"Burrow"ing Into Television Trivia Quiz

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James Burrows began his career on Broadway. He met Mary Tyler Moore while he was working as an assistant stage manager in 1967's "Holly Golightly". The Broadway play never made it past rehearsals. Years later, James wrote Mary a note asking if she had any work for him. James directed four episodes of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and eleven episodes of "The Bob Newhart Show", both under the MTM production label.

James won his first two Emmys directing episodes of "Taxi". He created the NBC series "Cheers" with the Charles brothers and directed 35 out of the 275 episodes. He won two more Emmys for directing "Cheers".

When Kelsey Grammar went from "Cheers" to his own spin-off, James directed the pilot episode of "Frasier", earning him yet another Emmy. He went on to direct 32 more episodes of the series.

James directed the pilot episode of "Friends". He was responsible for sending the entire cast to Las Vegas for the weekend and giving them each $200 in spending money. James told the cast this would be the last time they would go anywhere without being recognized. He won an Emmy for directing "The One With the Blackout".

From 1998 to 2006, James Burrows directed every episode of NBC's "Will & Grace" and only won one Emmy for his work. When the show revived in 2017 for three seasons, James directed all the episodes.

James directed both the unaired and aired pilots for "The Big Bang Theory" as well as the pilot for "Two and a Half Men".

His 1000th episode of TV that James directed was for the NBC series, "Crowded".

In James Burrow's forty years on television, he directed one thousand TV episodes, attended 5,000 TV rehearsals, conducted one thousand rewrites, and gave 500,000 network notes.