Peter S. Fischer
Peter S. Fischer was an American television writer and television producer. He was the co creator of Murder, She Wrote.
Works
Dead Man's Island
Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, called Henrie O., is a world-famous journalist and writer. She's invited by her old lover Chase Prescott to his secluded island home. Chase, a wealthy businessman with money woes, hopes Henrie O. can discover the person he thinks is trying to kill him. It seems like she has her work cut out for her. Possible suspects include Chase's much younger wife, his son, and many others.
Release Date: 1996-03-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3
Cops n Roberts
Release Date: 1995-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder
Prospective series pilot about a maverick, motorcycling insurance investigator who uses unorthodox methods to smoke out the truth behind every claim that crosses his desk, and here looks into a life insurance claim when the wife of a second-rate race car driver appears to have died in an accident.
Release Date: 1992-07-31
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Stranger at My Door
A cop on the run from his mob boss "in-laws" tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his two children. But things are not that easy.
Release Date: 1991-09-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Tagget
A disabled Vietnam veteran investigates an attempt on his life.
Release Date: 1991-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
The Law & Harry McGraw
The Law & Harry McGraw is an American mystery crime drama television series created by Peter S. Fischer and a spin-off of Murder, She Wrote. The series stars Jerry Orbach as a Harry McGraw, a loudmouthed, uncouth, old school private detective who continually finds himself solving mysteries on behalf of the prim and proper attorney Ellie Maginnis who has an office across the hall.
Release Date: 1987-09-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Murder, She Wrote
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Release Date: 1984-09-30
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 264
Vote Count: 388
Darkroom
Darkroom is an American television thriller series which ABC transmitted from November 27, 1981 to January 15, 1982. It was an anthology horror/thriller series, similar in style to Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Each 60-minute episode featured two or more stories of varying length with a new story and a new cast, but each of the episode wraparound segments was hosted by James Coburn. Among the performers who appeared on the series were Steve Allen, Esther Rolle, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, David Carradine, Billy Crystal, and June Lockhart.
Release Date: 1981-11-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 8
Hellinger's Law
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
Release Date: 1981-03-10
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1
Donovan's Kid
Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering uncle, Timothy Donovan teams up with a fellow con-man to free them.
Release Date: 1979-01-07
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
The Eddie Capra Mysteries is an American mystery television series starring Vincent Baggetta that aired on NBC from September 8, 1978, to January 12, 1979. The series centers on a lawyer who investigates murders and has a knack for solving them.
Release Date: 1978-09-08
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Black Beauty
Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
Release Date: 1978-01-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 10
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.
Release Date: 1978-01-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Release Date: 1977-06-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Once an Eagle
Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S. Fischer and based on the 1968 Anton Myrer novel of the same name. The first and last installments of the seven-part series were each two-hour broadcasts, while the interim episodes were 60 minutes. The mini-series concerns the thirty year careers of two military men, from the outbreak of World War I to the aftermath of World War II.
Release Date: 1976-12-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 4
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
Release Date: 1975-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 39
A Cry for Help
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
Release Date: 1975-02-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
Baretta
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
Release Date: 1975-01-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 36
Kojak
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Release Date: 1973-10-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 119
The Last Child
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
Release Date: 1971-10-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
McMillan & Wife
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.
Release Date: 1971-09-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 22
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Release Date: 1971-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 711