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Murder, She Wrote
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
- Created by:
- Richard Levinson, William Link, Peter S. Fischer
- Cast:
- Angela Lansbury
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- CBS
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 5
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 6.7J.B. as in Jailbird
1988-10-23 · 45mWhen Jessica is arrested for murder, secret agent Michael Haggerty and her nephew Grady conspire to keep her safely in jail while they seek the real killer.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 7.2A Little Night Work
1988-10-30 · 45mA senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.7Mr. Penroy's Vacation
1988-11-06 · 45mThe sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.0Snow White, Blood Red
1988-11-13 · 45mA blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 4.7Coal Miner's Slaughter
1988-11-20 · 45mThe coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 7.0Wearing of the Green
1988-11-27 · 45mA Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.
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Episode 7
★ 7.5The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
1988-12-18 · 45mThe airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.0Prediction: Murder
1989-01-01 · 45mA psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 9.0Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
1989-01-08 · 45mGrady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 8.0Weave a Tangled Web
1989-01-15 · 45mThings look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 8.0The Search for Peter Kerry
1989-02-05 · 45mA long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 7.5Smooth Operators
1989-02-12 · 45mWhen a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?
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Episode 13
★ 7.0Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
1989-02-19 · 45mA very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.0From Russia ... With Blood
1989-02-26 · 45mA purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 8.0Alma Murder
1989-03-12 · 45mAn old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
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Episode 16
★ 7.0Truck Stop
1989-04-02 · 45mWalter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.
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Episode 17
★ 4.8The Sins of Castle Cove
1989-04-09 · 45mA red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 3.3Trevor Hudson's Legacy
1989-04-16 · 45mA small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
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Episode 19
★ 7.0Double Exposure
1989-04-30 · 45mIn a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.
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Episode 20
★ 7.0Three Strikes, You're Out
1989-05-07 · 45mA surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
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Episode 21
★ 9.0Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
1989-05-14 · 45mEudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
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Episode 22
★ 3.3Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
1989-05-21 · 45mAfter Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.
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Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher