Alan Burnett
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| Birth name | Alan Burnett |
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| Occupation | Animated series producer Writer |
| Years active | 80s, 90s, 00s |
Alan Burnett is an American television writer and producer responsible for the Ducktales movie and television shows such as "The Batman/Superman Adventures," Batman Beyond, and others. He got his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and then attended USC. He has won four Emmy Awards for his work in television.
In 1989, he started working as a writer for Warner Bros. Animation on a number of episodes of Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures. Where he met executive producer Tom Ruegger, character designer Bruce Timm, background designer Eric Radomski and writer Paul Dini, who would all be involved in the production of Batman: The Animated Series.
After the success of the Tim Burton's Batman film franchise, when Batman: The Animated Series season one was in production, executive producer Jean MacCurdy stopped it to do some mayor reorganizing, bringing in Alan Burnett as a producer, who by then already knew the team form Tiny Toon Adventures and had a great curriculum. He integrated good and wrote seveal some of the most memorable episodes like Two-face, Part I, and Read My Lips and helped convince Paul Dini to become a producer as well.
When production of Batman completed, as with several other key personnel, Burnett returned to work on comedy animation with Freakazoid!, a series taking several artistic and theme elements of Batman: The Animated Series and combining it with comedy in the spirit of Tiny Toon Adventures.
The Batman animated series was such a hit, it spawned several series tied in the same continuity, coined by fans as the DC animated universe, and Burnett was involved in the first half of them, writing and producing several episodes of Superman: The Animated Series, a similar ceries centered around the man of steel mythos, The New Batman Adventures, which continues the adventures of the Batman family, and Batman Beyond, based on the adventures of Terry McGinnis, the last apprentice of Bruce Wayne forty years in the future.
More recently he has been writeing and producing, Krypto the Superdog, a series about Superman's pet based on the DC animated universe without belonging to it, and The Batman, yet another series based on Batman but set in a new continuity apart from all the previous.
