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Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, famously asked Bradbury to write for the show, but Bradbury declined, insisting that he was not very good at creating stories from other people’s ideas.Dystopia.
Then, in 1986, during the first revival of The Twilight Zone, he returned with the episode “The Elevator.” Bradbury was also famous for a TV show he did not write for.
First, in 1959, he wrote “I Sing the Body Electric” for the original series the story later inspired one of his prose short stories. He wrote two episodes of the seminal sci-fi anthology The Twilight Zone, nearly 30 years apart. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given his upbringing and his love of all things Hollywood, Bradbury spent some time working as a screenwriter on and off, beginning in the 1950s and continuing to nearly the end of his life.
He was a descendant of Mary Bradbury, one of the women who had been convicted at the Salem witch trials but managed to escape her sentence until the hysteria had passed and she had been officially exonerated. Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of telephone and power lineman Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Bradbury (née Moberg), an immigrant from Sweden. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”