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Fabulous Films will be releasing Farscape: The Complete Series Blu-ray 25th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray in the UK on 10th June 2024.

The epic sci-fi classic Farscape is a fusion of live-action, state-of-the-art puppetry, prosthetics and CGI. Edge-of-your-seat thrills, irreverent humour, unforgettable characters and mind-boggling alien lifeforms are brought to life by the creative minds of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. No wonder it’s been called the most imaginative sci-fi series in television. Now sit back and enjoy all 88 episodes of Farscape: The Complete Series Blu-ray 25th Anniversary Edition now in high definition.

Writer and director of the Guardians of the Galaxy film series James Gunn (now also Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DC Studios) is a fan of Farscape and has admitted he drew inspiration from the series. Gunn approached Ben Browder who plays John Crichton in Farscape to suggest an appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Farscape’s creators Rockne S. O’Bannon and Brian Henson gave a new interview as part of Shout! Factory’s Fandemonium Marathon, explaining the thought process behind the diminutive despot Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by the late Jonathan Hardy).

In the clip, which is exclusive to SyfyWire, the duo recalls pushing the Jim Henson Creature Shop to its limits in order to create the show’s iconic “strange alien lifeforms.”

Farscape | Making Creature Shop’s Strange Alien LifeformsD’Argo star Anthony Simcoe and the Creature Shop’s Dave Elsey on bringing Farscape’s very alien aliens to life.The CompanionPeter Ray Allison

“Rygel, that was as small as we could make him, basically, and be able to work him” explains Henson.

“I wanted Rygel to be 12-inches, because he’s a ruler,” continued O’Bannon. “Which is a joke that could never be said, but tickled me. But he wouldn’t be able to be articulated.

Synopsis

Astronaut John Crichton assumes he’ll be home in time for dinner. But a freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults him across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield. Suddenly, he’s trapped among alien creatures wielding deadly technology – a battle that 20th century sci-fi pop culture never prepared him for. Hunted by a merciless military race, Crichton begins his unforgettable quest for home. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking, epic sci-fi adventure that has become a fan favorite around the world.

Blu-ray Bonus Materials

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars 2-part Finale Miniseries Audio Commentaries Archival Documentaries, Featurettes and Inside Looks Behind-the-Scenes Interviews Deleted & Director’s Cut Scenes Alternate Version of the Season 2 Premiere TV Promos And More!

Cast And Crew

Creator: Rockne S. O’Bannon

Executive Producers: Rockne S. O’Bannon, Robert A. Halmi, David Kemper, Brian Henson, Richard Manning

Cast: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Gigi Edgley,...

Following the mid-70s wave of critically acclaimed Australian cinema, thanks to names like Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Gillian Armstrong, director Bruce Beresford would score his first of several iconic moments in cinematic history with 1980’s Breaker Morant, based on the play by Kenneth G. Ross. The film premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded a Best Supporting Acting accolade for Jack Thompson (a category that no longer officially exists), and began a prolific decade for Beresford, which closed with a controversial Best Picture win at the 1989 Academy Awards with Driving Miss Daisy. Documenting a particularly heinous miscarriage of justice from the country’s military history, Beresford’s title helped established a legacy of commemorative reenactments from his native country and showcases a trio of excellent performances.

Set during the Boer War at the turn of the century in South Africa, a trio of three Australian lieutenants,...

Bruce Beresford says that by 1980 most Australians had forgotten that their countrymen had fought in the Boer War, and this scathing condemnation of England's scapegoating of commonwealth volunteers had a big impact. Stars Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown front a protest from the past, in one of the most respected Aussie Renaissance features of the late '70s. 'Breaker' Morant Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 773 1980 / Color / 1:78 anamorphic widescreen / 107 min. / Street Date September 22, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald Cinematography Don McAlpine Production Design David Copping Film Editor William S. Anderson <Written by Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens from a play by Kenneth Ross Produced by Matt Carroll Directed by Bruce Beresford

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Bruce Beresford's 'Breaker' Morant is one of the stronger entries in the late '70s -- early '80s upsurge of quality movies from Australia and New Zealand.

