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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 Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

    S5:E9

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

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    9.0/10(1 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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    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - A Christmas Secret

    S9:E9

    The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.

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    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - A Death in Hong Kong

    S10:E1

    A trader working on a merger dies at a Chinese banquet in Hong Kong.

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    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #5 - It's a Dog's Life

    S1:E5

    While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.

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    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The Legacy of Borbey House

    S10:E3

    A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - 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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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Lovers and Other Killers

    S1:E6

    While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

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  10. Background image for Hit, Run and Homicide
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Hit, Run and Homicide

    S1:E7

    Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one of his inventions.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Death Casts a Spell

    S1:E10

    Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Tough Guys Don't Die

    S1:E16

    Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for the death of a private detective. One dates back 25 years.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Murder Takes the Bus

    S1:E19

    Bus trips are not always as relaxing as they should be. In this case, one passenger had a one-way ticket.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - 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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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Stage Struck

    S3:E10

    The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - 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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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead

    S3:E17

    An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - 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
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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - A Fashionable Way to Die

    S4:E1

    Ooh la la! Jessica travels to gay Paris to spend some time with an old friend... and finds herself entangled in a case involving fashion, finance and murder.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - When Thieves Fall Out

    S4:E2

    A walk down memory lane is anything but pleasant for Jessica when she re-examines a 20 year-old case involving her close friends and former students.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - It Runs In The Family

    S4:E6

    Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Benedict Arnold Slipped Here

    S4:E18

    Someone wants the old historic house enough to kill for it and its supposed hidden treasure AND Jessica is executor of the late owner's will.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Deadpan

    S4:E21

    Two critics take opposite views of a play based on one of Jessica's novels, 'Mainly Murder'. One is suspected of the murder of the other.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - 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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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

    S5:E7

    The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Weave a Tangled Web

    S5:E10

    Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Something Borrowed, Someone Blue" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/1989. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)".