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name: "Chris Abbott"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 September 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:21:03.675850+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Chris Abbott

Writer. Born 17 September 1947.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 September 1947
- **Also known as:** Chris Abbott-Fish

## Biography

Chris Abbott (born 17 September 1947) is an American television writer and producer, also credited early in her career as Chris Abbott-Fish. She graduated from the University of Oregon and holds an MFA from Bennington College.

Abbott began writing for *Little House on the Prairie* (1974) and contributed episodes to *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), *Magnum, P.I.* (1980), *Quantum Leap* (1989), *Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman* (1993), *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993) and *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995). She served as producer or story consultant on several of these series and created the series *Legacy* (1998). Later credits include work on the daytime serials *The Bold and the Beautiful* (1987) and *The Young and the Restless* (1973), for which she received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2006. She is the author of the 2005 book *Ten Minutes to the Pitch*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/cagney-and-lacey.md)

## Also known for

- *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995), Writer
- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), Writer
- *Quantum Leap* (1989), Writer
- *Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman* (1993), Writer
- *Magnum, P.I.* (1980), Writer
- *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993), Writer

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