Dana Stevens

Dana Stevens

Writing
1963-10-16
Whittier, California, USA

Biography

Dana Stevens (born October 16, 1963) is an American screenwriter and television writer/producer. Dana grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA.

Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

#1Family Ties

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Val

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaFamily

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.

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#2Jake and the Fatman

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
DramaCrimeAction & Adventure

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.

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#3thirtysomething

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
Drama

Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.

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#4China Beach

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

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#5Freddy's Nightmares

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Linda Kelsey

7.2 / 10
MysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.

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#6It's Garry Shandling's Show

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Ticket Booth Girl

7.1 / 10
Comedy

Garry Shandling stars as himself, a neurotic, sardonic stand-up comedian who just happens to be aware he is a sitcom character. Garry spends just as much time interacting with the studio audience as he does the regular cast members, performing monologues and show-closing summations of the episode's events. However, everyone knows they're on TV, not just Garry; and the audience (itself a character) is often involved in the storyline.

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#7Extreme Measures

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Prosecutor

6.0 / 10
DramaThriller

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

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#8Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as 1st Seance Member

6.3 / 10
AdventureComedySci-Fi

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

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#9Nell

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Rachel Weiss

6.5 / 10
DramaThriller

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

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#10Hollywood Does Abortion

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m as self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

HOLLYWOOD DOES ABORTION reveals how, from the 1970s to the present, film and television have too often relied on dangerously misleading distortions about abortions and the people who seek them. This provocative and lively feature length documentary explores the ways in which abortion narratives onscreen and public policy both mimic and influence one another. Extensive archival imagery spans five decades of television and film, ranging from Maude and Dirty Dancing to Jane the Virgin and Juno, and creates a historical timeline to support the “story” of the film. In Hollywood Does Abortion, leading directors, writers, showrunners, and cultural critics share their personal and political reactions to these seminal depictions through the lens of today’s post-Roe world. Today, we see how a wide range of diverse Hollywood creators are racing to tell stories that push back against the seismic shift in access to abortion.

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#11Addicted to His Love

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Hostess

7.0 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' compare notes things start to fall apart, leading to his downfall.

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