- 8.0/101 votes
#1 - Mr. Penroy's Vacation
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/6/1988
The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 8.0/101 votes
#2 - Alma Murder
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/12/1989
An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Chris Manheim
- 8.0/101 votes
#3 - The Error of Her Ways
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1989
When the wife of a developer is accused of killing her husband and commits suicide, it leaves the whereabouts of his embezzled millions a mystery.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross
- 8.0/101 votes
#4 - Moving Violation
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1991
An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 8.0/101 votes
#5 - The Prodigal Father
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1991
A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Mary Ann Kasica
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - Night Fears
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1991
Former 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.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- 8.0/101 votes
#7 - Thicker Than Water
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1991
When 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.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Larry DiTillio
- 7.5/102 votes
#8 - Murder, She Spoke
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1987
During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/102 votes
#9 - Smooth Operators
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/1989
When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Gerald K. Siegel
- 7.0/101 votes
#10 - Double Exposure
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/1989
In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 7.0/103 votes
#11 - Test of Wills
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1989
A wealthy lumberman invites Jessica to his island retreat to discover which of his relatives is trying to kill him.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 7.0/101 votes
#12 - If the Shoe Fits
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1990
A single mother is accused of killing the landlord that is always harassing her.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/101 votes
#13 - A Body to Die For
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1990
Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross
- 7.0/101 votes
#14 - The Taxman Cometh
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1991
The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross
- 7.0/101 votes
#15 - A Killing in Vegas
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1991
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/101 votes
#16 - The List of Yuri Lermentov
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1991
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Tom Sawyer
- 7.0/101 votes
#17 - Day of the Dead
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/1992
The 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.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/101 votes
#18 - Home Care
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1995
A nurse under a cloud comes to Cabot Cove. One of her patients is Jessica's best friend Maggie.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/102 votes
#19 - Goodbye Charlie
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1990
Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/102 votes
#20 - Film Flam
Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1995
Jessica sets out to prove that the death of a young movie buff is murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross
- 6.0/102 votes
#21 - The Bottom Line Is Murder
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/1987
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle
- 6.0/101 votes
#22 - Harbinger of Death
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1988
Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming of seeing a long-lost comet, but when Carrie's ex-boyfriend Drake Eaton is murdered in the home she's been staying in, Jessica has to prove not only her niece but also her husband innocent of murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/101 votes
#23 - J.B. As in Jailbird
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1988
A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 6.0/101 votes
#24 - Ever After
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/8/1992
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/101 votes
#25 - The Petrified Florist
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1993
Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross