Bill Persky (Directing)
Little is known about Bill Persky, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Being Mary Tyler Moore
With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary's sixty-year career in show business.
Release Date: 2023-03-13
Character: Self (voice)
Vote Count: 18
Working It Out
Working It Out is an American situation comedy broadcast by NBC as part of its 1990 fall lineup. The series was created and executive produced by Bill Persky.
Release Date: 1990-08-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 1
Knight & Daye
Knight & Daye is an NBC television sitcom that ran for only seven episodes in the summer of 1989. The show was about Hank and Everett, two former friends that hadn't spoken to each other in years after Everett married the woman they were both interested in, but are reunited for a radio talk show. Their bickering proves to be a ratings bonanza.
Release Date: 1989-07-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Water
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
Release Date: 1985-01-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: TV Director
Vote Count: 30
Who's the Boss?
A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. Tony 's laid-back personality contrasts with Angela's type-A behavior.
Release Date: 1984-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 273
Kate & Allie
Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.
Release Date: 1984-03-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 122
Vote Count: 22
Found Money
Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
Release Date: 1983-12-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.
Release Date: 1983-10-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.
Release Date: 1983-01-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Bakers' Dozen
Thirteen bakers compete to create the next viral baking sensation.
Release Date: 1982-03-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Comedy of Horrors
The story is set at Beacon House, a small honeymoon hotel hexed by a haunt, which is located along a scenic but desolate stretch of the North Carolina coast. People whose pasts are tainted with evil will not find Beacon House a peaceful shelter; only the innocent and pure of heart will find safety.
Release Date: 1981-07-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Serial
A man resists the California fads that his wife, friends and wealthy Marin County neighbors embrace.
Release Date: 1980-03-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 13
How to Pick Up Girls!
The amusing adventures of an unsophisticated small-town lad who arrives in New York, moves in with his swinging buddy, and surprisingly becomes an authority on the ways and wiles of women as he enters the world of big-time girl-chasing.
Release Date: 1978-11-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
The Waverly Wonders
The Waverly Wonders is a short-lived TV sitcom, starring retired pro football star Joe Namath, that lasted less than a month on NBC in 1978.
Release Date: 1978-09-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness
A 1978 special starring Mary Tyler Moore, Harvey Korman, and John Ritter. Dick Van Dyke guest stars.
Release Date: 1978-02-22
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Baby, I'm Back
Baby, I'm Back is an American sitcom that aired CBS from January to April 1978. The series stars former Sanford and Son star Demond Wilson, Room 222 alumna Denise Nicholas, Helen Martin, and future Facts of Life co-star Kim Fields.
Release Date: 1978-01-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
The Betty White Show
The Betty White Show is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 12, 1977, to January 2, 1978. Fourteen episodes were broadcast. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises.
Release Date: 1977-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Busting Loose
Busting Loose is a 1977 United States comedic television series starring Adam Arkin which centers around a young man in New York City who has moved out of his parents' house to live on his own for the first time. The show aired on CBS between January 17, 1977, and November 16, 1977
Release Date: 1977-01-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Alice
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.
Release Date: 1976-08-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 54
Welcome Back, Kotter
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
Release Date: 1975-09-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 50
The Montefuscos
The Montefuscos is an American sitcom that aired on NBC in 1975. It centered on three generations of an Italian-American family living in Connecticut.
Release Date: 1975-09-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 1
Big Eddie
Big Eddie is an American sitcom that aired from August 23 until November 7, 1975.
Release Date: 1975-08-23
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Roll, Freddy, Roll!
A man determined to impress his son--and show up his son's stepfather--decides to try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by setting a record for staying the longest time on roller skates.
Release Date: 1974-12-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Lotsa Luck
Lotsa Luck is an American sitcom that aired during the 1973-74 television season. The series stars Dom DeLuise as bachelor Stanley Belmont who lives with his bossy mother, his sister Olive and her unemployed husband, Arthur. Jack Knight stars as Stanley's best friend, Bummy. Lotsa Luck is based on the British London Weekend Television series On the Buses.
Release Date: 1973-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 4
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
The New Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. It was Van Dyke's first return to series television since The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Release Date: 1971-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
The First Nine Months Are the Hardest
The First Nine Months are the Hardest a musical comedy produced by the legendary team of Bill Persky and Sam Denoff with music written by Ray Charles and staring the iconic Sonny and Cher with Dick Van Dyke.
Release Date: 1971-02-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Pure Goldie
A comedy/variety special hosted by Goldie Hawn featuring special guests Ruth Buzzi, Johnny Carson, Bob Dishy, and the Muppets.
Release Date: 1971-02-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Three For Tahiti
When an opportunity to buy a tourist hotel in Tahiti arises, three friends decide to chuck the American lifestyle and move to the South Seas. Unfortunately the hotel, which they bought sight-unseen, is a ramshackle dump and now they must scramble to avoid going bankrupt.
Release Date: 1970-08-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Good Morning World
In this flirty '60s sitcom, the action unfolds every day at a small Los Angeles radio station where Larry and Dave work as morning show DJs. While Larry is a swinging ladies' man with his eye on every woman on the block, Dave is the bumbling married guy who is just trying to stay out of trouble with his wife.
Release Date: 1967-09-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 26
Vote Count: 3
That Girl
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
Release Date: 1966-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 28
The Julie Andrews Show
The Julie Andrews Show is a television special that was broadcast by NBC in November 1965. This was Andrews' first solo American TV Special, although she had previously starred in several dramatic television works (High Tor, Cinderella) and co-starred with Carol Burnett in a major special. However by November 1965 Andrews was now a major movie star with both Mary Poppins and Sound of Music still in cinemas and an Oscar already sitting on her mantelpiece. Julie's guests included Gene Kelly and The New Christy Minstrels.
Release Date: 1965-12-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The Andy Williams Christmas Show
For Andy's Christmas show, Bette Davis comes aboard to tout her new movie, and even sing a "Baby Jane" number! Debbie Reynolds joins him in the audience sing along portion, an early Osmonds appearance, and Andy, Bette and the Christy Minstrels combine for some folk songs and a square dance finale.
Release Date: 1962-12-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.
Release Date: 1961-10-03
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 158
Vote Count: 91