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The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 1 - Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
    7.6/10(597 votes)

    #1 - Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

    S3:E1

    Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  2. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 2 - Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
    7.5/10(545 votes)

    #2 - Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

    S3:E2

    Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  3. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 3 - Unfinished Business
    7.3/10(570 votes)

    #3 - Unfinished Business

    S3:E3

    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

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  4. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 4 - One White Rose for Death
    7.4/10(541 votes)

    #4 - One White Rose for Death

    S3:E4

    Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  5. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 5 - Corned Beef And Carnage
    7.2/10(538 votes)

    #5 - Corned Beef And Carnage

    S3:E5

    An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Robert Swanson

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  6. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 6 - Dead Man's Gold
    7.2/10(546 votes)

    #6 - Dead Man's Gold

    S3:E6

    While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 7 - Deadline for Murder
    7.4/10(486 votes)

    #7 - Deadline for Murder

    S3:E7

    A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writers:Michael McGough, Tom Sawyer

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  8. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 8 - Magnum on Ice (II)
    7.6/10(583 votes)

    #8 - Magnum on Ice (II)

    S3:E8

    Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Robert Swanson

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  9. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 9 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor
    7.5/10(521 votes)

    #9 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor

    S3:E9

    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

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  10. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 10 - Stage Struck
    7.4/10(508 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Directors:Walter Grauman, John Astin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 11 - Night of the Headless Horseman
    7.5/10(566 votes)

    #11 - Night of the Headless Horseman

    S3:E11

    The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:R. Barker Price

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  12. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 12 - The Corpse Flew First Class
    8.5/10(713 votes)

    #12 - The Corpse Flew First Class

    S3:E12

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

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Donald Ross

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  13. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 13 - Crossed Up
    8.0/10(664 votes)

    #13 - Crossed Up

    S3:E13

    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

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  14. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 14 - Murder in a Minor Key
    6.7/10(569 votes)

    #14 - Murder in a Minor Key

    S3:E14

    Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 15 - The Bottom Line Is Murder
    7.4/10(478 votes)

    #15 - The Bottom Line Is Murder

    S3:E15

    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

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  16. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 16 - Death Takes a Dive
    7.1/10(498 votes)

    #16 - Death Takes a Dive

    S3:E16

    Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  17. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 17 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead
    7.6/10(516 votes)

    #17 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead

    S3:E17

    An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Robert Swanson

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  18. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 18 - No Laughing Murder
    7.3/10(570 votes)

    #18 - No Laughing Murder

    S3:E18

    After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  19. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 19 - No Accounting for Murder
    7.5/10(499 votes)

    #19 - No Accounting for Murder

    S3:E19

    Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Gerald K. Siegel

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  20. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 20 - The Cemetery Vote
    7.5/10(501 votes)

    #20 - The Cemetery Vote

    S3:E20

    First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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  21. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 21 - The Days Dwindle Down
    8.4/10(758 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 22 - Murder, She Spoke
    7.6/10(502 votes)

    #22 - Murder, She Spoke

    S3:E22

    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:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Death Stalks the Big Top (1)" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote" season 3. It scored 7.6/10 based on 597 votes. Directed by Seymour Robbie and written by Paul Savage, it aired on 9/28/1986. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Death Stalks the Big Top (2)".