Joyce Burditt

Joyce Burditt, also known as Joyce Rebeta-Burditt, was an American writer and network executive known for creating the TV series Diagnosis: Murder, which ran for almost 200 episodes and TV movies. She was also 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.