from the preceding <p> tag was being carried over into a <pre> block.)

December 25, 1996
A synopsis of "The Summoning" is online.

December 21, 1996
The archive of JMS' CompuServe and Usenet messages from September through November has been split apart into smaller files. Apologies to everyone who suffered through the excruciatingly long download before.

A new introduction to the Background section of the episode guide for season four is in place. (Select the "Background" link from an episode's guide page to see a summary of the story up to, but not including, that episode.)

The Effects page has been updated to reflect the fact that Foundation Imaging no longer does B5's special effects.

December 19, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Falling Toward Apotheosis" are online.

December 10, 1996
A synopsis of "Falling Toward Apotheosis" is online. The synopsis of "The Summoning" should be available shortly.

A revamped version of Edwin Yau's UK episode guide is available.

November 26 - December 10, 1996
On vacation.

November 25, 1996
A synopsis of "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" is online.

Poll 5 results for "The Summoning" are online.

November 21, 1996
A new version of the B5 FAQ is available:

November 18, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" are online.

November 11, 1996
Poll 5 results for "The Hour of the Wolf" are online.

November 10, 1996
A synopsis of "The Hour of the Wolf" is online.

A schedule for Mexico is online.

November 8, 1996
A schedule for Russia is online.

November 5, 1996
The Fans page has moved from the Making Of section to the Resources section, a more intuitive location.

November 4, 1996
A schedule for the Philippines is online.

November 3, 1996
A synopsis of "Z'ha'dum" is online.

A transcript of an October 8 chat session with Jeff Conaway is online.

November 2, 1996
Several recent months' worth of JMS GEnie messages have been uploaded.

October 30, 1996
Lots of little changes all over the Guide today. I took the day off work to spend plowing through some of my E-mail backlog. I've gotten through 220 messages so far; sadly, that's not even half the backlog, but I'll attempt to catch up before season four begins. Please bear with me if you notice something is out of date -- it's almost undoubtedly on my to-do list already, and more mail about it will only slow me down further!

October 17, 1996
I'll be out of town until October 21, so if you don't see pages getting updated over the weekend, that's why.

A new version of the B5 FAQ is available:

October 14, 1996
A schedule for WBTV in Central and South America is available.

October 13, 1996
A transcript of JMS' October 11 IRC chat session is available.

October 9, 1996
The Poll 5 votetaker is now maintaining Web pages with a summary of the results, and an up-to-date version of the results for the current episode.

October 8, 1996
Some of you have noted that the Guide isn't using inline JPEGs any more. They'll be back! The method I was using to choose between JPEGs and GIFs turned out to be too heavy a load on the server. Luckily, we'll be installing a faster machine in the next couple of weeks. And, spare time permitting, I'll shortly be implementing a more efficient way of doing the picture selection. The JPEGs will return when the first of those two things happens. Thanks for your patience.

October 3, 1996
A transcript of a recent interview with Bruce Boxleitner, John Copeland, and Jerry Doyle is available.

New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

October 1, 1996
Hyperion has moved to a new ISP yet again. If you see that your browser is listing this server as "http://199.165.129.193/", your browser is keeping old host addresses around longer than it's supposed to. You'll want to restart it at some point (though the old address will continue to be forwarded to the new one for at least a week.)

September 28, 1996
The spoiler page for "Shadow Dancing" and its synopsis have been moved to the main part of the Guide.

So has the spoiler page for "Z'ha'dum."

September 27, 1996
The spoiler page for "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" has been moved to the main part of the Guide, as has a synopsis.

September 23, 1996
A new version of the UK episode guide is online.

The onscreen credits for "Z'ha'dum" are online. One more round of thanks to George Chauvet for transcribing them. The spoiler page for the episode now contains analysis and other material. Be sure you really want to see it!

September 22, 1996
The spoiler pages for "Walkabout" and "Grey 17 Is Missing" have moved to the main part of the Guide. The remaining season-three episodes' pages are still being maintained separately.

September 17, 1996
The spoiler page for "Z'ha'dum" now contains a synopsis.

September 16, 1996
The onscreen credits for "Shadow Dancing" are online. Thanks to George Chauvet for transcribing them.

The spoiler page for "Shadow Dancing" now contains a synopsis.

September 9, 1996
The onscreen credits for "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" are online. Thanks to William F. Harris for transcribing them.

The spoiler page for "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" now contains a synopsis.

September 2, 1996
The B5 Support Page has had a major update. (It happened on August 28, in fact.)

The onscreen credits for "Walkabout" and "Grey 17 Is Missing" are online. Thanks to George Chauvet for transcribing them.

