During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

He quit journalism after working for People, and in 1983, he wrote a spec script for the show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and the producers of He-Man bought it as well as other scripts and then hired Straczynski as a staff writer.

Straczynski also wrote for CBS Storybreak, writing an adaptation of Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek ).

Straczynski constructed a season long arc with lasting character changes and wrote a third of the scripts himself.

Straczynski wrote many of the scripts himself.

Straczynski joined Murder for two seasons and wrote 7 produced episodes.

Straczynski also wrote one episode of Walker, Texas Ranger for Moessinger between the pilot and first season of B5.

Straczynski wrote 92 of the 110 episodes, as well as the pilot and five television movies.

Straczynski also wrote and produced the pilot Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, a pilot for the SciFi Network, and wrote, directed and produced Babylon 5: The Lost Tales as a two-hour direct-to-DVD movie.

In 2008, Straczynski wrote a draft of Ninja Assassin for Joel Silver ( which he completed in just 53 hours ).

Straczynski wrote The Complete Book of Scriptwriting ( ISBN 1-85286-882-1 ), often used as a text in introductory screenwriting courses ,< ref name = CW3029_Writing_for_Radio >

She was married to J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, and wrote articles about Rod Serling's Night Gallery for Twilight Zone Magazine together with him.

She also wrote scripts for two other shows Straczynski worked on, She-Ra: Princess of Power and The Real Ghostbusters.

However, Straczynski wrote a short story set far in the future of the series called " Space, Time & the Incurable Romantic " which was published in Amazing Stories # 602.

In the aforementioned script book, Straczynski wrote that both Lyta and Lennier were killed in the explosion of Psi Corps Headquarters in a major battle of the Telepath War.

Following the first issue, Straczynski wrote team-ups between: Barry Allen and Blackhawk ; the Joker and the Atom ; Hal Jordan and Doctor Fate ; Batman and Brother Power ; Aquaman and Etrigan ; and Barbara Gordon, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna, one that served as a companion piece to Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke graphic novel.

Straczynski wrote about a quarter of the episodes attempting, in his words, to " hijack a dopey concept and make it into something more.

Straczynski wrote the script, but due to the failure of the toyline, preparation for the movie was shelved.

Straczynski, who wrote 90 % of the episodes in addition to producing the show, would receive a generous cut of profits if not for Hollywood accounting.

In addition to using pastiches of Cthulhu, the Deep Ones, and R ' lyeh, writer J. Michael Straczynski also wrote the story in a distinctly Lovecraftian style.

Straczynski believes that the network's " interference " with the production was an attempt to get out of their contract by allowing them to argue that he failed to deliver the series they wanted.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski put it thus: It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of him ; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.

According to the DVD commentary for the final episode of Babylon 5, " Sleeping in Light ," Straczynski decided not to have David Sheridan appear in that episode, partly because he hadn't figured out how he wanted David to look, and partly because he feared that debuting an important character would detract from the story he wanted to tell in that episode.

Executive producer J. Michael Straczynski quickly became dissatisfied with Adams ' more understated approach to the role, and Na ' Toth was written out of the series after appearing in two more episodes.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

* J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, Crusade and Jeremiah

In late 1991, Warner Bros. contracted with Doug Netter and Straczynski as partners to produce the show Babylon 5 as the flagship program for the new Prime Time Entertainment Network.

In 2005, Straczynski began publishing his Babylon 5 scripts.

Developed by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and executive produced by Straczynski and Sam Egan, the series is loosely based on Belgian writer Hermann Huppen's comic book series, Jeremiah.

J. Michael Straczynski has stated that the character of Captain John Sheridan in the Babylon 5 television series was intended to be a direct descendant of General Sheridan.

Like Babylon 5, Crusade was intended to have a five-year story arc, although as Straczynski notes in the DVD commentary for A Call To Arms, it was intended to resolve the Drakh plague after a season or two and move onto other arcs.

While Straczynski had to depart to get his new series Babylon 5 on the air, executive producer David Moessinger remained to finish developing the series.

In early 2005, Katsulas, who in the words of Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, " loved smoking with a passion that cannot be described " was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer.

It is also noted for featuring early script-writing work from J. Michael Straczynski, later the creator of Babylon 5 ; Paul Dini and Brynne Stephens, both of whom who would go on to write acclaimed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series ; Beast Wars story editor Larry DiTillio ; and David Wise, later the head-writer of the TV version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Babylon 5 creator Joe Straczynski often spoke of Ivanova's supposedly " Russian " temperament and character.

According to Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, Claudia Christian declined to be in the fifth season-according to her they weren't interested in having her.

* Death Announcement by J. Michael Straczynski ( Straczynski created Babylon 5 )

Straczynski returned to the Soul Hunters ' story in the post-series TV movie, Babylon 5: The River of Souls.

* This episode was written by Kathryn M. Drennan, wife at the time of Babylon 5 creator and executive producer J. Michael Straczynski.

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, expressed his own dissatisfaction with a part of this episode ( namely the appearance of the Zarg ), as well as a desire to apologize to fans in person.

The final shutdowns are completed as a maintenance worker ( played as a cameo appearance by creator of Babylon 5, and writer and director of this episode, J. Michael Straczynski ) shuts down the system and the fusion reactors are set to overload.

* This episode is the only one of the series which was directed by the creator of Babylon 5 ( J. Michael Straczynski ), in which he also made a cameo appearance ( as the maintenance tech who shuts down the lights on the station ).