8.1/10386 votes#1 - Bite the Big Apple
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1991
Jessica 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Moessinger
7.5/10342 votes#2 - Night Fears
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1991
Former 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.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.6/10340 votes#3 - Unauthorized Obituary
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1991
After 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.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
8.0/10364 votes#4 - Thicker Than Water
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1991
When 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.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Larry DiTillio
7.6/10348 votes#5 - Lines of Excellence
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1991
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.1/10315 votes#6 - Judge Not
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1991
The 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.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
7.5/10324 votes#7 - Terminal Connection
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1991
Evidence 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.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
7.3/10317 votes#8 - A Killing in Vegas
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1991
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
8.0/10358 votes#9 - The Committee
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1991
The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.3/10316 votes#10 - The List of Yuri Lermentov
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1991
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.7/10391 votes#11 - Danse Diabolique
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1992
When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.1/10395 votes#12 - The Witch's Curse
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1992
The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: N/A
8.0/10441 votes#13 - Incident in Lot 7
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1992
The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.2/10335 votes#14 - The Monte Carlo Murders
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1992
Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: N/A
7.5/10331 votes#15 - Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1992
No 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Swanson
7.5/10353 votes#16 - Ever After
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/8/1992
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
7.2/10323 votes#17 - To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/1992
All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.8/10339 votes#18 - Programmed for Murder
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/5/1992
There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.1/10310 votes#19 - Day of the Dead
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/1992
The 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.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: N/A
7.6/10334 votes#20 - Angel of Death
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1992
While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Robert Swanson
7.6/10318 votes#21 - Badge of Honor
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1992
Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Moessinger
7.7/10327 votes#22 - Murder On Madison Avenue
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/1992
Jessica 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.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 8
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.
Genres:MysteryCrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Bite the Big Apple" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote" season 8. It scored 8.1/10 based on 386 votes. Directed by N/A and written by David Moessinger, it aired on 9/15/1991. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Night Fears".