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Crafting Our Childhood: An Interview with DC Legend Alan Burnett

by Dana Abercrombie0

Alan Burnett is just a man, but this man is responsible for many magical moments in our and even our parents childhoods. For decades, Alan Burnett has climbed the writer-producer ladder in Hollywood to create some of the best cartoons and comics. Ever heard of The Smurfs? He worked on the television show. How about Superfriends? And I don’t mean that cute dance number on last year’s The CW’s The Flash/Supergirl’s crossover event. That was him working on Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show. He worked on the show with the greatest theme song ever, Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears and various projects set in the Scrooge McDuck Universe and the 1990s Disney Afternoon TV block (Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, DuckTales, and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers).

Burnett was unstoppable and went on to helped write and/or produce Batman: The Animated Series (1992–95) Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000) The New Batman Adventures (1997–99), The New Batman/Superman Adventures (1997–2000) Batman Beyond (1999–2001) Static Shock (2000–2004) and Justice League / Justice League Unlimited (2001–2006).

From there Burnett would go on to be part of DC animated films like Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman(2003), Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) Batman and Harley Quinn (2017).

We also must mention his writing contribution for The Batman Adventures (Mad Love), Superman Adventures and Batman Beyond.

The Koalition sat down for an interview with Burnett to discuss his entire career spanning over 25 years, the Batman: The Animated Series 25th Anniversary DVD set and the DC Universe Original Movies 10th Anniversary DVD set that every DC fan should own.

Check out our interview below.

Former genius and a woman of mystery and power, whose power is exceeded only by her mystery, Dana Abercrombie has been watching movies since birth (yes birth...we did say "genius"). Despite her secret desire of wanting to give it all up to become a gorgeous billionaire, Dana is most passionate politics about movies often times getting in many heated debates resulting in being thrown out of many gatherings. Despite having a degree in English AND Journalism (multi-tasking FTW!) from the University at Albany-SUNY, she is currently interested in perusing a degree at Yale Law School, because one should never give up on a dream of becoming a gorgeous billionaire...and knowing how to sue someone as a result of those heated debates.