The worst episodes of Murder, She Wrote
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- 01
Jessica investigates the attempted murders of a legendary Broadway actress and her talented daughter, due to star in a new musical production. But as Jessica uncovers the truth, her own life is put in danger.
- 02
Murder is around the corner when Jessica travels to Paris to attend the premiere of an old friend's fashion collection.Production Notes: This season contains the second opening segment.
- 03
Jessica investigates the death of her friend Diego Santana, a famous painter. But which of his friends and family had a killer's motive?
- 04
Jessica meets up with her niece Victoria in San Francisco before her wedding to a young man named Howard. When Victoria confides in Jessica that she fears Howard may be cheating on her, they soon discover he's a performer at a local drag club. Things take a surprising turn when the club owner is found dead and Howard is the prime suspect.
- 05
Jessica goes on a cruise with her friend Pamela, who has just been released from a sanatorium where she was recovering from the suicide of her husband Johnny. However, on board the ship Pamela is the victim of a terror campaign, and then another passenger is found dead.
- 06
Jessica helps a neighbor in her New York building who has a phobia about leaving her apartment since she saw her mother murdered five years ago.
- 07
Jessica arrives early in New Orleans on a book tour and spends some time as a tourist in the French Corner. On the night her host takes her out to a night club for the final performance of a popular Jazz band before relocating out of state, the leader drops dead, apparently from a heart attack. However, at Jessica's prodding, the police discover he was actually poisoned and there were several people, including several bandmates, who wanted the man dead.
- 08
Jessica inherits part of a professional football team, and soon discovers that the sport can be murder. When a fellow co-owner is found dead following a team party and the star quarterback is the prime suspect, Jessica has her work cut out for her to prove his innocence.
- 09
Jessica meets up with a poet friend in San Francisco for a special literary awards banquet. While at the party the poet gets into a scuffle with an author who claims to have wrote the "definitive" novel about the Vietnam War. When the author is later found in his room and his manuscript missing, the poet is the prime suspect. Jessica then sets out to prove to the police that her friend is innocent of the crime.
- 10
When a friend of Jessica's expresses concern that she's losing her sanity, the sharp-eyed sleuth downs her pen and rushes to help. It soon becomes clear that things are not what they seem - is someone out to swindle the family fortune from under her nose?
- 11
Murder in the Electric Cathedral
Jessica's old high-school teacher causes friction amongst her family when she revises her will and leaves her entire estate to a TV evangelist. After a confrontation with her son and grandson, Carrie is rushed to hospital suffering heart complications and dies shortly after. However, when she discovers a syringe containing cyanide by Carrie's bedside, Jessica suspects foul play.
- 12
Jessica is attending the funeral of Henry Vernon, when the service is interrupted by the departed's ex-lover, who insists that he was murdered and did not, as it was claimed, die of a heart attack.
- 13
When Jessica's niece receives a gift from her supposedly dead grandfather, she asks Jessica to find him. The trail leads to a circus with more mayhem behind the scenes than in the arena.
- 14
Jessica's long-missing brother-in-law Neil Fletcher, who has been working under an alias with the Carmody Circus, has confessed to the murder of circus manager Hank Sutter. Jessica is convinced that Neil is innocent, and that he is covering up for somebody else.
- 15
A group of young treasure hunters come to Cabot Cove looking for sunken treasure but after one dies and the other is arrested for her murder, Jessica gets involved both to clear a young man she believes is innocent and to help an old friend she knows tends not to be.
- 16
Jessica reluctantly agrees to a television interview for an old friend but is surprised when a different reporter arrives to conduct the taping; a boat explosion leads everyone to believe the journalist has been killed.
- 17
A lying TV consumer advocate is killed and suspicion lands on one of the clients whose products he maligned.
- 18
Simon Thane is a celebrated artist living in Cabot Cove. For the last several years, Thane has jealously guarded his favorite painting, which he has never allowed to be seen publicly. Jessica becomes involved in the story when Thane is murdered and his prized painting stolen, leading our heroine to conclude that the mysterious work of art may contain a clue as to the killer's identity.
- 19
Jessica investigates when her nephew, a junior executive for a large accounting firm, is charged with tax fraud and the murder of his boss.
- 20
While Jessica is recording some of her mystery stories for the blind, the sound studio's new owner is killed and the record producer quickly arrested. The police reveal that the producer's own blindness was due to a car crash caused by the dead man, but Jessica is convinced other forces are at work, and fights to prove her friend's innocence.
- 21
After Frank's old Army buddy convinces Jessica to visit his ranch on her way back to Cabot Cove, a psychic's dire predictions put a large damper on party festivities when he predicts that the daughter-in-law of Jessica's host will die in a fiery death. However, Jessica soon discovers that the psychic and the intended victim has a past that can't be overlooked, especially after a murder does take place.
- 22
Dennis Stanton investigates when a prominent pianist's wife is murdered shortly after the pianist's hands are badly burnt.
- 23
Jessica helps the sheriff of an old Western town solve a murder that is connected to a legendary stagecoach robber's long-lost treasure.
- 24
A not-guilty verdict in the murder of a community activist leads to threats of violence.
- 25
Jessica becomes involved in an internal police investigation when a colleague is left for dead in an accident in which a rookie policeman is killed.
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