TKO (Babylon 5)
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| Babylon 5 episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 14 |
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| Written by | Larry DiTillio | ||||||
| Directed by | John Flynn | ||||||
| Guest stars | Greg McKinney (Walker Smith) Soon-Tech Oh (The Muta-Do) Don Stroud (Caliban) Theodore Bikel (Rabbi Koslov) |
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| Production no. | 119 | ||||||
| Original airdate | 25 May 1994 | ||||||
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| List of Babylon 5 episodes | |||||||
"TKO" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.
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As Susan Ivanova comes to terms with her father's death, an old friend of Garibaldi's come to the station to participate in a dangerous alien boxing match.
- First explicit reference to Ivanova's Judaism.
- Walker Smith repeatedly remarks that Garibaldi has never learned to "watch [his] back." This will have later significance in the first season finale, as Garibaldi is shot in the back.
- Walker Smith was the real name of famed boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
- Ivanova is reading Harlan Ellison's autobiography in one scene. This is still yet to be written.
- This episode was deemed too violent for a pre-watershed screening, and so was omitted from Channel 4's (UK) original broadcast run.