`BABYLON 5' CREATOR/WRITER/PRODUCER IS ON A MISSION.(Television)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: May 9, 1996 | Copyright information

Let's say you pride yourself on your ``Babylon 5'' dedication. You've seen every episode this year and can hold your own in the sharpest Internet dissection of the sci-fi show.

Before you get too smug, consider this: You're watching it, but J. Michael Straczynski wrote it. Not some, not even the majority, but all 22 episodes of the syndicated drama's third season.

That may be some kind of a record. It's unquestionably daunting. And, we suspect, enough to make a person spacey.

``I get three or four hours of sleep a night,'' says Straczynski. ``If I was just writing all ...

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