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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 8
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 7.5Bite the Big Apple
1991-09-15 · 45mJessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 7.8Night Fears
1991-09-22 · 45mFormer policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.2Unauthorized Obituary
1991-09-29 · 45mAfter Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.5Thicker Than Water
1991-10-06 · 45mWhen his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 7.8Lines of Excellence
1991-11-03 · 45mTeaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 8.0Judge Not
1991-11-10 · 45mThe death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.8Terminal Connection
1991-11-17 · 45mEvidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 6.8A Killing in Vegas
1991-11-24 · 45mJessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 8.2The Committee
1991-12-01 · 45mThe governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.0The List of Yuri Lermentov
1991-12-15 · 45mChance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.2Danse Diabolique
1992-01-05 · 45mWhen a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 7.5The Witch's Curse
1992-01-12 · 45mThe thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 4.5Incident in Lot 7
1992-01-19 · 45mThe Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.5The Monte Carlo Murders
1992-02-02 · 45mJessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 7.8Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
1992-03-01 · 45mNo one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
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Episode 16
★ 6.2Ever After
1992-03-08 · 45mA real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 6.7To the Last Will I Grapple with Thee
1992-03-15 · 45mAll of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 2.8Programmed for Murder
1992-04-05 · 45mThere is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 7.2Day of the Dead
1992-04-26 · 45mThe theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
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Episode 20
★ 4.0Angel of Death
1992-05-03 · 45mWhile Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 6.5Badge of Honor
1992-05-10 · 45mJessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
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E22
Episode 22
★ 2.8Murder on Madison Avenue
1992-05-17 · 45mJessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.
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Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher