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Season 1

Season 1, Episode 0: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes: Pilot

Original Air Date—30 September 1984
In this Pilot episode we are introduced to Jessica Fletcher, a recent widow, who lives in Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica is an English teacher who becomes a mystery book author thanks to her nephew, Grady Fletcher. Grady submits his Aunts manuscript to a publishing company who loves it and publishes it immediately. It is a best-seller and Jessica goes to New York City to promote her new book. While there Jessica gets involved in a murder while at her publishers home for a costume party. When her nephew becomes a suspect of the murder, Jessica must find the real killer.

Season 1, Episode 1: Deadly Lady

Original Air Date—7 October 1984
A mysterious man who briefly stops by Jessica's house turns up dead -- supposedly swept overboard during a hurricane before Jessica even met him.

Season 1, Episode 2: Birds of a Feather

Original Air Date—14 October 1984
Jessica visits her cousin Victoria 'Vicky' Brandon in San Francisco, who tells her fiancé, New York would be-actor Howard Griffin, isn't working in life insurance as he pretended. The ladies go to Mr. Drake's night-club which Vicky found out he's somehow connected to, see he's performing there as drag-queen, and worse: during star Michèle Dupont's act Howard runs out in panic after finding Drake's shot corps. Vicky believes in Howard's innocence unconditionally, even accepts his weird job, so Jessica is determined to help initially unappreciative SFPD Detective Lt. Floyd Novack find the real killer. The club proves a viper's nest full of motives both in showbiz, including promising performer Freddy York, who would miss out on a dream contract because held him to a lousy contract and later gets wounded in an intentional 'accident' on stage, and the Drake family's (adulterous) love life. It all hangs on the tiny details only Jessica notices and makes sense of..

Season 1, Episode 3: Hooray for Homicide

Original Air Date—28 October 1984
When Jessica hears on TV that director-producer Jerry Lydecker is turning the movie after her respectable mystery book The Corps Danced At Midnight into cheap slash junk with sex and gore, she flies to Hollywood to protest, but studio boss Marty Strindberg, who sends her a junior lawyer, and Lydecker have a contract clause she signed waving her rights to object. When Jessica intends to apologize to Lydecker, she finds him killed on he set, and becomes the only obvious suspect. Fortunately LAPD Detective Mack Brody, an amateur mystery writer himself, has enough faith in Jessica to encourage her snooping and believe she saw evidence which disappeared during the minute she talked to the security guard. Lydecker's ruthless behavior and romantic affair with the unexperienced female co-star provide several possible motives...

Season 1, Episode 4: It's a Dog's Life

Original Air Date—4 November 1984
While Jessica attends a hunting party, someone tampers in the stables with the normally quiet horse of the rich host, Denton Langley, which suddenly goes wild and causes him to have a fatal fall, yet the drug test Jessica suggests is negative. The will on videotape gives his shocked relatives and estate staff peanuts, $15,000,000 goes to Denton's pet hound Teddy, who is shortly after found drugged after biting old local Isaiah Potts. Family lawyer Marcus Boswell, who is constantly called by his broker, is challenged by the human heirs' lawyer on account of the dog's mental competence. Then Trish Langley is found killed by the security gate, the button which operates it from security guard Barnes's closed room has Teddy's paw print on it, he must have been trained to do do. Jessica works out precisely what ties in, how, and what doesn't..

Season 1, Episode 5: Lovers and Other Killers

Original Air Date—18 November 1984
An intruder kills rich old lady Allison Brevard while burglarizing her townhouse. When Jessica goes to a college to give a mystery writing guest lecture, she takes a secretary for the first time, not an older woman as she expected but bright, charming, extremely efficient student David Tolliver. Just when they celebrated ending the work in a restaurant, the police gets David for questioning about Allison's murder, just because he was seen meeting her and accepted gifts and dinners. Jessica grants David the benefit of the doubt and follows up on a call to meet about an alibi for David with young married Lila Schroeder Kowalski, only to see her collapse murdered. David now has an alibi and admits he saw Lila, secretly because of her hunky but violently jealous husband Jack Kowalski, who claims David wasn't the threat to his marriage. Jessica tells dean Edmund Gerard's secretary Amelia she's not interested romantically in her host, who makes a surprising confession after Jessica is attacked in college after asking flirtatious professor Prof. Todd Lowery suspicious questions during her next lecture. Now she sets a trap...

Season 1, Episode 6: Hit, Run and Homicide

Original Air Date—25 November 1984
Jessica isn't looking forward to tell Cabot Cove that her historical research for Founder's Day proves the captain was actually a pirate and fought on the British side, against Washington's troops. Businessman Charles Woodley lands in hospital after the surging of a car without driver which seemed to be pursuing local Ethan Cragg. Local inventor Daniel O'Brien, who devised a remote control system for cars before he was fired, denies having agreed to a meeting with his former employer Woodley, shortly after the car under remote control strikes again, killing Woodley's 50% Boston business partner, Dean Merrill. Daniel's heir, Tony Holiday, is back in town to present his bride, Leslie Andler Sheriff Amos Tupper happily 'allows' Jessica to 'observe for her next book', in fact doing the sleuthing with and without Amos, who arrests Daniel just for being most likely to have controlled the killer car....

Season 1, Episode 7: We're Off to Kill the Wizard

Original Air Date—9 December 1984
When Jessica visits her Kansas relatives, police detective Lieutenant Bert Donovan's family, she is invited by theme park magnate Horatio Baldwin and firmly turns down his project for another one based on horror elements from her mystery books. Shirtly after Horatio is found dead in his self-locked office, apparently suicided, but actually got a fatal blow on the head before the shot. After Erica Baldwin becomes a rich widow for the fourth time, she hires Jessica to prove it was murder so the life-insurance can be cleared. Horatio's secretary makes a false confession. Almost everybody had some reason to hate Horatio, who was quite dirty in business in various ways. Jessica soon finds out how the killer got in and out while stealing Horatio's secret files and more, while the murder makes another victim, then she sets a trap...

Season 1, Episode 8: Death Takes a Curtain Call

Original Air Date—16 December 1984
Invited by Leo Peterson, a former dancer who defected long ago, Jessica attends a Boston performance of the famous Soviet Russian Rostoff ballet. She guesses something is up when Leo gets a program from the bottom of the pile with a code; after the performance they are joined in his car by defecting star dancers Alexander and Natalia Masurov but hear on the radio that KGB security agent Serge Berensky has been found dagger-murdered in their dressing room, so Jessica gives them short-term sanctuary at her home while she snoops. KGB Major Anatole Karzof declares to be a fan of her books and joins her, defending he thesis the defectors did it, while FBI Agents O'Farrell and Dewey Johnson conduct the official investigation. She discovers there is more...

Season 1, Episode 9: Death Casts a Spell

Original Air Date—30 December 1984
English hypnotist Cagliastro is fired by casino-hotel-owner Joe Kellijian, because he does his glamorous wife Regina. Jessica saves her editor's assistant Joan Germaine's bacon covering for making a date for her with Cagliostro as inspiration for another mystery book. They overhear the master dare local press journalists Bud Michaels and rookie Andy Townsend to be hypnotized before a revealing interviewer so they won't remember a word unless he's a charlatan as they claim, Joan gets them invited too but they're late; when the door is opened after a scary bang, Cagliostro lies dead, the six journalists (Bud sent Andy in his place) are hypnotized motionless. Fortunately for the startled police detective Lt. Bergkamp, Jessica is as resourceful and inspired as ever after Dr. Yambert proves hypnosis works even on her, but nobody seems to have both motive and opportunity...

Season 1, Episode 10: Capitol Offense

Original Air Date—6 January 1985
US Congressman Wendell Joyner gets a fatal heart-attack at 's party, arranged by Congressman Dan Keppner and dodgy lobbyist Harry Parmel, actually at a party for a potential successor, officially in his bed. The governor of Maine demands Jessica to fill in as federal legislator for a few weeks till the party can officially select a new Congressman. She keeps on Joyner's staff for her short tenure, notably helpful driver-press agent Joe Blinn and administrative assistant Diana Simms. Detective Lieutenant Avery Mendelsohn tails Jessica and explains he suspects Joyner to be murdered after finding out his corpse was moved. She decides to help him sleuthing on and around Capitol Hill, including dirty lobbying, after suspiciously well-housed nobody Martha Craig is found murdered and recovering alcoholic Keppner was drugged and robbed on the street, believing he was framed clumsily and discovering if it all ties in to a legislature vote on a cannery in Maine...

Season 1, Episode 11: Broadway Malady

Original Air Date—13 January 1985
Grady Fletcher invites aunt Jessica to be his guest at a Broadway show he's doing the bookkeeping for and meet both his girl-friend and has-been movie star Rita Bristol, whose prima donna-attitude and drinking endanger the show that was to be her come-back and the launch of daughter Patti Bristol. They all dine with others including son Barry Bristol, director Marc Faber and banker Si Parrish, the principal investor. On the way home, Pati is shot in the spine by street mugger Manny Farkus, who gets a fatal bullet from Barry. To reluctant Barry's surprise, the show isn't canceled but LA star Lonnie Valerian takes recovering Pati's part. NYPD Detective Sergeant Moreno didn't feel like investigating further, but Jessica does dig into past and present of the Bristol family, the show people, the mugger who she recognizes as unemployed actor Morley Farmer and some New York street witnesses.

Season 1, Episode 12: Murder to a Jazz Beat

Original Air Date—3 February 1985
Jessica is invited to New Orleans by TV station WDX, but arrives two days early by mistake, so her host Jonathan Hawley has 48 hours to show her the 'Cajun paradise' (French quarter). Jessica soon notices the jazz show circuit can be nastily competitive; then clarinetist Ben Coleman dies from an apparent heart-attack during a recording, as she presumed actually curare-poisoning, but why and how exactly? NOPD Detective Lt. Simeon Kershaw gets help from Jessica investigating Ben's private, artistic and business context, even smuggling...

Season 1, Episode 13: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean

Original Air Date—10 February 1985
When Jessica's recently widowed friend takes a cruise to get away from it all, a would-be murderer follows her.

Season 1, Episode 14: Paint Me a Murder

Original Air Date—17 February 1985
Famous painter Diego Santana celebrates his sixtieth anniversary on his Mediterranean island retreat with his second wife, ex, son Miguel, daughter, protégé and a few friends. He is nearly killed by a massive flower pot thrown down by a left-handed shadow, and asks Jessica, who arrives the next morning by helicopter with gallery keeper Sir John Landry, to investigate in secret, helped by first batch guest police inspector Henry Kyle, but Diego is soon killed on a walk with his own crossbow, the weapon son Miguel excels at, who took another guest, art collector in financial trouble Willard Kaufmann, to the mainland after a heart attack. Then arson destroys Diego's latest paintings, who were tripled in value by his death...

Season 1, Episode 15: Tough Guys Don't Die

Original Air Date—24 February 1985
While highly respected P.I. Archie Miles, who even teaches at the police academy, is working on the old Danbury scalpel murder case, involving judge Lambert, for Jessica's research, he is shot in his office. His rather shady, clumsier partner Harry McGraw contacts Jessica as Archie was working on only two other cases, about allegedly adulterous contractor Ernie Santini and editor Priscilla Daniels of Femininity Magazine, who suddenly backs down on her political ambitions. Detective Lieutenant Starkey confides into Jessica the police wouldn't mourn Harry getting rid of Archie's killer, anyhow, she snoops herself, then teams up with Harry...

Season 1, Episode 16: Sudden Death

Original Air Date—3 March 1985
Jessica inherits from uncle Cyrus a holding company, the only asset being the crucial 4% in the Leopards professional American football team which two groups control at 48% each, and executive lawyer Brad Lockwood fails to make her sign proxy powers for it before she checks it out herself. She meets player Zak Farrell, his wife Kathy and adopted mute daughter Jill. Businessman Phil Kreuger is dead-eager to buy Jessica out for one share-holders group and move the franchise to a bigger city, coach Pat Patillo bids against him for the other group which wants to keep the team home. After a party with nearly everyone, Krueger is found drowned in the club's stadium, Zak arrested as he was seen storming in and out around the time of the murder, Jessica rather then police Lt. Clyde Pitts finds out -at peril- who else had motive and opportunity till she can set a trap...

Season 1, Episode 17: Footnote to Murder

Original Air Date—10 March 1985
Jessica sets out to clear the name of a friend who is a prime suspect in a murder case.

Season 1, Episode 18: Murder Takes the Bus

Original Air Date—17 March 1985
On the bus back from a convention in Boston, Jessica, Amos Tupper and a slew of passengers are forced to take refuge from a fierce storm at a remote diner where one of the passengers is discovered murdered in his seat, stabbed.

Season 1, Episode 19: Armed Response

Original Air Date—31 March 1985
While in the hospital with a fractured leg, Jessica investigates the murder of a fellow patient.

Season 1, Episode 20: Murder at the Oasis

Original Air Date—7 April 1985
An unpopular comic's life is threatened, but guess who turns up dead?

Season 1, Episode 21: Funeral at Fifty-Mile

Original Air Date—21 April 1985
Jessica has to unravel the secrets and threats at the funeral of a friend in Wyoming.

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Widow, Weep for Me

Original Air Date—29 September 1985
Jessica's friend has been murdered, so Jessica masquerades as a wealthy widow at a luxurious tropical hotel in an effort to trap the murderer.

Season 2, Episode 2: Joshua Peabody Died Here... Possibly

Original Air Date—6 October 1985
A cheap tycoon with many enemies is found dead on the construction site of his high-rise hotel.

Season 2, Episode 3: Murder in the Afternoon

Original Air Date—13 October 1985
Jessica's niece, an actress in a daytime drama, becomes a suspect when the head writer for the show is murdered.

Season 2, Episode 4: School for Scandal

Original Air Date—25 October 1985
Jessica arrives at Grenshaw to hold the commencement speech and receive an honorary degree at the local college. The preceding faculty party is animated by host Dr. Jocelyn Laird's daughter Daphne Clover, who jumps into the pool naked and her beefy, drunk New York lover Nick Fulton who knocks down Professor Ron Mercer and a vase with one punch, still shirtless. Next morning Jessica finds Nick's corps under a construction site as if he fell to his death, but that must be staged as he has no dust on his shoes. Local Police Chief E. Griffin, who knows Jessica from criminology studies, arrests Daphne after an anonymous phone call leads to finding a typed blackmail note from Nick and a bloody candle stick in her room, but Jessica convinces him it may well be all planted. She checks on other party-goers' links with Nick and each-other, leading to two contradictory confessions, neither of which she believes...

Season 2, Episode 5: Sing a Song of Murder

Original Air Date—27 October 1985
Jessica's red-hair British niece Emma McGill has her fly over to London to attend her 'funeral' as requested by last will, but actually it's a staged car accident so they can sleuth who is behind three incidents Emma considers but can't prove to be murder attempts, in her view for ownership of her old-fashioned Mayhew music hall, which is in financial trouble but valuable if sold -would be-buyers even awaited Jessica at the airport-, half of the profits would go to her late co-founder's wimpy son Archie Weems and his greedy spouse Violet. Jessica turns to a Scotland Yard friend but as he is on holiday confides in his colleague Inspector Roger Crimmins, who plays along so the suspects can be examined. While they approach Emma's London apartment, Mayhem dresser Bridget O'Hara leaves it and is fatally struck by a fast car, possibly because she was dressed like Emma in a coat promised to her; Emma admits she left a reassuring message to her old friend, has-been Shakespearian actor Oliver Trumbull, father of Mayhew actress Kitty, who is arrested for lying about hearing the answering machine message, but...

Season 2, Episode 6: Reflections of the Mind

Original Air Date—3 November 1985
Scott Lodge thinks his wife Francesca is going crazy and trying to kill him. But when a phone call from her supposedly dead first husband precedes the fatal incident, Jessica must unravel fact from hysteria to find a killer.

Season 2, Episode 7: A Lady in the Lake

Original Air Date—10 November 1985
Jessica's fellow guests at a remote inn include an obsessive birdwatcher, an enthusiastic nature lover who likes to streak through the woods, a rich jerk and his shy wife, and a devoted fisherman whose wife doesn't sit home waiting for him. When Jessica sees one guest push another into the lake, she's determined to understand what happened and why.

Season 2, Episode 8: Dead Heat

Original Air Date—24 November 1985
Under instructions from big boss Tony, local mobster boss Vince Shackman leans heavily on race horse trainer Mike Gann to settle his gambling debts by fixing a race, which takes quite a lot, including making a Panamese illegal jockey be replaced 'sick' by greenhorn Tracy Macgill, a niece of Jessica, who made a stop-over on the way to San Francisco to see her debut. When Tracey is arrested for the tranquilizer gun murder of Jack Bowen, Jessica fears the police won't solve the case and takes crash courses in betting and running a stable while investigating everybody involved, including unethical betting by the track security chief...

Season 2, Episode 9: Jessica Behind Bars

Original Air Date—1 December 1985
During Jessica's lecture in a woman's prison with an all-female staff, the doctor is found, killed by a morphine injection, with convict Mary's fingerprints on, but this is proven not to be the murder weapon. Next there is a revolt, which takes Jessica hostage but is ill-prepared: even the demands are a matter for debate. Jessica is now asked to investigate, and while she digs into malpractices apparently involving warden Gates, who has political ambition, and conflicts involving staff as well as prisoners, another staff member is killed. Jessica discovers things are not as they appear.

Season 2, Episode 10: Sticks and Stones

Original Air Date—15 December 1985
Amos eagerly retires, handing over his sheriff's star to real estate agent Harry Pierce, but then Beverly Gareth is found electrocuted in her bath. She was the heir to land of vital importance to Friedrich Hoffman's environmentally horrible 400 condos Cabot Cove coast development project. The town is flooded by gossip letters badmouthing -at least part are lies- Beverly, only one of which was sent by Elvira Tree, who is next found hung. Jessica, her guest New York travel reporter Michael Digby and Amos discover both women were murdered, how, by whom and why; meanwhile the new sheriff Pierce arrests repairman Larry Burns, who allegedly didn't fix Beverly's fatally ragged electric cord after an accusation from Adam Frobisher, then him and Hoffman, but Jessica does her own sleuthing...

