Writing

Peter S. Fischer

Born — Died

1935-10-08 — 2023-11-30

Place of birth

U.S.A.

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

Peter Steven Fischer (August 10, 1935 – October 30, 2023) was an American television writer, producer, and novelist. He was best known for the series Murder, She Wrote, which he co-created with Richard Levinson and William Link. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter S. Fischer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

A Cry for Help poster
7.4

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.

A Cry for Help

1975

Dead Man's Island poster
5.1

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.

Dead Man's Island

1996

Stranger at My Door poster
6.6

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.

Stranger at My Door

1991

The Last Child poster
7.3

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.

The Last Child

1971

Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder poster
8.0

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.

Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder

1992

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging poster
7.5

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.

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

1977

Behind the camera

A Cry for Help poster
7.4

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.

A Cry for Help

1975

Dead Man's Island poster
5.1

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.

Dead Man's Island

1996

Stranger at My Door poster
6.6

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.

Stranger at My Door

1991

The Last Child poster
7.3

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.

The Last Child

1971

Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder poster
8.0

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.

Coopersmith: Sweet Scent of Murder

1992

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging poster
7.5

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.

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

1977

Cops n Roberts poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cops n Roberts

1995

The Case of the Baltimore Girls poster
NR

Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

1978