- 10.0/101 votes
#1 - Young Gun
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1957
A young man buys a gun from Chris. The only problem with that is he soon learns that the boy is out for retribution against the man who killed his father during a bank job.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: William Driskill
- 8.0/101 votes
#2 - We're Off to Kill the Wizard
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1984
Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#3 - Stage Struck
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1986
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#4 - The Corpse Flew First Class
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1987
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Donald Ross
- 8.0/101 votes
#5 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/1987
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - It Runs In The Family
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1987
Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
- 8.0/101 votes
#7 - The Search for Peter Kerry
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1989
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
- 8.0/101 votes
#8 - When the Fat Lady Sings
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1989
The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
- 8.0/101 votes
#9 - How To Make a Killing Without Really Trying
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1990
Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 8.0/101 votes
#10 - The Return of Preston Giles
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1990
This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Tom Sawyer
- 8.0/101 votes
#11 - Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1991
A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#12 - The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1991
The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Tom Sawyer
- 8.0/101 votes
#13 - Unauthorized Obituary
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1991
After 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.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 8.0/101 votes
#14 - Lines of Excellence
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1991
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- 8.0/101 votes
#15 - Terminal Connection
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1991
Evidence 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.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 8.0/101 votes
#16 - Wheel of Death
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 5/22/1994
It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/102 votes
#17 - If A Body Meet A Body
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1986
Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/102 votes
#18 - The Perfect Foil
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/1986
At the request of aunt Mildred, Jessica agrees to stop by New Orleans to check on cousin Cal while on her way to Houston. No sooner does Jessica get to New Orleans then she is tossed into a Mardi Gras party where the host ends up dead, and Cal is accused of the crime. While attempting to clear Cal's name and reputation, Jessica delves into the world of cheating poker players, cheating girlfriends and vengefilled police officers while trying to convince a local lieutenant that Cal is not capable of murder.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
- 7.0/101 votes
#19 - Unfinished Business
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1986
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Jackson Gillis
- 7.0/101 votes
#20 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1986
Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk
- 7.0/101 votes
#21 - Night of the Headless Horseman
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1987
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: R. Barker Price
- 7.0/101 votes
#22 - Indian Giver
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1987
A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Gerald K. Siegel
- 7.0/101 votes
#23 - Doom with a View
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1987
Grady gets into a spot again when he is found with the body of woman known from college days and now had been dating a frat brother who was married.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/101 votes
#24 - Curse of the Daanav
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1988
Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Chris Manheim
- 7.0/101 votes
#25 - Mourning Among the Wisterias
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/1988
Jessica visits her old friend Eugene McClendon, who soon stands accused of the murder of an old friend, Jonathan Keeler. While helping clear Eugene's name, Jessica learns that her friend believes he is dying, and is surprised when he asks her to marry him so that she can look after his affairs once he's gone. Jessica agrees, but only so that they can expose Jonathan's true killer.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A