Alan Sacks

Alan Sacks is an executive producer, most well known as producer and co-creator of the TV series Welcome Back Kotter. He formerly managed the band Unlocking the truth.

Alan Sacks produced a string of films for the Disney Channel, starting with Smart House in 1999. He followed it up with the Emmy Award-winning The Color of Friendship in 2000. He was executive producer of Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, starring Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers. He also produced the supervised television series Jonas. Among his other Disney Channel projects, they include The Other Me, Pixel Perfect, and You Wish!. In 2009, he produced the film Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.

Sacks helped develop and co-create Welcome Back, Kotter with Gabe Kaplan in 1975, based on Kaplan's stand-up routine about his high school buddies in Brooklyn. He also worked on Chico and The Man, a show created by Welcome Back, Kotter executive producer James Komack. In 1991, he created and produced a short-lived Saturday morning children's show built around the comedy and western band Riders In The Sky.