European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile she wrote an unexpected Success America loves Londo born Angela by Jerry Buck press lbs she wrote is helping kill off the notion that commercial television audiences Are too impatient or preoccupied to solve murder although thoughtful whodunit series such As mystery have thrived for years on Public the commercial networks generally have opted for open plots in which the audience knows the killer even before the opening the Only comes from How the hero will catch the Perry Mason was the last closed mystery to make it on television and it ran for eight said Peter executive producer and co creator with Richard Levinson and William link of she ill be Happy if we last that Perry Mason was the last successful whodunit on commercial but Many others have tried and including a revival of Perry Mason in 1973 and some shows Fischer worked the 197576 version of the adventures of Ellery Queen and the Eddie Capra the popular Columbo was not a closed the Only unknown there was in How Peter falks famed detective would trap the who was shown committing the crime at the beginning of the in she Angela Lansbury stars As Jessica a mystery writer who invariably is at the scene of a murder and proceeds to solve it before the baffled police it often seemed that every show had one of Jessica relatives entangled in a Fischer laughed and there were Only five relatives in 22 episodes last Why has she wrote succeeded when others failed i think there Are a lot of said one of them is that America loves Angela the sunday time Slot has a lot to do with we get a lot of our audience from 60 the people who watch 60 minutes Are the kind who watch they dont normally watch its a show about an older theres no no our research has shown that the audience has Learned to stay on to solve the they were intimidated at but they have Learned that All the clues Are in Plain Many of our audience sit around the living room and try to outguess each Fischer said every Story for she wrote starts with a premise rather than a for he weve always wanted to have Angela sing and after she was on the Broadway musical stage for Many we  figure out a Way to have Jessica suddenly sing and but we found a and in the opening show for the fall season Angela will also play her a British musical we wanted to put Jessica on jury the cliche would be that Jessica is the but we came up with four in another Angela teaches a class in theres a murder and a Jessica also goes to the Caribbean to an Island where wealthy widows Are being Fischer said it has been difficult finding writers who can master the mystery the first script i Ever wrote was science for the next six months i was labelled a science fiction writer until i sold a script to Marcus then i became a medical Fischer i did a script for Owen Counselor at and i became a Legal the difficulty in finding Good writers is that there is no other place on television for them to get writers Are used to writing action or buddy but we have trained a few to write Fischer is also at with Levinson and on another this one for Black in which Hal Linden plays a Semi retired magician who gets called in to solve baffling 20 stripes Magazine August