"Murder, She Wrote" - Episode Guide
Season Twelve - (1995-1996)
"Murder, She Wrote" aired from September, 1984 - May, 1996
Synopsis:
Former substitute English teacher and famed mystery
writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. It seems murder
follows her around, whether it be to the house of her seemingly endless number of
friends, nieces and nephews or right in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica
is sometimes assisted by her friend Dr. Seth Hazlitt or the local sheriff, Amos
Tupper (later Sheriff Metzger). Sometimes, early in the series, Jessica would only narrate
the episodes, which would be a dramatization of one of her novels. In later seasons,
Jessica moved to New York City to be closer to her publisher and also closer
to crime.
Cast:
Angela Lansbury.....Jessica Beatrice Fletcher
William Windom...(1985-1996)...Doctor Seth Hazlitt
Ron Masak...(1988-1996)...Sheriff Mort Metzger
Keith Michell...1988-1993)...Dennis Stanton
Michael Horton...(1984-1995)...Grady Fletcher
Debbie Zipp...(1988-1990)...Donna Mayberry Fletcher
Genie Francis...(1984-1990)...Victoria Griffin
Alan Oppenheimer...(1991)...Dr. Raymond Auerbach
Julie Adams...(1987-1993)...Eve Simpson
Tom Bosley...(1984-1988)...Sheriff Amos Tupper
James Sloyan...(1990-1991)...Robert Butler
Richard Paul...(1986-1991)...Mayor Sam Booth
Ken Swofford...(1990-1991)...Lt. Perry Castalano
Louis Herthum...(1991-1996)...Deputy Andy Broom
Hallie Todd...(1990-1991)...Rhoda Markowitz
Will Nye...(1988-1991)...Deputy Floyd
Jerry Orbach...(1985-1991)...Harry McGraw
Season Twelve (1995-1996)
Episode # 239
Sep. 21--Nailed
Guests: Daphne Ashbrook, Leslie Easterbrook, John O'Hurley
Synopsis: Jessica uses her head to weave through the makeup and
hairspray concealing the murderer of a financier at a beauty salon.
Episode # 240
Sep. 28--A Quaking in Aspen
Guests: Wayne Rogers, Leigh Taylor-Young
Synopsis: Jessica is fired up to find the true murderer of her friend's
husband, but private detective Charlie Garrett is unwittingly putting out the flames.
Episode # 241
Oct. 05--The Secret of Gila Junction
Guests: Dorothy Lyman, Bo Svenson, Jay Underwood
Synopsis: While visiting a friend in Arizona, a green sheriff
asks Jessica for her help investigating a murder
that followed the discovery of a stash of cash.
Episode # 242
Oct. 12--Big Easy Murder
Guests: Elizabeth Ashley, Mitchell Ryan
Synopsis: A research trip to New Orleans plunges Jessica into the world of
the occult, when a businessman dies, and a voodoo doll is evidence.
Episode # 243
Oct. 19--Home Care
Guests: Ed Nelson, Megan Follows
Synopsis: Jessica immerses herself in the medical profession when a young
nurse is accused of murdering two patients to whom she was providing home care.
Episode # 244a
Nov. 02--Nan's Ghost: Part One
Guests: Fionnula Flanagan, Rod Taylor, Ross Kettle, James Warwick, Peter Jason
Synopsis: Jessica is in Ireland visiting an old friend and staying at a
bed and breakfast at Ballynook Castle. A haunted spirit and antique smugglers
are just a few challenges Jessica faces on her Irish vacation.
Episode # 244b
Nov. 09--Nan's Ghost: Part Two
Guests: See Above...
Synopsis: See Above...
Episode # 245
Nov. 16--Shooting in Rome
Guests: Mike Connors, Bruce Abbott, Shawn Weatherly
Synopsis: Jessica travels to Rome to help rewrite the script for the
filming of one of her books, but the filming takes a tragic turn when a
stuntman dies.
Episode # 246
Nov. 23--Deadly Bidding
Guests: Wayne Rogers, Aharon Ipale, Craig Richard Nelson
Synopsis: Charlie Garrett's outrageous bid at an auction arouses
Jessica's suspicions, after the artist becomes the subject of a
homicide photographer.
