Burditt, Joyce

(Joyce Rebeta-Burditt)

PERSONAL

Affiliated with George Burditt (a producer and writer).

Addresses: Agent—Richard Weitz, Endeavor, 9601 Wilshire Blvd., Sixth Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Producer and writer. ABC-TV, New York City, worked as a programming executive; NBC-TV, worked as a vice president for comedy development. Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts, affiliate.

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.

Teleplays; 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," Father Dowling 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.

Teleplays; 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 the author (with Lee Goldberg) of The Shooting Script, Signet, 2004.

ADAPTATIONS

The television movie The Cracker Factory, broadcast by ABC in 1979, was based on Burditt's novel of the same title.