Albert Fisher is a television executive with creative credits from all
major networks, top syndicators, cable networks, as well as station
groups. He is in development and production on numerous projects
including a new PBS Food series, a revival of "The Original Amateur
Hour" and the new science series "Savage Yard" which has been awarded a
grant from The National Science Foundation and is being produced in
cooperation with The National Association For The Advancement Of
Science.
For over ten years, as CEO of Fisher/Merlis Television, Inc. he won
numerous awards including the coveted national Emmy. Fisher currently
has multiple broadcast and cablecast series and specials seen
world-wide. His highly acclaimed multi-disc documentary on the classic
radio and television series: "The Original Amateur Hour" is in current
release and can be seen as a "special" on PBS, with elements on his
tribute website. DVDs with acclaimed
mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, and another devoted to his early
association with Elvis Presley is also in current
release. Recent television programs include: "Cassini: Rendezvous With
The Ringed Planet" and "Mars Rocks" which air on both the Discovery
Channel and The Science Channel, "Secrets of San Simeon with Patricia
Hearst" and "The Ultimate Thrill" for Discovery's Travel Channel, "Flea
Market Finds with The Kovels" for Home and Garden Television, "The Zen
Of Organizing" for Fine Living, "The Harlem Hellfighters" for The
History Channel, "The Real Me" series and specials for The American
Life Network and many others. His former company, Fisher/Merlis
Television created and produced hundreds of programs and specials for
Scripps HGTV including "Willard Scott's Home and Garden Almanac,"
"Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home," "The Urban Gardener with Meshach
Taylor" and "Ask Kitty." He also produced the Emmy winning nationally
syndicated series: "Better Homes and Gardens Television."
Fisher has created a varied slate of hour-long "specials" for various
networks. He is also responsible for numerous home videos and DVD's
which are being marketed world-wide as the "official" presentations for
such prestigious destinations as The Hearst Castle at San Simeon, The
Huntington Gardens and Library in Pasadena, The Piedras Blancas
Lighthouse on the California coast and Loretta Lynn's Plantation Home
and Museum in Tennessee.
Albert Fisher started his career handling TV and Movies for the World's
Fairs in Seattle and New York and was media consultant to the Montreal
Expo. He has served as a Producer for the NBC-TV Network series: "I
Witness Video" and the Fox Television Network news magazine series:
"Front Page" and has functioned in various senior programming and
management positions with broadcasters world-wide including WOR-TV, New
York City; WTOP-TV, Washington, DC; WKYC-TV, Cleveland; WMAQ-TV,
Chicago; and WWL-TV, New Orleans, where he was one of the first
broadcasters to create the magazine-format concept.
His talent as a Producer/Director/Writer associated with films,
television and multi-media events has garnered many international
awards including film festivals in Cannes, New York, London, Chicago,
Barcelona, Lucarno and Edinburgh. Fisher has also received awards
from The American Bar Association, The International Film and
Television Festival and the coveted Columbia School of Journalism's
Alfred I. DuPont Award for the documentary: "Whispering Hope: Unmasking
The Mystery Of Alzheimers."
As an Executive Producer with NBC, Albert Fisher created, produced and
directed numerous award-winning magazine shows, documentaries and
public-affairs programs and specials. In this capacity, and his current
role as a hands-on executive producer, he has spent time as an
undercover inmate in The Ohio State Penitentiary, has flown in
supersonic fighter aircraft, sailed international "Tall Ships," lived
on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in a NASA underwater habitat and
recently became one of the few people to ever film and explore the
remote Arctic Circle island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland.
Fisher is a member of The Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and
Directors; The National Association for Television Program Executives;
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; The Directors
Guild of America; ASCAP and The producers Guild.