Top 10 Juliette Harrisson 15 Aug 2013 - 07:00

Juliette's final Revisiting Farscape piece selects the show's best 10 episodes. And that's your lot...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been flying down Memory Wormhole, looking at all sorts of aspects of Farscape – the exotic aliens, the dramatic concluding mini-series, the madness, the leather. To conclude our look back at the show that enriched our vocabulary with such phrases as ‘what in the hezmana,’ here we celebrate the very best of Farscape’s 88 regular episodes, highlighting in particular those things Farscape does best – epic romance, awesome spectacle and sheer madness.

10. Liars, Guns and Money Parts I, II and III (Season Two)

Remind me what the frell is going on: D’Argo’s son is about to be sold into slavery, but it’s Ok – Stark knows a bank our heroes can rob to get the money to buy him (and 9,999 other slaves). Unfortunately,...

Feature Juliette Harrisson 25 Jul 2013 - 07:00

Juliette talks us through Farscape's top 5 puppets in space, with help from the Scarrans, Vorks, and Hynerians...

One of the most common criticisms levelled at Star Trek over the years has been that it depicts a universe almost entirely populated by humanoids, or humanoids with bumpy foreheads. Now, we think this is a trifle unfair for a couple of reasons; first, various Trek series did occasionally experiment with such non-humanoid alien life forms as sentient rocks (Original Series, The Devil in the Dark) or giant space jellyfish (Next Generation, Encounter at Farpoint) and second, there are practical, financial reasons most aliens have to be humanoid. However, it remains true that sentient life in the universe of Star Trek and most other space operas tends toward the humanoid.

One of the things that set Farscape apart from the beginning was the physical variation in...

Genre: Sci-Fi | Fantasy | Mystery

Creators: Brian Henson and Rockne S. O’Bannon

Directors: Tony Tilse, Rowan Woods, Andrew Prowse, Ian Watson, Peter Andrikidis, Geoff Bennett, Catherine Millar, Pino Amenta, Ian Barry

Cast: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Lani John Tupu, Jonathan Hardy, Gigi Edgley, Wayne Pygram, Virginia Hey

Summary:

John Crichton. Astronaut. Flung through a wormhole and lost in a galaxy far from home. He fines himself in the middle of a prison break, surrounded by hostile aliens, soaring through space inside a glorious living space ship called Moya. Hunted by the relentless Peacekeepers, Crichton (Ben Browder) allies himself with Moya’s crew — Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black), Luxan warrior Ka D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe), azure priestess Zhaan (Virginia Hey), spritely Nebari thief Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Dominar Rygel, the deposed royal ruler of the Hynerian Empire and Pilot – to search for a way out of this inconceivably alien world and return home.

Fans of the cult sci-fi series Farscape will be delighted to know that a special, all-inclusive DVD collection is about to land on earth.

It's worth mentioning right way that this box set does include The Peacekeeper Wars, the later miniseries which wrapped up the storyline following the show's cancellation.

Farscape: The Definitive Collection arrives on November 15 from A&E and Go Entertain, it's been revealed. This will be the first time a complete DVD collection has been released in the UK.

The set features all four series of the classic sci-fi show - 88 episodes - plus more than 15 hours of bonus material including the rarely-seen special Farscape Undressed as well as episode commentaries, behind-the-scenes interviews and deleted scenes.

Also included is the bonus two-disc miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars in which the heroes find themselves in the middle of a war-to-end-all-wars.

The story centres on John Crichton (Ben Browder...

This set has been a long time coming for fans of the popular space saga but also for someone like myself who never got a chance to take the journey that is Farscape.

Dubbed as Muppets in space, this sci-fi jaunt is so much more. Its Buck Rogers meets Babylon 5 with yes…muppets.

Whats key with the series, that you’ll find on this dvd experience, is that it is dated a bit, but whats fascinating is that the series really came out of the sci-fi comfort zone of the Star Trek formula. It certainly along with Babylon 5 at the time really pushed the genre in a different direction probably leading to creatives to lean into the reboot of Battlestar Galactica and the newly favored Sgu.

The series went beyond the bridge of a starship and showed other elements to the worlds beyond combining sexy and edgy motifs...