- 8.4/10(656 votes)
#1 - The Corpse Flew First Class
Loading...S3:E12Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Donald Ross - 8.3/10(700 votes)
#2 - The Days Dwindle Down
Loading...S3:E21Thirty 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:N/A - 8.0/10(618 votes)
#3 - Crossed Up
Loading...S3:E13The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
0 CommentsView allDirector:David HemmingsWriter:Craig W. Van Sickle - 7.6/10(466 votes)
#4 - Murder, She Spoke
Loading...S3:E22During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:N/A - 7.5/10(554 votes)
#5 - Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
Loading...S3:E1Jessica'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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Seymour RobbieWriter:Paul Savage - 7.5/10(504 votes)
#6 - Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
Loading...S3:E2Conclusion. 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Seymour RobbieWriter:Paul Savage - 7.5/10(539 votes)
#7 - Magnum on Ice (II)
Loading...S3:E8Jessica 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).
0 CommentsView allDirector:Peter CraneWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.5/10(482 votes)
#8 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor
Loading...S3:E9Jessica 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Robert Van Scoyk - 7.5/10(473 votes)
#9 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead
Loading...S3:E17An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.5/10(461 votes)
#10 - No Accounting for Murder
Loading...S3:E19Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Peter CraneWriter:Gerald K. Siegel - 7.5/10(459 votes)
#11 - The Cemetery Vote
Loading...S3:E20First, the reform mayor dies in an ""accident"" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the ""accident"".
0 CommentsView allDirector:Seymour RobbieWriter:Robert Van Scoyk - 7.4/10(494 votes)
#12 - One White Rose for Death
Loading...S3:E4Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Peter CraneWriter:Peter S. Fischer - 7.4/10(475 votes)
#13 - Stage Struck
Loading...S3:E10The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
0 CommentsView allWriter:N/A - 7.4/10(524 votes)
#14 - Night of the Headless Horseman
Loading...S3:E11The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:R. Barker Price - 7.4/10(442 votes)
#15 - The Bottom Line Is Murder
Loading...S3:E15A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:Craig W. Van Sickle - 7.3/10(451 votes)
#16 - Deadline for Murder
Loading...S3:E7A 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Seymour Robbie - 7.3/10(525 votes)
#17 - No Laughing Murder
Loading...S3:E18After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Tom Sawyer - 7.2/10(519 votes)
#18 - Unfinished Business
Loading...S3:E3A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Jackson Gillis - 7.2/10(488 votes)
#19 - Corned Beef And Carnage
Loading...S3:E5An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
0 CommentsView allDirector:John Llewellyn MoxeyWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.2/10(505 votes)
#20 - Dead Man's Gold
Loading...S3:E6While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Seymour RobbieWriter:N/A - 7.1/10(457 votes)
#21 - Death Takes a Dive
Loading...S3:E16Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Seymour RobbieWriter:Peter S. Fischer - 6.7/10(529 votes)
#22 - Murder in a Minor Key
Loading...S3:E14Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
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The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 3
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Every episode of Murder, She Wrote Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 3!
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"The Corpse Flew First Class" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote" season 3. It scored 8.4/10 based on 656 votes. Directed by Walter Grauman and written by Donald Ross, it aired on 1/18/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Days Dwindle Down".