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name: "Sandy Fries"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 October 1954"
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# Sandy Fries

Writer. Born 26 October 1954 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 October 1954, New York City

## Biography

Sandy Fries is a television writer. Born in New York City on 26 October 1954, he earned a BA in journalism from Clark University and an MS from Columbia University, where he held an NBC fellowship.

He wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Coming of Age' (1988) and served as a staff writer and story editor on the series. His other credits include episodes of Quantum Leap (1989), Fame (1984), ThunderCats (1985), the animated Spider-Man (1994), Superboy (1988) and The Smurfs (1981). He was also story editor on several Star Trek video games and contributed to Star Trek: Voyager.

Fries received a Daytime Emmy nomination for his work on The Smurfs. He has worked as a freelance journalist for the Los Angeles Times and is a professor of mass communication and writing at the College of DuPage. He is the author of Secrets Your Textbook Will Not Tell You: About TV, Movies and Life.

*Sources: memory-alpha.fandom.com, clarku.edu, cod.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)

## Also known for

- *Spider-Man* (1994), Writer
- *ThunderCats* (1985), Writer
- *Quantum Leap* (1989), Writer
- *Eek! The Cat* (1992), Writer
- *Tom & Jerry Kids Show* (1990), Writer
- *Snorks* (1984), Writer
- *Droopy, Master Detective* (1993), Writer

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