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Murder, She Wrote
1984 - 1996 7.5 (395 votes) 12 Seasons
Genres
Mystery Crime Drama
Networks
CBS
Created By
Richard Levinson
William Link
Peter S. Fischer

Murder, She Wrote

She may be wrong. But frankly, we doubt it.

Overview

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Key Crew

Producer: Angela Lansbury, Robert F. O'Neill, Douglas Benton

Top Cast

Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury

Jessica Fletcher

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1984)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes
1984-09-30

Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel, but when an unwanted guest is murdered at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 2: Deadly Lady
1984-10-07

After a terrible storm, Stephen Earl's four daughters tell Sheriff Tupper that their father died while they were out on the boat. Jessica is only midly intrigued; she finds Ralph, the older gentleman who has offered to work for food, much more intriguing, especially since it is obvious he comes from money. The womens' stories about what happened on the boat change constantly, but once Ralph is found dead and later found to be Stephen Earl, Jessica has to help Amos wage through the inconsistencies in the four Earl daughters storylines to determine who killed their father and why.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Birds of a Feather
1984-10-14

Jessica heads to San Francisco for the wedding of her niece, Victoria Brandon, only to learn that Victoria is having second thoughts because she suspects that her fiancé, Howard, is having an affair. Although Jessica and Victoria are relieved to learn that Howard isn't cheating but rather dressing up as a woman to perform at a nightclub, the relief is short lived when Howard is arrested for murdering his boss, Al Drake, who had been refusing to pay him. The police are convinced that Drake was shot during Freddy York's act, which doesn't leave a lot of time, but Jessica is determined to prove Howard's innocence.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Hooray for Homicide
1984-10-28

Jessica's first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, is being made into a major Hollywood motion picture, backed by producer Jerry Lydecker. Jessica is furious to see how her book is being butchered by Lydecker and his crew. She heads out to Hollywood to confront Lydecker, but things take a turn when Lydecker is found dead on stage. Jessica ends up being the prime suspect in the murder, but luckily the officer in charge of the investigation believes she's too smart to be the killer and sets her up to find the real murderer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: It's a Dog's Life
1984-11-04

While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Lovers and Other Killers
1984-11-18

While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Hit, Run and Homicide
1984-11-25

Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one of his inventions.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: We're Off to Kill the Wizard
1984-12-09

Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Death Takes a Curtain Call
1984-12-16

While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Death Casts a Spell
1984-12-30

Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Capitol Offense
1985-01-06

Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and finds a great deal of political game-playing in Washington.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Broadway Malady
1985-01-13

Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Murder to a Jazz Beat
1985-02-03

While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
1985-02-10

Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Paint Me a Murder
1985-02-17

The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Tough Guys Don't Die
1985-02-24

Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for the death of a private detective. One dates back 25 years.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Sudden Death
1985-03-03

Jessica suddenly must learn all about football when she inherits an interest in a professional team.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Footnote to Murder
1985-03-10

An unpublished manuscript is stolen and its author murdered during an awards convention.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Murder Takes the Bus
1985-03-17

Bus trips are not always as relaxing as they should be. In this case, one passenger had a one-way ticket.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Armed Response
1985-03-31

Over Jessica's protests, she is taken to a hospital after a minor accident in the airport.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Murder at the Oasis
1985-04-07

An unpopular show-business personality discovers that elaborate security systems are no guarantee of safety.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Funeral at Fifty-Mile
1985-04-21

A Wyoming rancher leaves all to an ill-fated stranger, to the disgust of his disinherited daughter.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1985)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Widow, Weep for Me
1985-09-29

Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly
1985-10-06

Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that had been buried deeply that many of the townspeople believe to be the remains of Joshua Peabody. Not everyone is thus inclined though, and many people believe it's just a random dead body. But when Jessica and Amos head back to the dig site, they find there's another body there! Jessica not only has to find out who killed Wheatley, she has to help an old friend when his past comes back to haunt him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Murder in the Afternoon
1985-10-13

While filming a soap opera in which Mrs. Fletcher's niece plays a part, a 'pretend' victim is really dead.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: School for Scandal
1985-10-20