New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

The spoiler page for "Grey 17 Is Missing" now contains a synopsis and other material.

Poll 5 results from the UK airing of "Walkabout" are online.

August 18, 1996
The spoiler page for "Walkabout" now contains a synopsis and other material.

New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

August 15, 1996
The layout of the US/Canada episode list has been changed slightly. Let me know if it causes problems for you.

August 3, 1996
A new version of the UK episode guide text file has been uploaded.

Even newer versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

July 27, 1996
New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

July 23, 1996
This week's TV Guide article on B5 is available online. (That link probably won't work after July 29.)

July 17, 1996
We have started putting JPEG versions of some of our inline images in place alongside the GIF versions. Our server should automatically feed you an image type your browser can handle; if you find you're getting garbage or a broken-image icon where you used to get a picture, please let us know. The change will be an ongoing process over the next several weeks. JPEG provides significant savings in file size, and thus download time, for some images; it also looks much better in many cases, especially on 16-million-color displays.

Not all images will be JPEGged, just those that benefit either in appearance or size. That means most of the navigational icons will remain GIFs even for people who can handle inline JPEGs.

This feature will probably not be available on mirror sites, which will continue to serve up GIF images.

July 15, 1996
New versions of all the files in the B5 FAQ are online:

July 2, 1996
New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

June 25, 1996
A new Poll 5 results summary is available, covering episodes up to "War Without End, Part 2."

June 15, 1996
New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

June 8, 1996
Babylon 5 has been confirmed renewed for a fourth season! This was announced Friday June 7 at 9pm EDT by producer John Copeland in the "B5 stations renewal" folder on America Online, and verified Saturday June 8 by JMS while at the science fiction convention Wolf 359.

June 3, 1996
A German mirror of the Lurker's Guide is online.

May 31, 1996
A new version of the news and schedules part of the B5 FAQ is online.

The onscreen credits for "War Without End, Part Two" are online.

The guide page for novel #6, "Betrayals," has been fleshed out.

May 30, 1996
Synopses for "War Without End" parts one and two are online.

May 29, 1996
A new mirror is online, at Digital Service Consultants in Atlanta, Georgia. The URL is http://www.dscga.com/lurk/lurker.html.

May 27, 1996
Poll 5 results for "War Without End, Part Two" are available.

May 26, 1996
The onscreen credits for "War Without End, Part One" are online.

A transcript of an America Online chat session with Mira Furlan is available.

May 24, 1996
New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

The onscreen credits for "Interludes and Examinations" are online.

May 23, 1996
Poll 5 results for "War Without End, Part One" are available.

May 18, 1996
New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online:

May 16, 1996
A transcript of an America Online chat session with Richard Biggs is available.

May 15, 1996
A synopsis of "Ship of Tears" is online.

May 14, 1996
A synopsis of "A Late Delivery from Avalon" is online.

May 13, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Interludes and Examinations" are available.

May 12, 1996
A synopsis of "Interludes and Examinations" is online. (Yes, I know two episodes have been skipped; the synopses should be available soon.)

By popular demand, new entries in the guide pages will now have modification dates next to them. Items older than two weeks won't have dates, so you can scan for the dates to see what's generally new, then look at the individual dates to see how new each thing is.

This will only affect entries added after this announcement, but in two weeks nobody will be able to tell the difference anyway.

The dates are in US format (month/day.)

May 11, 1996
The onscreen credits for "Ship of Tears" are online.

May 9, 1996
The onscreen credits for "A Late Delivery from Avalon" are online.

May 7, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Ship of Tears" are available.

May 3, 1996
New versions of all the files in the B5 FAQ are online:

April 30, 1996

The onscreen credits for "Sic Transit Vir" are online.

April 29, 1996
Poll 5 results for "A Late Delivery from Avalon" are available.

April 28, 1996
A synopsis of "Sic Transit Vir" is online.

The guide page for "Ship of Tears" has been fleshed out.

April 24, 1996
A synopsis of "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" is available.

April 23, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Sic Transit Vir" are available.

April 22, 1996
Since so many people see the episodes on weekends, starting next week the "This Week's Episode" link will switch on Tuesday morning rather than Monday morning. That'll give people a chance to check the guide page for the episode they've just seen without having to hit an extra page.

April 21, 1996
A new version of the news/schedule part of the B5 FAQ is online.

April 19, 1996
Hyperion has switched to a new Internet service provider. You should notice substantially faster performance, though initial accesses to the Guide might be slow until our updated nameserver records have been propogated. (If that's gibberish to you, don't worry about it!)