Episode # 247
Nov. 30--Frozen Stiff
Guests: Dirk Benedict, Christina Pickles, Bill Smitrovich
Synopsis: When Jessica arrives at an ice cream company to get a check for
charity, the funds have melted and the company's co-founder is iced.
Episode # 248
Dec. 14--Unwilling Witness
Guests: Joel Brooks, Larry Linville, Lisa Eichhorn
Synopsis: After being subpoenaed to testify at the jury probe of a brokerage
house, Jessica is charged with contempt for speaking to a witness who is killed.
Episode # 249
Jan. 04--Kendo Kill
Guests: Pat Morita, David Stratton, Tom Wopat
Synopsis: Jessica's delivery to a motorcycle racer in Japan speeds up
a series of events that result in the death of another racer.
Episode # 250
Jan. 07--Death Goes Double Platinum
Guests: Tony Plana, Marco Sanchez, Ray Young, Jason Bernard
Synopsis: Jessica must investigate after the Latin beat of a new band
drowns out the last dying gasp of a petty thug.
Episode # 251
Jan. 11--Murder in Tempo
Guests: Josh Taylor, Sam Anderson
Synopsis: Seth Hazlitt's benefit concert to save the woods near Cabot
Cove is endangered when the lead singer is permanently silenced.
Episode # 252
Feb. 01--The Dark Side of the Door
Guests: Meg Foster, Marsha Strassman
Synopsis: When the police are reluctant to become involved, Jessica
links a recent murder, a possible suicide and an 11-year-old kidnapping.
Episode # 253
Feb. 08--Murder Among Friends
Guests: Nicolas Surovy, Frederick Coffin
Synopsis: When the producer of a hit twenty-something series is murdered,
Jessica does some directing of her own.
Episode # 254
Feb. 15--Something Foul in Flappieville
Guests: Robert Knepper, Corinne Bohrer, Dey Young
Synopsis: After Jessica's short story for children becomes a television
puppet show, she must find the fiend who used one of the puppets as a murder
weapon.
Episode # 255
Feb. 25--Track of a Soldier
Guests: Wings Hauser, Linda Kelsey, Fredric Lane
Synopsis: A vacation in the Grand Tetons turns into work when the man
threatening Jessica's host with blackmail is murdered.
Episode # 256
Mar. 28--Evidence of Malice
Guests: Louis Herthum
Synopsis: Jessica has to solve two murders to clear the name of her old
friend Deputy Andy, who becomes a suspect when a murder weapon is found in his car.
Episode # 257
Apr. 04--Southern Double-Cross
Guests: Alaistar Duncan, Lisa Darr
Synopsis: Jessica travels to Australia to prove that she is the rightful
heir to 130,000 acres of grazing land, but her arrival results in two murders.
Episode # 258
Apr. 28--Race to Death
Guests: John Getz, Andrea Parker
Synopsis: Jessica investigates when a wealthy yachtsman is murdered
two days before a big race, and the daughter of his rival is charged with the crime.
Episode # 259
May. 05--What You Don't Know Can Kill You
Guests: William Keane
Synopsis: When a young man dies in a motorcycle crash, and a local attorney
is murdered, Jessica looks for links between the two seemingly unrelated deaths.
Episode # 260
May. 12--Mrs. Parker's Revenge
Guests: Gregg Henry
Synopsis: Jessica gets caught up in a web of international intrigue
and rogue government agents when a deadly virus is stolen from the Biological
Research Institute.
Episode # 261
May. 19--Death by Demographics
Guests: Diana Canova, Paul linke, Robert Pine, David Ogden Stiers
Synopsis: A hot-shot San Francisco radio promoter is murdered after changing
the format from classical music to hard rock.
2000, Premiere
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Guests: Richard Crenna, Kathryn Morris, Duncan Regehr, Dantiago Douglas, Alan Fudge
Synopsis: Jessica Fletcher puts her sleuthing skills
to work at a writer's conference after a Russian
author is found dead. {120 minutes}
2001, Premiere
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Guests: Phylicia Rashad, Michael Jace, David Ogden Stiers, Madison Mason, Mac Davis
Synopsis: Jessica Fletcher uncovers a shocking link between her family
history and the death of a slave in the 1860s. {120 minutes} CBS - May 2, 2001
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