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The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote

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The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
  1. Background image for Footnote to Murder
    8.5/10(1.0k votes)

    #1 - Footnote to Murder

    S1:E18

    An unpublished manuscript is stolen and its author murdered during an awards convention.

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  2. Background image for Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
    8.5/10(559 votes)

    #2 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)

    S5:E21

    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.

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  3. Background image for Trial by Error
    8.4/10(754 votes)

    #3 - Trial by Error

    S2:E13

    It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

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  4. Background image for The Corpse Flew First Class
    8.4/10(680 votes)

    #4 - The Corpse Flew First Class

    S3:E12

    Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

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  5. Background image for If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly
    8.4/10(690 votes)

    #5 - If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly

    S4:E7

    When Deputy Martin becomes a widower by murder, the investigation turns up some surprising activity.

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    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
    8.4/10(506 votes)

    #6 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

    S5:E22

    After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.

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  8. Background image for Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
    8.4/10(550 votes)

    #7 - Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?

    S7:E14

    A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Days Dwindle Down
    8.3/10(730 votes)

    #8 - The Days Dwindle Down

    S3:E21

    Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Mr. Penroy's Vacation
    8.3/10(615 votes)

    #9 - Mr. Penroy's Vacation

    S5:E3

    The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

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    8.2/10(677 votes)

    #10 - Keep the Home Fries Burning

    S2:E14

    Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, and murder interrupts their meal.

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    Director:Peter Crane
  12. Background image for The Sins of Castle Cove
    8.2/10(566 votes)

    #11 - The Sins of Castle Cove

    S5:E17

    A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.

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  13. Background image for Sticks and Stones
    8.1/10(654 votes)

    #12 - Sticks and Stones

    S2:E10

    When a woman is electrocuted in her bathroom, Amos chuckles that even Jessica can't make a murder out of it. Michael Dugby: Parker Stevenson. Harry Pierce: John Astin. Frederich Hoffman: Paul Benedict. Adam Frobisher: Christopher Stone. Edna: Evelyn Keyes.

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    8.1/10(488 votes)

    #13 - Town Father

    S6:E11

    The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.

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  15. Background image for Bite the Big Apple
    8.1/10(420 votes)

    #14 - Bite the Big Apple

    S8:E1

    Jessica 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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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for Thicker Than Water
    8.1/10(393 votes)

    #15 - Thicker Than Water

    S8:E4

    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.

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  17. Background image for The Witch's Curse
    8.1/10(425 votes)

    #16 - The Witch's Curse

    S8:E12

    The 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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    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Incident in Lot 7
    8.1/10(471 votes)

    #17 - Incident in Lot 7

    S8:E13

    The 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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  19. Background image for Crossed Up
    8.0/10(636 votes)

    #18 - Crossed Up

    S3:E13

    The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

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  20. Background image for Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
    8.0/10(579 votes)

    #19 - Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

    S5:E9

    Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

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  21. Background image for The Return of Preston Giles
    8.0/10(441 votes)

    #20 - The Return of Preston Giles

    S7:E7

    This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.

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    Writer:Tom Sawyer
  22. Background image for Moving Violation
    8.0/10(421 votes)

    #21 - Moving Violation

    S7:E13

    An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

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    8.0/10(387 votes)

    #22 - The Committee

    S8:E9

    The 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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  24. Background image for Reflections of the Mind
    7.9/10(654 votes)

    #23 - Reflections of the Mind

    S2:E6

    Jessica decides to pay a visit to her long-time friend Francesca, only to learn that Francesca, who is now married to a much younger man, is convinced that she is being haunted by the ghost of her first husband, Ross. When her new husband, Scott, turns up dead, the investigation reveals that he had been poisoned, and suspicion turns to Francesca. Jessica, however, is determined to prove that her friend did not commit the crime, and begins looking into the mysterious re-appearances of her dead husband.

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  25. Background image for A Lady in the Lake
    7.9/10(664 votes)

    #24 - A Lady in the Lake

    S2:E7

    While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

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  26. Background image for Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?
    7.9/10(573 votes)

    #25 - Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?

    S4:E12

    Somebody laced Mrs. Fletcher's chowder and Amos' brutish brother-in-law was in for the long sleep.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Footnote to Murder" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote". It scored 8.5/10 based on 1018 votes. Directed by Peter Crane and written by Robert Swanson, it aired on 3/10/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)".