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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!

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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  1. 8.1/10(405 votes)

    #1 - Bite the Big Apple

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    S8:E1

    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.

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    Director:N/A
  2. 8.1/10(382 votes)

    #2 - Thicker Than Water

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    S8:E4

    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.

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  3. 8.1/10(415 votes)

    #3 - The Witch's Curse

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    S8:E12

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.1/10(459 votes)

    #4 - Incident in Lot 7

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    S8:E13

    The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

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  5. 8.0/10(376 votes)

    #5 - The Committee

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    S8:E9

    The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.

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  6. 7.8/10(355 votes)

    #6 - Programmed for Murder

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    S8:E18

    There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

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    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Tom Sawyer
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  8. 7.7/10(411 votes)

    #7 - Danse Diabolique

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    S8:E11

    When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.

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    Writer:N/A
  9. 7.7/10(340 votes)

    #8 - Murder On Madison Avenue

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    S8:E22

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:N/A
  10. 7.6/10(357 votes)

    #9 - Unauthorized Obituary

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    S8:E3

    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.

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  11. 7.6/10(363 votes)

    #10 - Lines of Excellence

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    S8:E5

    Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.

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  12. 7.6/10(342 votes)

    #11 - Terminal Connection

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    S8:E7

    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.

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  13. 7.6/10(349 votes)

    #12 - Angel of Death

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    S8:E20

    While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.

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  14. 7.6/10(335 votes)

    #13 - Badge of Honor

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    S8:E21

    Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.

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    Director:N/A
  15. 7.5/10(361 votes)

    #14 - Night Fears

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    S8:E2

    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.

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  16. 7.5/10(351 votes)

    #15 - Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief

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    S8:E15

    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.

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    Director:N/A
  17. 7.5/10(371 votes)

    #16 - Ever After

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    S8:E16

    A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.

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    Writer:N/A
  18. 7.4/10(336 votes)

    #17 - The List of Yuri Lermentov

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    S8:E10

    Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.

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  19. 7.3/10(335 votes)

    #18 - A Killing in Vegas

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    S8:E8

    Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.

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    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.3/10(355 votes)

    #19 - The Monte Carlo Murders

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    S8:E14

    Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.

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    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.2/10(340 votes)

    #20 - To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee

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    S8:E17

    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.

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  22. 7.1/10(335 votes)

    #21 - Judge Not

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    S8:E6

    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.

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    Director:Chuck Bowman
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.1/10(327 votes)

    #22 - Day of the Dead

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    S8:E19

    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.

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    Writer:N/A

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 405 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".