Screenplay: Peter S. Fischer

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Peter S. Fischer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Columbo: A Friend in Deed (TV)

1974 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · Richard Kiley · Rosemary Murphy · Michael McGuire

Synopsis A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.

6.9

273 votes

6.9

273 votes

Direction Harvey Hart

Cast Peter Falk · George Hamilton · Lesley Ann Warren · Stephen Elliott

Synopsis A psychiatrist, who specializes in hypnosis, murders the husband of his mistress and convinces her to lie to the police; it's up to Lt. Columbo to discover the truth.

6.6

278 votes

6.6

278 votes

Direction Vincent McEveety

Cast Peter Falk · Helen Shaver · Ian McShane · Edward Winter

Synopsis A woman who blames Lt. Columbo for the loss of her husband sets out to get back at him. But before she goes after him, she first goes after the man who informed on her husband and by showing the...

6.6

253 votes

6.6

253 votes

Columbo: Negative Reaction (TV)

1974 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Alf Kjellin

Cast Peter Falk · Dick Van Dyke · Don Gordon · Larry Storch

Synopsis A photographer murders his wife and blames her death on a bungled kidnapping. But Lt. Columbo has an even sharper eye than the Pulitzer Prize winner.

6.5

298 votes

6.5

298 votes

Columbo: Publish or Perish (TV)

1974 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Peter Falk · Jack Cassidy · Mickey Spillane · Mariette Hartley

Synopsis A publisher hires a bomb enthusiast to murder a bestselling author of sex novels. Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6.4

257 votes

6.4

257 votes

Direction Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Peter Falk · Robert Conrad · Gretchen Corbett · Pat Harrington Jr.

Synopsis A health club owner murders one of his franchisees; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

6.3

263 votes

6.3

263 votes

6.1

162 votes

Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Peter S. Fischer · Richard Levinson · William Link · Anthony Pullen Shaw

Cast Angela Lansbury · William Windom · Ron Masak · Louis Herthum

Synopsis TV Series (1984-1996). 12 Seasons. 264 Episodes. Former substitute English teacher and famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. You see, it seems murder follows her around, whether it be to the houses of her seemingly...

6.0

11K votes

6.0

11K votes

Direction Robert Douglas

Cast Peter Falk · Joyce Van Patten · Jeannie Berlin · Tim O'Connor

Synopsis The Lytton family owns a museum. Ruth and Edward have devoted their life to the museum but things are not going well. So Edward has decided to sell it. Ruth doesn't agree and plans otherwise. She has a niece, Janie,...

6.0

250 votes

6.0

250 votes

Direction Anthony Pullen Shaw

Cast Angela Lansbury · Mel Harris · Ray Baker · Cliff Bemis

Synopsis TV movie continuing the adventures of Mystery book writer Jessica Fletcher from "Murder, She Wrote". Jessica is on a train headed for El Paso where she is to lecture at a conference. She shares a table in the dining car...

5.4

130 votes

5.4

130 votes

Direction Anthony Pullen Shaw

Cast Angela Lansbury · Richard Crenna · Robert Mailhouse · Kathryn Morris

Synopsis In this feature-length follow-up to the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, homespun mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) leaves her Cabot Cove residence to attend a big-city writer's conference. As generally happens wherever Jessica shows up, a murder takes...

5.3

112 votes

5.3

112 votes

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Direction Allen Reisner · Seymour Robbie · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Jackie Cooper

Cast Jerry Orbach · Barbara Babcock · Juliana Donald · Shea Farrel

Synopsis Harry MacGraw is a private investigator who appeared three times in the television series, Murder, She Wrote. He now stars in his own series, wherein he is still a private investigator in Boston. Who always seems to lose all of...

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Direction Corey Allen

Cast Angela Lansbury · Eddie Barth · Jessica Browne · Bert Convy

Synopsis Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel. But when an unwanted guest is murdered by gunfire at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.

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The Last Child (TV)

1971 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast Michael Cole · Van Heflin · Harry Guardino · Janet Margolin

Synopsis 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...

Not rated

Not rated

Blacke's Magic (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Allen Reisner · Michael A. Hoey · Alan Cooke · Walter Grauman

Cast Hal Linden · Harry Morgan · R.J. Adams · Stephen Elliott

Synopsis A magician and his con-man father solve mysteries using a combination of sleight of hand and con games.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Jerry McNeely · David Victor · Harry Falk · Lou Antonio

Cast Arthur Hill · Joan Darling · Lee Majors · Christine Matchett

Synopsis TV Series (1971-1974). 3 Seasons. 70 Episodes. In a small California town, attorney Owen Marshall, assisted by several different younger lawyers, defends clients with great compassion for the accused.

Not rated

Not rated