Season 2, Episode 11: Murder Digs Deep

Original Air Date—29 December 1985
Jessica visits Dr. Seth Hazlitt at the New Mexico archaeological dig paid by Gideon Armstrong, led by Southwest University professor Dr. Stan Garfield, on the site of an Anasazi village, and perhaps Coronado's legendary city of gold, to which story TV celebrity Dr. Aubrey Benton holds the rights. Every evening an Indian ghost costume wearer sings on a cliff, till Armstrong's guards climb up scare him off, but on Jessica's second night Gideon's young wife Cynthia shoots at him and local Navajo Indian guide Raymond Two Crows -already found suspiciously uninformed about Pre-Columbian civilizations- falls to his death, although not hit by her bullet. After Jessica digs up a golden prayer stick, Seth finds Raymond actually died earlier of drowning. More gold is found, Gideon is determined to keep the news from spreading, according to his wife so he can buy the land first. Raymond's belongings inspire Jessica to unmasks several scammers.

Season 2, Episode 12: Murder by Appointment Only

Original Air Date—5 January 1986
Jessica's nephew Grady is applying for a job with the Lila Lee Cosmetics empire. Lila's brother Norman tries to soothe wounded feelings as Lila Lee tyrannizes her employees. Jessica is delighted to see former student Elizabeth Gordon, Norman's intended fiancée. When the inevitable murder happens, Jessica goes undercover as a Lila Lee lady to find the killer.

Season 2, Episode 13: Trial by Error

Original Air Date—12 January 1986
After Mark Lee Reynolds's wife Stephanie has a car accident which at best leaves her cripple for life while he is wounded at the left shoulder, criminal John Detweiler who sees him picking up a woman in a bar where he tries to drink some courage calls her jealous husband, goon Cliff Anderson, who knows his Becky is serially unfaithful. Jessica is foreperson of the jury which must decide if Mark committed murder or only killed in self-defense. She makes everyone go over the crucial witness and expert testimonies during the trial and slowly makes them shift focus from prejudices to evidence and logical deduction concerning premeditation, motive and material facts, pondering both theories, till she comes up with a crucial twist.

Season 2, Episode 14: Keep the Home Fries Burning

Original Air Date—19 January 1986
Bo Dixon is getting desperate as all his diner customers, even sheriff Tupper and his former waitress Cornelia, desert to the Joshua Peabody Inn on the Interstate. When he checks out the competition during breakfast and sees the owner Floyd Nelson row with the pseudo-French chef Alan Dupree, who wanted out of his three year contract by getting fired, there is a mild case of food poisoning and a fatal one: businessman Harrison Fraser III's wife Wilhelmina's best friend Betty Fiddler. While Dr. Seth Hazlitt calls in haughty health inspector Margo Perry and concludes on atropine, Jessica looks into the possibility of murder. The only missing item is a jar of old Mrs. Margo Perry's strawberry preserves, which Amos is allergic to. Jessica unmasks Dupree as a fake cordon bleu and Harrison as Betty Fiddler's adulterous lover, but also doubts the intended victim and ties up more minute observations...

Season 2, Episode 15: Powder Keg

Original Air Date—9 February 1986
When her friend Professor Ames Caulfield takes Jessica along to recover in the country after a literary conference, his car breaks down in southern Roper County, they'll have to stay a few days in the inn of Cassie Latham Burns, to his amazement a former student of his, whose charming adolescent son Matthew performs Country in Frank Kelso's saloon. Ames witnesses how the kid is publicly humiliated by slutty waitress Linda Bonner's brother Ed and his goons, including service station employees Andy Crane and Billy Willetts, all storm out furious and shouting threats. After Ed is found dead with stab wounds behind the rectory, his dad farmer Bonner uses his considerable clout to weigh on Sheriff Claudell Cox, who assures Jessica Matt is safest in jail, while after pulling a knife on Kelso the lynching-minded rabble assembles outside till Bonner breaks them up; the sheriff admits taking the bloody knife all the way to his home across town where it was found without dumping it in the river makes no sense. Jessica also guesses Cassie's and another secret.

Season 2, Episode 16: Murder in the Electric Cathedral

Original Air Date—16 February 1986
In Oklahoma, Electrical Cathedral TV preacher Willie John Fargo gets Jessica's philanthropist friend Carrie McKittrick to leave his church most of her family's oil fortune by last will. After a heart-attack provoked by her stepson Harvey McKittrick and his son Sam McKittrick's opposition to the will, Carrie dies in the Cathedral's hospital, from cyanide poisoning. Now the heirs produce a deathbed will leaving everything to the family again, which Jessica proves to be posthumously 'signed' by Sam holding her hand. Examining the trails of the fatal syringe in the hospital and the money in the virtual church, Jessica finds Fargo is a diabetic refusing to disclose his alibi; his prints are on the syringe, but...

Season 2, Episode 17: One Good Bid Deserves a Murder

Original Air Date—23 February 1986
Celebrity Richard Bennett gets Jessica to bid for him in San Francisco on suicided fellow star friend Evangeline's diary to destroy it. Before the auction she witnesses security guard Albert Cromwell reporting to auctioneer William Readford a failed offer of $5,000 to steal it for Evangeline's therapist Dr. Sylvia Dunn. At the auction, Richard's corpse is found in an armoire. SFPD Lt. Casey nearly arrests Jessica, speculating his check was made out in her name, but still doesn't do after Readford is found murdered too just when Jessica comes return to him the diary she found in the secret compartment of a chess set she privately bought from him. Dodgy P.I. Harland 'Harry' McGraw takes it on himself to 'offer for sale' a photocopy of the diary. Meanwhile Jessica follows up on people mentioned in the diary, finds out who had it auctioned and...

Season 2, Episode 18: If a Body Meet a Body

Original Air Date—9 March 1986
Cabot Cove financial adviser Henry Burning is scheduled to be cremated suspiciously quickly after dying on vacation in Fransdale with his wife and sole beneficiary Connie Vernon, who claims it was a heart-attack but is accused during the church service of killing him by his mistress Phyllis Walters; when the closed casket gets knocked over, it contains another man's corpse. Amos wants to solve this case himself, while Jessica has a manuscript deadline, and gets on great with the widow. Phyllis implores Jessica to find her lover's killer, claiming Henry was ready to leave Connie for her, and tells undertaker Silas Pike she's not romantically interested in him. Clients start asking their investment back from Henry's partner Ned Olson, who fails to find new takers and disapproves of his daughter Christy's relationship with idealist student Stew Bennett. Then Phyllis finds Henry's corpse in her place, but he dies two days after his 'funeral', Connie claims John Doe is a hitchhiker who happened to die from a heart-attack so they staged Henry's death to collect his life insurance. Olson announces the Pheasant Ridge investment fund's $1,000,000 capital was entirely withdrawn by Henry and is missing. Jessica looks very inspired when Stew reports his van stolen, things speed up and she sets a trap...

Season 2, Episode 19: Christopher Bundy - Died on Sunday

Original Air Date—30 March 1986
Jessica is unhappy her nephew accountant Grady Fletcher's new employer is the publisher Christopher Bundy, who just purchased the magazine Literary Lines which is to run one of her stories and transformed it from classy content to 'centerfold' thrash. When they visit him in the villa where he lives with his sister Rachel and her son Tony and daughter Vanessa from different marriages, Bundy convinces her to stay the night and meet with his lawyers and assures her the security cameras record only images, no sound, and not in bedrooms. Jessica convinces the magazine's broke original publisher Chester Harrison, kept on as figurehead, to put on a fight for its respectability. Then Bundy is shot dead inside, in a camera-dead angle. Detective Lt. Greco just suspects Chester, Jessica and Grady at first the butler but he's really undercover after Bundy's criminal family, then dig deeper. The sister inherits the empire and proves a shark herself, with Vanessa as right-hand. Then Jessica sees trough the killer's alibi.

Season 2, Episode 20: Menace, Anyone?

Original Air Date—6 April 1986
Jessica is the guest of honor opening the children's fund benefit exhibition tournament in Elliot Robinson's Green River Rocquet tennis club, where her young friend Carol McDermott has a managing position. Brian East, Carol's charming fiancé who dumped haughty fellow tennis player Cissy Barnes for her, is killed by a dynamite explosion in the car he borrowed from Carol. Investigating detective lieutenant Tad Travis is a fan of Jessica, but is killed by knife when he visits Carol at home; she claims the killer is her beloved sister Barbara, an alcoholic who was buried three years ago after a plane-crash, however her grave is untended and Carol was in a psychiatric institution at the time, which Travis had already discovered. Then Barbara turns up alive, admitting she switched identity with a dead passenger. Jesscii snoops on among the tennis people...

Season 2, Episode 21: The Perfect Foil

Original Air Date—13 April 1986
Jessica goes to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festival to check on cousin-in-law Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher as promised to old aunt Mildred. As her hotel was only booked from the next night, she goes straight to Cal's place, but the only man in the Cyrano de Bergerac costume she was told he wears ignores her and storms with drawn sword into a room besides the party hall from where a fight is heard, which leaves a real corpse, Johnny Blaze, with Cal written in blood besides him. NOPD Lt. Edmund Cavette concludes from her eye for murder scene details who Jessica is and explains the Lafitte mansion which Cal inherited is no home but a gambling place. Cavette arrests at his humbler home Cal, who claims he didn't even know what happened there, Cavette knows he was indebted to Blaze, now Cal admits he recently accused Blaze of cheating. Fellow gambler attorney Mitch Payne promises bail tomorrow and considers pleading self-defense; he got Blaze off a murder over cards he probably committed- on Cavette's own son Eric. Jessica untangles more sordid intrigues concerning such matters as Congressman Brad Gardner's IOU's which his rich wife Rosaline tried to buy back, Cal's fiancée Kitty Manette's infidelity, before trapping the killer at a reconstruction...

Season 2, Episode 22: If the Frame Fits

Original Air Date—18 May 1986
Just when Jessica visits her Cedar Heighs senior friend Lloyd Marcus, who insists to show her a manuscript 'from a friend' to read and comment on, the mysterious local art thief strikes again, right there on houseman Forbes's day off, as he does every few months without any witnesses. Next day they find his daughter Julia is robbed in her home, but also killed. Jessica, rather then police chief Cooper, who retired from the NYPD, investigates, examining the crime scenes, neighbors, friends, other art owners...

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 1

Original Air Date—28 September 1986
Favorite aunt Jessica arrives three days before the society wedding of Constance Fletcher, who is convinced the silver leprechaun she receives among the wedding gifts is from her grandfather, Jessica's late husband Frank's brother Neil Fletcher, who is presumed dead. When the antiques salesman sort of recognizes his picture as the out of town buyer, Jessica guesses right he may be among Edgar Carmody's family circus which was in town then, and goes snooping there. She in on Neil's rail, as he works there as roustabout under the name Carl Schulman, as Edgar knows. Carl ran but is arrested after unpopular Hank Sutter, who harassed fellow artist Katie McCallum and bullied her teenage son Charlie, is found dead near, however not trampled by elephants, as none has a blood-stained foot, but beaten to death, like with Charlie's beloved baseball bat which Hank took from the boy. Carl explains why he staged his own death to escape his loveless marriage. Jessica is determined to prove her in-law's innocence, investigating the other circus people, despite the almighty mayor Powers, who overrules the cripple, weak sheriff Lynn Childs, but then Hank confesses and indicates where the murder weapon is...

Season 3, Episode 2: Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 2

Original Air Date—5 October 1986
Only when Jessica tells Neil, who is cancer-terminal and inflicted himself a nasty wound, that Charlie's bat was taken away by bully Hank before his murder, he admits he only took the blame to protect the kid before running after finding the bloody bat behind the corpse. Roustabout Brad Kaneally swears his hands are always roughed up, from work. Then there is another staged near-accident and Harry Kingman is found strangled in an inn while Neil is still in jail on the mayor's orders, sheriff Lynn Childs decides to brave him and help Jessica, who makes circus owner Edgar Carmody tell her and his son Raymond is a former boxer and alcoholic on the run after a fatal fist fight in a bar and protected the McCallums against Hank, leaving him unconscious on the murder night, only the killer hit below the neck. Next Jessica finds Maylene Sutter knocked down and is drugged while her cart is torched where Jessica was lured by a note, but they are found in time. She now accuses and enforces a confession from...

Season 3, Episode 3: Unfinished Business

Original Air Date—12 October 1986
When lieutenant detective Barney Kale is offered a trip around the world at his third and final retirement, he announces to delay it till Spring to finish full-time what he considers his only unsolved murder case, his friend Lowel Dixon's drowning ten years ago at Juniper Lake in the midst of a property development scandal. Local motel proprietor Jake Sanford informs everyone who was into it, including Seth Hazlit. Worying doc may get in trouble, Jessica and Amos go looking, and find ex-con Gary Roberts shot in Kale's cabin, the cop claims his accident at the lake dock was doctored. They stay to help sheriff McCoy and Kale investigate the new and old murders, if linked to each-other -which she proves unlikely- and of course the other guests, including Gary's young widow Maggie Roberts whom he promised a fortune after this trip, Seth's period friend Cynthia Tate and her present friend Dr. Terence Mayhew. Finding Gary's killed cell-mate's phone-number makes Jessica wonder...

Season 3, Episode 4: One White Rose for Death

Original Air Date—19 October 1986
Another convoluted Michael Hagarty story, this one featuring hidden pasts, a secret society, and a murdered Embassy employee found clutching a white rose.

Season 3, Episode 5: Corned Beef & Carnage

Original Air Date—2 November 1986
Visiting her niece Victoria Brandon Griffin, Jessica finds her crumbled by her job in advertising to give husband Howard financial comfort to pursue his acting career, while he feels guilty for being a kept man. However Vicky gets arrested after finding her mean boss, Larry Kinkaid, skull smashed with an award her fingerprints are on, just after she resigned refusing to court a married client. Jessica forces NYPD lieutenant Spoletti to look further, notably the security guard's list of building visitors, including an obvious alias she traces to Christine Clifford, the man-eater from an agency which competed with Kinkaid for the Corned Beef Castle account, and the delivery of a sandwich. Furthermore she looks into the agency's office politics, notably Larry's older brother and heir Myron Kinkaid and senior account manager Aubrey Thornton, whose position was most precarious...

Season 3, Episode 6: Dead Man's Gold

Original Air Date—9 November 1986
Retired Navy Dr. Wylie Graham takes a yacht in Cabot Cove near his friend Seth while working in the nearest hospital. Ladiesman David Everett, a former flame of Jessica, is in town to have an 18th century treasure ship found by four young people who entered a tontine: the survivors inherit any deceased member's share. Just after they locate the ship, diver Bill Ainsley had a nearly fatal accident, probably equipment sabotage. Next Alexandra Bell, drunk from the celebratory champagne at Jessica's, is run over after twen partner Coby Russell dropped her off with money for a cab and a phone call; he's arrested, Jessica snoops on- 'Alex' actually died from a blow on the head before the hit. David is a plausible suspect for both acts, and deep in debt with loan-shark Ross Barber and his goon Gregory Small. When Ross Barber bails out, fearing for his safety, Jessica realizes he was the silent investor too and puts up a $10,000 loan. Then a key inspires her a chilling alternative scenario.

Season 3, Episode 7: Deadline for Murder

Original Air Date—16 November 1986
Respactable old-fashioned reporter Haskell Drake lands in hospital with a fit after his attack for sensationalist copy-doctoring at tycoon Lamar Bennett, who recently bought the Boston Daily Sentinel from equally conservative Walter Revere, gets him fired on the spot. Jessica tries to reason with Bennett on her old friend Drake's behalf but is told to come back at a celebratory drink in a hotel, where she witnesses Bennet getting a fatal brain hemorrhage while announcing Walter is fired too, which Jessica realizes can be induced by a combination of alcohol and pills, not necessarily taken simultaneously, while Bennet was on sinusitis medication, as she explained to grumpy BPD lieutenant A. Caruso, who concurs from the autopsy it was methaltionide and rather sees her as a suspect because of a rather defamatory recent article on her. When Jessica accepts to 'do some legwork' for an article Haskel plans on Lamar's sordid career she finds the Revere family, which hopes in vain to buy back control of the newspaper, touchy about that subject. Haskel discovers Lamar probably has an illegitimate child, possibly Walter's son Perry's fiancée and newspaper colleague Kay Garrett. Jessica thinks that trough plus an anomaly in Lamar's death's reporting.

Season 3, Episode 8: Magnum on Ice: Part 2

Original Air Date—23 November 1986
In Part 2 of a crossover story with "Magnum, P.I." (both episodes are shown on the "Murder" DVD, although not consecutively), Magnum has shot it out with a hired gunman at a party, killing him. Magnum claims the thug had fired several shots at him, including one just before Magnum returned fire. But the police can't find the gunman's weapon, and furthermore he was shot in the back. An overzealous police captain calls it murder one (huh?) and throws Magnum into the cooler pending trial. Jessica searches the crime scene and finds a shell casing which doesn't match Magnum's gun, fitting Magnum's theory. A horrified Higgins realizes that a gun similar to Magnum's -- and with a silencer, at that -- stolen from Robin Masters' collection could well be the murder weapon. The police captain won't give up, and puts out a fugitive warrant on Magnum when a second murder occurs in the same fashion as the first.

Season 3, Episode 9: Obituary for a Dead Anchor

Original Air Date—7 December 1986
When an obnoxious out-of-town TV personality is murdered, it's up to Jessica to figure out the killer.

Season 3, Episode 10: Stage Struck

Original Air Date—14 December 1986
Jessica visits a rural revival of a play she was in with her late husband Frank and present stars Julian Lord and Maggie Tarrow. On opening night, something scares Maggie out of performing, and her understudy Barbara Bennington is killed by cyanide poisoning of her red wine on stage. Local chief of police Merton P. Drock, who plays the butler, never solved a real murder, but trusts Jessica will provide him with the 'script', yet keeps on making precipitous conclusions and accusations as the links appear with the breaking off of the productions 30 years ago, when Maggie took a year off by ruse, as now appears to give birth in secret, plausibly to fake reporter T.J. Holt. Julian prevents a second cyanide killing which would murder Maggie. Who knew and resented what exactly?

Season 3, Episode 11: Night of the Headless Horseman

Original Air Date—4 January 1987
Only after arrival at Wenton, Vermont Jessica learns she was asked by her orphaned literary protégé Dorian Beecher, who succeeded as boys boarding school poetry teacher to the car accident-drowned daughter of local dentist Penn 'Doc' Walker, to play Dorian's 'mother' to impress his employer, Wenton Academy's pedigree-obsessed owner Edwin Dupont, whose daughter Sarah he loves, rivaled only by the studly riding instructor Nate Findley, an obnoxious womanizer who even did headmistress Charlotte Newcastle. Walking home after an embarrassing saber fight in a pub with Nate, Dorian is run down by the disguised headless horseman he always assumes to be Nate, on his black stallion Gunshot. Sheriff Rankin jails liar Dorian after Nate's decapitated corpse is found nearby, clumsily redressed as the horseman. Jessica sifts two plots from secrets and motives, involving an anonymous school funds embezzlement note, the secret society of mischievous schoolboys Todd Carrier, Robert and Brendan and a past crime...

Season 3, Episode 12: The Corpse Flew First Class

Original Air Date—18 January 1987
The luxury airline owned by Jessica's friend may go bankrupt unless Jessica can find out who is sabotaging it.

Season 3, Episode 13: Crossed Up

Original Air Date—1 February 1987
Grady nurses Jessica who must stay in bed with her bad back for weeks, bored to death. During a hurricane she overhears a crossed-up call from a raspy male voice about selling a Cabot Cove estate and killing an old male relative. Seth, Grady and Amos think she imagines the hired gun, but indeed that night widowed lumber millionaire Jedediah Rogers is found shot in his lavish estate where he lived alone with his sons Adam, Gordon and Morgan, who wanted him to leave the business and have no alibis, and orphaned granddaughter Leslie Cameron who was about to be made the sole heir instead. While Amos believes it's a mere burglary, Jessica joins the investigation by remote control Grady. Soon after once fired employee Abel Gorcey dies in a suspicious accident, a potential hired gun, and more danger lurks...

Season 3, Episode 14: Murder in a Minor Key

Original Air Date—8 February 1987
College music student Michael 'Mike' Prentice discovers that his professor Tyler Stoneham published a song based on a theme part of one of his assignments as his own composition, under the alias Alden Gilbert, but can't prove the plagiarist theft. The professor's wife Christine Stoneham also suspects him of adultery with a student. Professor Harry Papasian, Stoneham's assistant, is furious not to be mentioned as co-author on their new music dictionary. Stoneham is found stabbed to death in the archives where Mike was looking for the original partitions, enough for an arrest. His friend, law student Chad Singer, starts sleuthing, helped by fellow music student who helps trace more musical malversations to Broadway. Christine actually has a secret affair herself with Vice Chancellor Simon. Musical producer Max Hellinger promises Papazian $5,000 to help find some Gilbert songs, Chad finds out. After the lyrics writer is traced, Chad stages an elaborate reconstruction to trick the killer...

Season 3, Episode 15: The Bottom Line Is Murder

Original Air Date—15 February 1987
Jessica visits Denver for a TV book review program at KBLR, where her friend Dr. Jayne's husband Steve Honig produces arrogant Kenneth Chambers's program The Bottom Line, which exposes faulty products, or when he has his way picks his victim and even doctors the story unethically, while grossly abusing all staff. Janitor Bert Tanaka finds Chambers shot twice in his office chair shortly after he unjustly fired production assistant Ryan Monroe. DPD Lieutenant Lou Flannigan, who was Chambers's unofficial police consultant, lets Jessica 'observe'. The murder weapon is found in Steve's car. Jessica considers motives from ambition among station staff, as many get a better job and Kenneth was considering to leave everyone behind for a bigger one, and toy producer Joe Rinaldi, against whom Kenneth prepared a show, the tapes of which seem missing but are found in his safe with cash and other 'evidence' he used to extort Rinaldi and others potential show targets, but is puzzled by Chambers's chair facing the broken TV set and the cleaning, leading her to guess a major twist and set a trap...

Season 3, Episode 16: Death Takes a Dive

Original Air Date—22 February 1987
Jessica visits her old friend Harry McGraw (Orbach) in New York who has become wrangled in the high stakes game of boxing.

Season 3, Episode 17: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

Original Air Date—1 March 1987
Irene Rutledge can't afford a bike for her son Tommy, and Jessica lets him earn her husband's old bike by working in her garden. Artist Simon Thane says he has been working on a special canvas all summer, but hasn't let anyone see it. When Simon is found dead and the mysterious painting has disappeared, Amos arrests Irene for murder. But Jessica is convinced that Irene is innocent.

Season 3, Episode 18: No Laughing Murder

Original Air Date—15 March 1987
Mack Howard and Murray Gruen were a celebrated comical duo but party in anger. Murray's daughter Corey brings their friend Jessica along to his own Hiawatha lodge for her and Mack's son Kip Howard's engagement dinner. Murray however makes a scene, claiming Mack stole a fortune in royalties on videos of the duo, denied by Mack and his agent who claims there is no profit. Then Murray is stabbed in the back and suggests he only saw a color, that of Mack's robe. Later Murray's agent Phil Rinker is found hanging in the store-room, suicide according to a note apparently in his hand-writing. The sheriff being sick, his only deputy, local youngster Wylie B. Ledbetter, now proud Acting Police Chief, is delighted as a mystery fan to have Jessica coach his forensics and interviews, but startled when she proves by measurements it must have been a murder, staged as suicide. Jessica next concludes from a peephole the stabbing was a separate mischief, then proves it by setting a trap for Phil's killer...

Season 3, Episode 19: No Accounting for Murder

Original Air Date—22 March 1987
In an episode filmed in New York (mostly in a claustrophobic office building, although there are some exterior shots), Grady has landed work at an accounting firm where the owners are suspected of "cooking the books." Grady becomes the prime suspect when one of the partners is murdered, but Jessica discovers that a "phantom" rumored to haunt the office building is a real person, a homeless man who lives in the vents and air ducts, swipes food off desks, and may be a witness to the murder.

Season 3, Episode 20: The Cemetery Vote

Original Air Date—5 April 1987
Jessica visits C., an Idaho town, to comfort Linda says her husband, mayor Jim Stevens, just died in a car accident, or did he? His hot-headed pa Harry Stevens is dead-set to prove his death was the work of the corrupt sheriff Orville Yates and his hard-handed deputy Wayne Beeler, who are in cahoots with Kate Gunnerson's illegal gambling. Shortly after they go trough Jim's effects Harry storms out after seeing a ciphered reference, but is killed and left by the road, plundered even to his boots. State police captain Ernest Lenko confirms his raids and corruption investigations always failed because legal procedure forces him to inform the sheriff's office. Jessica thinks trough everything, especially relating to Jim's effects, and after being run off the road while accepting a ride from councilman David Carroll, probably intentionally not killed, just badly bruised, Yates's respectable opponent in the spring mayoral election, sets a trap...

Season 3, Episode 21: The Days Dwindle Down

Original Air Date—19 April 1987
When Jessica is pampered in the luxury suite of a hotel, she's approached shyly by restaurant employee Georgia Wilson, whose husband, accountant Sam, was recently released after 30 years jail, assuring he was framed for the shooting of his boss Richard Jarvis, who actually offered Sam his last $10,000 for help when his firm went bust, to make his suicide look like armed robbery so the insurance would pay the Jarvis family a fortune, only someone else really killed him. Their son Rob Wilson became a cop hoping to help his father, now puts all his experience at her disposal. While she, Rob and the now retired police Lt. Webb re-examine the forensics as well as the means, opportunities and motives of surviving members of both families, someone in the know shoots at Jessica with a matching bullet, but must have missed willingly. At least she puzzles the pieces of both shootings together and traps the perpetrators, but...

Season 3, Episode 22: Murder, She Spoke

Original Air Date—10 May 1987
Jessica is recording one of her murder stories on a tape for the blind in the Red River Studios at night, when director Randy Witworth allows it as a favor to producer Greg Dalton, whom he blinded in a car accident. During one of a recent series of mysterious power cuts interrupting recording sessions, Randy is fatally stabbed in the back with a steak-knife from the Dalton kitchen. Police lieutenant Faraday considers mystery writing a harmless hobby for useless women, real sleuthing man's work, Jessica's attention for a spilled bottle of expensive nail-polish just too much. Still she manages to follow and inspire the investigation, convinced Greg was framed. Randy was worrying about bootleg tapes risking to nullify his rising star Stoney Carmichael's contract, wondering if recording technicians Al Parker and/or Earl Tuchman were accomplices. His widow Margaret is hardly grieving, but already doing business with Carl Anglin, who immediately pulls the plug on the mystery tapes...

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: A Fashionable Way to Die

Original Air Date—20 September 1987
Jessica jaunts to Paris at the beckon of an old friend whose fashion boutique is in financial trouble. When a local loan shark is found murdered, Jessica must dig deep to ensure her friend is not fingered as the murderer.

Season 4, Episode 2: When Thieves Fall Out

Original Air Date—27 September 1987
When a strange man arrives at Jessica's door in Cabot Cove, he brings with him a decade-long grudge and thirst for revenge at having been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit 20 years earlier. Coming up against former students and colleagues from her days as a high school English teacher, Jessica is forced to examine the concept of justice.

Season 4, Episode 3: Witness for the Defense

Original Air Date—4 October 1987
Jessica obeys a Canadian court summoning to Quebec to give testimony in wealthy fledgling author friend Jim Harlan's trial concerning the death of his young wife Patricia in their country house's fire in his alleged absence. Nationally reputed Attorney Oliver Quayle refuses to acknowledge arson as murder mode; instead he fights the evidence, claiming it could be an accident, despite convincing indications she was even killed by a blow on the head before the fire. The couple was heard to fight over a nasty divorce. Jessica can't resist to do her own investigation, even questioning witnesses like the ex-con plumber, and snooping in the motel where Jim would have an alibi, staying with mistress Monica Blane, who seems to have disappeared. Instead of appreciating her help, the haughty lawyer starts discrediting her in court, referring to a allegedly stolen book plot, psychiatric history and even arrested relatives, none of which was ever convicted. Yet Jessica keeps sleuthing, unearths how Jim -who hurt his cause by silence- eloped with the ex-con showgirl and blackmail was paid by socialite, overbearing mother Judith Harlan, and gets help from Quayle's assistant Barnaby checking on the identification of the corps and dealing with P.I. Rudy Plansky, and a missing broach...

Season 4, Episode 4: Old Habits Die Hard

Original Air Date—11 October 1987
Jessica visits a convent to see a former sorority sister and winds up searching for a nun's killer.

Season 4, Episode 5: The Way to Dusty Death

Original Air Date—25 October 1987
A tyrant's demise puts Jessica on the trail of several of his betrayed executives.

Season 4, Episode 6: It Runs in the Family

Original Air Date—1 November 1987
Jessica's British cousin, Emma MacGill (played by Angela Lansbury), is charged with an old flame's murder.

Season 4, Episode 7: If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly

Original Air Date—8 November 1987
A handyman who has been paying attention to more than the houses of various Cabot Cove ladies needs Jessica's help when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder.

Season 4, Episode 8: Steal Me a Story

Original Air Date—15 November 1987
A bomb kills a TV producer who stole a plot from one of Jessica's books.

Season 4, Episode 9: Trouble in Eden

Original Air Date—22 November 1987
To look into a small-town murder, Jessica poses as the sister of the slain woman.

Season 4, Episode 10: Indian Giver

Original Air Date—29 November 1987
A Native Indian lays claim to Cabot Cove, throwing the town in chaos. When a local industrialist is found murdered, all signs point to the town's supposed new land owner.

Season 4, Episode 11: Doom with a View

Original Air Date—13 December 1987
Jessica and her nephew get more than they expected while staying at a posh New York hotel managed by Grady's old fraternity buddy.

Season 4, Episode 12: Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?

Original Air Date—3 January 1988
When Amos' sister & her in-laws descend upon Cabot Cove, Jessica hosts a dinner party with homicidal results, leaving the finger pointing at the Sheriff's sister.

Season 4, Episode 13: Harbinger of Death

Original Air Date—24 January 1988
Jessica visits her niece Carrie Palmer's husband Leonard Palmer, who actually forgot his own anniversary date, being an obsessively comets-devoted astronomy researcher at the Astro-Physics Institute where director Russell Armstrong and high-profile, high-maintenance careerist scientist Dr. Thor Lundquist insist they attend the reception they hold to land a Defense contract Leonard disapproves of. That night Leonard is seen rushing out without signing out or closing up his computer-programmed telescope, which is manually pointed at a 30 miles away vacation house owned by Armstrong, focused at the corps in it of Drake Eaton, the shot 'close employee' of influential arms press diva Madeline DeHaven. The house was lend to Leonard's daughter Carrie Palmer, who admits she had an affair with Drake. Jessica accepts to ghostwrite a book for investigating police sergeant Kettler to get access to all data, while Leonard is fired to avoid image damage. Conflicting statements from Leonard and Carrie make them the obvious suspects, yet Jessica suddenly concentrates on the programming of the telescope.

Season 4, Episode 14: Curse of the Daanav

Original Air Date—7 February 1988
Jessica convinces Seth to visit his estranged brother. When the brother is found murdered, the pair must try to figure out if a cursed ruby from India is responsible or whether a more sinister, human element is at fault.

Season 4, Episode 15: Mourning Among the Wisterias

Original Air Date—14 February 1988
Jessica is summoned to Savannah to help a friend with his play and receives an offer of marriage she didn't expect. Even more surprised are the man's plotting family.

Season 4, Episode 16: Murder Through the Looking Glass

Original Air Date—21 February 1988
While in Conneticut for a convention, Jessica hears the dying confession of a hit man and uncovers a mysterious safe house housing an important foreign dignitary.

Season 4, Episode 17: A Very Good Year for Murder

Original Air Date—28 February 1988
The Gambini family winery is the take-over target of organized crime and it's up to Jessica to uncover who is behind the murder of a mafia hit man.

Season 4, Episode 18: Benedict Arnold Slipped Here

Original Air Date—13 March 1988
The death of an eccentric shut-in brings the burden of executing her will to Jessica. How does the legend that Benedict Arnold once slept in the woman's house and a possible "treasure" fit into the puzzle?

Season 4, Episode 19: Just Another Fish Story

Original Air Date—27 March 1988
Jessica is delighted to return to New York City with the announcement of her nephew's impending engagement. But when a restaurant employee is found dead, the engagement is threatened. Norman Fell and Sonny Bono guest-star.

Season 4, Episode 20: Showdown in Saskatchewan

Original Air Date—10 April 1988
Jessica's niece is smitten with a rodeo rider and refuses to believe he could have committed a murder.

Season 4, Episode 21: Deadpan

Original Air Date—1 May 1988
When one of Jessica's former students brings a play based on one of her novels to Broadway, she finds herself in the middle of a war of words between rival critics. Dean Stockwell and Lloyd Bochner guest star.

Season 4, Episode 22: The Body Politic

Original Air Date—8 May 1988
Jessica comes to the aid of yet another dear old friend running as a senatorial candidate. When the candidate's campaign manager is murdered, Jessica must help prove her innocence.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: J.B.. as in Jailbird

Original Air Date—23 October 1988
A chance encounter with her old British intelligence friend Michael Hagarty leaves Jessica standing over a dead Bulgarian diplomat and accused of murder. Incarcerated, she has to leave it up to Grady and Michael to prove her innocence.

Season 5, Episode 2: A Little Night Work

Original Air Date—30 October 1988
After her publisher announces his impending retirement, Jessica heads to NYC where she is simultaneously wooed by potential new publishers and a smooth-talking jewel thief.

Season 5, Episode 3: Mr. Penroy's Vacation

Original Air Date—6 November 1988
Jessica is perplexed by the apparent murder of an elderly man points to two simple-minded, spinster sisters he was living with. First appearance of Ron Masak as the new sheriff Mort Metzger.

Season 5, Episode 4: Snow White, Blood Red

Original Air Date—13 November 1988
A massive storm results in Jessica snowed in at a ski lodge with an Olympic men's ski team and a murderer on the loose.

Season 5, Episode 5: Coal Miner's Slaughter

Original Air Date—20 November 1988
When a former student is arrested for murder, Jessica heads to West Virginia to bail her out. The unfriendly town hinders her investigation.

Season 5, Episode 6: Wearing of the Green

Original Air Date—27 November 1988
In New York City researching her next book, Jessica is drawn into a mystery involving a priceless tiara, a reclusive former actress and a news reporter accused of murder.

Season 5, Episode 7: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

Original Air Date—18 December 1988
Jessica is summoned to California where a recently recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.

Season 5, Episode 8: Prediction: Murder

Original Air Date—1 January 1989
Lee Goddard successfully coaxed Jessica to join him at his ranch in Arizona after the harrowing events of the previous episode, but intrigue and murder follow them there when a mysterious psychic joins them.

Season 5, Episode 9: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

Original Air Date—8 January 1989
Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.

