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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.
  1. Background image for Bite the Big Apple
    8.1/10(416 votes)

    #1 - Bite the Big Apple

    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:Unknown
  2. Background image for Night Fears
    7.5/10(367 votes)

    #2 - Night Fears

    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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  3. Background image for Unauthorized Obituary
    7.6/10(363 votes)

    #3 - Unauthorized Obituary

    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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  4. Background image for Thicker Than Water
    8.1/10(391 votes)

    #4 - Thicker Than Water

    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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  5. Background image for Lines of Excellence
    7.6/10(370 votes)

    #5 - Lines of Excellence

    S8:E5

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

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  6. Background image for Judge Not
    7.2/10(339 votes)

    #6 - Judge Not

    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:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Terminal Connection
    7.6/10(350 votes)

    #7 - Terminal Connection

    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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  9. Background image for A Killing in Vegas
    7.3/10(341 votes)

    #8 - A Killing in Vegas

    S8:E8

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

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  10. Background image for The Committee
    8.0/10(383 votes)

    #9 - The Committee

    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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  11. Background image for The List of Yuri Lermentov
    7.4/10(341 votes)

    #10 - The List of Yuri Lermentov

    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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  12. Background image for Danse Diabolique
    7.7/10(418 votes)

    #11 - Danse Diabolique

    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:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Witch's Curse
    8.1/10(423 votes)

    #12 - The Witch's Curse

    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:Unknown
  14. Background image for Incident in Lot 7
    8.1/10(469 votes)

    #13 - Incident in Lot 7

    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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    7.3/10(364 votes)

    #14 - The Monte Carlo Murders

    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:Unknown
  16. Background image for Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
    7.5/10(361 votes)

    #15 - Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief

    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:Unknown
  17. Background image for Ever After
    7.5/10(377 votes)

    #16 - Ever After

    S8:E16

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

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  18. Background image for To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
    7.2/10(346 votes)

    #17 - To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee

    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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  19. Background image for Programmed for Murder
    7.8/10(362 votes)

    #18 - Programmed for Murder

    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
  20. Background image for Day of the Dead
    7.0/10(336 votes)

    #19 - Day of the Dead

    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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    7.6/10(360 votes)

    #20 - Angel of Death

    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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  22. Background image for Badge of Honor
    7.6/10(343 votes)

    #21 - Badge of Honor

    S8:E21

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

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for Murder On Madison Avenue
    7.7/10(346 votes)

    #22 - Murder On Madison Avenue

    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:Unknown

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 416 votes. Directed by Unknown 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".