Murder, She Wrote

E01

Episode 1

★ 7.7

Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

1986-09-28 · 45m

Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 7.8

Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

1986-10-05 · 45m

Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 7.9

Unfinished Business

1986-10-12 · 45m

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 7.7

One White Rose for Death

1986-10-19 · 45m

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 7.2

Corned Beef and Carnage

1986-11-02 · 45m

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 7.5

Dead Man's Gold

1986-11-09 · 45m

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

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E07

Episode 7

★ 7.9

Deadline for Murder

1986-11-16 · 45m

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

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E08

Episode 8

★ 7.5

Magnum on Ice (II)

1986-11-23 · 45m

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

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E09

Episode 9

★ 7.6

Obituary for a Dead Anchor

1986-12-07 · 45m

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

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E10

Episode 10

★ 7.9

Stage Struck

1986-12-14 · 45m

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

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E11

Episode 11

★ 8.4

Night of the Headless Horseman

1987-01-04 · 45m

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

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E12

Episode 12

★ 8.1

The Corpse Flew First Class

1987-01-18 · 45m

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

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E13

Episode 13

★ 8.1

Crossed Up

1987-02-01 · 45m

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

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E14

Episode 14

★ 4.9

Murder in a Minor Key

1987-02-08 · 45m

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

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E15

Episode 15

★ 7.1

The Bottom Line Is Murder

1987-02-15 · 45m

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

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E16

Episode 16

★ 7.9

Death Takes a Dive

1987-02-22 · 45m

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

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E17

Episode 17

★ 8.0

Simon Says, Color Me Dead

1987-03-01 · 45m

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

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E18

Episode 18

★ 7.8

No Laughing Murder

1987-03-15 · 45m

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

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E19

Episode 19

★ 7.6

No Accounting for Murder

1987-03-22 · 45m

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

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E20

Episode 20

★ 7.8

The Cemetery Vote

1987-04-05 · 45m

First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

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E21

Episode 21

★ 8.6

The Days Dwindle Down

1987-04-19 · 45m

Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

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E22

Episode 22

★ 8.0

Murder, She Spoke

1987-05-10 · 45m

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

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