Season 5, Episode 10: Weave a Tangled Web

Original Air Date—15 January 1989
The murder of a womanizing gambler leads to double lives being exposed in seemingly quaint and old-fashioned Cabot Cove.

Season 5, Episode 11: The Search for Peter Kerry

Original Air Date—5 February 1989
Jessica aids yet another dear old friend in his search for his missing grandson.

Season 5, Episode 12: Smooth Operators

Original Air Date—12 February 1989
While in New York, a missing shoe on the discovered dead body of a homeless person leads Jessica to believe the supposed accidental death was not an accident.

Season 5, Episode 13: Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

Original Air Date—19 February 1989
Jessica is suspicious when the appearance of the ghost of a long-dead witch burned at the stake coincides with the release of a book on the very subject.

Season 5, Episode 14: From Russia... with Blood

Original Air Date—26 February 1989
Jessica is detained in Moscow when a spy attempts to smuggle film out of the Soviet Union in her handbag.

Season 5, Episode 15: Alma Murder

Original Air Date—12 March 1989
Jessica is summoned to her old alma mater when one of her college professors confesses to a murder Jessica believes he didn't really commit.

Season 5, Episode 16: Truck Stop

Original Air Date—2 April 1989
Jessica is detoured on her way to LA at a seedy truck stop where a series of murders makes it apparent she isn't there by accident.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Sins of Castle Cove

Original Air Date—9 April 1989
A vindictive, tell-all work of fiction mirroring Cabot Cove sends the townspeople into an uproar, and when a murder occurs following the plot of the book it's up to Jessica to separate fact from fiction.

Season 5, Episode 18: Trevor Hudson's Legacy

Original Air Date—16 April 1989
Jessica heads to Montana to aid a young friend editing the last manuscript of the late writer Trevor Hudson, but when murder results she must weed through the lies of Hudson's scheming family to uncover the truth.

Season 5, Episode 19: Double Exposure

Original Air Date—30 April 1989
Jessica encounters a man in Boston whom she is convinced is her neighbor from years back, but when the man denies it--and his wife claims the man is dead--Jessica recruits Harry McGraw to dig to the bottom of the mystery.

Season 5, Episode 20: Three Strikes, You're Out

Original Air Date—7 May 1989
Jessica visits her nephew Johnny, recently recruited onto a Major League Baseball team, and then must solve the murder of a scheming news reporter.

Season 5, Episode 21: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 1

Original Air Date—14 May 1989
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.

Season 5, Episode 22: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 2

Original Air Date—21 May 1989
Jessica fears the worst when Seth is poisoned, meanwhile Cabot Cove is abuzz when Eudora McVeigh is determined to fill Jessica's role in solving a local murder.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Appointment in Athens

Original Air Date—24 September 1989
Jessica is detoured from a scheduled book tour after encountering MI6 agent Michael Haggerty and he convinces her to pose as his wife in Greece.

Season 6, Episode 2: Seal of the Confessional

Original Air Date—1 October 1989
Cabot Cove's young, new priest finds himself in a sticky situation when a murderer confesses their crime and he recruits Jessica to help him uncover the truth without violating his oath of silence.

Season 6, Episode 3: The Grand Old Lady

Original Air Date—8 October 1989
Jessica narrates a story from 40 years ago when another female mystery writer helped to solve a mysterious murder aboard the Queen Mary.

Season 6, Episode 4: The Error of Her Ways

Original Air Date—15 October 1989
In Palm Springs, Jessica teams up with the local chief of police to figure out who killed a local investor and what happened to a large amount of money.

Season 6, Episode 5: Jack and Bill

Original Air Date—29 October 1989
Jessica narrates the story of an ex-football player turned private eye who investigates the murder of his old teammate with the help of a savvy pooch.

Season 6, Episode 6: Dead Letter

Original Air Date—5 November 1989
Jessica's acquisition of an old bureau at a rummage sale unleashes a chain of events that leads to the death of a local volunteer fireman in a furniture store.

Season 6, Episode 7: Night of the Tarantula

Original Air Date—12 November 1989
Voodoo black magic is the apparent cause of death of her host, leaving Jessica to figure out the truth while visiting an old friend in Jamaica.

Season 6, Episode 8: When the Fat Lady Sings

Original Air Date—19 November 1989
Jessica is drawn into an appropriately melodramatic situation when a renowned opera singer is accused of murder in San Francisco.

Season 6, Episode 9: Test of Wills

Original Air Date—26 November 1989
On a dark and stormy night on a remote island, Jessica finds herself in the middle of a wealthy family squabbling over the inheritance of a millionaire.

Season 6, Episode 10: Class Act

Original Air Date—3 December 1989
Jessica narrates the tale of a burnt-out police detective sent to teach a university criminology class and challenges his students to solve a real homicide.

Season 6, Episode 11: Town Father

Original Air Date—17 December 1989
Scandal abounds during election time in Cabot Cove when the Mayor is reputed to have a secret wife who comes to confront him with murderous results.

Season 6, Episode 12: Good-Bye Charlie

Original Air Date—7 January 1990
Jessica narrates her newest novel about a bumbling private eye and his girlfriend inadvertently solving a murder by trying to cash in on a dead relative's will.

Season 6, Episode 13: If the Shoe Fits

Original Air Date—21 January 1990
A womanizing Cabot Cove landlord is found murdered and Jessica must prove the innocence of a young boy's mother who is accused of the crime.

Season 6, Episode 14: How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying

Original Air Date—4 February 1990
Jessica's trip to New York City to meet with her stockbroker becomes complicated when the broker is found murdered and his secretary charged with the crime.

Season 6, Episode 15: The Fixer-Upper

Original Air Date—11 February 1990
Intrigue abounds in sunny California when Jessica's niece Victoria is accused of the murder of a rich movie heiress in Beverly Hills.

Season 6, Episode 16: The Big Show of 1965

Original Air Date—25 February 1990
Murder occurs at the reunion of a variety show, site of a similar crime 25 years earlier.

Season 6, Episode 17: Murder -- According to Maggie

Original Air Date—4 March 1990
A show cancellation coincides with a network executive's murder.

Season 6, Episode 18: O'Malley's Luck

Original Air Date—25 March 1990
Jessica's friend, police Lt. O'Malley, and his rookie niece solve the case of a businessman's wife's apparent suicide.

Season 6, Episode 19: Always a Thief

Original Air Date—8 April 1990
Jessica's friend, former jewel thief Dennis Stanton, solves a high-society collector's coin theft and murder.

Season 6, Episode 20: Shear Madness

Original Air Date—29 April 1990
When a murder is committed shortly after the release of a mentally handicapped man, Jessica helps the man's sister prove his innocence.

Season 6, Episode 21: The Szechuan Dragon

Original Air Date—6 May 1990
While Jessica is out of town, her nephew Grady and his pregnant wife Donna house sit. When waken at night they find a peg-legged man murdered on the living room floor.

Season 6, Episode 22: The Sicilian Encounter

Original Air Date—20 May 1990
Cross, double-cross, and triple-cross as Michael Hagarty and representatives of other governments try to elicit information and money from a Mafia family.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 1: Trials and Tribulations

Original Air Date—16 September 1990
Jessica is accused of false testimony and bribery in the death of an escaping murderer.

Season 7, Episode 2: Deadly Misunderstanding

Original Air Date—23 September 1990
Jessica tries to exonerate a temporary employee accused of her husband's murder.

Season 7, Episode 3: See You in Court, Baby

Original Air Date—30 September 1990
Dennis Stanton tries to clear a man of charges he murdered an unscrupulous divorce attorney.

Season 7, Episode 4: Hannigan's Wake

Original Air Date—28 October 1990
Jessica reopens a 16-year-old murder case at the urging of a dying author who felt injustice was done.

Season 7, Episode 5: The Family Jewels

Original Air Date—4 November 1990
Jessica's night at a political fund-raiser turns to murder.

Season 7, Episode 6: A Body to Die For

Original Air Date—11 November 1990
The owner of a new, hot fitness club in Cabot Cove has secrets that lead to murder.

Season 7, Episode 7: The Return of Preston Giles

Original Air Date—18 November 1990
Out on parole, Jessica's former publisher tries to woo her back into the fold.

Season 7, Episode 8: The Great Twain Robbery

Original Air Date—25 November 1990
A purported Twain manuscript begets greed, deception, arson, and murder.

Season 7, Episode 9: Ballad for a Blue Lady

Original Air Date—2 December 1990
Jessica gets enmeshed in feuds, infidelity, and murder in Nashville.

Season 7, Episode 10: Murder in F Sharp

Original Air Date—16 December 1990
A former jewel thief turned insurance investigator untangles a murder mystery.

Season 7, Episode 11: Family Doctor

Original Air Date—6 January 1991
A quiet dinner out for Seth and Jessica ends abruptly when he is forced to care for an injured Mafia kingpin. Will Seth and Jessica survive?

Season 7, Episode 12: Suspicion of Murder

Original Air Date—20 January 1991
Dennis Stanton investigates the murder of a prominent pianist wife.

Season 7, Episode 13: Moving Violation

Original Air Date—3 February 1991
Sheriff Metzer defies political pressure and arrests an ambassador's son for various charges, including reckless driving, and trying to bribe an officer. Later, the son is found dead, and Metzger finds himself charged with murder.

Season 7, Episode 14: Who Killed J. B. Fletcher?

Original Air Date—10 February 1991
A fan, posing as Jessica, is arrested and later murdered.

Season 7, Episode 15: The Taxman Cometh

Original Air Date—17 February 1991
An IRS-plagued women may have killed her informer husband.

Season 7, Episode 16: From the Horse's Mouth

Original Air Date—24 February 1991
A clash between Kentucky Thoroughbred breeders leads to murder.

Season 7, Episode 17: The Prodigal Father

Original Air Date—10 March 1991
The presumed dead perpetrator of a 20-year-old bank robbery resurfaces, then is murdered.

Season 7, Episode 18: Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?

Original Air Date—17 March 1991
A shy ventriloquist is suspected of murdering a ruthless comedy club owner.

Season 7, Episode 19: Thursday's Child

Original Air Date—7 April 1991
Jessica is pulled into a murder investigation by a woman who claims Jessica's husband fathered her son.

Season 7, Episode 20: Murder, Plain and Simple

Original Air Date—28 April 1991
During Jessica's trip to Amish country, her escort is accused of murder.

Season 7, Episode 21: Tainted Lady

Original Air Date—5 May 1991
The poisoning deaths of three customers point to the local diner owner.

Season 7, Episode 22: The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane

Original Air Date—12 May 1991
A writer is murdered after sending Jessica a manuscript exposing a kidnapping scam.

Season 8

Season 8, Episode 1: Bite the Big Apple

Original Air Date—15 September 1991
Jessica takes a teaching position in New York, gets an apartment and finds its previous tenant murdered.

Season 8, Episode 2: Night Fears

Original Air Date—22 September 1991
A professor and ex-cop challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of campus muggings.

Season 8, Episode 3: Unauthorized Obituary

Original Air Date—29 September 1991
A murdered writer leaves a devoted sister, a grieving husband, and a tangle of secrets for Jessica to sort.

Season 8, Episode 4: Thicker Than Water

Original Air Date—6 October 1991
Sheriff Metzer assumes his younger brother, the black sheep of the family, is guilty as charged, of murder.

Season 8, Episode 5: Lines of Excellence

Original Air Date—3 November 1991
Jessica accidentally discovers a box of computer tapping which leads to murder when she trades in her typewriter for a computer.

Season 8, Episode 6: Judge Not

Original Air Date—10 November 1991
Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.

Season 8, Episode 7: Terminal Connection

Original Air Date—17 November 1991
When a friend is charged with murdering her abusive husband, Jessica tries to help.

Season 8, Episode 8: A Killing in Vegas

Original Air Date—24 November 1991
Jessica tries to disprove charges against her friend's boyfriend, suspected of murdering a Las Vegas casino manager.

Season 8, Episode 9: The Committee

Original Air Date—1 December 1991
Jessica is the first women to speak at a function at an all-male club, then a member is murdered.

Season 8, Episode 10: The List of Yuri Lermentov

Original Air Date—15 December 1991
Len Cariou reprises his role as Michael Hagarty, this time to use Jessica to smuggle information out of Russia.

Season 8, Episode 11: Danse Diabolique

Original Air Date—5 January 1992
Jessica unravels the death of a ballerina after she dances a ballet that has killed everyone who has tried it.

Season 8, Episode 12: The Witch's Curse

Original Air Date—12 January 1992
Cabot Cove suspects a woman playing a witch in a community play is the real thing.

Season 8, Episode 13: Incident in Lot #7

Original Air Date—19 January 1992
The would-be producer of the movie adaptation of Jessica's latest book dies.

Season 8, Episode 14: The Monte Carlo Murders

Original Air Date—2 February 1992
Jessica probes a Monte Carlo murder for which her hotelier friend is a suspect.

Season 8, Episode 15: Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief

Original Air Date—1 March 1992
Jessica gets involved in a British Intelligence operation's cover-up of a double agent's murder.

Season 8, Episode 16: Ever After

Original Air Date—8 March 1992
An actress neighbor involves Jessica in her husband's murder.

Season 8, Episode 17: To the Last Will I Grapple with Thee

Original Air Date—15 March 1992
Jessica tackles the mystery of a man who apparently migrated from Ireland to New York for the sole purpose of taking revenge on an old friend of hers, but is killed himself.

Season 8, Episode 18: Programmed for Murder

Original Air Date—5 April 1992
A computer programmer's death may mean a malpractice suit for Seth, but Jessica suspects murder.

Season 8, Episode 19: Day of the Dead

Original Air Date—26 April 1992
The noise and costumes of the Mexican "Day of the Dead" fiesta make it hard for Jessica to identify a killer.

Season 8, Episode 20: Angel of Death

Original Air Date—3 May 1992
A playwright haunted by his wife's suicide loses another family member to murder.

Season 8, Episode 21: Badge of Honor

Original Air Date—10 May 1992
Seth is thrilled that Ben Oliver, an old Army buddy long thought dead, is alive and coming to Cabot Cove. Then PI Lawrence Jarvis turns up, claiming that Ben robbed a jewelry store. Ben does so well at the mechanic job Seth got for him that owner Mason Porter promotes him to boat salesman, to which his nephew objects. Jarvis tells Jessica he will catch Ben, no matter what it takes. When Mason Porter is found dead with $60,000 missing from his company safe, and $10,000 is found in Ben's room, it is up to Jessica to clear him by finding the real killer.

Season 8, Episode 22: Murder on Madison Avenue

Original Air Date—17 May 1992
In New York City, Jessica is helping to develop a mystery board game for Marathon Toys, run by legendary eccentric Edgar Greenstreet, although Meredith Delaney tells Jessica she is really running the company. Meredith fires a long-time Marathon employee. Meredith's husband Devery McFarlane tells her he knows about the affair and asks when he'll be fired. Two ad agencies are competing for the Marathon account; Meredith is having an affair with the president of one, Boris Steloff, until she sees him kiss an agent of the other he is trying to hire on her orders. Only Meredith's longtime secretary seems unqualifiedly loyal. When Meredith is found dead in Greenstreet's high-security lab, Brian Singer's fingerprints are on the murder weapon.

Season 9

Season 9, Episode 1: Murder in Milan

Original Air Date—20 September 1992
In Milan for a film festival, Jessica is caught between a hot director who wants out of a contract, a possessive producer who wants to keep him but is having money problems from late billings, an ingénue's father who used to be a successful screenwriter, an angry former partner of the producer, a rival producer who wants the director for a picture, and the producer's partner who may know something about the late billings. But whose agenda included murder?

Season 9, Episode 2: Family Secrets

Original Air Date—27 September 1992
Jessica's former student Randy Sloan is back in Cabot Cove to research a 30-year-old murder that someone wants to stay buried. Pretty waitress Sally Bates interests both Randy and rich boy Neal Latimer. But is the secret Randy has discovered worth killing to keep?

Season 9, Episode 3: The Mole

Original Air Date—4 October 1992
Maxwell Hagen is a prominent businessman and philanthropist. When Jessica is kidnapped and taken to Hagen, he recognizes she is not the missing informant his thugs were supposed to get, but Hagen pretends it must have been someone else. With the help of newspaperman Brynie Sullivan, Jessica tries to locate the mystery woman before Hagen's thugs do.

Season 9, Episode 4: The Wind Around the Tower

Original Air Date—1 November 1992
In Ireland to research a new book, Jessica is a guest at a house supposedly haunted by a weeping ghost. The owner, Neal Gillen, fears he is going to be murdered and has asked the help of Jessica's ex-policeman friend Sean Culhane. When Neal dies, the possible suspects include his apparently loving wife, his cousin who has been dipping into the corporate accounts, a neighbor whose land Neal bought cheap, and a village girl who had her own agenda.

Season 9, Episode 5: The Dead File

Original Air Date—15 November 1992
Jessica appears in a comic strip accusing various people of wrongdoing and triggering a lawsuit -- but the author insists he had nothing to do with it and his inker is killed in his studio.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 13

1:00 AM

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Season 9, Episode 6: Night of the Coyote

Original Air Date—22 November 1992
In Silverville, New Mexico, Max Teller has turned a ghost town into a tourist attraction, but a bank loan officer wants to buy it, a former cohort in crime arrives to blackmail him, and a thieving hand that he fires threatens him. When the Silverville Museum burns, mysterious Sheriff Keeyani appears to get word from the spirits that it was arson, but Jessica realizes he is covering standard police procedure with a show. Max is killed, and it may have been related to treasure missing from an 1898 holdup.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 13

2:00 AM

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Season 9, Episode 7: Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice

Original Air Date—29 November 1992
Michael Hagarty needs Jessica's help when he tries to prevent his estranged daughter's engagement to a man who is later found dead.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 20

12:48 AM

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Season 9, Episode 8: The Classic Murder

Original Air Date—6 December 1992
The father of Jessica's editor disappears with $150 million.

Next US airings:

Mon. July 20

1:54 AM

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Season 9, Episode 9: A Christmas Secret

Original Air Date—13 December 1992
The future son-in-law of a prominent Cabot Cove family is suspected in a shooting.

Season 9, Episode 10: The Sound of Murder

Original Air Date—3 January 1993
Jessica records one of her novels for the blind and while at the recording studio Jessica is invited to a taping of a rock video. When a murder happens during the taping Jessica tries to find the murderer.

Season 9, Episode 11: Final Curtain

Original Air Date—10 January 1993
Seth's old friend, actor David North, returns to Cabot Cove to try out a play in the local playhouse. At auditions for the minor roles, Lyman Taggart gives a terrible reading but is convinced the director and North are out to get him. At dinner that night, Taggart shows up again and threatens North. Meanwhile, North's former manager Eric Benderson shows up and moves in. As Seth tries to reassure a hard-drinking North, Taggart tries to enlist Jessica's help to get him in the play, and threatens her when she brushes him off. When Taggart crashes a cast party, Benderson throws him out. Later, Seth finds Benderson injured in the theater, and he later dies. Taggart comes out of a room at the Lighthouse Motel, and as Sheriff Metzger chases him, Jessica notices the motel room is burning. Jessica thinks North might be in danger and they rush to his hotel, where they smell gas and Metzger pulls an unconscious North out of his room. Jessica and Seth think it was an attempted suicide. Jessica comes to the theater to catch the conscience of the murderer with new pages to the play.

Season 9, Episode 12: Double Jeopardy

Original Air Date—17 January 1993
Slumlord Frank Fernandez is acquitted of the murder of City Councilman Roberto Galvan, but Galvan's family is sure he was guilty. Father Michael intends to run for Galvan's council seat, but Frank Fernandez threatens him, and he reveals to Jessica that Fernandez is his father. Frank discovers his son Raymond is selling drugs. But when Frank is killed, the more Jessica investigates, the more likely it looks like one of the Galvan boys did it.

Season 9, Episode 13: Dead Eye

Original Air Date—7 February 1993
The discovery of a 30-year-old corpse brings a collection of interested to people to Miami, including the first appearance of recurring character Charlie Garrett. Jessica is attending a writers' convention and accompanies the dead man's daughter Laura as more murders line the trail of missing negatives.

Season 9, Episode 14: Killer Radio

Original Air Date—14 February 1993
In the Midwest for a book tour, Jessica is to be featured on KGAB radio, whose killer DJ Marcus Rule is broadcasting rumors that may kill David Osterman's state senate campaign. Jessica is visiting little Easton not only to promote her latest book but to visit Jonathan Baker, the son of an old friend. Rule wants to move to a larger market, but he and station owner Colin Crowe threaten each other. Jessica decimates Rule on the air and attends the grand opening of the station's 25,000 watt transmitter. But the surprise of the event is the discovery of Colin Crowe's body, shot with Jonathan's gun.

Season 9, Episode 15: The Petrified Florist

Original Air Date—21 February 1993
Jessica must unravel the reason behind the murder of a popular florist.

Season 9, Episode 16: Threshold of Fear

Original Air Date—28 February 1993
In New York, Alice Morgan never leaves her apartment, haunted by dreams of her mother's murder five years earlier. When she sees the dream-murderer, architect Jordan Barnett, on television, she is terrified. When he comes to her door, she is convinced he did murder her mother. Alice's psychiatrist seems mostly interested in insulating her from other people. When Barnett is killed, is Alice out of danger, or in even more danger?

Season 9, Episode 17: The Big Kill

Original Air Date—7 March 1993
In Cabot Cove, fisherman Henry Riddett is making illegal arms deliveries for businessman Martin Fraser, who is desperate to keep his company afloat. Fraser has not shared his company problems with girlfriend Eve Simpson. When Riddett quits, he is found dead on his boat before he can warn Sheriff Metzger. Fraser's only hope for a big order to revive his company is a subsurface monitoring device that isn't functional yet. Financial adviser Carl Ward discovers the illegal sales and demands a piece of the pie or he'll go to the feds. Shortly thereafter, Ward is found dead on Fraser's company boat. It's up to Jessica to put the pieces together and identify the murderer.

Season 9, Episode 18: Dead to Rights

Original Air Date—21 March 1993
When Jessica finds out her research assistant Dana Ballard has been imprecise and lied to her, she checks to find out she was fraudulently used as Dana's reference to get a job with a Seattle stock-broker, who is murdered and Dana holds the smoking gun... yet she ends up teaming up with socially handicapped public defender Vincent Polaski and NYPD Lieutenant Gabriel Rodino to prove the plot is even thicker and the real murderer ...

Season 9, Episode 19: Lone Witness

Original Air Date—4 April 1993
Tommy, a high school kid trained as a swimmer by his over-demanding dad, also has a job as a grocery delivery boy and thus met Jessica who accepted to coach his promising stories. When he tells her in panic he saw and was shot at by a man bent over the corpse of another regular client, the police find nothing and first call him a lying prankster, then a suspect as the gun turns up; he's also declared the only suspect when the man he saw is found dead in the pool where he trained. Jessica proves his innocence by finding the unlikely killer.

Season 9, Episode 20: Ship of Thieves

Original Air Date—2 May 1993
When Jessica goes on a luxury cruise paid for by her publisher, she smells a rat as things get stolen and her acquaintance Dennis Stanton, formerly an insurance investigator, soon confides in her he's the undercover security chief watching a suspected master jewel thief. As a female passenger who boarded under a murdered woman's name is found dead herself, the two sleuths unearth the connection with a money laundering circuit.

Season 9, Episode 21: The Survivor

Original Air Date—9 May 1993
When Jessica's computer consultant Paula Raynor, who has no family, is only identified in hospital after a car accident by her coordinates, our sleuth takes an interest in the case, as Paula's boy friend John Bondy who apparently died in the crash soon turns out to be a murdered young undercover cop who was just assigned to a police team that recently suffered several serious setbacks presumed to be the work of a rotten cop.

Season 9, Episode 22: Love's Deadly Desire

Original Air Date—16 May 1993
Shortly after novelist Sibilla Stone has an apparently fixed 'accident' in her Cabot Cove boat-shed, her sister is murdered at night on the beach wearing her gray cloak, so who was the intended victim? Various people in her entourage have secrets, and there's a smuggle route that seems the key to the sheriff, but Jessica proves a less obvious theory just in time to prevent a next murder.

Season 10

Season 10, Episode 1: A Death in Hong Kong

Original Air Date—12 September 1993
Jessica Fletcher has finally accepted House of Dunbar tycoon Brian's wife Emma Soon Dunbar's invitation to visit Hong Kong; while she's admiring Burmese jade, her host gets kidnapped, asking a $200,000 cash ransom. Police Insp. McLaughlin suggests the ransom will probably be quickly paid and insure a release, it's almost routine in the last years before the PRC's takeover, and so it happens. Unlike Emma, Brian is inclined to believe it was just another move by his merger-candidate Kai Kuan, whose son David is actually dating Brian's daughter April Dunbar, a forbidden love. Dunbar-executive Mark Tower, who was found out selling goods supposedly destroyed in a warehouse fire to Shangai by womens apparel-division head Louise Walton, offers his services to the Kuans. Even though the merger talks look like a dead-end, the sumptuous 110th Dunbars anniversary banquet goes on with the Kuans for appearances sake, serving a century egg- which kills Brian by cyanide concentrate, some of which is found in firm heir Emma's ceramics studio...

Season 10, Episode 2: For Whom the Ball Tolls

Original Air Date—26 September 1993
Jessica helps her friend Margaret Johnson and preservation committee president Carol Collins fight against a New York development project which would cause a historical building, where Ernest Hemingway, author of For Whom the Bell Tolls (hence the title), once had an apartment, to be torn down if the last adjoining building is sold to them, but Nolan Walsh holds out with his pubs lease, even throws developer Eugene Gillrich out after promises and threats quite violently in public. Eugene and his wife Lee are desperate to save the project, while his brother and partner Walter wants to consider an alternate site; Eugene secretly romances Carol Collins. Then Walter is found shot dead at Eugene's desk, presumably Eugene was the target. NYPD Lieutenant Artie Gelber and Detective Henderson examine, and arrest Margaret after finding her fingerprints in the office. Jessica gives her an alibi, though not foolproof, and finds evidence Walter's body was moved, so he was the intended victim, and indeed the bullet is in Eugene's office. Jessica notices Carol ordered her usual drink at Nolan's pub, so she probably knew Eugene in advance, unlike her claim. Improbable mail gives Jessica a clue the 87 year-old is deceased; her heiress, a nurse, wanted to keep the apartment and inspires Jessica about a parking matter, the key to the murder plot...

Season 10, Episode 3: The Legacy of Borbey House

Original Air Date—3 October 1993
Two teenagers making out in the cemetery get the scare of their lives when a man crawls out of a grave. Jessica's house needs electric and plumbing repairs, but her handyman Charles Wetherby is called away to her anger by grumpy rich client Lawrence Baker who recently moved into the mansion Borbey House, a huge contract. Dr. Howard Sorenson, the visiting grave riser, congratulates Jessica in the library on her book research on sepulchers, in his occult field of research. Jessica's assistant Molly Holt's boyfriend Dave Perrin keeps looking for his sister Laurel who's missing since 18 months. Another nightly teenage couple is scared to death when they find- in daylight, just an mannequin arm. Wetherby cancels Jessica's repairs after Baker agreed to structural work on a wall, doubling the restoration contract price. Molly's dad, a local shopkeeper, refuses to deal with Baker after finding out nobody knows about him and he only pays cash. Lauren's corps is found on a boat. Dr. Howard Sorenson is caught snooping in Baker's place, and reacts like a vampire killer; next Sheriff Mort Metzger and Jessica are called to Baker's body in Borbey House, murdered with a wooden stake, but not the ash-wood required according to vampire literature. Sorenson reports he found William Borbey's grave was empty; the name Borbey is the Hungarian equivalent of Baker; Sorenson points out Baker never left in daylight, kept no mirrors and may thus still be an undead vampire. Baker's butler Peter Jatich's fingerprints match an ex-Stasi. Jessica figures out how everything ties together.

Season 10, Episode 4: The Phantom Killer

Original Air Date—24 October 1993
In New York Jessica gets interviewed and followed by sweat young profile-writer Ben Forman; his agent Dean Richards is threatened in her presence by bully competing producer Harrison M. Kane, who tells his publisher Carter Drummond he'll buy the magazine and tries to recruit Ben directly. Dean bitches to photographer Hans Dietrich and star model Kathryn Scofield who is intimate with Hans. Ben follows Abby Peters who he heard being roughed up by Kane, who is found dead by electrocution in the hotel bath shortly after. NYPD Lt. Artie Gelber investigates and soon realizes the man made enemies constantly. Dean calls Jessica who is surprised Ben hasn't handed in a single page; she and the police catch him impersonating inexistent agent Gary Manion, he's charged with the murder and confesses, but she can't believe he would leave such obvious evidence against his alter-ego and guesses right he only protects Abby who reassures them she's innocent. Artie still intends to nail Ben, but Jessica finds out what really happened...

Season 10, Episode 5: A Virtual Murder

Original Air Date—31 October 1993
Cabot Cove's own youngster Alex Hooper, who got his first job with virtual reality-video game expert Michael Burke, has got Jessica to write a murder script 'A Killing at Hastings Rock' for their firm Marathon to design one about. The test version has grave program flaws, which may sink the firm by missing a nearby press presentation deadline- Jessica promises to rewrite the script so the failing character is no longer needed. Two partners secretly go to Redwood Concepts where James Lindstrom tells its CEO John/Charles Crowe he demands a bonus for dealing with him now he knows about his criminal past and name change, while his partner David Salt promises 'another solution'. It works, but programing out a confusing set of pointless doors would take too long. During the reception Michael gets called by his P.I., Dan Porter, and confronts James about his contacting Crowe, who is there too; shortly after James' corps is discovered, presumably found out stealing essential source codes. Michael openly suspects Crowe. Investigating police Sergeant Ignacio Delcanto suspects a professional murder and arrests Michael because his finger prints where found on the murder weapon, Lindstrom's own gun. Jessica contacts Porter, having heard his name, and suggests he extorted a small fortune for withholding from Michael David Salt's involvement. Alex and Jessica hack James' computer, which inspires Jessica to set up the real murderer...

Season 10, Episode 6: Bloodlines

Original Air Date—9 November 1993
Jessica visits horse trainer Matt Cleveland on Wally Hampton's stud ranch in Virginia's Blue Mountains, where everybody is elated about the prospects for their promising racehorse Swift Prince. Matt is clobbered down and Jessica finds a mysterious syringe, but it's a stimulant injected in Prince, three days before a major race, so unlikely still to be detected even if it makes him win. Meanwhile Catherine Noble's neighboring ranch is financially troubled, so daughter Tracey Noble can't get a grand wedding, and their partner, Lloyd Mentone, schemes with the Hamptons assistant trainer -who is fired by Matt- while insisting Prince shouldn't race with a not perfectly healed injury as his leg could be permanently hurt. Matt tells Jessica a video cassette he just received could help take 3 seconds off Prince's time, and shortly after has a fatal car accident, or is it murder? Now rancher son Paul Hampton, a banker, pulls the plug at his deal with Loyd, and calls off the wedding with Tracy 'which was only a match between stud ranches'. Jessica now solves the horse mystery and Matt's murder.

Season 10, Episode 7: A Killing in Cork

Original Air Date—21 November 1993
Jessica visits Fiona Delaney Griffith, the widow of Richard, a friend of her late husband in Cork Ireland, where the family runs a traditional factory of Woollens, blankets. Cousin Ambrose Griffith was about to take over management from Fionas son Sean and move the site too far for many villagers to keep the only jobs in the region. Elder son Patrick Griffith, who was away over ten years fleeing his unfair father, is furious, and has an affair. Ambrose is found murdered in Father Timothy's church. Jessica also believes the old cripple local poet William Mahaffy that Richards fall from the belfry was no accident and the crazy Una O'Reilly who puts flowers on his grave witnessed something. Sgt. Terence Boyle is clearly not up to examining murder cases, but Jessica does figure out how both murders fit together.

Season 10, Episode 8: Love and Hate in Cabot Cove

Original Air Date—28 November 1993
Sheriff Mort Metzger is shot at by an unknown in his office, but not hurt. Jessica came home for the annual rummage sale she's in charge of this time, but her New York accountant warned her financial situation requires an audit and local accountant Sam Bennett didn't even answer- he's gambling at Lou Keramides' clandestine casino; the sheriff gets the judge to sign a search-warrant for his restaurant, where Jessica and Dr. Seth Hazlitt insist to talk to him but a tip-off allowed him to clean it in time, again. Deputy Ethan Loomis has an affair with Sam's in-living daughter Candace Bennett and is surprised by Sam in his patrol car. Mort shows Jessica anonymous threatening letters telling him to return to New York. Dr. Seth Hazlitt found his quarterly mutual fund purchases were neglected by Sam, whose wife Laura also learns about the complaints. Ethan gets paid for tipping off Keramides. College drop-out Chad Macinoy, the son of local gazette editor Irene Macinoy, is back in town from Philadelphia, and still in love with Candance, who doesn't want him back; her parents throw him out, under gun-threat from Sam and Ethan, who gladly arrests his rival. The next morning Ethan is shot while driving the sheriff's car and dies. Jessica realizes the killer must have been able to recognize the driver, so Mort probably wasn't the target. Jessica now checks out the 'private game room' to tell Kermaides she suspects him and gets a covert threat not to insist. Deputy Andy Broom confirms he suspected Ethan tipped the casino. The sheriff arrests Sam Bennett, having found in his house a recently fired hunting gun of the killer's caliber; Jessica believes he's only guilty of gambling with clients' money and suddenly realizes an inconspicuous clue...

Season 10, Episode 9: Murder at a Discount

Original Air Date—5 December 1993
Dave Novaro claims Jessica's book "The Uncaught" is a thinly disguised version of the murder of his wife Janet (whose mother died of grief six months later), except that he was acquitted in court -albeit merely for lack of evidence- five years ago, not 'his character' in 'her version', so he demands millions as compensation for damages to business, health and marriage. His wife Iris Novaro complains to him this makes him absent, while she tells her lover Rick Konig she couldn't bring herself to tell him about them at such a time of stress. To Jessica's surprise, NYPD Lt. Artie Gelber Artie confirms the murders really are surprisingly similar, even in some details, and there was enough publicity so she could have known. Dave's daughter Rachel Novaro, a lawyer, also wants the book redrawn, while her grandpa Norman Trent believes Dave did murder her mother. When Iris publicly accuses Jessica of ruining her marriage to Dave, who married her, his former secretary, Jessica's publisher Ted Hartley asks her to consider a settlement to avoid the costs of a high-profile trial. When Novaro's assistant Neil Fraser warns Dave his business is about to falter under the publicity costs, he reads the book and calls Jessica, suggesting he may redraw his lawsuit as it inspired him who really would have murdered his wife; shortly after he is clobbered to death with a walking cane. Rachel persists with the lawsuit; Jessica asks her about the last passage Dave read, according to his fingerprints, and notices she has a past copy of her mother's diamond necklace which Dave used to cover up pawning the real one. Iris tells Rick off 'because he was only after the money' when he sounds disappointed Rachel is the sole heir. Artie arrests Norman Trent who was seen by a bag lady at the shop where his fingerprints where abundant, even admits he wanted Dave dead for murdering his daughter; Jessica doesn't' buy it as it would alienate Rachel and investigates her own theory...

Season 10, Episode 10: Murder in White

Original Air Date—19 December 1993
Jessica comes to the rescue of her friend, actress Glenda Highsmith, who is mounting a play in Martin Kramer's London theater based on a Fletcher-mystery in a defective adaptation by the in principle uncooperative dramatist Mae Shaughnessy with her younger house-mate Brett Dillon. Jessica and others get strange calls from Empire magazine reporter Malcolm Brooker about an affair between Glenda and John Camden, the 17th earl Glenhaven. The actors have their own bothers- waning glory Lawson Childress is drinking a bit much, worrying about Glenda; rising start Franklin Smith fears he is to be replaced and his girlfriend Sally Briggs is told it would take her pleasing Kramer more intimately the she's prepared to do. Director Peter Drew tells Jessica Glenda can't concentrate because of Kramer who is called by phone to the props basement and stabbed to death. Stage manager Oliver Hopkins finds him; Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Ellen Jarvis investigates. Her friend tells Jessica and Glenda confirms her the earl Glenhaven is actual her former youth love, then a grenadier, now dying and the unknowing father of Brett, who she gave up for adoption. Jarvis says Brooker is no reporter but just a 'grifter' (petty crook) and paid by Kramer; he tells Jessica he saw a blond woman go in after Martin, wearing a white raincoat like Glenda in the play, but ran from the police. Glenda is arrested and admits she was there, only in another raincoat. The disappearance of the white raincoat from props inspires Jessica to solve the murder ...

Season 10, Episode 11: Northern Explosion

Original Air Date—2 January 1994
Jessica flies to Indian territory in British Columbia (Canada) and gets stuck because of plane trouble in Dominion, a town near Hobart Creek, where the Aurora Hills Mining Company is denied passage by armed natives, despite a contract signed by the territorial government, till old Joe Quill convinces them to wait a few days for legal action, which comes in the person of Jessica's locally born co-passenger Peter Henderson, a cynical realist, who warns Joe's grandson, nature-drawing artist George Quill, to stop using arms. Mine executive Rick Shipley and another miner rough up George till they notice Jessica approaching; he tells her to forget about it as the police never believes an Indian; meanwhile Henderson goes out with police Sgt. Hilda Dupont. Shipley warns Joey to call off George before it gets really dangerous, but is blackmailed himself by retired RCMP cop Hamish McPherson, also flown in with Jessica, who recognized him as escaped Mountie-killing bank robber Nicholas Jensen Davis; he is killed by dynamite, according to Shipley the sticks stolen from the mine by George, under the bridge where he would have been paid and drove to in the mining company truck Shipley lend him. George is arrested, but Jessica doesn't believe Shipley was the target, even after the stolen dynamite case with three sticks missing is found hidden in George's home. Next Shipley is found dead by bullet, apparently suicide, but only two hours after he booked a flight. Jessica comes up with a surprising theory and proves it.

Season 10, Episode 12: Proof in the Pudding

Original Air Date—9 January 1994
Jessica attends the opening of a new restaurant in which a young friend has invested after the Mob has taken it over. But when the chef is killed and her friend Lorna is arrested, Jessica is the only one who can find the real killer.

Season 10, Episode 13: Portrait of Death

Original Air Date—16 January 1994
In New York, Jessica donates a painting to a charity auction organized by an old friend from Cabot Cove, putting her on the scene when an art dealer of dubious honesty and taste is killed. When her friend becomes the prime suspect in the murder, Jessica must wade through a sting and a missing painting to find the real murderer.

Season 10, Episode 14: Deadly Assets

Original Air Date—23 January 1994
Back in Cabot Cove to orchestrate a surprise birthday dinner for Seth, Jessica is drawn into what looks like a small-time theft by Charlie Garrett and an apparent Mob connection.

Season 10, Episode 15: Murder on the Thirtieth Floor

Original Air Date—6 February 1994
In New York, Jessica's publisher Edward Graham seems to be cracking up following the death of his wife. But was a fall from the top of the building suicide or murder?

Season 10, Episode 16: Time to Die

Original Air Date—6 March 1994
Jessica's teen writing class has two promising students, Alida and Chris. But when Chris' loan-shark stepfather turns up dead after pursuing Alida and fleeing a hit-and-run, Chris is the prime suspect.

Season 10, Episode 17: The Dying Game

Original Air Date—13 March 1994
Jessica has worked to have Larkin sold to a museum, but an embezzled pension plan leads to a rival bid and murder.

Season 10, Episode 18: The Trouble with Seth

Original Air Date—27 March 1994
Boston, 1974- a security guard is shot when trying to stop three robbers get away, the very next moment the police arrests them. Present (1990s), schoolboy Jimmy Taylor who works as part-time busboy overhears a man who did 20 years of jail demand Julia Harris to get paid for not having her friend Stanley put away for life. Sheriff Mort Metzger got many reports on a prowler, but all descriptions are contradictory. Dr. Seth Hazlitt remarks local computer store owner Evan Rafferty is particularly grumpy, perhaps because he doesn't want his son Will to start a boating business and thus refuses to cosign; Evan tells Julia Harris his property is not for sale, whatever her company bids; she suggests to Will, who also told her about his dad's past, a Boston bank which might co-finance his project, he gratefully invites her for dinner. Shortly after he examined the mysterious ex-con, Seth is missing, his office ransacked, and there is a blood stain, his type. Based on a robot-photo of the presumed prowler, the sheriff finds the man -our ex-con- was using various false names; Jessica believes Jimmy lied not to recognize him; the fingerprints in Seth's office belong to Leo David Fender. A male body is spotted in the woods- it's Leo's; Seth is around all-right, he just made a distant medical house-call, and recognizes Leo as a recent patient. After a talk with Jimmy, who realizes Evan was the only one in town who went all the way to Boston to hear a symphony orchestra, Evan decides to move in a hurry, saying to his fiancée, Jimmy's mother Marion Taylor, his past has caught up with him. From Leo's police file Jessica notices the names of his accomplices and starts figuring out some links just in time...

Season 10, Episode 19: Roadkill

Original Air Date—1 May 1994
At Houston space control for research, Jessica overhears Sam Mercer promise NASA's LG computers order, essential for the IT firm, is on its way, but the truck gets robbed by masked men on the open road in plain daylight. Her friend and host Wayne Platte, the truck driver, got hurt, and the firm was in bad enough shape, now suppliers demand immediate payment and insurance considers them a bad risk. His son Rob Platte, a college drop-out who works in the roadhouse, seems only interested in country singing, which doesn't bring in good money. Roadhouse owner Willie Greenwood is furious her accomplice Randy Jinks, waitress Cindy Warrick's ex, could have killed Wayne. Randy and Rob, Cindy's lover who never told his dad about her, fight till Willie pulls them apart to avoid damages. Randy haggles about the looted computers; Willie reminds Wayne's secretary Meg Thomas her next debt payment is due. Ex-con Lance Taggart drops in at Willie's; she won't put him up but he follows Randy, gets him talking and makes her cut him in for 10% to keep him silent. Sheriff Jim Monday suspects Wayne hijacked his own truck to ransom the computers which are of little use except for NASA. When Wayne disapproves of Rob's proposal to Cindy, he quits as driver too. Wayne hurts his arm badly changing a truck tire and is ready to close shop, but Rob returns. Randy is run over by a truck at night after stepping out of his pickup truck; a Platte name tag from the truck Rob drove is found there- the sheriff arrests Rob. Jessica snoops at the local electronics shop after noticing a pickup with possible camouflage for the stolen computers, makes the owner betray himself as a fence, but he claims the computers were rubbish, impossible to sell even as parts. Then Jessica finds out the truck mileage was doctored so someone else could have driven Rob's truck...

Season 10, Episode 20: A Murderous Muse

Original Air Date—15 May 1994
While handyman Richie Kanpinski repairs her sink, Jessica remarks a busker plays the clarinet beautifully outside the museum where pianist Leslie Walden is rehearsing for a benefit. Her guardian and manager Byron Tocoski is impossibly demanding on everyone, even quick to fire professionals; he is startled by the suspicious arrival of Leslie's dad Hank Walden (the has-been clarinetist) who walked out on her ten years ago and came to nothing. Byron, watched by Hank from outside, tells Leslie, who approaches legal majority, he arranged for them to be married in Munich next October. Jessica finds Leslie on her doorstep in tears, Byron refuses to take notice of her. Vanessa Cross, Byron's ex but still his assistant, informs Hank about Byron's plans. Two businessmen have secret dealings about a fat recording contract Byron made, but to be signed in Leslie's name, so it can still be altered. Next morning Byron is found dead at the piano, shot, apparently through the open window. Lt. Peter DiMartini arrests Hank, who was seen outside again, from where he could have shot. Solly Prinze, the jazz musician closest to Leslie, put her up in tears after she came from Jessica, but when he went out for takeaway found her gone, and turns to Jessica, who is also intrigued by the anonymous composition Byron was playing, which contains a musical oddity...

Season 10, Episode 21: Wheel of Death

Original Air Date—22 May 1994
Before she goes to the Cabot Cove carnival with Seth, Jessica notices some jewelry is missing- she was burglarized. Sheriff Mort Metzger gets reports from other victims but is most surprised after 22 years to meet Joanna Sims again, a college girlfriend who ran off with then jock Don Sims; she's now the traveling carnival's assistant manager. Jessica and Seth are surprised to hear from Don's co-owner Carl Dormer that the carnival brought very little money in despite good attendance, according to him people just didn't spend money, but young local grosser Richard Binyon even spends $100 as thank-you for great sales. Juggler Nicodemus 'Nicky' Newton accepts someone's order to break in and look at the carnival's books. Toby Grant, who works as the roustabout for a year to finance going to college, meets up with local volunteer Lisa Farrel, who gives Jessica a tally copy confirming the income. Joanna surprises Nicky going through Dormer's desk in his trailer, according to him looking for his knife-throwing "victim"'s partner's engagement ring, but thinks they are in cahoots. Richard and Seth are picked from the audience as reluctant volunteers for magician Dormer's pickpocket act, which embarrassingly includes some of their cloths. Lisa feels for Toby, who was publicly chewed at by Dormer, and agrees to meet up after the show closes at night; in stead she witnesses a masked man stab Dormer and runs. Joanna finds the corpse on a ride. When Mort tells Joanna Don has an inheritance motive, she tells she saw Nick, who refuses to give his alibi, claiming to have taken on oath not to tell, but after a tip from Carmen she saw Nick talking with a Lighthouse Motel guest they identify him- it's Sherman Hastings from the IRS, who asked Nick's help to investigate black bookkeeping. Jessica sees that Don watched Toby telling her Lisa refuses to see him, probably fearing he might be the masked killer, and races away; Mort arrests Joanna, thinking they murdered Carl after finding out his scam. Jessica believes the couple's denial, as Don, who is soon apprehended, couldn't be the burglar and the murderer used a stolen antique knife, then realizes the significance of something resembling a wallet...

Season 11

Season 11, Episode 1: A Nest of Vipers

Original Air Date—25 September 1994
In Los Angeles to research at animal park, Jessica finds the employees trying to protect themselves in the middle of a skimmed-funds scandal. Then an amoral publicist turns up dead.

Season 11, Episode 2: Amsterdam Kill

Original Air Date—2 October 1994
In Amsterdam for a copyrights conference, Jessica meets old friend Nigel Allison, who is promptly kidnapped. Amid a mishmash of MI-5 agents, international arms dealers, and double-crossing lovers, Jessica tries to locate and free her friend.

Season 11, Episode 3: To Kill a Legend

Original Air Date—9 October 1994
In London, blackmailer Alexander Sandsby demands his half but gets a blow on the head from Jeffrey Caldwell and perishes in arson. Cabot Cove is preparing for its annual Joshua Peabody day, this time with a TV documentary production; Jessica is reading the text, written by Bostonian hot-shot director Richard Hawkes, who won an Emmy 8 years ago, with a few historical corrections by her own hand. Jessica brings an ideal period prop, a music box, for repairs to clockmaker Thomas Godfrey, who finds the mechanism is jammed by a letter from George Washington dated September 12, 1780, calling the local hero a traitor who accepted enemy payment to cowardly surrender and threatening him with court-martial. Peabody's descendant Edith fails to convince Jessica and Seth to destroy it, raging it ruins everything for her family and the whole town; experts authenticate it's from the time of the Revolution, but if it's real why did Joshua keep it, and if not, who made such a fine forgery and why? Hawkes refuses to take it on board until the university takes its final position, so producer Bob Kendall worries as they run heavily over budget. Edith is shocked to find someone gave the Peabody statue a noose and a sign 'traitor'. The annual reenactment of the Battle of Cabot Cove goes on, despite a bolting horse, but Hawkes refuses to wait for such time-consuming things as reloading. Producer Bob Kendall tells Hawks the studio has chosen another director; local production assistant Louise Peabody quits with him. Jessica gets a lesson in recording and editing technique from Scott Patterson, notably synchronizing picture and sound. Edith apologizes to Jessica, but Mort reports the letter was on a paper type used by George Washington and she runs off. Then there's a fire at the movie company's office; new director Amelia Farnum's corpse lies there, probably killed by a blow on the head; an antique pistol is missing. Sandsby's British killer approaches Hawkes, who is reinstated to finish the film and now wants to focus on the letter, but Jessica reports her idea was right to prove it a clever forgery: it has traces of 20th century mercury pollution. Jeffrey Caldwell is arrested after Scotland Yard confirmed he's a world class forger, denies any part in Sandsby's murder, but admits being hired by him to forge the Washington letter and claims to have seen Farnum's killer: Edith Peabody, under whose car seat the murder weapon is found, without finger prints. Jessica doubts her guilt and finds a very suspicious bit of sound track is missing, then Scott's tape recorder...

Season 11, Episode 4: Death in Hawaii

Original Air Date—16 October 1994
After an exhausting foreign books tour, Jessica checks in at the Kinkaid Oahu hotel, a penthouse suite, compliments of the owner Matt Kinkaid, who refuses to consider selling the hotel. Meanwhile Matt's brother Jeff is running for senator against Matt's son Danny's boss D.A. Randall 'Randy' Thompson. Danny reluctantly works on a dirty Southeast Asian finance investigation involving banker Brett Reynolds -who finances Matt's campaign- and Martin Osborn, to which end financial whiz Joe Yoshanaga just entered the banks service. After his grandmother Rebecca tells Jessica Danny recently had a suspicious diving accident, he has a swim and a masked diver in a motorboat throws shark bait around him- he goes missing. Joe breaks into Reynolds' PC to send his personal files by modem to the abandoned sugar mill, and Jessica finds out that's where Danny's cellular phone is connected; the police find him there holding a gun standing over family gardener Ben Kamaka's corpse; he explains how he survived and thought to be unnoticed. The Kincaid campaign released a video of Randy kissing an Asian girl, but Jessica realizes it's actually his illegitimate Vietnamese daughter. Forensic evidence suggests Matt could be the killer, but there's more apparently insignificant details, which inspire Jessica at Ben's funeral...

Season 11, Episode 5: Dear Deadly

Original Air Date—23 October 1994
Publisher Harry Mordecai, a San Francisco newspaper's new owner, is such a meddler -but doesn't insist with his ideas to make Jessica's new book spicier- that editor John Galloway quits, but accepts to stay on a month. Wall Street reporter Max Charles hears his grumpy colleague Loretta Lee -in fact a passed-on pen name for Claire Hogan-, who runs a very popular letters column, found out his game to write a glowing column about a stock till it rises enough, then cash in and talk in down again. After Loretta had an argument with Harry, a man shoots her in the arm in the lobby while standing next to John and Jessica. SFPD Lt. Evans doesn't make much progress, till he suddenly arrests as -correct- suspect T.D. because of his coat; when John and Jessica go tell her the news, they find her knocked dead at home; John's name is carved in a glass table with Loretta's diamond ring, but the position on her finger means she probably didn't write it. Jessica guesses Max's problem, after journalist Alexis Hill, who was assigned by Harry to write a saucy article about 'stalker victim Loretta, told him she knew about his scam too and excepts his career support. John is formally charged after his prints are found; Jessica guesses however he really was Loretta's ghost writer. When Jessica finds out Loretta had her new hearing aid delivered late by mail-boy Troy Higgins, she makes striking deductions...

Season 11, Episode 6: The Murder Channel

Original Air Date—6 November 1994
Roy Phipps passes his n-th lie-detector test with NYPD Lieutenant Giordano, now for a bank robbery, and denies seeing his recently paroled ex-partner Leo Kositchek again. At the museum board of trustees' nomination committee meeting at her place, Jessica seconds nominating not only a fund-raising ideal CEO, as suggested by chairperson Gwen Noble (who gets a call from Roy), but also an anthropology professor. Superintendent Rob MacKenzie comes repair Jessica's TV, worrying he can't even afford a decent present for his girlfriend Susan Constable, who studies nursing. At his shop, where Darlene Farber gets a lesson in diamond cutting from Augie Blumbacher, Barry Noble receives the title jeweler of the year from a singing telegram, which also photographs his safe with a hidden camera. Leo bumps into Kitty Colfax (the telegram singer) who didn't keep in touch while he was in jail, wondering if she knows where to get a 'job'. Kitty meets her ma Leah Colfax and old friend Jessica shopping; Leah tells Lt. Giordano to stop approaching her daughter. Leo switches surveillance video tapes in Kitty's building. Rob gives his girl flowers and, as Jessica suggested, a personal present: free cable forever, rigging the wiring, but accidentally connects her to the secret surveillance video in Leah's place. When Kitty tells Roy she met Leo, he violently forbids her to consider cutting him in; on the street, their accomplice is suddenly run over by Leo's car, so Roy offers Leo his part. Gwen calls Roy to meet him. Talking to Lt. Giordano, Jessica who already had a suspicion recognizes Roy and figures out the 'cable' is a life-stream from the criminal headquarters. While Jessica calls her, Susan witness the murder of Gwen, then Leo abducts her. Jessica and the police must try to makes tail of clues while the robbery is starting ...

