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Murder, She Wrote Season 1

September. 30,1984
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TV-14
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An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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Murder, She Wrote

1984  / TV-14
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An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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Angela Lansbury
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Murder, She Wrote Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 22 - Funeral at Fifty-Mile
Episode 21 - Murder at the Oasis
Episode 19 - Murder Takes the Bus
Episode 16 - Tough Guys Don't Die
First Aired: February. 24,1985

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.

Episode 15 - Paint Me a Murder
Episode 14 - My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
Episode 13 - Murder to a Jazz Beat
Episode 12 - Broadway Malady
First Aired: January. 13,1985

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

Episode 11 - Capitol Offense
First Aired: January. 06,1985

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.

Episode 10 - Death Casts a Spell
First Aired: December. 30,1984

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.

Episode 9 - Death Takes a Curtain Call
First Aired: December. 16,1984

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

Episode 8 - We're Off to Kill the Wizard
Episode 7 - Hit, Run and Homicide
Episode 6 - Lovers and Other Killers
First Aired: November. 18,1984

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

Episode 5 - It's a Dog's Life
First Aired: November. 04,1984

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.

Episode 4 - Hooray for Homicide
First Aired: October. 28,1984

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.

Episode 3 - Birds of a Feather
First Aired: October. 14,1984

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.

Episode 2 - Deadly Lady
First Aired: October. 07,1984

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.

Episode 1 - The Murder of Sherlock Holmes
First Aired: September. 30,1984

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.

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