- 8.1/10(401 votes)
#1 - Bite the Big Apple
Loading...S8:E1Jessica 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:David Moessinger - 8.1/10(379 votes)
#2 - Thicker Than Water
Loading...S8:E4When 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.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:Larry DiTillio - 8.1/10(411 votes)
#3 - The Witch's Curse
Loading...S8:E12The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Jerry JamesonWriter:N/A - 8.1/10(454 votes)
#4 - Incident in Lot 7
Loading...S8:E13The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:J. Michael Straczynski - 8.0/10(372 votes)
#5 - The Committee
Loading...S8:E9The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Jerry JamesonWriter:J. Michael Straczynski - 7.8/10(354 votes)
#6 - Programmed for Murder
Loading...S8:E18There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Jerry JamesonWriter:Tom Sawyer - 7.7/10(407 votes)
#7 - Danse Diabolique
Loading...S8:E11When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Alexander SingerWriter:N/A - 7.7/10(337 votes)
#8 - Murder On Madison Avenue
Loading...S8:E22Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Jerry JamesonWriter:N/A - 7.6/10(352 votes)
#9 - Unauthorized Obituary
Loading...S8:E3After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.6/10(360 votes)
#10 - Lines of Excellence
Loading...S8:E5Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:J. Michael Straczynski - 7.6/10(340 votes)
#11 - Terminal Connection
Loading...S8:E7Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.6/10(348 votes)
#12 - Angel of Death
Loading...S8:E20While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.6/10(334 votes)
#13 - Badge of Honor
Loading...S8:E21Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:David Moessinger - 7.5/10(357 votes)
#14 - Night Fears
Loading...S8:E2Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:J. Michael Straczynski - 7.5/10(347 votes)
#15 - Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
Loading...S8:E15No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Robert Swanson - 7.5/10(367 votes)
#16 - Ever After
Loading...S8:E16A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:N/A - 7.4/10(331 votes)
#17 - The List of Yuri Lermentov
Loading...S8:E10Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:Tom Sawyer - 7.3/10(333 votes)
#18 - A Killing in Vegas
Loading...S8:E8Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:N/A - 7.3/10(351 votes)
#19 - The Monte Carlo Murders
Loading...S8:E14Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Jerry JamesonWriter:N/A - 7.2/10(336 votes)
#20 - To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
Loading...S8:E17All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Walter GraumanWriter:J. Michael Straczynski - 7.1/10(331 votes)
#21 - Judge Not
Loading...S8:E6The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Chuck BowmanWriter:N/A - 7.0/10(325 votes)
#22 - Day of the Dead
Loading...S8:E19The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Anthony Pullen ShawWriter:N/A


The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 8
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Network:CBS
Every episode of Murder, She Wrote Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 8!
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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"Bite the Big Apple" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote" season 8. It scored 8.1/10 based on 401 votes. Directed by N/A and written by David Moessinger, it aired on 9/15/1991. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Thicker Than Water".