The younger son of director/producer Mark Sandrich, Jay Sandrich has made his career in television for most part, rather than feature films. Following early experience in various production capacities on sitcoms such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Sandrich became a director in the late '60s and distinguished himself in the critically acclaimed but short-lived series He and She. He later won multiple Emmy Awards as a director on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and, subsequently, on The Cosby Show. He has also done work in a more serious vein, including installments of the dramatic series Insight.