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name: "Stephen Kandel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-kandel"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "30 April 1927"
died: "21 October 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:55:28.139091+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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# Stephen Kandel

Writer. Born 30 April 1927 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 21 October 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 30 April 1927, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 21 October 2023

## Biography

Stephen Kandel was an American television writer. Born in New York City, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1950 after serving in the US Army during the Second World War. He began his career writing for the series *Sea Hunt* in the late 1950s.

Kandel wrote for numerous series including *Batman* (1966), *Wonder Woman* (1975), *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), *Mission: Impossible*, *Mannix* and *MacGyver* (1985), on which he also served as a producer. He wrote two episodes of *Star Trek* (1966) and two of *Star Trek* (1973). He created the series *Iron Horse* (1966) and received a Writers Guild of America award and a Humanitas Prize.

*Sources: memory-alpha.fandom.com, hollywoodreporter.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Star Trek* (1966), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-1966.md)

## Also known for

- *MacGyver* (1985), Writer, Story Consultant, Teleplay
- *Batman* (1966), Writer
- *Wonder Woman* (1975), Writer
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), Teleplay, Writer
- *The Dukes of Hazzard* (1979), Writer
- *Star Trek* (1973), Writer
- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), Writer
- *CHiPs* (1977), Writer

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