When Jessica is offered an honorary degree from Crenshaw University, she has no idea she's about to become embroiled in a murder. After the boyfriend of (in)famous writer Daphne Clover is found murdered, Jessica agrees to assist the chief of police, who has never had a murder case before, find out who the killer is. She soon has more on her plate than she bargained for when first Daphne's mother confesses, then Daphne herself confesses. Jessica realises the two women are simply trying to protect each other, and begins to look at the faculty at the university.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Sing a Song of Murder
1985-10-27

When cousin Emma's life is threatened, she plays dead and Jessica is summoned to London as the heir to the estate.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Reflections of the Mind
1985-11-03

Jessica decides to pay a visit to her long-time friend Francesca, only to learn that Francesca, who is now married to a much younger man, is convinced that she is being haunted by the ghost of her first husband, Ross. When her new husband, Scott, turns up dead, the investigation reveals that he had been poisoned, and suspicion turns to Francesca. Jessica, however, is determined to prove that her friend did not commit the crime, and begins looking into the mysterious re-appearances of her dead husband.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: A Lady in the Lake
1985-11-10

While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Dead Heat
1985-11-24

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse. Then the horse's owner is murdered after a dispute.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Jessica Behind Bars
1985-12-01

Doing public service, Jessica becomes a hostage in a prison riot caused by anger in the handling of the doctor's murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Sticks and Stones
1985-12-15

When a woman is electrocuted in her bathroom, Amos chuckles that even Jessica can't make a murder out of it. Michael Dugby: Parker Stevenson. Harry Pierce: John Astin. Frederich Hoffman: Paul Benedict. Adam Frobisher: Christopher Stone. Edna: Evelyn Keyes.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Murder Digs Deep
1985-12-29

An archaeological dig at the site of Coronado's City of Gold does not please everyone and a new corpse is dug up.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Murder by Appointment Only
1986-01-05

One of Jessica's former students is murdered and she takes a personal interest in the investigation.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Trial by Error
1986-01-12

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Keep the Home Fries Burning
1986-01-19

Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, and murder interrupts their meal.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Powder Keg
1986-02-09

After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield find themselves in a small southern town just in time for local bad boy Ed Bonner to be found dead, and young Matt Burns, the son of a former student of Ames', ends up accused of the murder. At the behest of Linda Bonner, the victim's sister who happens to care deeply about the accused, Jessica takes a look into the murder, but hatred runs deep in this town and it's pure luck (and Andy Crane) that leads Jessica and Ames to the right answer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Murder in the Electric Cathedral
1986-02-16

Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: One Good Bid Deserves a Murder
1986-02-23

A red hot diary of a sex symbol is to be auctioned and some of the bidders are ready to shed blood.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: If A Body Meet A Body
1986-03-09

Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Christopher Bundy -- Died On Sunday
1986-03-30

Jessica and Grady head to the home of publisher Christopher Bundy, whose publishing company owns the rights to Jessica's first short story. Jessica is quite upset, as Bundy's magazine is known for it's racy pictures of young women. While there, Jessica is pleased to run into an old acquaintance, Chester Harrison, and when Harrison is accused of murdering Christopher Bundy, Jessica vows to prove his innocence but runs into trouble when the family isn't interested in having their own skeletons dragged out of the closet.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Menace, Anyone?
1986-04-06

Who was the intended victim when a tennis star is blown up in his girl friend's car?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: The Perfect Foil
1986-04-13

At the request of aunt Mildred, Jessica agrees to stop by New Orleans to check on cousin Cal while on her way to Houston. No sooner does Jessica get to New Orleans then she is tossed into a Mardi Gras party where the host ends up dead, and Cal is accused of the crime. While attempting to clear Cal's name and reputation, Jessica delves into the world of cheating poker players, cheating girlfriends and vengefilled police officers while trying to convince a local lieutenant that Cal is not capable of murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: If the Frame Fits
1986-05-18

