View Full Version : Diagnosis: Murder creator Joyce Rebeta-Burditt dies at 83


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06-15-2022, 03:30 AM
https://deadline.com/2022/06/joyce-rebeta-burditt-dies-diagnosis-murder-creator-1235045546/

Rebeta-Burditt was a bestselling author who was an executive at ABC and NBC, where she was in charge of comedy. She started writing for Perry Mason, Matlock and Father Dowling Mysteries before she created the Dick Van Dyke-led action-comedy-mystery-medical crime drama Diagnosis: Murder, a spinoff of Jake and the Fatman, in 1993. Diagnosis: Murder ran for 178 episodes from 1993 and 2001 and five TV movies between 1992 and 2002.