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Dark Horizon is on its own disc. The other four movies are on 2 flipper discs–one movie per side. All the movies have a Ken Johnson commentary track. The first four movies have “Making of” featurettes that are a bit dry, but have some great nuggets. The first four also have gag reels. All the movies have a wide of array of stills in a photo gallery.

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The last movie’s disc side includes a 25-minute reunion taped at Johnson’s home in January 2007. Everyone’s there except for Sean Six/Buck. It’s amazing! I got a warm feeling just watching! It opens with candid meet and greets and sitting down to a meal. They gather in a circle next, and really start to talk. The actors talk about being cast, about make-up, about the movies, and about the reaction from various ethnic groups, among other things. There are some great behind-the-scenes shots from the original series that I’ve never seen anywhere else.

Dark Horizon is fine, but man, were they hitting on all four cylinders for the second movie–Body and Soul. It features an excellent story and script, a satisfying Matt and Cathy story, and a few twists and turns that you won’t expect. Everything that made the series great is on display in the second movie–the comic timing, the chemistry between the actors, the jokes, the names, you name it, it’s there–it’s like a time machine back to the good old days of the show’s weekly run. The last three are just as good–the atmosphere and feeling of the season is there in full force. I wasn’t crazy about George’s promotion at the end of the original series because it wrecked the detectives’ dynamic, but found that they dealt with it very well in the movies for both characters.

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Buck and Emily don’t have much to do in the first two movies, but they come into their own in the last three. Cathy and Matt’s romance evolves beautifully throughout. If you think of the five movies as 10 episodes of Alien Nation–it’s like a whole half season.

Pocket put out 8 Alien Nation novels and novelizations back in the day, so we had those to get over the cliffhanger when the complete series set came out a couple of years ago. But that wasn’t good enough, frankly. Thank goodness these are on dvd at last! Now we really have the complete series available on dvd.

I feel that this was another great foul-up on 20th Fox’ part, right up on the level of the demise of Joss Whedon’s “Firefly”, especially Fox leaving A N fans hanging for five years for the resolution of the end-of season cliff-hanger. As “Firefly” has justified its’ popularity with the release and massive success of “Serenity” (over a month in the Top Ten), Alien Nation proved itself through the production of FIVE (count ‘em, 5) made-for-TV movies that followed.

1. “Dark Horizon”- 1994

2. “Body and Soul”-1995

3. “The Enemy Within”- 1996

4. “Millennium”-1996

5. “The Udara Legacy”-1997

With the industry wasting production resources on so much other second- & third-rate crapola as fills the store shelves these days, I’m glad SOMEONE in the front office at FOX has taken notice and put forth a little effort so all the “Alien Nation” fans haven’t had to wait as long for the TV movies as we had for the series.

As with “Firefly”, FOX is missing out on a sure thing by not putting both these great programs back into production, instead of wasting resources on so much of the second- & third-rate drivel they are so famous for!