After Julia Marcus Granger is found murdered during what seems to have been an apparent art theft, suspicion turns to her husband Donald, who, as a result, also ends up being suspected in a recent rash of art thefts where there were no fatalities. Julia's sister Sabrina is convinced that Donald didn't do it and begs Jessica for help. While looking into Julia's murder, Jessica realises that she has two completely different criminals on her hands, and someone tampered with the scene of Julia's murder to make it look like something else.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1986)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
1986-09-28

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
1986-10-05

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Unfinished Business
1986-10-12

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: One White Rose for Death
1986-10-19

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Corned Beef And Carnage
1986-11-02

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Dead Man's Gold
1986-11-09

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Deadline for Murder
1986-11-16

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Magnum on Ice (II)
1986-11-23

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).

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Obituary for a Dead Anchor
1986-12-07

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Stage Struck
1986-12-14

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Night of the Headless Horseman
1987-01-04

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: The Corpse Flew First Class
1987-01-18

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Crossed Up
1987-02-01

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Murder in a Minor Key
1987-02-08

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: The Bottom Line Is Murder
1987-02-15

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Death Takes a Dive
1987-02-22

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Simon Says, Color Me Dead
1987-03-01

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: No Laughing Murder
1987-03-15

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: No Accounting for Murder
1987-03-22

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: The Cemetery Vote
1987-04-05

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: The Days Dwindle Down
1987-04-19

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Murder, She Spoke
1987-05-10

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

Runtime: 45 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1987)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Fashionable Way to Die
1987-09-20

Ooh la la! Jessica travels to gay Paris to spend some time with an old friend... and finds herself entangled in a case involving fashion, finance and murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: When Thieves Fall Out
1987-09-27

A walk down memory lane is anything but pleasant for Jessica when she re-examines a 20 year-old case involving her close friends and former students.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Witness for the Defense
1987-10-04

Jessica goes to Quebec to testify at the trial of a friend who is accused of killing his wife and burning his house.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Old Habits Die Hard
1987-10-11

A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Way To Dusty Death
1987-10-25

After the 'accidental' death of a tycoon, his associates battle for position to succeed him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: It Runs In The Family
1987-11-01

Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly
1987-11-08

When Deputy Martin becomes a widower by murder, the investigation turns up some surprising activity.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Steal Me a Story
1987-11-15

The special effects used by a TV producer are a real bomb.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Trouble in Eden
1987-11-22

Hostility and other surprises await Jessica in a town where she's posing as her friend to investigate the rumoured murder of the friend's sister.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Indian Giver
1987-11-29

A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Doom with a View
1987-12-13

Grady gets into a spot again when he is found with the body of woman known from college days and now had been dating a frat brother who was married.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?
1988-01-03

Somebody laced Mrs. Fletcher's chowder and Amos' brutish brother-in-law was in for the long sleep.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Harbinger of Death
1988-01-24

Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming of seeing a long-lost comet, but when Carrie's ex-boyfriend Drake Eaton is murdered in the home she's been staying in, Jessica has to prove not only her niece but also her husband innocent of murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Curse of the Daanav
1988-02-07

Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Mourning Among the Wisterias
1988-02-14

Jessica visits her old friend Eugene McClendon, who soon stands accused of the murder of an old friend, Jonathan Keeler. While helping clear Eugene's name, Jessica learns that her friend believes he is dying, and is surprised when he asks her to marry him so that she can look after his affairs once he's gone. Jessica agrees, but only so that they can expose Jonathan's true killer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Murder Through the Looking Glass
1988-02-21

Jessica gets herself into a mess of trouble after overhearing the dying words of a professional hitman. When she investigates the murder of Adam Cosgrove, she soon discovers that no one seems to want to admit he's missing, let alone dead. With the help of a prickly police sergeant and a priest who isn't quite what he seems, Jessica discovers that the man who was killed was in charge of leading a top-secret government mission to protect a foreign diplomat, and that someone in the safehouse has gone to the other side.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: A Very Good Year for Murder
1988-02-28

The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Benedict Arnold Slipped Here
1988-03-13

Someone wants the old historic house enough to kill for it and its supposed hidden treasure AND Jessica is executor of the late owner's will.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Just Another Fish Story
1988-03-27

Somebody put the maitre d' on ice. Jessica wonders if she has made a bad investment.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Showdown in Saskatchewan
1988-04-10

Arson is intended to remove the Rodeo doctor and his patient permanently.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Deadpan
1988-05-01

Two critics take opposite views of a play based on one of Jessica's novels, 'Mainly Murder'. One is suspected of the murder of the other.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: The Body Politic
1988-05-08

The suicide of a campaign manager who is suspected of having an affair with a married woman excites the press.

