Head Writers and Executive Producers
| Head writer(s) | Years | Executive producers |
|---|---|---|
| Irna Phillips | 1937–1952 | David Lesan, Joe Ainley, Carl Waster |
| 1952–1956 | David Lesan, Joe Ainley | |
| Television | ||
| Irna Phillips | 1952–1958 | Lucy Ferri Rittenberg |
| Agnes Nixon | 1958–1966 | |
| David Lesan, Julian Funt, Theordore Ferro, Mathilde Ferro, John Boruff, James Lipton and Gabrielle Upton | 1966–1968 | |
| Irna Phillips | 1968–1969 | |
| Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer | 1969–1973 | |
| James Gentile, Robert Cenedella and James Lipton | 1973–1975 | |
| Allen M. Potter | ||
| Bridget and Jerome Dobson | 1975–1979 | |
| Douglas Marland | 1979–1982 | |
| Pat Falken Smith | 1982 | |
| Gail Kobe | ||
| L. Virginia Browne, Gene Palumbo | 1982-1983 | |
| Carolyn Culliton | 1983 | |
| Pamela K. Long and Richard Culliton | 1983–1984 | |
| Pamela K. Long and Jeff Ryder | 1984–1986 | |
| Jeff Ryder | February 1986 – September 1986 | |
| Mary Ryan Munisteri & Ellen Barrett | September 1986 – November 1986 | |
| Joe Willmore | ||
| October 1986 – December 1986 | Joseph D. Manetta | |
| December 1986 – early 1987 | Joseph D. Manetta and Sheri Anderson | |
| Pamela K. Long | 1987–1990 | |
| Robert Calhoun | ||
| Stephen Demorest, James E. Reilly, and Nancy Curlee | 1990–1991 | |
| Stephen Demorest, James E. Reilly, Nancy Curlee, and Lorraine Broderick | 1991–1992 | |
| Jill Farren Phelps | ||
| Stephen Demorest, Nancy Curlee, and Lorraine Broderick | 1992–1993 | |
| Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest | 1993 | |
| Stephen Demorest, Patrick Mulcahey, Nancy Williams Watt, Millee Taggert, and Sheri Anderson | 1994 | |
| Stephen Demorest | 1995 | |
| Douglas Anderson | 1995 | |
| Michael Laibson | ||
| Megan McTavish | 1995–1996 | |
| Michael Conforti, Victor Miller and Nancy Williams Watt | October 1996 - April 1997 | |
| James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten | April 1997–2000 | |
| Paul Rauch | ||
| Claire Labine | 2000–2001 | |
| Lloyd Gold and Christopher Dunn | July 2001 - November 2002 | |
| Millee Taggert and Carolyn Culliton | November 2002 - September 12, 2003 | |
| John Conboy | ||
| Ellen Weston and Donna Swajeski | September 2003 – July 5, 2004 | |
| Ellen Wheeler | ||
| David Kreizman and Donna Swajeskii | July 6, 2004 - February 29, 2008 | |
| No Head Writer Listed | March 3, 2008 - April 11, 2008 | |
| David Kreizman and Donna Swajeski | April 14, 2008 - August 21, 2008 | |
| David Kreizman, Christopher Dunn, Lloyd Gold, and Jill Lorie Hurst | August 22, 2008 - September 18, 2009 | |
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Famous quotes containing the words head, writers, executive and/or producers:
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.... They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)