Question: The actress that played Lucy Bates on the tv series "Hill Street Blues" directed what 1992 comedy starring Helen Hunt?

Context articles: Hill Street Blues
Dete Meserve
St. Elsewhere
Betty Thomas
Only You (1992 film)
Hill Street Station
Rebecca Forstadt
Jeff Lewis (writer)
James Sikking
List of Hill Street Blues episodes

Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for a total of 146 episodes.
 The show chronicled the lives of the staff of a single police station located on the fictional Hill Street, in an unnamed large city, with "blues" being a slang term for police officers for their blue uniforms.
 The show received critical acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States and Canada.
 Its debut season was rewarded with eight Emmy Awards, a debut season record surpassed only by "The West Wing."
 The show received a total of 98 Emmy nominations during its run.
Dete Meserve is an award-winning and bestselling author as well as film and television executive and a principal of Wind Dancer Films.
 Wind Dancer Films is best known as the creators and producers of Home Improvement starring Tim Allen, What Women Want starring Helen Hunt and Mel Gibson, Where The Heart Is starring Natalie Portman.
 Meserve's credits include producing Bernie starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, executive producer of Walker Payne starring Sam Shepard and Jason Patric, executive producer of the TV series Wildest Africa for Discovery International, executive producer of As Cool As I Am, starring Claire Danes and James Marsden.
 In 2014, she was an executive producer of the George Lopez sitcom, "Saint George," and producer of the thriller, The Keeping Room starring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling.
 She is currently an Executive Producer of the hit kids television series Ready Jet Go on PBSKids.
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama black comedy television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988.
 The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, underrated Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
 The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama "Hill Street Blues", during that same time; both series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for "St. Elsewhere" quoted a critic that called the series "'Hill Street Blues' in a hospital").
 "St. Elsewhere" was filmed at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show began; coincidentally, 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the series when it bought MTM Enterprises in the 1990s.
Betty Thomas (born July 27, 1947) is an American actress and a director of television and motion pictures.
 She is known for her Emmy-award winning role as Lucy Bates on the television series "Hill Street Blues".
Only You is a 1992 harem comedy film starring Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston and Helen Hunt and was directed by Betty Thomas, in her film directing debut.
"Hill Street Station" is the first episode of the first season of the American serial police drama "Hill Street Blues".
 "Hill Street Station" originally aired in the United States on NBC on Thursday January 15, 1981 at 10:00 PM Eastern time as part of a two-week five-episode limited-run pilot airing on Thursdays and Saturdays.
 The episode won numerous Primetime Emmy Awards (Directing, Writing, Sound Editing, and Cinematography), a Directors Guild of America Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award as well as Emmy Award nominations for film editing, music composition, and art direction.
 The episode was directed by Robert Butler and written by Michael Kozoll and Steven Bochco.
Rebecca Lynn Forstadt (born December 16, 1953), also known as Reba West, is an American voice actress, best known for playing young female roles in various animated series.
 After studying theater at Orange Coast College, in Costa Mesa, California, Forstadt began her acting career by working at Knott's Berry Farm's Bird Cage Theater, performing melodramas, often as the damsel in distress character.
 Later, she went to Hollywood where she worked as a wardrobe mistress on such television shows as "The White Shadow" and "Hill Street Blues", as well as for the film "S.O.B.".
 She also spent several years doing live theater in the Los Angeles area.
 Most notably, she won some recognition for her portrayal of the character Josette in the world premiere of Eugène Ionesco's "Tales for People Under 3 Years of Age" at the Stages Theatre Center in 1982.
 She starred in several low-budget movies such as "Mugsy's Girls", with Ruth Gordon and Laura Branigan, and "Round Numbers" with Kate Mulgrew, Samantha Eggar, and Shani Wallis.
 She also appeared as a television actress in "Hill Street Blues", "St. Elsewhere", and "L.A. Law".
 Her voice acting breakthrough came when she landed the leading role of Lynn Minmei in the English version of "Robotech", the popular anime series of the 1980s.
 Since then, she has voiced hundreds of other anime characters like Nunnally Lamperouge in "Code Geass" and Tima from "Metropolis" and has branched into non-anime cartoons, live-action shows (such as "Masked Rider" and ""), commercials and radio work, and has performed background voices for movies such as "Antz", "Dr. Dolittle", and "The Santa Clause".
Jeffrey "Jeff" Lewis is an American screenwriter, best known for his work with "Hill Street Blues".
 He earned 8 Emmy Award nominations as a writer and one win as well as 8 Writers Guild of America Award nominations, including 1 win as a writer, all for "Hill Street Blues".
 He was a Yale University roommate with David Milch and recruited him to join "Hill Street Blues" staff.
James Barrie Sikking (born March 5, 1934), credited as James or James B. Sikking, is an American actor known for his role as Lt. Howard Hunter on the 1980s NBC TV series "Hill Street Blues".
 He also starred on the ABC TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D." as Dr. David Howser and on the short-lived 1997 CBS drama series "Brooklyn South" as Captain Stan Jonas.
 All three series were co-created by Steven Bochco.
 Sikking did the voice of General Gordon on the short-lived 1998 cartoon series "Invasion America".
"Hill Street Blues" is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for a total of 146 episodes.
 The show chronicled the lives of the staff of a single police station located on the fictional Hill Street, in an unnamed large city, with "blues" being a slang term for police officers for their blue uniforms.
 The show received critical acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States and Canada.
 Its debut season was rewarded with eight Emmy Awards, a debut season record surpassed only by "The West Wing."
 The show received a total of 98 Emmy nominations during its run.
 The series ran for 146 episodes over seven seasons.