Alan Cross
Alan Cross  is a writer, producer, and director who wrote the teleplay for the  first season episode .

Cross worked as program consultant and writer on the short lived comedy series City (1990, starring Stephen Lee and Shay Duffin) and as story editor, executive story editor, writer, and producer on the comedy series Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990-1993, music by Dennis McCarthy and produced by Larry Shaw).

Together with Tom Spezialy, Cross created the science fiction/comedy series Weird Science which had five seasons between 1994 and 1998. He worked as supervising producer in 1994 and co-executive producer between 1995 and 1998. In addition, he wrote seven episodes and directed two in 1996 and 1997. The series featured recurring guest actors Andrew Prine, Brian George, and James W. Jansen.

Further credits as consulting or co-executive producer include the television series Players (1997), Veronica's Closet (1998-1999, starring Kirstie Alley and Wallace Langham and with Christopher McDonald), Get Real (1999, starring Christina Pickles), Dawson's Creek (2000-2001), and She Spies (2003-2004). On all these series, Cross also worked as writer.

More recently, Cross worked as writer on episodes of Desperate Housewives (2005, with Teri Hatcher, Alfre Woodard, Mark Moses, Brenda Strong, Wallace Shawn, and Michael Bailey Smith) and Reaper (2008, starring Ray Wise), as consulting producer on the short comedy When the Bomb Drops (2013), and as producer on the short film Comedy Apocalypse (2015).

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