Carl Binder
Canadian writer and television producer
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Carl Binder (born August 10, 1960) is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer. He is most noted for his contributions to the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis series as well as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Little Men.
Television Producer
Carl Binder | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 August 1960 Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupations | Screenwriter Television Producer |
Binder currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Early life and education
Binder was born in Windsor, Ontario, on 10 August 1960.[1] He relocated to California in his early twenties and entered the entertainment industry as a production assistant before receiving his first produced credit on the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster, scripting the 1985 episode “Christmas Shoplifting.”[1]
Career
Binder, who hails from Ontario, has worked extensively in television since the mid-1980s. Binder’s breakthrough in feature writing came when Walt Disney Feature Animation hired him, together with Susannah Grant and Philip LaZebnik, to write the screenplay for Pocahontas.[2][3] The film became a worldwide box-office success and won two Academy Awards.
He then moved back to television, spending four seasons as writer–producer on the CBS period drama Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, where he also directed three episodes.[1]
In 1998 Binder created and executive-produced Little Men, an hour-long family series adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s novel and shot in Ontario.[1]
Binder was set to co-write the third Stargate SG-1 movie with Brad Wright and served as an executive producer for the Stargate series Stargate Universe.[4] More recently, he worked on Transporter: The Series, and Houdini and Doyle.
In 2018 he co-wrote two episodes of Unspeakable, an eight-part miniseries for CBC Television and SundanceTV that dramatised Canada’s tainted-blood scandal.[5][6]
Trivia
In the Stargate Atlantis episode 5x16, a hall in a secret scientific facility was called "Carl Binder Memorial Theater".
Filmography
Film
- Pocahontas (1995) – co-screenwriter
Television
- Punky Brewster (1985) – writer, episode “Christmas Shoplifting”
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1995–1998) – writer, producer, director
- Little Men (1998–1999) – creator, executive producer
- Transporter: The Series (2013–2014) – writer
- Houdini & Doyle (2016) – consulting producer, writer
- Unspeakable (2019) – writer[5]
List of Stargate episodes written by Binder
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
| Title | Season | Notes | Directed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Before I Sleep" | 1 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "Letters From Pegasus" | 1 | None | Mario Azzopardi |
| "Condemned" | 2 | Teleplay (Story by Sean Carley) | Peter DeLuise |
| "Aurora" | 2 | Teleplay (Story by Binder & Brad Wright) | Martin Wood |
| "The Hive" | 2 | None | Martin Wood |
| "Critical Mass" | 2 | Teleplay (Story by Binder & Brad Wright) | Andy Mikita |
| "Michael" | 2 | None | Martin Wood |
| "Inferno" | 2 | None | Peter DeLuise |
| "Irresistible" | 3 | Teleplay (Story by Brad Wright & Robert C. Cooper) | Martin Wood |
| "Progeny" | 3 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "The Real World" | 3 | None | Paul Ziller |
| "McKay and Mrs. Miller" | 3 | Written with Martin Gero | Martin Wood |
| "Phantoms" | 3 | None | Martin Wood |
| "Echoes" | 3 | Written with Brad Wright | Will Waring |
| "The Game" | 3 | Written with Don Whitehead & Holly Henderson | Will Waring |
| "Vengeance" | 3 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "Lifeline" | 4 | None | Martin Wood |
| "Missing" | 4 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "Quarantine" | 4 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "Outcast" | 4 | Teleplay (Story by Binder & Joe Flanigan) | Andy Mikita |
| "Midway" | 4 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "Ghost in the Machine" | 5 | None | Ken Girotti |
| "Tracker" | 5 | None | Will Waring |
| "The Prodigal" | 5 | None | Andy Mikita |
| "Identity" | 5 | None | Will Waring |
Stargate Universe
| Title | Season | Notes | Directed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Water" | 1 | with Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper | Will Waring |
| "Life" | 1 | None | Alex Chapple |
| "Pain" | 1 | None | Will Waring |
| "Pathogen" | 2 | None | Robert Carlyle |
| "Hope" | 2 | None | Will Waring |
