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| Gender: | Male | |||
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TV screenwriter, producer and director | |||
| Years active: | 1974-2004 | |||
| Series involved with: | The Jeffersons | |||
| Job on series | Executive producer - 44 episodes, 1979 - 1981 Producer - 24 episodes, 1975 - 1979 Writer - 20 episodes, 1975 - 1981 Teleplay - 7 episodes, 1975 - 1979 Story - 5 episodes, 1978 - 1981 | |||
Jay Moriarty was involved in a total of 68 episodes of The Jeffersons, 30 as either a writer or contributor to the story of the episodes, and 38 as a producer. Moriarty, who often collaborated with fellow producer/writer Jay Moriarty, also has produced or written episdes for other popular TV series such as NBC-TV's Dear John which starred Judd Hirsch, the ABC-TV sitcom What's Happening, and its continuation/spinoff, What's Happening Now, and the CBS-TV sitcom series The Royal Family, which co-starred Redd Foxx, Della Reese, a very young Larenz Tate, and Vivica A. Fox. Mike also served as the supervising producer for the short-lived CBS-TV sitcom series 704 Hauser, which like The Jeffersons, was a spinoff of All In The Family, as well as the short lived ABC-TV variety series Melba, hosted by Melba Moore.
