- Wrote four episodes of Emergency! (1972).
- Elder son of Wilma Norell and Brigadier General James Norell, his father was part of the negotiating team at Panmunjeon during the Korean War.
- Won the role of the new captain on Emergency! (1972) because Executive Producer Robert A. Cinader thought he looked like a fireman.
- His wife, Cynthia A. Cherbak, is also a television writer. Norell and Cherbak have two children.
- Won a Writer's Guild Award for The Incident (1990).
- Michael Norell was a staff writer on the Aaron Spelling/Douglas S. Cramer produced ABC hit series The Love Boat (1977) from 1977-79, In 1981, Norell helped develop Spelling's mid-season network program replacement series, a spin-off of "The Love Boat", for ABC , Aloha Paradise (1981) (which ran only eight episodes). Norell was credited as a producer and screenwriter, writing scripts with colleague Alan Foster Friedman (1931-2015).
- Was told to get a haircut when he accepted the role of Captain Stanley on Emergency! (1972).
- Co-wrote The Incident (1990), Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992) and The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989) with his younger brother, James Norell.
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