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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.