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{{short description|American television producer and writerscreenwriter}}
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'''Dave Hackel''' is an American [[television producer|producer]] and writer[[screenwriter]]. He is best known for creating, writing and producing the [[CBS]] sitcom ''[[Becker (TV series)|Becker]]'', which starred [[Ted Danson]] and ran from 1998 until 2004.
 
Hackel grew up in [[Delaware, Ohio]]. He later moved to [[Los Angeles, California]] in the 1970s, where he had started working as a game show staffer. He started writing with Steve Hattman as a writing partner for television shows and for projects such as the 1980 television movie ''[[The Great American Traffic Jam]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://player.fm/series/hollywood-levine-2478043/ep246-meet-comedy-writer-dave-hackel|title=EP246: Meet comedy writer Dave Hackel|work=[[Player FM]]|publisher=Hollywood & Levine|date=October 14, 2021|access-date=October 23, 2021}}</ref> Aside from all his work on ''Becker'', Hackel has also worked on episodes of ''[[Frasier]]'', ''[[The Love Boat]]'', ''[[Wings (1990 TV series)|Wings]]'', ''[[Dear John (U.S. TV series)|Dear John]]'', ''[[Out of This World (American TV series)|Out of This World]]'', ''[[Webster (TV series)|Webster]]'', ''[[9 to 5 (TV series)|9 to 5]]'', ''[[Fish (U.S. TV series)|Fish]]'', ''[[LateLine]]'', ''[[Harper Valley PTA (TV series)|Harper Valley PTA]]'', ''[[Gridlock (TV show)|Gridlock]]'', ''[[Shirley (TV series)|Shirley]]'' and ''[[The Pursuit of Happiness (1995 TV series)|The Pursuit of Happiness]]''.<ref name="latimes98">Brownfield,{{Cite Paul (14 December 1998). [web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-14-ca-53823-story.html |title=He Who Laughs Last], |quote="(There''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' ("There’ss a discernible bit of Becker in Dave Hackel, the 49-year-old show creator and executive producer.")"|first=Paul|last=Brownfield|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 14, 1998|access-date=October 23, 2021}}</ref>
Hackel grew up in [[Delaware, Ohio]]. He moved to the Los Angeles in the 1970s and started working as a game show staffer.<Ref name="levine">[https://player.fm/series/hollywood-levine-2478043/ep246-meet-comedy-writer-dave-hackel Meet comedy writer Dave Hackel], Hollywood and Levine (podcast) (October 13, 2021)</ref>
 
He alsoHackel wrote a columncolumns for ''[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]'', in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-hackel|title=Dave Hackel - HuffPost|websitework=www.huffingtonpost.com[[The Huffington Post]]|accessdateaccess-date=28 August 28, 2018}}</ref>
Aside from all his work on ''Becker'', Hackel has also worked on episodes of ''[[Frasier]]'', ''[[The Love Boat]]'', ''[[Wings (1990 TV series)|Wings]]'', ''[[Dear John (U.S. TV series)|Dear John]]'', ''[[Out of This World (American TV series)|Out of This World]]'', ''[[Webster (TV series)|Webster]]'', ''[[9 to 5 (TV series)|9 to 5]]'', ''[[Fish (U.S. TV series)|Fish]]'', ''[[LateLine]]'', ''[[Harper Valley PTA (TV series)|Harper Valley PTA]]'', ''[[Gridlock (TV show)|Gridlock]]'', ''[[Shirley (TV series)|Shirley]]'' and ''[[The Pursuit of Happiness (TV series)|The Pursuit of Happiness]]''.<ref name="latimes98">Brownfield, Paul (14 December 1998). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-14-ca-53823-story.html He Who Laughs Last], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' ("There’s a discernible bit of Becker in Dave Hackel, the 49-year-old show creator and executive producer.")</ref>
 
He also wrote a column for ''[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-hackel|title=Dave Hackel - HuffPost|website=www.huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=28 August 2018}}</ref>
 
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