Anthony Yerkovich - Wikipedia

Anthony Yerkovich
Occupation(s)	Television producer and writer
Years active	1981–2006

Anthony Yerkovich is an American television producer and writer.

He is best known for creating the 1980s cop show Miami Vice.^[1] He served as the show's executive producer along with Michael Mann before handing over full executive responsibilities to Mann after only six episodes.

His other television credits include Starsky & Hutch (1977-1978), 240-Robert (1979) and Hart to Hart (1981) as writer, Hill Street Blues (1981-1983) as writer and supervising producer, Private Eye (1987-1988) as creator and executive producer, and Big Apple (2001) as writer and executive producer. He also wrote the made-for-TV film Hollywood Confidential (1997) starring Edward James Olmos and reunited with Mann to executive produce the Miami Vice film, released in 2006.

References

^ Miami Vice at The Museum of Broadcast Communications

External links

Anthony Yerkovich at IMDb

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
1950s	Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955)
1960s	Rod Serling for The Twilight Zone (1960) Rod Serling for The Twilight Zone (1961) Reginald Rose for The Defenders (1962) Robert Thom & Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963) Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" / Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work" (1964) David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966) Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967) Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968) JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971) Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972) John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973) Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974) Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975) Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976) William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977) Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978) Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979)
1980s	Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980) Michael Kozoll & Steven Bochco for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll & Jeff Lewis & Michael Wagner & Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982) David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983) John Ford Noonan, John Masius & Tom Fontana for "The Women" (1984) Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985) Tom Fontana, John Masius & Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986) Steven Bochco & Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987) Paul Haggis & Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988) Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989)
1990s	David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990) David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991) Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992) Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993) Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994) Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996) David Milch, Stephen Gaghan and Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997) David Milch, Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998) James Manos Jr. and David Chase for "College" (1999)
2000s	Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000) Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green for "Employee of the Month" (2001) Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for "12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m." (2002) Mitchell Burgess & David Chase & Robin Green for "Whitecaps" (2003) Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking" (2004) David Shore for "Three Stories" (2005) Terence Winter for "Members Only" (2006) David Chase for "Made in America" (2007) Matthew Weiner for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2008) Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner for "Meditations in an Emergency" (2009)
2010s	Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner for "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." (2010) Jason Katims for "Always" (2011) Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff for "Pilot" (Homeland) (2012) Henry Bromell for "Q&A" (2013) Moira Walley-Beckett for "Ozymandias" (2014) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016) Bruce Miller for "Offred" (2017) Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg for "START" (2018) Jesse Armstrong for "Nobody Is Ever Missing" (2019)
2020s	Jesse Armstrong for "This Is Not for Tears" (2020) Peter Morgan for "War" (2021) Jesse Armstrong for "All the Bells Say" (2022) Jesse Armstrong for "Connor's Wedding" (2023) Will Smith for "Negotiating with Tigers" (2024)

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama (1980–1989)

Stephen J. Cannell for "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" (1980)
Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981)
Michael Wagner for "The World According to Freedom" (1982)
David Milch for "Trial By Fury" (1983)
Steven Bochco & Mark Frost & Karen Hall & Jeff Lewis & David Milch & Michael Wagner for "Grace Under Pressure" (1984)
Georgia Jeffries for "An Unusual Occurrence" / Anthony Yerkovich for "Brother's Keeper" (1985)
Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" / Tom Fontana & John Masius & Bruce Paltrow for "Remembrance of Things Past" (1986)
Georgia Jeffries for "Turn, Turn, Turn" / Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "It's a Wonderful Job" (1987)
Susan Shilliday for "Therapy" / Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick for "Pilot" (thirtysomething) (1988)
Karl Schaefer for "Rolling" (1989)

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