Season 11, Episode 7: Fatal Paradise

Original Air Date—13 November 1994
Chicago businessman Philip Sparling orders a 'not real smart guard dog'. A month later on Martinique, Melanie Venable asks Jessica whether her boy Hilton has any writing talent, but she hasn't even read his manuscript yet. She's saved by the "hotel des Deux Perroquets"'s owner, Lauren Delagre from Cabot Cove, whose teenage son Jeff(rey) -who digs the receptionist Collette- is the repairman, while daddy Maurice plays poker and loses half of the hotel to Graham Farrow. After a phone call from hotel guest Charlie Garrett, Sparling calls a woman in Washington, D.C. it's the Martinique hotel- she checks in as schoolteacher and amateur-writer Norma Willens. Garrett tells Jessica, whom he knew, he was hired by Sparling to find his missing wife Dorie; he bumps into her as a hotel guest, but a burly man soon tells him to stay away from her, the second time using fists; she calls him it's about a stolen fortune and she doesn't want to return; he helps her escape, but a masked sniper kills her. The French police arrests Charlie but Jessica believes his protestation of innocence, finds a stray bullet, witnesses him being roughed up by Farrow's goon after he and Sparling asks each-other for it over the phone and sees the stash where he hid the money is empty, even recognizes the foot print near it as belonging to Norma Willens and yet ...

Season 11, Episode 8: Crimson Harvest

Original Air Date—20 November 1994
In Sonoma for the funeral of her friend Anna's murdered son Paul, Jessica sees the arrival of Paul's widow Michelle, the pressure being put on Anna by Lars Anderson to sell the vineyard, and odd hints of something not right. Then Lars turns up dead.

Season 11, Episode 9: Murder by Twos

Original Air Date—27 November 1994
In Cabot Cove, Seth treats Jessica and her New York re-migrant friend Imogene Shaughnessy to a dinner at the bowling alley, where bad looser Sam Bryce openly tricks Al's foot. The girls decide to take a look the next morning at his friend Terry Deauville's fine, grand home; she considers moving to New York; she calls Sam it's over now he stood her up, and cries loudly after the girls have gone. Impopular wino Sam's daughter Gloria Bryce and her lover Ollie Rudman are happier. Jessica praises Seth's poem 'Ode to Literature'; they hear Sam jell to his bowling teammate to return his saber-saw and deny they'll both be at the game; the sheriff got a report on a break in at that place but nothing of value was stolen. Sam complains to Ron about he state of the saw while he's at poker with the sheriff; the saw electrocutes Sam to death, while standing in water. Miss Medora Finney reports another break-in during Sam's funeral, only her journal was stolen, according to her the key to Sam's murder she blames on Terry Deauville. Forensics confirm Sam's garage was rigged multiply, and finds Terry's fingerprints on some. Medora's diary is found in Terry's place. Ollie is the only one who seems offended by everyone considering Sam is no loss, not even his own family. Back at the mansion, Jessica finds the phone off the hook and Terry hanged, Seth presumes suicide, yet Imogen's bid was already signed, startling Jessica, just as her frock which seems better fitting to go out on a date. Seth is invited by Mort to take Sam's poker seat; Jessica urgently asks him along. Mort verifies Harvey Hoffman, another bowling team member, has Terry's order for the rope, but the signature is forged- Harvey says it's just his scribble to whom he delivered it. Measurements mean Terry couldn't hang herself, the coroner concludes she died before the hanging. The journal, written in initials and grim Apocalypse-language, includes Sam's failed attempt to stop the fire in Al Wallace's pharmacy, but he didn't tell anyone, perhaps because he started it. The bartender recalls Ron Frendly used the pay phone to call Terry; he admits he was at her place, claims nobody was home and spills the beans on Al Wallace's plan to buy a condo together with Sam. Jessica suddenly realizes how both murders connect...

Season 11, Episode 10: Murder of the Month Club

Original Air Date—4 December 1994
Stuart Murphy, 26, is strangled in a car and dumped in an alley in Buffalo. On his firm Telesales' infomercial-film-set, Tom Powell is not amused to hear the troublesome, expensive star-host Wade Foster is in make-up for a rehearsal for the Hartley Murder of the Month book club. Jessica is one of the authors shown around by Larry Shields before the on-air panel talk, with former glory Matt Matthews and Joellen Waller. Tom's wife Gina first complains about his late hours and a $450 credit card hotel charge he blames on a client staying a day extra, then blocks off Foster's financial desires, while confirming security will be beefed up. NYPD Lieutenant Harry Fogel (who usually works alone) and temporarily reassigned Detective Henderson drop by inquiring about the Murphy case. After the rehearsal, the dining authors get a visit from Arnold Wynn, a fan of all three and former writing class pupil of Matt in Buffalo, who is also one of the extras hired as fake audience. a female extra asks an off-script question; Mathews refuses to honor his contract, saying he won't return the next day, even after a talk with Jessica. Gina threatens to fire Tom and his assistant Sara unless he subscribes new rules. Next day Matt is back, the lunches are mixed-up so it's unclear for whom the post-it is asking to meet a certain Jason Bayer Saxon. When Wade, who worried about his ex, is approached in his dressing room by Arnold about a dodgy coop he's involved in and his $200 is rejected as peanuts as $50,000 is involved, he throws him out by fist; at 10 PM that night, Larry and Sara trip over Arnold's corpse. Henderson finds out Wynn was not in the actors union, and came from Buffalo like Murphy; Jessica notices he signed in just like mysterious Jason Bayer Saxon, and several items are missing from his effects, including a key and medical ID bracelet for quinine allergy she finds by a phone, yet he died of a quinine reaction, so they concludes murder. The police arrests Matthews as he and Arnold had rap sheets, including a bar fight in Buffalo, and glasses with quinine traces and both sets of fingerprints were found. Jessica gets an idea how to link everything...

Season 11, Episode 11: An Egg to Die For

Original Air Date—11 December 1994
A year ago a Fabergé egg-thief was shot instead of paid in St.Petersburg. In Miami, Charles Devon was telling Leo Stone he will close his book store, a first; they welcome Jessica to the world book fair, escorted by Marcie Stone Devon. Leo is told outside his attaché-case of money from St.Petersburg is counterfeit, and held liable to pay within two days; Sergei Nemiroff, unknown to Leo, stops him being beaten up, but demands the egg by evening. Jessica and Valerie 'Val' Harris hear her boyfriend Ben Peterson is grumpy still to be working as Hotel magnate and ex-diplomat Victor Roscoe's errand boy while waiting for the scholarship he was promised, her dad James Harris insists the boy is not good enough. Nemiroff fails to get in claiming to be a Russian publisher who forgot his badge, but quickly greets Jessica, who notices he picks up an invoice; she stops him outside, guesses from badge pin marks he's a Russian cop, he admits investigating Leo's black market dealings; her threat to tell the U.S. authorities makes him tell the Fabergé egg and a tsarina's tiara, seen two weeks ago in Miami, were stolen when Leo was seen in St.Petersburg, and Sergei's innocent brother custodian Grigori is to be executed for the theft in 48 hours. Harris refuses the Devons, who hoped he would invest in their extension plans, any repayment delay, threatening to foreclose; they rush off hoping to refinance. Victor Roscoe refuses Leo any more money. Ben's med school scholarship is refused invoking a mere high school prank. Jessica suggest to Marcy that James may want to sink the Devon book company because she dumped him for Charles years ago. Jessica gets Nemiroff out by pretending he was looking for her reading glasses while snooping in James' office, but pulls them while interrogating why he as university alumnus abused his donor's cloud to get Ben's application rejected. Soon after, Valerie Harris finds her dad's body in his decorative pool, drowned unconscious, next to an empty stand Jessica expects to be the egg's in his secret art gallery. Jessica finds a medallion with the initial BP in the pool, Lt. Perez arrest Ben Petersen. Jessica suddenly sees clear and sets a trap for the real killer...

Season 11, Episode 12: The Scent of Murder

Original Air Date—9 January 1995
Seth's cousin Buford has a newly-developed magnolia, a contract for it with a company who will do anything to get possession, a co-researcher with differing opinions, a girlfriend who may be more interested in money than love, when a stepdaughter with her hand out. When he is murdered, there are more than enough suspects to bewilder the county sheriff.

Season 11, Episode 13: Death 'N Denial

Original Air Date—22 January 1995
Egyptologist Sally Otterburn phones Cairo museum director Sherif Faris the Nefertari bust is original, 4000 years old; he expects her to smuggle it to Cairo, promising an affidavit it's only a copy, and suggesting to use Jessica's favorite museum as cover; however Rudy Grimes had his phone wired and calls his boss Bradford Thorpe: the one in Cairo must be a fake; Thorpe's wife Vanessa agrees to finance $350,000. Jessica and Sally Otterburn arrive in Cairo where even Nasar, the driver awaiting them, who has two years New York cab driver experience, can't prevent a thief getting away with Jessica's bag, mainly containing notes; Sally phones Faris but assures him it's not "you know what", just when the Minister of Antiquities pays his museum a surprise visit. Inspector Omar Halim almost immediately investigates the theft. Nasar asks Jessica to help him get a visa to go legally to his fiancée in the US, now courted by a relative. Thorpe's loan shark Trevor Han demands the statue, threatening Vanessa; Bradford shows his lover Maura tickets for Rome. The thief snatches the statue from Sally's room; she comes clean to Jessica, Faris and her former lover, hotel owner Boyd Venton, but they agree to keep the police out of it for now, as the Nefertari was stolen from Faris' museum two years ago in an Italian exposition, later ended up in the New York museum. Vanessa pays Grimes to tell her husband the deal is off although he has the statue, next he tells his old intelligence friend Boyd to take a hike. Jessica fails to fool Halim she recognized Grimes's mug shot. Maura tells Rudy he will regret not paying more then her usual $20,000; he falls dead out of the elevator at Jessica's feet. Halim now demands the full story, also convokes Faris and tells them to stay out of his murder investigation, but Jessica is unstoppable...

Season 11, Episode 14: Murder in High C

Original Air Date—5 February 1995
In Genoa, rising opera singer Andrea Beaumont wanders in foggy streets, frightened of a voice which scares her saying she will find out before she dies, and drops a scarf which is picked up. Jessica enjoys Stella Knight's opera rehearsal, but director Drew Granger, also Andrea's ex-fiancé, is impossibly moody and cancels dinner. The police reports Andrea was found attacked in the street, but the doctor finds nothing wrong with her, so he just prescribes rest; her husband Jonas Cole arranges for extra security. Genoese Inspector Piero Amato suggests it's all merely a theatrical stunt. When Andrea tells Jonas she's returning to work, she gets a call with another dead threat. Amato now insists they leave her protection to the police- the NYPD has faxed her stalker there, Albert Garmes, was released five weeks earlier but never misses parole there. Jessica witnesses another threat call, in the same voice, now taped; the recording makes Rudolfo 'Rudi' Petrocelli prime suspect; he meanwhile makes a blackmail call. The jealous opera people scheme about contract breeches even more then usual given the extra publicity. During a power cut a prop dagger is drawn, but the wielder scared off before he can cut Andrea. Jessica and Amato know Garmes disappeared ten days ago, but was not seen in Italy. Petrocelli is shot by his intended blackmail-victim, and found by Jonas, who picked up his own gun, but denies to have shot in self-defense, so he's arrested. Drew's contract allows him to leave for New York, as he wanted, because of Petrocelli's death, and he announces to do so. Jessica finds proof the body was dead hours before Jonas entered, and the voice analysis did not match after all: the killer is still out, and Andrea gets another call...

Season 11, Episode 15: Twice Dead

Original Air Date—12 February 1995
In a laboratory, files are copies, the originals destroyed; the perpetrator is tailed- it's Nobel prize winner cancer drug researcher Dr. Max Franklin, who according to the TV news dies in a plain crash. His research colleague Liz White insists Jessica comes anyway. The firm claims he just completed work on the vaccine. Dr. Stuart Himes and Liz are ignored about safety tests. David Randall finds tests are impossible after the disappearance of crucial cultures and data and is ordered to make the tests work or get the boot. Priscilla Lake schemes about the stock's likely dive. Jessica believes to have seen Max alive in a cab, reports it to NYPD Lt. Artie Gelber, is approached by Max and tells him she saw Walter Pell, the P.I. who tails him, at the firm, he says he took the research stuff himself, someone else took his ticket and crashed, he wants to remain 'dead' for some time. As Jessica fears, there's a failed arson attempt on Max's life, which later turns out an accidentally cat-triggered bomb. Pell, an ex-cop, reports to the CEO, who orders the 'loose canon' defused. Next Jessica and Liz find Max fatally hit on the head. Gelber believes in an accidental mugger, Jessica starts sleuthing...

Season 11, Episode 16: Film Flam

Original Air Date—19 February 1995
In a Hollywood backstage, would be-actor Darryl Harding overhears Hank Duncan and another dodgy character threatening Monolith studio executive Carson Robbins if he stops helping them to original negatives to produce pirate videos. Jessica isn't much surprised her script hasn't been read yet by director Boyce Brown, who is busy trying to finish Cry of Destiny, the last film of late giant Austin Young, which gets worse when his unknown adoptive daughter Audrey Young turns up, claiming to own all rights. Jessica finds the corps of author Fritz Randall, former pupil of and leading expert on Young, apparently suicided by pills as his master once, but suggests to Lt. Gabriel Caceras they might both have been murdered, which soon proves true for Fritz; Boyce's daughter and assistance Elaine is arrested. With these and other intrigues on top of the scripts', there is plenty of snooping and sleuthing to be done before she can unmask the killer...

Season 11, Episode 17: Murder a la Mode

Original Air Date—26 February 1995
Jessica is in Paris for a book promotion, and calls a friend, fashion model Carrie Quinn, who will be in the show that evening. She hears from famous designer Claude Faragere, he worries about his stepson Edmund, Carrie and her friend, his son-in-law and ambitious professional rival. Armed only with a glass of champagne, Jessica startles and chases Baretta-wielding illegal Cambodian textile sweetshop worker Kim Huan who attacks Edmond Faragere's life in grief for his wife. Kim waits in her hotel-room, assuring he's glad she prevented his momentary hate to have irreversible consequences but doesn't dare take her advice to turn himself in. Jessica witnesses bickering at a competing fashion-house between designer Thea Vaughn, who cares for her label's name and quality, her husband Paul who only wants to sell for profit and assistant Denise Naveau who fixes the dispute; afterward Denise secretly calls Edmund the show can go on. Then Edmund is shot dead in his car. Huan calls and meets Jessica, telling his wife died in a fire in Edmund's sweetshop, but is arrested by Parisian Inspector Marc Gautier, who also believes him involved in Edmund's illegal Asian gem trade. Jessica believes in his innocence, and the Vaughn fashion show inspires her...

Season 11, Episode 18: The Dream Team

Original Air Date—19 March 1995
There's commotion in Cabot Cove about a rumored plan to build a car plant, Dr. Hazlit allegedly called it a health risk, but actually assures the sheriff not even to know what the project is. Grady Fletcher is phoned by his boss J. Peter Carmody while visiting Jessica, and assures him everything is alright; he reports later Seth is campaigning to save the lighthouse, but nobody knows yet about their bay development project. Everett Buffum is pulled from Carmody's party by his wife Lorna, but refuses to reconsider not leaving her, then is told by the boss to get rid of her now. Denver Martin sneaks into and searches Carmody's hotel room during the development presentation and steals a letter; he's in time to stop Lona pulling a gun, overseen silently by Jessica who turns both over to the sheriff, who must release Lorna as Everett presses no charges but orders her out of town. Seth has a hard time turning his tail, having raved against Carmody, after Grady tells him the project includes a lighthouse restoration. Jessica learns the bank refused Grady's loan application because Carmody' company Colombus Ventures has no credit record at all, but the sheriff accepts Grady's word and some evidence it's legit. The estate agent was refusing to do business till Carmody assures her local businesses will get first crack at leases and her firm becomes their exclusive agent, which change of plans startles Grady. Lorna threatens mistress Toni Shaw to get her and Everett thrown in jail by hitting Colombus Ventures. Martin suggests to Carmody that somehow embezzling his mother induced her fatal heart attack. Lorna is killed driving into the ocean, failing on appointment with the sheriff; evidence of an unexplained detour is enough for Jessica to start snooping, and indeed her seat belt wasn't defective: murder staged as an accident. Grady is depressed after Everett pulls the plug and convinces Carmody to start selling shares to small investors instead- Toni and the boss chuckle after he leaves, it sells great, then Carmody's bunch disappears with the money...

Season 11, Episode 19: School for Murder

Original Air Date—30 April 1995
In St Crispin's Academy, near Cabot Cove, Jessica gives a lecture, and witnesses a prank, switching a Shakespeare bust with an Elvis. Even her protégée seems in the spell of the mischievous Prometheus fraternity, lead by silver spoon-boy Colin Forbes. Notably a Cabot Cove fisherman's son is suspected of involvement in a thefts-wave in the area. There is a vicious fight going on for the coveted post of headmaster. Jessica's friend, English professor Harry Matthews, loses against history professor James Ryerson, whose corpse is shortly after found in the faculty office, with a smashed-in skull. Matthews now gets the job, but has no alibi, so he's arrested after the murder weapon was found in his locker. Jessica and the sheriff were already on the premises, and soon unearth motives and opportunities...

Season 11, Episode 20: Another Killing in Cork

Original Air Date—7 May 1995
Jessica stays with Irish friends in a hotel which mainly caters for salmon-fishermen, in Kilcleer, a Cork county town. The locals are divided between supporters of Walter Ickes's consortium for industrial innovation supported by Councilman Harold Early, and environmentalists, lead by Tom Dempsey, whose car is according to him run off the road. Edward Pryce is missing, and blood is found by the police team lead by Sgt. Terence Boyle, who Jessica knows and trusts from an earlier case, and as Jesica guesses his body is found in the wish-well. New York salmon-fisher Freddie Layton is arrested because his fingerprints were on the lethal stone.

