The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote

An unpublished manuscript is stolen and its author murdered during an awards convention.

Director: Peter Crane

Writer: Robert Swanson

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.

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Paul Savage

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.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Donald Ross

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

Director: Peter Crane

Writer: N/A

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

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Peter Crane

Writer: Philip Garson

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

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Robert Swanson

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.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Mark Giles, Linda Shank

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.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: David Moessinger

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

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.

Director: Jerry Jameson

Writer: N/A

The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

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.

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Robert Swanson

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

Director: David Hemmings

Writer: Craig W. Van Sickle

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

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A

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

An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Robert Swanson

The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.

Director: Jerry Jameson

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

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

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Robert Van Scoyk

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

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A