Runtime: 45 min
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Season 5 (1988)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: J.B. As in Jailbird
1988-10-23

A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: A Little Night Work
1988-10-30

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Mr. Penroy's Vacation
1988-11-06

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Snow White, Blood Red
1988-11-13

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Coal Miner's Slaughter
1988-11-20

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Wearing of the Green
1988-11-27

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
1988-12-18

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Prediction: Murder
1989-01-01

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
1989-01-08

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Weave a Tangled Web
1989-01-15

Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: The Search for Peter Kerry
1989-02-05

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Smooth Operators
1989-02-12

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?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
1989-02-19

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: From Russia ... With Blood
1989-02-26

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Alma Murder
1989-03-12

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?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Truck Stop
1989-04-02

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: The Sins of Castle Cove
1989-04-09

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Trevor Hudson's Legacy
1989-04-16

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Double Exposure
1989-04-30

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Three Strikes, You're Out
1989-05-07

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

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
1989-05-14

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
1989-05-21

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.

Runtime: 45 min
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Season 6 (1989)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Appointment in Athens
1989-09-24

Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Seal of the Confessional
1989-10-01

A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Grand Old Lady
1989-10-08

When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Error of Her Ways
1989-10-15

When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Jack and Bill
1989-10-29

A former athlete cares for a friend's dog and, after his friend is murdered, finds the dog is a target.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Dead Letter
1989-11-05

An unsent letter turns up in an old bureau bought at a rummage sale the same day arson occurs in a furniture store. Are these events connected?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Night of the Tarantula
1989-11-12

A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: When the Fat Lady Sings
1989-11-19

The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Test of Wills
1989-11-26

A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Class Act
1989-12-03

A homicide detective is farmed out to teach a class. His opening speech reduces his class to two. Together they work on a special 'closed' case as their term project.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Town Father
1989-12-17

The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Goodbye Charlie
1990-01-07

Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: If the Shoe Fits
1990-01-21

A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: How To Make a Killing Without Really Trying
1990-02-04

Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: The Fixer-upper
1990-02-11

Jessica's niece, who is a real estate broker, arrives at the mansion and finds a body instead of a buyer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: The Big Show of 1965
1990-02-25

Twenty five years after a show in which a stabbing occurred, the cast is reunited and a mystery woman reappears, seeming to accuse Barry.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Murder: According to Maggie
1990-03-04

The producer of a police drama investigates the murder of a programmer who differed with her.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: O'Malley's Luck
1990-03-25

An Irish detective does not believe the death of a real estate mogul was suicide.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Always a Thief
1990-04-08

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Shear Madness
1990-04-29

Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: The Szechuan Dragon
1990-05-06

Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: The Sicilian Encounter
1990-05-20

Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (1990)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Trials & Tribulations
1990-09-16

Jessica is blamed for the death of an escapee who was wrongly convicted.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Deadly Misunderstanding
1990-09-23

A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: See You in Court, Baby
1990-09-30

Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Hannigan's Wake
1990-10-28

A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Family Jewels
1990-11-04

A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: A Body to Die For
1990-11-11

Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: The Return of Preston Giles
1990-11-18

This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Great Twain Robbery
1990-11-25

Proving a burnt Mark Twain manuscript is a fake is the reason for a book expert's murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Ballad for a Blue Lady
1990-12-02

Jimmy Dean plays a country-music star who's the victim in this story.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Murder in F Sharp
1990-12-16

Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns his hands and then loses his wife.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Family Doctor
1991-01-06