The onscreen credits for "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" are available.

April 18, 1996
Erik Oliver's guide page for novel #5, "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name" is online.

April 15, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" are available.

April 13, 1996
New versions of the general and news/schedule parts of the B5 FAQ are online.

April 12, 1996
A synopsis of "Severed Dreams" is available, as are the onscreen credits.

April 8, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Severed Dreams" are available. It is easily the highest-rated episode so far.

April 7, 1996
A transcript of yesterday's real-time conference with JMS on CompuServe is available.

April 3, 1996
UK users can access the new ftp.hyperion.com mirror at www.cant.ac.uk.

April 2, 1996
Several official press releases about the show are available.

March 27, 1996
Updated all the links on guest stars' names in the episode guide to point to the official location of the Internet Movie Database.

March 21, 1996
An updated summary of the Poll 5 results is available.

March 19, 1996
A new mirror site in Greece is online.

The writers/directors list has been updated.

March 18, 1996
The Babylon 5 FAQ has been split into five separate files, and expanded with new material from the Lurker's Guide and elsewhere.

A revised version of the season 3 appearances chart is online.

March 16, 1996
An updated version of the discussion of parallels between B5 and the works of H. P. Lovecraft is available on the FTP server, as is an HTML version.

March 12, 1996
A new version of the station address list is online.

March 7, 1996
A nicer, HTMLized version of the Poll 5 results summary is online.

March 5, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Point of No Return" are available.

March 4, 1996
A new version of the station address list is online.

March 3, 1996
The onscreen credits for "Point of No Return" have been transcribed.

March 2, 1996
A synopsis of "Point of No Return" is available.

March 1, 1996
Hyperion is running new Web server software. Please let us know if you see problems.

February 28, 1996
The onscreen credits for "Messages from Earth" have been transcribed.

February 27, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Messages from Earth" are available.

February 24, 1996
The following synopses are now illustrated:

A synopsis of "Messages from Earth" is online.

February 21, 1996
Matthew Murray's synopsis of "Exogenesis" is online.

February 20, 1996
The onscreen credits for "Exogenesis" have been transcribed.

February 19, 1996
Poll 5 results for "Exogenesis" are available.

February 18, 1996
The synopsis of "Dust to Dust" is now illustrated.

February 17, 1996
The following synopses are now illustrated:

February 15, 1996
A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

New versions of the SF TV titles and schedule files are online.

February 14, 1996
An episode guide (with some documentation) for the Apple Newton is available.

Erik Oliver's guide page for novel #4, "Clark's Law," is online.

Poll 5 results for "Dust to Dust" are available.

February 13, 1996
The onscreen credits for "Dust to Dust" have been transcribed.

The synopsis of "Matters of Honor" is illustrated.

February 11, 1996
A synopsis of "Dust to Dust" is online.

February 8, 1996
The episode previews on the official B5 web site are now available via a permanent link on the Lurker's Guide home page.

A recent interview with Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander) is available.

February 6, 1996
A discussion of the parallels between B5 and the works of H. P. Lovecraft is available on the FTP server.

Poll 5 results for "Voices of Authority" are available.

February 5, 1996
Previews are now available for "Dust to Dust" courtesy of the official B5 web site.

February 4, 1996
A synopsis of "Voices of Authority" is online, as are the onscreen credits.

February 3, 1996
A B5 concordance/encyclopedia is available on the FTP server. Part 1, part 2, and part 3.

February 2, 1996
A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

January 30, 1996
An Australian mirror of the Guide is available.

January 27, 1996
An interview with Foundation Imaging animator Mojo is available.

January 22, 1996
Previews are now available for "Voices of Authority" courtesy of the official B5 website.

The Poll 5 Summary has been updated to include episodes up to "Passing Through Gethsemane."

January 21, 1996
The synopsis of "Comes the Inquisitor" is illustrated.

January 20, 1996
The Background section of the episode guide pages for season three now have a new summary of the story so far. Thanks to Katrina Glerum, kat@gol.com.

January 19, 1996
A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

January 14, 1996
A new partial mirror (episode guide only, no images) is available for UK users.

January 13, 1996
A viewer campaign is underway to keep B5 airing on WPTT in Pittsburgh, PA.

January 12, 1996
The cast and character listings have been updated. There is also now a list of actors ordered by first appearance. Thanks to Dan Dassow, M195722@sl1001.mdc.com.

January 7, 1996
A schedule for Indonesia is online.

A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ is online.

B5 has resumed airing in Sweden.

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