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|name= Bill Oakley
 
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|gender= {{Male cast}}
|job= Writer<br>Story editor<br>Producer
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|job= Writer<br>Story editor<br>Producer<br>Showrunner
 
|birthdate= {{Birthdate|1966|2|27}}
 
|birthdate= {{Birthdate|1966|2|27}}
 
|deathdate=  
 
|deathdate=  
 
|status= Inactive
 
|status= Inactive
 
|episodes= 144
 
|episodes= 144
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|seasons= [[Season 3|Seasons 3]] - [[Season 10|10]]
 
|first episode= "[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"
 
|first episode= "[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"
|latest episode= "[[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]"
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|latest episode= "[[When You Dish Upon a Star]]"
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|first album= ''[[Songs in the Key of Springfield]]''
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|latest album= ''[[Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons]]''
 
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'''Bill Oakley''' (born February 27, 1966) is an American TV writer, best known for his work on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Along with his writing partner [[Josh Weinstein]], Oakley was the executive producer and [[showrunner]] during the seventh and eighth seasons. Before serving as the show's executive producers, the pair were hired onto the writing staff during the fourth season. Together, the two wrote episodes such as "[[Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]". After leaving ''The Simpsons'', Oakley and Weinstein created ''Mission Hill'', ''The Mullets'', and served as consulting producers on ''[[Futurama]]''. He was born and raised in Union Bridge, Maryland, and attended St. Albans School, where he and Weinstein created cartoons for the school newspaper. He later attended Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.
 
  
He is married to [[Rachel Pulido]].
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'''Bill Oakley''' (born February 27, 1966) is an American television writer and producer. He served as a writer, story editor, supervising producer, executive producer, showrunner, and consulting producer for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. He is married to [[Rachel Pulido]].
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== Awards ==
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{{Table|width=50%|align=left|
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{{THT|Award}}
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}|4}}
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{{TB|[[1995]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1995/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1995"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Lisa's Wedding]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[1996]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1996"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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{{TBT|[[1997]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1997/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less.) – 1997"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Phobia]]"}}
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{{TRs|'''Won'''|2}}
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{{TBT|[[1998]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1998/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1998"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Trash of the Titans]]"}}
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{{TBT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics}}}}
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{{TB|[[1996]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics Television Academy - "Outstanding Music and Lyrics – 1996"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)]]"<br>{{small|for "[[Señor Burns]]"}}}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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}}
  
 
== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
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=== Written by ===
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{{TC}}
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=== Story editor ===
 
=== Story editor ===
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{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
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{{Season3A
*{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
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*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
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{{Season4A|all=yes|E5n=as Objectionable Bill Oakley}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III|(as Objectionable Bill Oakley)}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
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|E1=yes
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
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|E2=yes
*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
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*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
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{{TC}}
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
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*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
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*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
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=== Supervising producer ===
*{{ep|Selma's Choice}}
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{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|I Love Lisa}}
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{{Season5A
*{{ep|Duffless}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|The Front}}
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|E5n=as The Late Bill Oakley
*{{ep|Whacking Day}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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}}
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{{Season6A|all=yes|E6n=as The Late Bill Oakley}}
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{{Season7A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
=== Writer ===
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=== Executive producer ===
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
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{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
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{{TO}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV|(as The Late Bill Oakley)}}
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{{Season7A
*{{ep|$pringfield (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)}}
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|E3=yes
*{{ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Lady Bouvier's Lover}}
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|E6=yes
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|E6n=as The Late Bill Oakley
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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|E23=yes
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|E24=yes
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|E25=yes
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}}
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{{Season8A|all=yes|E1n=as The Late Bill Oakley}}
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{{Season9A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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}}
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{{TC}}
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}}
  
=== Supervising producer ===
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=== Consulting producer ===
 
