Murder, She Wrote (1984)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Episode 1 - Bite the Big Apple
Release Date: 1991-09-15Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
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Episode 2 - Night Fears
Release Date: 1991-09-22Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
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Episode 3 - Unauthorized Obituary
Release Date: 1991-09-29After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
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Episode 4 - Thicker Than Water
Release Date: 1991-10-06When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
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Episode 5 - Lines of Excellence
Release Date: 1991-11-03Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
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Episode 6 - Judge Not
Release Date: 1991-11-10The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
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Episode 7 - Terminal Connection
Release Date: 1991-11-17Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
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Episode 8 - A Killing in Vegas
Release Date: 1991-11-24Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
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Episode 9 - The Committee
Release Date: 1991-12-01The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
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Episode 10 - The List of Yuri Lermentov
Release Date: 1991-12-15Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
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Episode 11 - Danse Diabolique
Release Date: 1992-01-05When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
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Episode 12 - The Witch's Curse
Release Date: 1992-01-12The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
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Episode 13 - Incident in Lot 7
Release Date: 1992-01-19The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
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Episode 14 - The Monte Carlo Murders
Release Date: 1992-02-02Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
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Episode 15 - Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
Release Date: 1992-03-01No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
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Episode 16 - Ever After
Release Date: 1992-03-08A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
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Episode 17 - To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
Release Date: 1992-03-15All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
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Episode 18 - Programmed for Murder
Release Date: 1992-04-05There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
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Episode 19 - Day of the Dead
Release Date: 1992-04-26The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
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Episode 20 - Angel of Death
Release Date: 1992-05-03While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
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Episode 21 - Badge of Honor
Release Date: 1992-05-10Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
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Episode 22 - Murder On Madison Avenue
Release Date: 1992-05-17Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.