[B5JMS] ATTN Jms: I recognized your handwriting in murder she wrote

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From: "Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti at bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:05:07 -0400
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> And I knew you did a few murder she wrote episodes, or is this the
only one? <

That wasn't one at all, being a TV movie that was produced in 2000,
after the series had wrapped. <g>


He not only wrote for the show, he was a co-producer credit for the 8th
season.  The Internet Movie Database does not list the individual
episodes he wrote, but as the producer (and I *think*, at one time,
story editor) he would have *re-written* many of the freelance scripts
to one degree or another, which is common practice in the industry, but
without taking screen-credit, which is not. <g>  I checked a couple of
fan sites, but their information is spotty at best.  Only one of them
bothered to include the writing credits.  (This one:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-77 )

It lists two episodes each for the eighth and ninth season as being
written by JMS, as well as the TV movie.  Amusingly a credit in an
episode he *didn't* write caught my eye - another writer had named a
character "Liz Sheridan" <g>

Regards,

Joe








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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 13 Aug 2002 20:33:59 GMT
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>He not only wrote for the show, he was a co-producer credit for the 8th
>season.  The Internet Movie Database does not list the individual
>episodes he wrote, 

>It lists two episodes each for the eighth and ninth season as being
>written by JMS, as well as the TV movie. 

Just for the record, since this comes up from time to time and I've never
listed them all in one place, I think...the episodes of M,SW that I wrote are:

SEASON EIGHT
Night Fears
Lines of Excellence
The Committee
Incident in Lot 7
To the End Will I Grapple With Thee

SEASON NINE
The Wind Around the Tower
Final Curtain
(I titled it that because it was to be my last M,SW script since I had to leave
mid-season to do B5.)

And the TV movie "A Story to Die For which was produced after the series itself
was finished.

 jms

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