{{Scroll|
 
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Homer Goes to College}}
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{{TO}}
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
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{{Season9A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV|(as The Late Bill Oakley)}}
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|E4=yes
*{{ep|Marge on the Lam}}
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|E4n=as The Late Bill Oakley
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
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|E5=yes
*{{ep|Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood}}
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|E6=yes
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Homer}}
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|E7=yes
*{{ep|$pringfield (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)}}
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|E8=yes
*{{ep|Homer the Vigilante}}
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|E9=yes
*{{ep|Bart Gets Famous}}
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|E10=yes
*{{ep|Homer and Apu}}
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|E11=yes
*{{ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
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|E12=yes
*{{ep|Deep Space Homer}}
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|E13=yes
*{{ep|Homer Loves Flanders}}
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|E14=yes
*{{ep|Bart Gets an Elephant}}
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|E15=yes
*{{ep|Burns' Heir}}
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|E16=yes
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
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|E17=yes
*{{ep|The Boy Who Knew Too Much}}
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|E18=yes
*{{ep|Lady Bouvier's Lover}}
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|E20=yes
*{{ep|Secrets of a Successful Marriage}}
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|E21=yes
*{{ep|Bart of Darkness}}
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|E22=yes
*{{ep|Lisa's Rival}}
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|E23=yes
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E24=yes
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy Land}}
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|E25=yes
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}}
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{{Season10A
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|E2=yes
 
}}
 
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Sideshow Bob Roberts (9 October 1994) - supervising producer , Writer (written by) , Soundtrack (writer: "'Quimby' Campaign Commercial" (uncredited)) 
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{{TC}}
Treehouse of Horror V (30 October 1994) - supervising producer (as The Late Bill Oakley) 
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Bart's Girlfriend (6 November 1994) - supervising producer 
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Lisa on Ice (13 November 1994) - supervising producer 
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=== For The Simpsons ===
Homer Badman (27 November 1994) - supervising producer 
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*{{alb|Songs in the Key of Springfield}}
Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy (4 December 1994) - supervising producer , Writer (written by) 
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*{{alb|Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons}}
Fear of Flying (18 December 1994) - supervising producer 
 
Homer the Great (8 January 1995) - supervising producer 
 
And Maggie Makes Three (22 January 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Bart's Comet (5 February 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Homie the Clown (12 February 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Bart vs. Australia (19 February 1995) - supervising producer , Writer (written by) 
 
Homer vs. Patty and Selma (26 February 1995) - supervising producer 
 
A Star Is Burns (5 March 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Lisa's Wedding (19 March 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Two Dozen and One Greyhounds (9 April 1995) - supervising producer 
 
The PTA Disbands (16 April 1995) - supervising producer 
 
'Round Springfield (30 April 1995) - supervising producer 
 
The Springfield Connection (7 May 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Lemon of Troy (14 May 1995) - supervising producer 
 
Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 1 (21 May 1995) - supervising producer , Writer (written by) 
 
Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 2 (17 September 1995) - supervising producer , Writer (written by) , Soundtrack (writer: "Señor Burns") 
 
Radioactive Man (24 September 1995) - supervising producer 
 
  
Home Sweet Home-Diddily-Dum-Doodily (1 October 1995) - executive producer 
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== References ==
Bart Sells His Soul (8 October 1995) - executive producer 
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{{Reflist}}
Lisa the Vegetarian (15 October 1995) - executive producer 
 
Treehouse of Horror VI (29 October 1995) - executive producer (as The Late Bill Oakley) 
 
King Size Homer (5 November 1995) - executive producer 
 
Mother Simpson (19 November 1995) - executive producer 
 
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming (26 November 1995) - executive producer 
 
The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular (3 December 1995) - executive producer 
 
Marge Be Not Proud (17 December 1995) - executive producer 
 
Team Homer (7 January 1996) - executive producer 
 
Two Bad Neighbors (14 January 1996) - executive producer 
 
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield (4 February 1996) - executive producer 
 
Bart the Fink (11 February 1996) - executive producer 
 
Lisa the Iconoclast (18 February 1996) - executive producer 
 
Homer the Smithers (25 February 1996) - executive producer 
 
The Day the Violence Died (17 March 1996) - executive producer 
 
A Fish Called Selma (24 March 1996) - executive producer 
 
Bart on the Road (31 March 1996) - executive producer 
 
22 Short Films About Springfield (14 April 1996) - executive producer , Writer (written by) 
 
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish' (28 April 1996) - executive producer 
 
Much Apu About Nothing (5 May 1996) - executive producer 
 
Homerpalooza (19 May 1996) - executive producer 
 
Summer of 4 Ft. 2 (19 May 1996) - executive producer 
 
Treehouse of Horror VII (27 October 1996) - executive producer (as The Late Bill Oakley) 
 
You Only Move Twice (3 November 1996) - executive producer 
 
The Homer They Fall (9 November 1996) - executive producer 
 
Burns, Baby Burns (17 November 1996) - executive producer 
 
Bart After Dark (24 November 1996) - executive producer 
 
A Milhouse Divided (1 December 1996) - executive producer 
 
Lisa's Date with Density (15 December 1996) - executive producer 
 
Hurricane Neddy (29 December 1996) - executive producer 
 
El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer (5 January 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Springfield Files (12 January 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Twisted World of Marge Simpson (19 January 1997) - executive producer 
 
