Joyce Burditt Biography ((?)-)
Affiliated with George Burditt (a producer and writer). Addresses: Agent: Richard Weitz, Endeavor, 9601 Wilshire Blvd., Sixth Floor, Beverly Hills,CA 90212.
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Producer, writer
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Television Work
- Series
- Producer, Matlock, NBC, 1989-91
- Producer and executive story consultant, Father Dowling Mysteries(also known as Father Dowling Investigates), ABC, c. 1990-91
- Creator and supervising producer, Diagnosis Murder, CBS, 1993-95
- Also worked as story editor for Matlock, NBC and ABC.
- Television Executive Producer
- Movies
- Mystery Woman: Game Time, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Snapshot, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Television Supervising Producer
- Movies
- Diagnosis Murder (also known as A Diagnosis of Murder), CBS, 1992
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives, NBC, 1993
- A Twist of the Knife, CBS, 1993
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor, NBC, 1994
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle, NBC, 1994
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester, NBC, 1995
- Television Creator
- Movies
- Diagnosis Murder (also known as A Diagnosis of Murder), CBS, 1992
- A Twist of the Knife, CBS, 1993
- Diagnosis Murder: Deadly Mirage, PAX TV, 2001
- Diagnosis Murder: Town without Pity, CBS, 2002
- Diagnosis Murder: Without Warning, CBS, 2002
- Television Work
- Pilots
- Executive producer, Melanie Darrow, USA Network, 1997
- Executive producer of the pilot Making a Killing, PAX TV (later i,or Independent Television). Some sources cite work on a pilot for Lifetime.
- Television Guest Appearances
- Episodic
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC, 1978
- The Midnight Special, NBC, 1980
- WRITINGS
- Teleplays and Stories for Episodes
- Series
- Diagnosis Murder, CBS, between 1993 and 1998
- Teleplays
- Movies
- (As Joyce Rebeta-Burditt) Under the Influence, CBS, 1986
- Diagnosis Murder (also known as A Diagnosis of Murder), CBS, 1992
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host, NBC, 1993
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives, NBC, 1993
- A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle, NBC, 1994
- Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Snapshot, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder, The Hallmark Channel, 2005
- Mystery Woman: Redemption, The Hallmark Channel, 2006
- Episodic
- (With George Burditt; and story with Mort Scharfman and Harvey Weitzman)"Chrissy, Come Home," Three's Company, ABC, 1978
- (Story) "The Star," Matlock, NBC, 1989
- "The Blind Man's Bluff Mystery," Father Dowling Mysteries (also known as Father Dowling Investigates), ABC, 1990
- (With Dean Hargrove) "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Mystery," FatherDowling Mysteries (also known as Father Dowling Investigates), ABC, 1990
- (With Hargrove) "The Falling Angel Mystery," Father Dowling Mysteries (also known as Father Dowling Investigates), ABC, 1990
- "The Kidnapper," Matlock, NBC, 1990
- "Night and Day," Jake and the Fatman, CBS, 1990
- "It Never Entered My Mind," Jake and the Fatman, CBS, 1991
- Tequila and Bonetti, CBS, 1992
- (Story with Hargrove) "The Exotic Dancer Mystery," Father Dowling Mysteries (also known as Father Dowling Investigates), ABC, 2000
- Pilots
- Melanie Darrow, USA Network, 1997
- Novels
- The Cracker Factory, Macmillan, 1977
- Triplets, Delacorte Press, 1981
- Buck Naked, Ballantine Books, 1996
- Some sources cite Burditt, while credited as Joyce Rebeta-Burditt, as theauthor (with Lee Goldberg) of The Shooting Script, Signet, 2004.
Further Reference
ADAPTATIONS
- The television movie The Cracker Factory, broadcast by ABC in 1979, was based on Burditt's novel of the same title.