Official Babylon 5 Music Videos - Free : J. Michael Straczynski & Babylon 5 Books

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OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 MUSIC VIDEOS During the 1990s, J. Michael Straczynski hired filmmaker John Hudgens to compile eight videos which set Babylon 5 clips to music. Until now, only fans who attended science fiction conventions where JMS or Hudgens screened the videos have seen them. In December 2008, JMS authorized Hudgens to post them on YouTube. For your convenience, we have grouped them together here. We have also included two moving tributes that John produced on his own: one for Richard Biggs and another for Andreas Katsulas.

Babylon 5: Danger Zone (1994) "This video is the original I made in 1994 just for fun - only 16 episodes had aired at this point. I had made quite a few music videos like this for video dance parties at science fiction conventions in the mid to late 80s, and I was so intrigued by B5 from the beginning that it seemed natural to try it with B5 as well." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker		Babylon 5: I Need a Hero (1995) "This video, along with the first one, got out on several of the bootleg Babylon blooper compilations, due to an unscrupulous Chicago convention promoter who let a tape get duplicated (which was the least of his offenses). That was the main reason Joe and I kept a lid on these for so long, preferring that they be seen at conventions with a crowd." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker
Babylon 5: Requiem (1995) "This video was produced near the end of Season Two, and debuted at the 1995 Comic-Con. The show was heading into darker territory, and Joe had Christopher Franke compose a suite that became know as the "Requiem for the Line". This one went though several revisions, as JMS was very specific about certain things he wanted to see, and a certain mood he wanted to project." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker		Babylon 5: Nobody's Side (1996) "Joe had the idea that the song "Nobody's Side" from Chess really fit the mood during the third season of B5, and it's true." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker
Babylon 5: Welcome to the Third Age (1997) "This video premiered at DragonCon in July 1997, and the original version of this ended with the TNT logo and the announcement of Season Five." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker		Babylon 5: Keep Yourself Alive (1998) "The summer of 1998 was a good time for B5...The show was going to finish its five-year arc, the spinoff series Crusade had a greenlight - the show had survived...This premiered at DragonCon that summer, with a healthy majority of the cast in attendance." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker
Babylon 5: The Phantom Video (1999) "Things seemed to sour for B5 fans in 1999. The series was over, but we always knew that was the way it would be. However, TNT had turned out not to be the best place for the B5 universe, with their own promotion problems and the debacle surrounding the treatment of Crusade. So by the time that this video debuted at DragonCon that summer, a certain moment that happens 17 seconds in got a thunderous round of applause from over 3000 fans in the room." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker		Babylon 5: Third Age 2K (2000) "Maybe three weeks before DragonCon in the summer of 2000, the news broke that the SciFi Channel would be picking up B5 starting that fall. And since people had sorta come to expect something new from me each year, I had a few ideas and quickly pulled this together, including a very long and unbroken animation sequence to open the video." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker
Babylon 5: In Memory of Richard Biggs "In May 2004, we lost Rick Biggs much too early to an unexpected heart problem. Rick and I had always been friends at conventions... I was able to finish it quickly and get it to Patricia Tallman in time to run it after Rick's memorial service." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker		Babylon 5: In Memory of Andreas Katsulas "This is the extended version that I did for Andreas' widow after the original cut was released on the net. She contacted me and asked for a copy to run at his memorial service. However, she was disappointed I had not used her favorite G'Kar quote - so I quickly edited that in as a new introduction. It's never been seen online until now." -- John Hudgens, filmmaker

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