Born in 1935, Peter S. Fischer was resident in a small Long Island town and was the editor and publisher of a small magazine about cars until 1970, when he successfully sold a script for a TV movie, "The Last Child". Rod Serling was shown the script and asked if he would like to make any revisions, but he declined, saying it didn't need rewriting. Fischer's success with this script led him to relocate to California and to take up TV writing full-time.