In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Suspicion of Murder
1991-01-20

Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Moving Violation
1991-02-03

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
1991-02-10

A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: The Taxman Cometh
1991-02-17

The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: From the Horse's Mouth
1991-02-24

An argument over stud fees ends in murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: The Prodigal Father
1991-03-10

A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?
1991-03-17

A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Thursday's Child
1991-04-07

A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep trouble involving fraud in his construction company and murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Murder, Plain & Simple
1991-04-28

When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Tainted Lady
1991-05-05

The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
1991-05-12

The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 8 poster
Season 8 (1991)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bite the Big Apple
1991-09-15

Jessica 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Night Fears
1991-09-22

Former 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Unauthorized Obituary
1991-09-29

After 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Thicker Than Water
1991-10-06

When 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Lines of Excellence
1991-11-03

Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Judge Not
1991-11-10

The 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Terminal Connection
1991-11-17

Evidence 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: A Killing in Vegas
1991-11-24

Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: The Committee
1991-12-01

The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: The List of Yuri Lermentov
1991-12-15

Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Danse Diabolique
1992-01-05

When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: The Witch's Curse
1992-01-12

The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Incident in Lot 7
1992-01-19

The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: The Monte Carlo Murders
1992-02-02

Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
1992-03-01

No 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Ever After
1992-03-08

A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
1992-03-15

All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Programmed for Murder
1992-04-05

There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Day of the Dead
1992-04-26

The 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Angel of Death
1992-05-03

While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Badge of Honor
1992-05-10

Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Murder On Madison Avenue
1992-05-17

Jessica 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.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 9 poster
Season 9 (1992)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Murder in Milan
1992-09-20

During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Family Secrets
1992-09-27

Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Mole
1992-10-04

Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Wind Around the Tower
1992-11-01

While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Dead File
1992-11-15

Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Night of the Coyote
1992-11-22

The legend of a stage coach robber's hidden treasure leads to the murder of an old mining town entrepreneur.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice
1992-11-29

Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Classic Murder
1992-12-06

After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: A Christmas Secret
1992-12-13

The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: The Sound of Murder
1993-01-03

The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Final Curtain
1993-01-10

The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Double Jeopardy
1993-01-17

The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Dead Eye
1993-02-07

Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Killer Radio
1993-02-14

The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: The Petrified Florist
1993-02-21

Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Threshold of Fear
1993-02-28

A recluse is terrified when the killer she sees in her dreams tries to see her in real life.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: The Big Kill
1993-03-07

The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Dead to Rights
1993-03-21

Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Lone Witness
1993-04-04

A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Ship of Thieves
1993-05-02

A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 21: The Survivor
1993-05-09

Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Love's Deadly Desire
1993-05-16

The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 10 poster
Season 10 (1993)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Death in Hong Kong
1993-09-12

A trader working on a merger dies at a Chinese banquet in Hong Kong.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: For Whom the Ball Tolls
1993-09-26

One of the partners trying to raze a Brownstone where Hemmingway once wrote is erased--permanently.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Legacy of Borbey House
1993-10-03

A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Phantom Killer
1993-10-24

A media tycoon may have been killed by a literary agent who seems as substantial as smoke.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: A Virtual Murder
1993-10-31

Jessica is fascinated by a demo of a VR game based on her book, but, while playing it, she thinks she sees a real murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Bloodlines
1993-11-07

A racehorse trainer is murdered as he is on his way to expose a racing fraud and there is some friction concerning his daughter's permission to ride in the race.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: A Killing in Cork
1993-11-21

An American nephew, out to get the family business, gets a different kind and the Irish widow's son is suspected.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Love and Hate in Cabot Cove
1993-11-28

There are three suspects in the murder of a crooked deputy: a CPA, an illegal casino owner and his daughter's jilted lover.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Murder at a Discount
1993-12-05

A man thinks he should get royalties from a book based on his case, written by Jessica.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Murder in White
1993-12-19

A producer staging an adaptation of one of Jessica's novels finds no joy in London.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Northern Explosion
1994-01-02

In Canada, a land war breaks out between Native Americans and a mining company.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Proof In The Pudding
1994-01-09

