In 1972 he moved to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, replacing Alan Sloane, where he became a staple on the station's Eyewitness News broadcasts.

[2] On March 22, 1943, Fischbeck enlisted in the United States Army Reserve as a private first class and was initially stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

[4] For more than twenty years Fischbeck worked as a member of the Los Angeles Police Department's Volunteer Surveillance Team.

At the end of Tom Waits' comic song "Emotional Weather Report" (from his 1975 album Nighthawks at the Diner), he quips, "Dr. George Fischbeck ain't got nothin' on me!

"[13] Mark Jonathan Davis recorded a parody of Mötley Crüe's "Dr. Feelgood" called "Dr. Fischbeck" about the weatherman.