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<title>Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: The Creators</title>
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<a name="jms"><img width=80 height=100 hspace=4 align=right
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src="/lurk/gif/chars/jms.gif"></a>
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The show was created by <b>J. Michael Straczynski</b> (JMS), who is
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executive producer along with Doug Netter. It has been in
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development since 1987.
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JMS has been involved with genre television for many
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years, as story editor and writer for the Twilight Zone TV series (syndicated
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version),
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<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6213/index.html">Captain Power,</a>
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and the animated The Real Ghostbusters. He has also
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written for Jake and the Fatman and Murder, She Wrote. JMS has also had
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many published short stories, an anthology, and two fantasy/horror novels.
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Until recently, he was co-host of Hour 25, a Los Angeles area science fiction
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radio talk show.
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<cite>What does an executive producer do?</cite>
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<a href="/lurk/misc/jms.html"><img width=100 height=24 hspace=4 align=middle
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<cite>What is JMS up to nowadays?</cite>
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<img width=80 height=100 hspace=4 align=right
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src="/lurk/gif/chars/netter.gif">
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<b>Doug Netter</b> is an equal partner in Babylon 5 and has been in the business
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for a long time. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
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at MGM Studios from 1970-1975, where his nickname was Rattlesnake, thus
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Rattlesnake Productions, the production company he founded in 1978. Doug mainly
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handles the business side and leaves the creative work to Straczynski, which is
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how they first worked together on Captain Power. Recent executive producer
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credits include "Captain Power" and "The Wild West" 10-hour miniseries
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documentary.
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<b>John Copeland</b> is Babylon 5's producer. Copeland has been working with
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Netter since 1977 and together they have produced "The Wild West" and the "Wild
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Times" miniseries, "Roughnecks," "The Sacketts," and the pilot for "Captain
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Power," among others.
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<b>John Iacovelli</b> is the production designer, in charge of coming up with
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new sets and other visual elements. In the past, he has worked on
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"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" among other films.
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<b>Christopher Franke</b>,
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formerly of
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<a href="http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Ambient/Tangerine_Dream/">Tangerine Dream,</a>
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composes the show's
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<a href="/lurk/resources/products.html#soundtrack">soundtrack</a>
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and wrote the main title themes. His film credits
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include
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?+=McBain">McBain,</a>
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?+=Universal+Soldier">Universal Soldier,</a>
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and the miniseries
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?+=%22Tommyknockers,+The%22+(1993)+(mini)">The Tommyknockers.</a>
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(Franke has released a <a
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href="/lurk/resources/products.html#soundtrack">soundtrack</a> album of
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music from the first and second seasons of the show.)
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<a href="http://harlanellison.com/"><b>Harlan Ellison</b></a>
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is the conceptual consultant for the series. He has
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written a "manifesto" for the show that explains to other writers how to
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write science fiction for television and Babylon 5 in particular. On a
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day-to-day basis, he has no preassigned duties (though he plans to write a
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script or two) but is something of a generalist, helping refine many aspects
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of the production, from writing to sets. JMS refers to Ellison's position as
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"a free-roaming agent of chaos."
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<b>Ron Thornton</b> of Foundation Imaging was in charge of the
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<a href="effects.html">special effects</a>
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through season three. The effects won an Emmy for the pilot movie. Thornton
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has worked on Terminator 2, the Addams Family, Captain Power, Blake's 7, Doctor
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Who, and other projects.
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<cite>An interview with Thornton.</cite>
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<b>Everett Burrell</b> and <b>John Vulich</b> head the make-up team at Optic
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Nerve studios, and won an Emmy for their work in the first season of B5. They
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have worked on productions such as Batman Returns, Aliens, Tales From The Crypt,
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Night of The Living Dead, and The Lost Boys.
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Well-known science fiction writers, including Ellison, David Gerrold, Peter
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David, and D.C. Fontana, are contributing scripts to the show.
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<cite>A list of the show's writers and directors.</cite>
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Last update:
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December 21, 1995
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