When the chef of a restaurant who recently had over half his stock bought up by a well-known mobster dies, suspicion turns to Jessica's young friend Lorna Thompson, but when the mobster himself dies, Jessica realises there is more than meets the eye to this case.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Portrait of Death
1994-01-16

A piece of sculpture does double duty as a murder weapon.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Deadly Assets
1994-01-23

A mobster is upset when he learns that a petty thief has found an unexpected $900,000.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Murder on the Thirtieth Floor
1994-02-06

Jessica is shocked to learn that her editor has taken a flying leap from his high-rise office.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Time to Die
1994-03-06

A step-father may have been eliminated by his step-son, a graffiti artist.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: The Dying Game
1994-03-13

An old established store has closed for the last time and its accountant won't have to find another job.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: The Trouble with Seth
1994-03-27

Seth vanishes and every one is sure there was foul play.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Roadkill
1994-05-01

A truck hijacker comes to the end of the road.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: A Murderous Muse
1994-05-15

The strict mentor of a piano prodigy is found dead.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Wheel of Death
1994-05-22

It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 11 poster
Season 11 (1994)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Nest of Vipers
1994-09-25

When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case of murder when the body of Mark Atwater, the fiancé of one of the zoo workers, is found murdered (death by snake venom), and another employee is charged with his murder. In the course of her investigation, she soon learns that a number of people had a motive to want Mark dead.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Amsterdam Kill
1994-10-02

While on a visit to Amsterdam, Jessica meets up with fellow novelist and old friend Nigel Allison. When Allison goes missing, Colin Biddle, who claims to be Allison's publishing liaison, try to convince her that nothing is wrong. Jessica soon realises that both Nigel and Colin are secret agents, and despite Colin's request for her to stay out of it, Jessica investigates Allison's disappearance and soon convinces a previously reluctant inspector that there is something terribly wrong. At the same time, Philip and Lydia de Kooning are trying to make a deal in diamonds, and when Philip turns up dead after Jessica gets a note supposedly from him, Jessica is the prime suspect in his murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: To Kill a Legend
1994-10-09

The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Death in Hawaii
1994-10-16

Poor Jessica can't take a vacation without finding mystery or murder. In this case, it is an election campaign gone bad.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Dear Deadly
1994-10-23

While Jessica prepares her book for serialization of her book in a newspaper, real trouble is brewing in the newsroom.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: The Murder Channel
1994-11-06

In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused by and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Fatal Paradise
1994-11-13

Private investigator Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique vacationing at the same time he is accused of murdering the woman he's been trying to locate for a client.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Crimson Harvest
1994-11-20

Jessica investigates two brutal murders at a struggling winery in Sonoma Valley.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Murder by Twos
1994-11-27

A Cabot Cove resident is killed in Jessica's garage.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Murder of the Month Club
1994-12-04

Murder, plagiarisim, and blackmail stalk those around Jessica on her promotional book tour.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: An Egg to Die For
1994-12-11

A book fair in Miami becomes Jessica's backdrop when she teams with a Russian detective to solve an art theft and murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: The Scent of Murder
1995-01-08

Jessica helps Seth solve family problems when his rich southern cousin is murdered.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Death 'n Denial
1995-01-22

A dear friend's involvement with the theft of a priceless Egyptian relic and a murder birng Jessica to the rescue.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Murder in High-C
1995-02-05

Jessica finds herself crime-solving in a highly intense world of opera while in Genoa, Italy.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Twice Dead
1995-02-12

When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then murdered, Jessica sets the record strait when the wrong man is arrested.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Film Flam
1995-02-19

Jessica sets out to prove that the death of a young movie buff is murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Murder a la Mode
1995-02-26

Parisian slave-labor sweatshops provide the setting for the crimes, and the pretentious world of fashion is where Jessica solves them.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: The Dream Team
1995-03-19

The townspeople are concerned about a massive development on their shore and it is further complicated for Jessica since the firm employs her nephew, Grady.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: School for Murder
1995-04-30

