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ix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Writer and producer Peter S. Fischer (perhaps best known as the creator of the TV series "Murder, she wrote") recollects his career in television, rubbing elbows with Angela Lansbury, Peter Falk, Jerry Orbach, Glenn Ford, Lorne Greene, Sam Elliott, Rock Hudson, Robert Urich, Hal Linden, Robert Young, Telly Savalas, Roger Moore, Robert Culp, William Devane, Robert Blake, and others. |
| Contents |
If you are a writer, then write -- Please, call me Angie -- Well, it just doesn't happen that way -- A whole lot of nothing going on -- Good griff! (Not really) -- Don't let the scruffy raincoat fool you -- Writers of the world, unite! -- The prisoner in the black tower -- The boys from Philadelphia -- Cult successes don't pay the bills -- And then there was Robert Culp -- There are no palm trees in Hawaii -- From one horse opera to another -- Funny, he doesn't look Irish -- Anyone for a really bad idea? -- You can't scare people like that -- Two for the trash bin -- The good die young- so do good scripts -- Time is not our friend -- Season one: getting to know you -- Abracadabra! We make a show disappear -- Playing the game- I wish I'd learned -- The script that wouldn't die -- Not so wild about Harry -- Losses -- Can this be the end of Jessica? -- What about those other nine hours? -- Divided loyalties -- To leave or not to leave -- Four weeks in a Texas town -- When Moore is less -- Peter comes calling, again -- Fade out -- A guy named Joe. |
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Fischer, Peter S.
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Television writers -- United States -- Biography.
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Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Murder, she wrote (Television program)
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Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022 -- Anecdotes.
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Actors -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
9780988657137 paperback |
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0988657139 paperback |
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