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Pat Allee (also credited as Patricia Allee) is an American television writer and theater director best known for her work on animated series including Sonic the Hedgehog and The Real Ghostbusters.1 She contributed five episodes across The Real Ghostbusters and its spin-off Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters, most frequently in collaboration with her longtime writing partner Ben Hurst.2
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Allee's television writing career spans live-action and animation across more than two decades. Her earliest produced credit is a single episode of the live-action sitcom Taxi in 1981.1 By the late 1980s she had moved fully into animation, writing for The New Archies (1987) and, around the same period, contributing to The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters (see below).
In 1990 she wrote three episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures for Warner Bros. Animation.1 She then served as story editor on Captain Planet and the Planeteers for 21 episodes (1991-1992) and wrote an additional three episodes of that series (1992-1993).1
Her most prominent body of work outside the Ghostbusters franchise is on the Sonic the Hedgehog animated television series (commonly called SatAM). She served as associate story editor on 13 episodes (1994) and wrote or co-wrote 10 episodes (1993-1994), frequently in collaboration with Ben Hurst.1 In season two Allee and Hurst became two of only three writers on the series, penning some of its most memorable installments.3 The duo were subsequently hired as story editors for Sonic Underground (1999) after first being brought in to write the pilot episode.2
Additional animation credits include Street Sharks, Gadget Boy and Heather, and Starship Troopers: The Series.1
Beyond television, Allee has worked as a freelance writer across theater, museum writing and concept design, journalism, and public relations. She has served as Co-Artistic Director of the Toluca Lake Players, a community theater company in the Los Angeles area, where she has directed, written, and produced productions including original comedies.4
Allee co-wrote two episodes of The Real Ghostbusters with Ben Hurst:
She co-wrote three episodes of the companion series Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters, again with Ben Hurst:
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IMDb, "Pat Allee" (nm0020176), accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020176/. Full television writing credits including Taxi (1981), The New Archies (1987), Tiny Toon Adventures (1990), Captain Planet and the Planeteers (story editor 1991-1992; writer 1992-1993), Sonic the Hedgehog (associate story editor and writer, 1993-1994), Sonic Underground (1999), Street Sharks, Gadget Boy and Heather, and Starship Troopers: The Series. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
Saturday Morning Sonic, "Ben Hurst on SatAM," saturdaymorningsonic.com, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.saturdaymorningsonic.com/features/ben_hurst/. Describes how Hurst and Allee were invited to a writers' cattle call for Sonic Underground, wrote the pilot episode, and were then hired as story editors after the original story editor was replaced. Notes they worked at an intense pace and developed the three-part origin story. ↩ ↩2
Sonic SatAM Credits, sonicsatam.com, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.sonicsatam.com/information/credits/. Patricia Allee and Benjamin Hurst are credited as Associate Story Editors for both seasons; only three writers are credited for Season 2: Allee, Hurst, and Len Janson. ↩
LinkedIn, Pat Allee profile, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-allee-79657649/. Lists Co-Artistic Director of the Toluca Lake Players and describes her freelance career spanning theater, museum writing and concept design, television writing, journalism, and public relations. ↩
