TV writer and producer (L.A. Law, Cagney & Lacey) Terry Louise Fisher, 79, died on June 10. Fisher started her own career in L.A. law, graduating from UCLA School of Law and later working for the L.A. district attorney, and as an entertainment lawyer (while moonlighting as a novelist). By the ’80s, Fisher was writing for TV (Your Place or Mine, The Mississippi, Cutter to Houston); her breakthrough came writing eight episodes of Cagney & Lacey (she also penned two C&L TV-movies). She created and wrote John Ritter’s short-lived sitcom Hooperman, and in 1987 she and Steven Bochco co-produced L.A. Law, for which Fisher also wrote many episodes. She left that show after a nasty fight with Bochco over production duties, and was banned from the set. Fisher later wrote Blue Bayou, Bar Girls, and 2000 Malibu Road, though she left the industry around the turn of the century.
