Allan Burns (born May 18, 1935) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Burns is best known for creating and writing for the television sitcoms, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda.

Biography

Burns was a former writer for The Bullwinkle Show. Burns also produced three other television shows, Cutters (1993), The Duck Factory (1984) and (with Chris Hayward) The Smothers Brothers. Before breaking into television and film, Burns started in animation, working for Jay Ward and collaborating and animating Rocky and Bullwinkle and George of the Jungle. Burns also created the Cap'n Crunch character for Quaker Oats.

After his stint writing for Jay Ward, Burns formed a partnership with Chris Hayward and they created the series The Munsters and were hired by producer Leonard Stern as story editors for the CBS series He & She, for which they won an Emmy award for comedy writing. The last project between Hayward and Burns would be as story editors for the sitcom, Get Smart.