Created by Richard Levinson, William Link, Peter S. Fischer
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher
E1September 28, 1986 · 45 min
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.
E2October 5, 1986 · 45 min
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.
E3October 12, 1986 · 45 min
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
E4October 19, 1986 · 45 min
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
E5November 2, 1986 · 45 min
An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
E6November 9, 1986 · 45 min
While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
E9November 16, 1986 · 45 min
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.
E8November 23, 1986 · 45 min
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).
E10December 7, 1986 · 45 min
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.
E11December 14, 1986 · 45 min
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
E12January 4, 1987 · 45 min
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
E13January 18, 1987 · 45 min
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
E14February 1, 1987 · 45 min
The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
E15February 8, 1987 · 45 min
Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
E16February 15, 1987 · 45 min
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
E17February 22, 1987 · 45 min
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
E18March 1, 1987 · 45 min
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
E19March 15, 1987 · 45 min
After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
E20March 22, 1987 · 45 min
Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
E21April 5, 1987 · 45 min
First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".
E22April 19, 1987 · 45 min
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.
E23May 10, 1987 · 45 min
During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
May 17, 1987
Higgins is driving visiting Pamela Bates - an old editor friend of Robin Master's - along with her friend, and her secretary, to the Estate, when someone tries to run them off the road and over a cliff. But it seems that it's not a case for Thomas, when Pamela insists on waiting for her own mainland investigator friend to arrive and look into it - much to the annoyance of Thomas, who is supposed to be busy entering into a hotel land buying venture with Rick and T.C., but can't help himself investigating the case none-the-less. Pamela's investigator friend turns out to be famous crime mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and so both Jessica and Magnum set about investigating just who wants one of the visiting guests dead, and why... Crossover continues on Murder, She Wrote - 3x08 - Magnum on Ice (2)
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