Season 11, Episode 21: Game, Set, Murder

Original Air Date—14 May 1995
For a year, tennis star Louise Henderson, from Cabot Cove, had weekly therapy, trying to get over her ma's killing, which she witnessed, by reliving it without masking the murderer's identity. Jessica is asked by organizing lawyer Portia Dekker as a personal family friend to help get some girls stars and their coaches to consent to a charity benefit tournament. Louise's boyfriend Jamie Carlson, a Davis cup player, isn't discouraged by her overprotective pa Lane Henderson, but her competitor Francesca Garcia hasn't given up on him. Lane uses inside information to force an endorsement contract upon Plaza sports products executive John McCarver. Overambitious dad Lane fires Lousie's coach Wendy Maitlin, to Louise's tearful horror, then prevents her from calling Jessica. John sees Lane kiss Francesca, sealing a dark business deal. Louise finds her trusted shrink Dr. Trebaro killed, and frightens Jessica by cheerfully rehiring Wendy. John informs her ex Andrew 'Andy' Bascombe about Francesca's Lane-link, she convinces him it's over. In a hotel, Jessica sees Wendy's silhouette flee from where Lane was just shot. Police Lieutenant Estelle Garr investigates this and Dr. Trebaro's murder, Jessica cancels a London trip to work everything out herself...

Season 12

Season 12, Episode 1: Nailed

Original Air Date—21 September 1995
At night hansom Billy Blake escapes the arriving police by a rope from a sky scraper's roof carrying a bloody knife. Jessica chats with hairdresser Jimmy Neiman at Antoinette's and when he's off to a Nancy Rainburn TV demonstration his brand new fiancée, manicure Diane, when NYPD Lieutenant Sam Kriley asks the guest list of the party where museum board member Agnes Frasier, probably because she returned unexpectedly early, was stabbed with her own kitchen knife, wondering if it's the work of the brilliant burglar who struck seven times in as many weeks using keys, capturing priceless family heirlooms. Board colleague Kathy Stafford is relieved Agnes will recover completely. Jessica highly praises would-be novelist Steve Burke's notes while working in the salon to get to know his chosen mystery scenery. Ralph Stafford makes clear Jimmy will not be allowed to chicken out of their still secret plan to launch a salon in his now famous name. Metropole Café terrace waiter Billy gets a call about the bloody knife he barely got away with, saying he had no choice: Agnes carried it, he was lucky it was too dark to be recognized. Ralph assures Kathy he only needs her priceless 1804 silver coin as collateral for a loan to launch Jimmy's salon, in six months to be paid off and Jimmy fired, then buys a fake copy from Hally Simpon. Jessica suggests to Sam the burglar may overhear customers at some place they all go to, Antoinette's beauty parlor fits at least four. Antoinette asks Stevo to drop Nancy's left-behind glasses at her place on his way home and overhears Jimmy waving Dane's warning Ralph is too dangerous do business with. Ralph promises Jimmy's ex Phoebe Campbell a fat managerial contract to spy on him. Kathy sees Ralph leaving his mistress Nancy's place after promising her to get divorced and giving the fake coin as collateral for her $400,000 investment check. Next at Nancy's Steve is knocked down by Billy, who was burglarizing the coin and throws the box besides him; the kid is arrested but released on Jessica's recommendation; Nancy didn't report it stolen to Ralph's relieve but demands alternative collateral. When Billy learns it's a fake, he smells something big and attempts blackmail, but Ralph threatens him with the police. Nancy learns her show will be canceled for poor ratings. Everybody attends Jimmy's send-off party; afterward he finds Ralph stabbed to dead with scissors in the salon, where Jimmy asked him to meet; he carried the coin. Sam and Jessica investigate...

Season 12, Episode 2: A Quaking in Aspen

Original Air Date—28 September 1995
A woman lures a man who's clobbered by another. Laney Sherman Boswell tells her lawyer Terry Folger it's time for her next divorce, it was never a real marriage anyway as they spent only a few hours a year together; Sheriff Milo Pike tells them hubbie Grant Boswell just had a spectacular fatal sports car accident. When Jessica visits Laney in Aspen, Colorado a months later, even the sheriff admits the promising clues probably won't come to a court case, Folger is about to get the 5,000,000 life-insurance paid out, possibly doubled, half goes to his niece Nancy Boswell; the Majority company's executive Olivia Archer hires P.I. Charlie Garrett, known to Jessica but masquerading as stock broker Howard Dietrich, to prove for a percentage there was foul play, so it can spare itself one or both halves. Then Laney is arrested for the murder, after Anthony Pembroke testified having seen her buying the fatal items in the hardware store. Reporter Darman H. Keene is also after the case. Then Garrett is clobbered, while tailing Pembroke, by his murderer; Jessica gets a tip about his past and untangles everything from recent and further relevant past.

Season 12, Episode 3: The Secret of Gila Junction

Original Air Date—5 October 1995
When Jessica's friend Norma asks her to come to sleepy Gila Junction, Arizona, Jessica is roped into helping Norma investigate a possible conspiracy while a rumored treasure may have led to a murder.

Season 12, Episode 4: Big Easy Murder

Original Air Date—12 October 1995
For the fourth time in three months, a man is murdered by machete in New Orleans, Lousiania, with as calling card a rooster foot, a voodoo talisman. Victim Jim Nash was an intern reporter at the Daily News, a colleague of Tom McCray and Cynthia Broussard (daughter of Emily), who believed the voodoo was just a colorful cover for a turf war over restaurant control. Jim was supposed to pick up Jessica from the airport and help her with some local research on voodoo and crime. She stays with senator Brent Renwyck, whose club is in financial trouble even before it opens, so he took a nasty loan from mobster Frank Roussel. Brent's wealthy bride Emily Broussard's nurse Yvette Dauphin's daughter Priscilla, the club's singer, shows Emily an anonymous letter claiming that Arthur Broussard was both women's father, as confirmed by Yvette, clearly both after a fat share of the considerable estate; Julliard confirms Arthur anonymously paid for Priscilla's music studies. Mobster Roussel's front-man Mal Carter overhears Tom tell the senator he knows all about the dirty money to compensate the squandered Broussard estate in exchange for help with mob money laundering. After he told Roussel that his wife's financial audit because of the inheritance claim will bring everything into the open, the senator is found dead from a heart attack, besides a voodoo doll. NOPD Detective Lietenant Alex Tibideaux, already on the voodoo murders, and Jessica, who got Jim's notes from Tom, investigate...

Season 12, Episode 5: Home Care

Original Air Date—19 October 1995
In Cabot Cove to cheer up her old friend Maggie, but it turns out that her private nurse Lila had a long string of elderly patients who died of poison. When Maggie dies and Lila is found holding a syringe of strychnine, she is arrested.

Season 12, Episode 6: Nan's Ghost: Part 1

Original Air Date—2 November 1995
Part 1 of 2. Jessica arrives in Ireland to visit her friend Eileen just as local police find the body of Nan Conroy, a local girl who disappeared last year. Also arriving is am American who wants to turn Eileen's castle into an Americanized first-class hotel, a move Eileen's son Ian opposes. But does Rory's secret mission or the possible illegal sale of ancient treasures have anything to do with the subsequent murder?

Season 12, Episode 7: Nan's Ghost: Part 2

Original Air Date—9 November 1995
Part 2 of 2. In Ireland, Jessica has been trapped in a hidden chamber. Rory and Eileen find her, but Ian is still trying to arrange financing to save the castle and Andrea and her lawyer/lover Lafferty plan to move forward with turning the castle into a hotel, Peter Franklin is arrested for Nader's murder, and Rory still has not connected with his mysterious source. But another murder raises more questions and Jessica is running out of time.

Season 12, Episode 8: Shooting in Rome

Original Air Date—16 November 1995
In Rome to revise a script loosely based on one of her books, Jessica finds a star and director at each other's throats, a producer running out of money, and a rash of thefts. But when a stunt gone wrong leaves a stunt man dead, Jessica must find the person responsible.

Season 12, Episode 9: Deadly Bidding

Original Air Date—23 November 1995
In NYC, Jessica wants to bid on an Arthur Conan Doyle manuscript for the library. But at the same auction, several bidders want an Angus Neville painting that hides a stolen Degas -- Neville wants it back enough to steal it, and someone wants it enough to kill for it.

Season 12, Episode 10: Frozen Stiff

Original Air Date—30 November 1995
Gary & Larry's Frozen Stuff accountant Kyle is found dead, an apparent suicide. Shortly thereafter, $750,000 earmarked for Jessica's Literacy Fund is found missing. It's up to Jessica to prove that Kyle was murdered and find the killer.

Season 12, Episode 11: Unwilling Witness

Original Air Date—14 December 1995
When prosecutor Annette Rayburn, a real bulldog bitch, takes on Logan Investment, not only the board members who face serious litigation have reason to panic, one even disappears. Among the many worried clients is Jessica, who bought a few shares in a mutual fund for a 10 year-old relative. To her utter surprise she finds herself subpoenaed and threatened with contempt of court charges unless she confesses a conversation she never had, or rather only held the horn 8 silent seconds. When she finds whom the call from Logan was really for, it turns out to be a murder site...

Season 12, Episode 12: Kendo Killing

Original Air Date—4 January 1996
In Osaka, Japan, Jessica's writer friend Miko is being pressured by her family to drop her American boyfriend Rick and marry motorcycle heir Koji. When Jessica discovers a plot to kill Rick and rushes to the kendo to warn him, she discovers the police have found a body, but it's Koji rather than Rick whose murder Jessica must solve.

Season 12, Episode 13: Death Goes Double Platinum

Original Air Date—7 January 1996
Desi Ortega and his Latin group have a single climbing the charts until Max Daniels wants to own the group. When Daniels' assistant turns up dead, has someone in the group struck back?

Season 12, Episode 14: Murder in Tempo

Original Air Date—11 January 1996
To save Cabot Wood from a developer, Seth has organized and financially backed a benefit concert. When the lead bad-boy singer turns up dead and his bandmate from Cabot Cove is arrested, the concert -- and the wood -- are finished as well unless Jessica can find the real killer.

Season 12, Episode 15: The Dark Side of the Door

Original Air Date—1 February 1996
Jessica's friend Erin is haunted by being kidnapped as a child, and when Erin reads a novel with a story too close for coincidence, Jessica makes a shocking revelation.

Season 12, Episode 16: Murder Among Friends

Original Air Date—8 February 1996
The sleazy, adulterous producer of a hit TV show featuring an ensemble cast of twentysomethings is about to kill off one of the characters when she is found dead in her office.

Season 12, Episode 17: Something Foul in Flappieville

Original Air Date—15 February 1996
Darren's Pound Dog show is threatened with cancellation until he promises a character based on one of Jessica's characters. But as the various people involved want part of the merchandising rights, Darren winds up promising benefits he can't deliver. And when one of them winds up dead, Darren is arrested for murder.

Season 12, Episode 18: Track of a Soldier

Original Air Date—25 February 1996
On vacation in the Tetons, Jessica encounters jewel thieves and a man from her Army vet host's past.

Season 12, Episode 19: Evidence of Malice

Original Air Date—28 March 1996
Manufacturer Fred Berrigan, whose shoe factory in Cabot Cove has problems and scheming involving him, his wife Meg, employees George Parkins and Wendy Arnold and businessman Craig Haber, is nasty, especially to deputy Andy Broom, who owes him money, when nearly arrested by sheriff Mort Metzger for drunk driving. The quiet Leverett Boggs is found strangulated at home with a cord just like one Jessica notices to be cut off in the marina. Deputy Broom bought a house from his high school nemesis Berrigan for his bride Patty, but finds expensive hidden costs. Next day Andy finds in Fred's car a roll of the strangulation cord, and after his arrest in Boggs's apartment a letter, indicating he was probably meeting and blackmailing Berrigan, whose wife Meg fiercely defends Fred's innocence. After Fred makes bail, he's knocked on the head and found dead by Andy, who was already suspended...

Season 12, Episode 20: Southern Double-Cross

Original Air Date—4 April 1996
In Australia, Jessica may be the legal owner of a valley that the sheepherders and miners are arguing over, and may be the cause of the disappearance of Jessica's lawyer.

Season 12, Episode 21: Race to Death

Original Air Date—28 April 1996
Shortly before a sailing race which can qualify for the world cup in New Zealand, captain Ned Larkin is knocked down in the Cabot Cove marina, wounded in the leg by a masked man, and his boat Free Spirit damaged, according to him by millionaire industrialist Kyle Kimball, captain of the Buccaneer. Jessica is embarrassed, given her sailing ignorance, to be asked as honorary commodore of the prestigious ocean race. Kimball's presumed skipper (crew chief) Steve Gantry gets cash from him and reports Larkin was difficult. Kimball's ex Anne, Larkin's daughter, now Larkin-man Bill Richards's partner, steps in as captain of the Free Spirit and asks deputy Deputy Andy Broom as skipper. Shortly after he resisted Gantry's attempt to blackmail him into giving him a $50,000 loan, Kimball is found dead from a blow on the head, Anne arrested, causing another replacements parade. Sheriff Mort Metzger and Jessica investigate.

Season 12, Episode 22: What You Don't Know Can Kill You

Original Air Date—5 May 1996
Johnny is engaged to Seth's niece Amy but enrages Les by visiting Sherri. When Johnny is the victim of a motorcycle accident, Amy insists that it was murder.

Season 12, Episode 23: Mrs. Parker's Revenge

Original Air Date—12 May 1996
A switched packet of amateur-written stories involves Jessica in an international plot to steal a biological-weapon virus.

Season 12, Episode 24: Death by Demographics

Original Air Date—19 May 1996
In a plot somewhat reminiscent of "WKRP in Cincinnati," a San Francisco radio-station owner decides to convert the station's classical format to rock and roll. He keeps one announcer who's an expert on classical music, and casts him in a dog-and-pony show where the old guy verbally spars with a young colleague who is an expert on rock ... all this to get a younger audience for the station. The experiment seems to be working fine with audiences, but tensions rise at the station and soon the owner is disemboweled by a stab wound by his own fireplace poker. With the classical-music person (her good friend) as the obvious suspect, Jessica must try to find another motive and another suspect for the murder.

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Season 1

Season 1, Episode 0: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes: Pilot

Season 1, Episode 1: Deadly Lady

Season 1, Episode 2: Birds of a Feather

Season 1, Episode 3: Hooray for Homicide

Season 1, Episode 4: It's a Dog's Life

Season 1, Episode 5: Lovers and Other Killers

Season 1, Episode 6: Hit, Run and Homicide

Season 1, Episode 7: We're Off to Kill the Wizard

Season 1, Episode 8: Death Takes a Curtain Call

Season 1, Episode 9: Death Casts a Spell

Season 1, Episode 10: Capitol Offense

Season 1, Episode 11: Broadway Malady

Season 1, Episode 12: Murder to a Jazz Beat

Season 1, Episode 13: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean

Season 1, Episode 14: Paint Me a Murder

Season 1, Episode 15: Tough Guys Don't Die

Season 1, Episode 16: Sudden Death

Season 1, Episode 17: Footnote to Murder

Season 1, Episode 18: Murder Takes the Bus

Season 1, Episode 19: Armed Response

Season 1, Episode 20: Murder at the Oasis

Season 1, Episode 21: Funeral at Fifty-Mile

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Widow, Weep for Me

Season 2, Episode 2: Joshua Peabody Died Here... Possibly

Season 2, Episode 3: Murder in the Afternoon

Season 2, Episode 4: School for Scandal

Season 2, Episode 5: Sing a Song of Murder

Season 2, Episode 6: Reflections of the Mind

Season 2, Episode 7: A Lady in the Lake

Season 2, Episode 8: Dead Heat

Season 2, Episode 9: Jessica Behind Bars

Season 2, Episode 10: Sticks and Stones

Season 2, Episode 11: Murder Digs Deep

Season 2, Episode 12: Murder by Appointment Only

Season 2, Episode 13: Trial by Error

Season 2, Episode 14: Keep the Home Fries Burning

Season 2, Episode 15: Powder Keg

Season 2, Episode 16: Murder in the Electric Cathedral

Season 2, Episode 17: One Good Bid Deserves a Murder

Season 2, Episode 18: If a Body Meet a Body

Season 2, Episode 19: Christopher Bundy - Died on Sunday

Season 2, Episode 20: Menace, Anyone?

Season 2, Episode 21: The Perfect Foil

Season 2, Episode 22: If the Frame Fits

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 1

Season 3, Episode 2: Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 2

Season 3, Episode 3: Unfinished Business

Season 3, Episode 4: One White Rose for Death

Season 3, Episode 5: Corned Beef & Carnage

Season 3, Episode 6: Dead Man's Gold

Season 3, Episode 7: Deadline for Murder

Season 3, Episode 8: Magnum on Ice: Part 2

Season 3, Episode 9: Obituary for a Dead Anchor

Season 3, Episode 10: Stage Struck

Season 3, Episode 11: Night of the Headless Horseman

Season 3, Episode 12: The Corpse Flew First Class

Season 3, Episode 13: Crossed Up

Season 3, Episode 14: Murder in a Minor Key

Season 3, Episode 15: The Bottom Line Is Murder

Season 3, Episode 16: Death Takes a Dive

Season 3, Episode 17: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

Season 3, Episode 18: No Laughing Murder

Season 3, Episode 19: No Accounting for Murder

Season 3, Episode 20: The Cemetery Vote

Season 3, Episode 21: The Days Dwindle Down

Season 3, Episode 22: Murder, She Spoke

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