The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 5

A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Robert Swanson

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Robert Swanson

A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Chris Manheim

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Chris Manheim

A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A

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

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Robert Swanson

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Gerald K. Siegel

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Tom Sawyer

A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Donald Ross

An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Chris Manheim

Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: N/A

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

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Paul Savage

In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Robert Swanson

A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Donald Ross

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