Andrew Dabb

"I would like to say that I planned for this, that I had a big master plan..I did not. All my good ideas… if I have a good idea, I get to use on the show. What I will say is whether I have been privileged to work for Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble or Jeremy Carver, they all had really specific visions for the show. Visions that I thought took the show in their own way. You know I think if you look at all their tenors on the show, they’re all Supernatural but they feel a little bit different and I think coming and sitting in that chair and me being able to dictate things a little bit more I’m able to play up a sort of Supernatural that I really enjoy."

- Andrew Dabb on writing Supernatural

Andrew Dabb is a co-executive producer and writer for the series Supernatural. He started writing along with Daniel Loflin as a writing team/supervising producer who joined Supernatural in Season 4. In Season 8, Dabb and Loflin began writing episodes separately. Beginning with Season 12, Dabb took over as co-showrunner with Robert Singer, following the departure of Jeremy Carver.

"I get that people may not have been as into that as we were, they’re certainly fair, but I do believe that, you know, sometimes you try things and you hope they work and that one…yeah. It didn’t necessarily work for everyone, I’m certainly aware of that, but at the same time if you start doing things only you know that people are going to like, and people are like “Oh my God I love it,” that limits you storytelling wise. At this point in the show, those stories are easy to do. It’s easy to tick three boxes and know on Twitter the fans are going to go crazy for it. It just is. We all know what those three boxes are but I think the question is, if those are only the types of stories you’re telling and those are only the type of episodes you’re telling, then are you really allowing the show to grow creatively? It becomes a nostalgia cycle. You know what I mean? And we’ve certainly been on 12 years. We have our share of nostalgia and certainly have gone to that well but if that’s all you’re going for, that’s all you’re doing is repeating, then it becomes a real problem and it puts a clock on things. I think we have with the guys and these relationships we have places to go that are really interesting, I don’t ever want to get to the point where I’m like, “We’re not going to do this because Twitter’s not going to like it.” I just don’t think that’s a good way ever to run a story, or run a show, and I also think truth of the matter is, the thing people like the most is that they want it but they didn’t know they wanted it."

- Andrew Dabb on the controversial ending of Season 11

Season 4

 * "Yellow Fever" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "After School Special" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Jump the Shark" with (Daniel Loflin)

Season 5

 * "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Sam, Interrupted" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Dark Side of the Moon" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Hammer of the Gods" with (Daniel Loflin)

Season 6

 * "Weekend At Bobby's" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Family Matters" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Unforgiven" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Frontierland" and (Jackson Stewart); teleplay with (Daniel Loflin)

Season 7

 * "The Girl Next Door" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Season 7, Time For A Wedding" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "There Will Be Blood" with (Daniel Loflin)

Season 8

 * "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?" with (Daniel Loflin)
 * "Hunteri Heroici"
 * "Trial and Error "
 * "Clip Show"

Season 9

 * "Devil May Care"
 * "Road Trip"
 * "Bloodlines"
 * "Stairway To Heaven"

Season 10

 * "Reichenbach"
 * "The Things We Left Behind"
 * "Inside Man"
 * "The Prisoner"

Season 11

 * "Form and Void"
 * "The Devil is in the Details"
 * "Beyond the Mat" with (John Bring)
 * "Red Meat" with (Robert Berens)
 * "Alpha and Omega"

Season 12

 * "Keep Calm and Carry On"
 * "First Blood"
 * "All Along the Watchtower"

Season 13

 * "Lost & Found"