Filming
Who directed the most "Modern Family" episodes?
Modern Family
Holmes &amp; Yo-Yo The X-Files (season 1) Lev L. Spiro The X-Files (season 8) Seth Gordon
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The executive producer was Leonard Stern, a former staff writer for "Get Smart", which featured an android character named Hymie who was, in most respects, a prototype for Yoyo. Several episodes of "Holmes & Yoyo" were directed by John Astin, who played Gomez in "The Addams Family". 
David Nutter directed the most episodes of the first season, directing six. "Pilot" supervising producer Daniel Sackheim directed two episodes. Other directors that directed two episodes included Jerrold Freedman, William Graham, Michael Lange, Joe Napolitano and Larry Shaw. One-episode directors included Rob Bowman, Fred Gerber, co-executive producer R. W. Goodwin, Michael Katleman, Harry Longstreet and Robert Mandel who directed the pilot episode. 
Since beginning his career, Spiro has directed over 140 drama and comedy episodes, pilots and features for network and cable television. Episodic television work includes multiple episodes of Showtime's "Weeds", ABC’s "Ugly Betty" and CW’s "Everybody Hates Chris", as well as "Arrested Development", "The O.C. ", "Gilmore Girls" and many more. In 2008, Spiro directed the critically acclaimed family feature Minutemen, which garnered a DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs. In 2009 he directed "" which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program. More recently Spiro directed the third "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" film for Walt Disney Pictures, the pilot for the ABC Family dramedy "Jane by Design", and episodes of "Modern Family", "The Neighbors" for ABC, and "Betas" for Amazon. 
Series creator Chris Carter who also served as executive producer and showrunner, along with executive producer Frank Spotnitz wrote the bulk of the episodes for the season, with 13 of the 21 episodes. Carter wrote five episodes solo, Spotnitz wrote four episodes solo, and they co-wrote four episodes together, including important mytharc episodes. The rest of the writing staff contributed one or two episodes. Vince Gilligan was promoted to executive producer and wrote one episode. John Shiban was promoted to co-executive producer and wrote one episode. David Amann was promoted to producer and wrote one episode. Jeffrey Bell was promoted to executive story editor and wrote one episode. Greg Walker was promoted to executive story editor and wrote two episodes. Steven Maeda was promoted to story editor and wrote two episodes. Daniel Arkin, who wrote a freelance episode for the series previously, returned to contribute to the story for one episode. Kim Manners was promoted to co-executive producer and directed the most of episodes of the season with seven. Directors who directed multiple episodes for the season included Tony Wharmby who directed four, Rod Hardy directed three, and Richard Compton directed two. Peter Markle, Terrence O'Hara, and Barry K. Thomas each directed one episode. Series creator Chris Carter directed a single episode, while writer Frank Spotnitz made his directorial debut. 
Television series. In 2009, Gordon developed and directed a video series focusing on the threat posed by cybercrime to Internet users, "", sponsored by antivirus software company McAfee. Gordon has also directed various music videos and commercials, as well as an episode each of "Modern Family" and "Community", two episodes of "The Office", and multiple episodes of "Parks and Recreation". 