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name: "Michael Petryni"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-petryni"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T00:57:37.086633+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michael Petryni

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/184716

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Moonlighting*](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md) (82)

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## Biography

Michael Petryni is a writer for television series and films. He wrote an episode of the series *Moonlighting* in 1985.

His other credits include episodes of *Knots Landing* (1983), *Spenser: For Hire* (1986–1987) and the mini-series *Fresno* (1986). He also wrote several television movies, among them *Child in the Night* (1990), *Angel Flight Down* (1996) and *The Cowboy and the Movie Star* (1998). He worked as a story editor on *Knots Landing*.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Moonlighting* (1985), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Cowboy and the Movie Star* (1998), Writer
- *Angel Flight Down* (1996), Screenplay
- *If Someone Had Known* (1995), Teleplay
- *The Return of Eliot Ness* (1991), Writer
- *In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas* (1991), Teleplay
- *Child in the Night* (1990), Writer
- *Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders* (1989), Teleplay
- *Fresno* (1986), series, Writer
- *Moonlighting* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md)

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