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As part of producing the series, Peter S. Fischer developed characters and scenarios within the 'Murder, She Wrote' format storyline, with the premise for specific "characters" leading off into another network weekly series. In 1989, two shows, La signora in giallo: The Grand Old Lady (1989) (aired October 8, 1989) and La signora in giallo: Jack and Bill (1989) (aired October 29, 1989) were potential film series pilots, with Lansbury introducing each of the show's narrative. The two pilots were filmed at the end of the fifth season, June, 1989, after Angela and her husband, Peter Shaw, had departed for their summer break. Her filming for each of the new show's preliminary introductions and last line wrap-up, were filmed at the start of the new 1989-90 season, filming the intros in September 1989. The "Grand Old Lady" was filmed aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, with a 1947 era mystery-murder scenario. The leading investigator and his sidekick intended as the basis for another mystery show spin-off, establishing a 1947-50 period environment. The contemporary "Jack and Bill" pilot involved two detectives with a bright pink standard poodle, aiding in sniffing out the criminals. Neither pilot was picked up by CBS, but the two shows were offered, independently, to both ABC, and then NBC, after CBS answered "no thanks". What was unusual with Lansbury's contract with CBS, Angela's "Corymore Production" company had an option for a "movie of the week", which could be filmed during her yearly summer hiatus. She could pick her property, cast and crew the project, producing the movie of the week, each year the series had been contracted. Angela and Peter Shaw's "Corymore Productions" never exercised the movie of the week deal option. When CBS and Les Moonves axed the Universal-MCA MSW series, the four Murder, She Wrote movies of the week were offered as a contractual settlement, along with the 1996 Jerry Herman musical, "Mrs. Santa Claus" (a Christmas Special Movie of the Week). Fischer left Murder, She Wrote in 1992.

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