Mountain of Madness (2 February 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show (7 February 1997) - executive producer 
 
Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-Annoyed-Grunt-cious (7 February 1997) - executive producer 
 
Homer's Phobia (16 February 1997) - executive producer 
 
Brother from Another Series (23 February 1997) - executive producer 
 
My Sister, My Sitter (2 March 1997) - executive producer 
 
Homer vs. the 18th Amendment (16 March 1997) - executive producer 
 
Grade School Confidential (6 April 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Canine Mutiny (13 April 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Old Man and the Lisa (20 April 1997) - executive producer 
 
In Marge We Trust (27 April 1997) - executive producer 
 
Homer's Enemy (4 May 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (11 May 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Secret War of Lisa Simpson (18 May 1997) - executive producer 
 
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson (21 September 1997) - executive producer 
 
The Principal and the Pauper (28 September 1997) - executive producer 
 
Treehouse of Horror VIII (26 October 1997) - consulting producer (as The Late Bill Oakley) 
 
The Cartridge Family (2 November 1997) - consulting producer 
 
Bart Star (9 November 1997) - consulting producer 
 
The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons (16 November 1997) - consulting producer 
 
Lisa the Skeptic (23 November 1997) - consulting producer 
 
Realty Bites (7 December 1997) - consulting producer 
 
Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (21 December 1997) - consulting producer 
 
All Singing, All Dancing (4 January 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Bart Carny (11 January 1998) - consulting producer 
 
The Joy of Sect (8 February 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Das Bus (15 February 1998) - consulting producer 
 
The Last Temptation of Krust (22 February 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Dumbbell Indemnity (1 March 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Lisa the Simpson (8 March 1998) - executive producer 
 
This Little Wiggy (22 March 1998) - consulting producer 
 
The Trouble with Trillions (5 April 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Girly Edition (19 April 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Trash of the Titans (26 April 1998) - consulting producer 
 
King of the Hill (3 May 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Lost Our Lisa (10 May 1998) - consulting producer 
 
Natural Born Kissers (17 May 1998) - consulting producer 
 
The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace (20 September 1998) - consulting producer
 
  
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== See also ==
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*{{Showrun}}
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*{{Written by}}
  
{{Realworld}}
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== External links ==
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*{{IMDb|name/nm0643009/}}
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*{{Wikipedialink}}
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*{{twitterpage|thatbilloakley}}
  
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{{Showrunners}}
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{{Writers|former=yes}}
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{{Executive producers|former=yes}}
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{{Consulting producers|former=yes}}
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{{Supervising producers|former=yes}}
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{{Story editors|episodes=yes}}
 
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[[Category:Cast and crew]]
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[[Category:Primetime Emmy Award winning crew]]
[[Category:Executive producers]]
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[[Category:Songs in the Key of Springfield crew]]
[[Category:Writers]]
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[[Category:Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons crew]]
[[Category:Producers]]
 
[[Category:Consulting producers]]
 
[[Category:Showrunners]]
 
[[Category:Outstanding Animated Program Emmy winning crew]]
 

Latest revision as of 19:39, March 28, 2024

This article is about the crew member. For the character, see Bill Oakley (character).
Bill Oakley
BillOakley.jpg
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Writer
Story editor
Producer
Showrunner
Birth date: February 27, 1966 (1966-02-27) (age 58)
Status:
Inactive
Number of episodes: 144
Seasons active: Seasons 3 - 10
First episode: "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
Most recent episode: "When You Dish Upon a Star"
First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield
Latest album: Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons


Bill Oakley (born February 27, 1966) is an American television writer and producer. He served as a writer, story editor, supervising producer, executive producer, showrunner, and consulting producer for The Simpsons. He is married to Rachel Pulido.

Awards[edit]

Award Year Episode Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1995[1] "Lisa's Wedding" Won
1996[2] "Treehouse of Horror VI" Nominated
1997[3] "Homer's Phobia" Won
1998[4] "Trash of the Titans"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics 1996[5] "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
for "Señor Burns"
Nominated

Credits[edit]

Written by[edit]

Story editor[edit]

Supervising producer[edit]

Executive producer[edit]

Consulting producer[edit]

For The Simpsons[edit]

References[edit]


See also[edit]

External links[edit]