Joyce Burditt

Joyce Burditt

Joyce Burditt (also known as Joyce Rebeta-Burditt) is an American writer and network executive known for creating the TV series Diagnosis: Murder, which ran for almost 200 episodes and TV movies. She has also been a longtime writer and producer on such TV series as Perry Mason, Matlock, and the Father Dowling Mysteries. She wrote a best selling novel, The Cracker Factory, in 1977, about an alcoholic housewife, which is partly drawn from her own experience in and out of institutions. It was made into an American TV movie of the same name. This was followed by the sequel, The Cracker Factory 2: Welcome to Women's Group, in 2010. She wrote the humorous novel Triplets, in 1982, and the mystery novel Buck Naked, about a Los Angeles detective heroine, in 1998.