7.5/10366 votes#1 - Trials & Tribulations
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1990
Jessica is blamed for the death of an escapee who was wrongly convicted.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.6/10372 votes#2 - Deadly Misunderstanding
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1990
A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
7.1/10319 votes#3 - See You in Court, Baby
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1990
Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.7/10358 votes#4 - Hannigan's Wake
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1990
A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.7/10349 votes#5 - The Family Jewels
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1990
A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.9/10397 votes#6 - A Body to Die For
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1990
Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross
8.0/10407 votes#7 - The Return of Preston Giles
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1990
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
7.5/10341 votes#8 - The Great Twain Robbery
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1990
Proving a burnt Mark Twain manuscript is a fake is the reason for a book expert's murder.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Steve Brown
7.2/10346 votes#9 - Ballad for a Blue Lady
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1990
Jimmy Dean plays a country-music star who's the victim in this story.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: William Bigelow
7.4/10333 votes#10 - Murder in F Sharp
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/1990
Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns his hands and then loses his wife.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10370 votes#11 - Family Doctor
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1991
In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
7.1/10318 votes#12 - Suspicion of Murder
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/1991
Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/10389 votes#13 - Moving Violation
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1991
An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
8.4/10513 votes#14 - Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1991
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
7.6/10348 votes#15 - The Taxman Cometh
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1991
The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Donald Ross
7.2/10336 votes#16 - From the Horse's Mouth
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1991
An argument over stud fees ends in murder.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: N/A
7.7/10342 votes#17 - The Prodigal Father
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1991
A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff
6.5/10320 votes#18 - Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 3/17/1991
A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.9/10376 votes#19 - Thursday's Child
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/1991
A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep trouble involving fraud in his construction company and murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Robert Swanson
7.8/10364 votes#20 - Murder, Plain & Simple
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1991
When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.4/10318 votes#21 - Tainted Lady
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1991
The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.6/10333 votes#22 - The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1991
The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Tom Sawyer
The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 7
Every episode of Murder, She Wrote Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 7!
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Genres:MysteryCrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Trials & Tribulations" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote" season 7. It scored 7.5/10 based on 366 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1990. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Deadly Misunderstanding".