John Pardee is an American

United States

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 screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and television producer

Television producer

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, currently working as executive producer

Executive producer

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 for Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives

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During the 1990s, Pardee wrote episodes of several television series, including the cartoon

Cartoon

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 Doug

Doug

Doug is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and co-produced by his studio, Jumbo Pictures . Doug centers on the surreal and imaginative exploits of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending middle school. The series lampoons...

, the short lived sitcoms Charlie Hoover, Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley is an American sitcom which aired from March 9, 1994 to July 4, 1995 on ABC.-Premise:The show stars Edward Asner as retired race-car driver Gil Jones. The unaired original pilot episode featured Felicity Huffman in the role of Bobbi Turner, Gil's daughter. When ABC picked up the...

and The Crew

The Crew (TV series)

The Crew is an American television sitcom that aired from August 31, 1995 to June 30, 1996 on the FOX Network.-Synopsis:The show followed the lives of a group of flight attendants working for the fictitious Regency Airlines. Jess Jameson and Maggie Reynolds are roommates and work together and...

and Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Lynne Shepherd is an American actress, singer and former model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes on Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan on Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll on The L...

's sitcom Cybill

Cybill

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. On The Crew and Cybill he also served as producer. When Desperate Housewives begun in 2004, Pardee was one of the staff writers

Head writer

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, and for the second year he was promoted to co-executive producer. Starting with the first episode of season four, he is now executive producer.

Mostly Pardee works with Joey Murphy

Joey Murphy

Joey Murphy is screenwriter and television producer, currently working as executive producer for Desperate Housewives.Murphy has written episodes of the cartoon, Doug, The Crew, and Cybill Shepherd's sitcom, Cybill, the last two for which he also served as producer...

. Pardee and Murphy have also written the script to the upcoming remake of Mad Monster Party. He is close friends with Christian McLaughlin

Christian McLaughlin

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 and Valerie Ahern

Valerie Ahern

Valerie Ahern is an American television screenwriter and producer.She has written episodes for a number of television series since 1995 including The Young and the Restless , Clueless, Desperate Housewives, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Drawn Together, The Parent 'Hood, Renovate My Family, Hot...

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