Alan Burnett is a television writer-producer particularly associated with DC Comics and Walt Disney television animation. He has had a hand in virtually every DC animated project since the waning years of the Super Friends, and continues to do so . Burnett's contributions for Disney were largely a part of the 1990s Disney Afternoon, where he was attached to the Gummi Bears and various projects set in the Scrooge McDuck universe. Because of his primary focus on televised animation, he has occasionally been involved in film projects related to a parent television program.
Burnett has won four Emmys for his work in television as well as three Annie Awards, two Humanitas Awards, and an Animation Writer of the Year Award from the Writers Guild of America.
He has worked on many television shows, from The Smurfs and DC animated series "Superfriends and The Super Power Team"and The Animated Series, to the Batman Beyond animated series and The Batman. Burnett also wrote a segment in Gotham Knight (a series of 6 animated short films bridging the gap between the movies Batman Begins and The Dark Knight).