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| Born: | 22 June 1948 | |||
| Birthplace: | New York City | |||
| Career/Family Information | ||||
| Occupation/ Career: |
TV producer/director/screenwriter | |||
| Years active: | 1978 to 2003 | |||
| Series information | ||||
| Series involved with: | Three's Company / The Ropers/Three's a Crowd | |||
| Work on/ connection with series: |
writer/teleplay/associate producer | |||
| Episodes involved with: | involved in 22 episodes of TC in Seasons 4-7 involved all episodes for Three's A Crowd series involved in 8 episodes of The Ropers, with Martin Rips | |||
Joseph Staretski (born 22 June 1948) was involved in a total of 22 episodes of Three's Company beginning with the Season 4 episode "Upstairs Downstairs Downstairs" and ending with the Season 8 episode titled "The Heiress". Of those twenty, he contributed to the teleplay for three, "Double Trouble" in Season 5, "And Now Here's Jack" and "Navy Blues" in Season 7. Martin was also involved in all 22 episodes of Three's a Crowd, and also eight episodes of The Ropers, as either an associate producer, script writer, or teleplay contributor. In his work in Hollywood, mostly on TV, Joseph frequently has collaborated with Martin Rips in the writing of scripts for numerous TV sitcoms.
Joseph spent twenty years as a television writer, and produced or co-produced the series Three's Company, its spinoff series Three's a Crowd, CBS-TV's Hearts Afire, which co-starred John Ritter and Markie Post, and the ABC-TV sitcom Coach. He also wrote scripts for such TV sitcoms as the short-lived CBS-TV series Baby, I'm Back, CBS-TV's Rhoda, ABC's Carter Country and the 1993 TV series Blue Skies.