It seems that there is more than schoolboy pranks going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Another Killing in Cork
1995-05-07

While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset by a consortium that wants to buy his land for a strip mine.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Game, Set, Murder
1995-05-14

A domineering father forces a teenager to play beyond her desire and she suffers emotional problems.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 12 poster
Season 12 (1995)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Nailed
1995-09-21

Gossip is rampant in a stylish Fifth Avenue beauty salon where an expert hair-dresser is involved in several intrigues.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: A Quaking in Aspen
1995-09-28

In Aspen, Colo, Jessica's friend, Laney, seems to be the best suspect in the murder of her husband, Grant Boswell.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Secret of Gila Junction
1995-10-05

People in a sleepy Arizona town, are threatened by a truck- stop bandit and suspicious treasure hunters.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Big Easy Murder
1995-10-12

Jessica travels to New Orleans to research a new novel, but gets caught up in a series of voodoo killings.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Home Care
1995-10-19

A nurse under a cloud comes to Cabot Cove. One of her patients is Jessica's best friend Maggie.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Nan's Ghost (1)
1995-11-02

A spooky story set in an old Irish castle where legend has it that there is a ghost and a hidden treasure.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Nan's Ghost (2)
1995-11-09

Jessica is trapped in the rat-infested dungeon of an ancient Irish castle, but uses her ingenuity to get rescued and find the treasure and a murderer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Shooting in Rome
1995-11-16

A movie set in Rome is the setting for a more than they planned while filming a J.B. Fletcher novel.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Deadly Bidding
1995-11-23

Jessica agrees to go to New York to bid on a manuscript purportedly by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and while there, she gets mixed up in the murder of a local forger who had been involved in the theft of a priceless Degas painting two years earlier when she tries to help Charlie Garrett out of a jam.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Frozen Stiff
1995-11-30

What is the secret ingredient in the ice cream? Jessica means to find out and see that the donation for the literary foundation is paid as promised.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Unwilling Witness
1995-12-14

Jessica is called to testify before a grand jury after a victim's last phone call was traced to her number.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Kendo Killing
1996-01-04

Motorcycle racing in Osaka, Japan, puts a man's life in danger when he tries to wed a girl from a traditional Japanese family.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Death Goes Double Platinum
1996-01-07

The members of an up-and-coming Latin instrumental band get an offer they can't refuse just when they are getting noticed by a more reputable company.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Murder in Tempo
1996-01-11

A much disliked singer gets a jolt from an electric guitar during a rehearsal for a rock concert benefit in Cabot Cove.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: The Dark Side of the Door
1996-02-01

The victim of a childhood kidnapping sees more in the manuscript she is editing than coincidence would suggest.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Murder Among Friends
1996-02-08

A TV sitcom, Buds, turns out to be less friendly than the producer hoped.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Something Foul in Flappieville
1996-02-15

The puppets are dancing to a different tune, much to the dismay of the young designer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Track of a Soldier
1996-02-25

The scene is a guest lodge in the Grand Tetons. Two of the guests are hiding secrets. Who has the diamond?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Evidence of Malice
1996-03-28

Deputy Andy bought a house with numerous defects from the victim and emerges as the chief suspect.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Southern Double-Cross
1996-04-04

Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheritance in the area--land used for sheep grazing. The natives are not all happy with this.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Race To Death
1996-04-28

Jessica is the honorary commodore of the World's Cup Race, featuring Kyle Kimball's Buccaneer and Ned Larkin's Free Spirit. There is much ill-will and Ned is injured, too much to skipper his craft. His daughter replaces him and then Kyle is killed. This is no way to run a regatta!

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
1996-05-05

Seth's niece returns to Cabot Cove for her wedding only to have her groom die ""accidentally"" before the event.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: Mrs. Parker's Revenge
1996-05-12

Jessica somehow gets tangled in a situation involving a deadly virus and an arms deal.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 24: Death by Demographics
1996-05-19

In San Francisco, a radio station's new manager is trying to change their image by firing every staff member who is past a certain age and playing music for teen-agers only.

Runtime: 45 min

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