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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!

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 391 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".

  • Bite the Big Apple
    8.1/10391 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

  • Night Fears
    7.5/10346 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

  • Unauthorized Obituary
    7.6/10345 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

  • Thicker Than Water
    8.0/10368 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

  • Lines of Excellence
    7.6/10352 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

  • Judge Not
    7.1/10321 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

  • Terminal Connection
    7.5/10331 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

  • A Killing in Vegas
    7.3/10323 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

  • The Committee
    8.0/10361 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

  • The List of Yuri Lermentov
    7.3/10319 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

  • Danse Diabolique
    7.6/10393 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

  • The Witch's Curse
    8.1/10398 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

  • Incident in Lot 7
    8.1/10444 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

  • The Monte Carlo Murders
    7.3/10339 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

  • Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
    7.5/10335 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

  • Ever After
    7.5/10356 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

  • To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
    7.2/10325 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

  • Programmed for Murder
    7.8/10343 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

  • Day of the Dead
    7.1/10312 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

  • Angel of Death
    7.6/10337 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

  • Badge of Honor
    7.6/10321 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

  • Murder On Madison Avenue
    7.7/10330 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