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Murder, She Wrote

7.5/10 481 votes
MysteryCrimeDrama

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

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Seasons

12 available

Season 5

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Episode 1

★ 6.7

J.B. as in Jailbird

1988-10-23 · 45m

When 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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Episode 2

★ 7.2

A Little Night Work

1988-10-30 · 45m

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

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Episode 3

★ 7.7

Mr. Penroy's Vacation

1988-11-06 · 45m

The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

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Episode 4

★ 7.0

Snow White, Blood Red

1988-11-13 · 45m

A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.

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Episode 5

★ 4.7

Coal Miner's Slaughter

1988-11-20 · 45m

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

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Episode 6

★ 7.0

Wearing of the Green

1988-11-27 · 45m

A 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

★ 7.5

The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

1988-12-18 · 45m

The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

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Episode 8

★ 7.0

Prediction: Murder

1989-01-01 · 45m

A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

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Episode 9

★ 9.0

Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

1989-01-08 · 45m

Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

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Episode 10

★ 8.0

Weave a Tangled Web

1989-01-15 · 45m

Things 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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Episode 11

★ 8.0

The Search for Peter Kerry

1989-02-05 · 45m

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

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Episode 12

★ 7.5

Smooth Operators

1989-02-12 · 45m

When 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

★ 7.0

Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

1989-02-19 · 45m

A 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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Episode 14

★ 7.0

From Russia ... With Blood

1989-02-26 · 45m

A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.

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Episode 15

★ 8.0

Alma Murder

1989-03-12 · 45m

An 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

★ 7.0

Truck Stop

1989-04-02 · 45m

Walter 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

★ 4.8

The Sins of Castle Cove

1989-04-09 · 45m

A 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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Episode 18

★ 3.3

Trevor Hudson's Legacy

1989-04-16 · 45m

A 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

★ 7.0

Double Exposure

1989-04-30 · 45m

In 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

★ 7.0

Three Strikes, You're Out

1989-05-07 · 45m

A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.

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Episode 21

★ 9.0

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)

1989-05-14 · 45m

Eudora 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

★ 3.3

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

1989-05-21 · 45m

After 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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Cast

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Jessica Fletcher

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