The Worst Episodes of Murder, She Wrote

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Paul Savage

Who was the intended victim when a tennis star is blown up in his girl friend's car?

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman

Writer: N/A

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Chris Manheim

One of Jessica's former students is murdered and she takes a personal interest in the investigation.

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman

Writer: Jerry Ross

When cousin Emma's life is threatened, she plays dead and Jessica is summoned to London as the heir to the estate.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Robert Van Scoyk

A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A

A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Robert Swanson

A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Gerald K. Siegel

Three sets of people try to claim the body found on the railroad track--a nephew, a daughter and a wife. Jessica narrates this story.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: N/A

A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

The members of an up-and-coming Latin instrumental band get an offer they can't refuse just when they are getting noticed by a more reputable company.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: N/A

When Jessica is offered an honorary degree from Crenshaw University, she has no idea she's about to become embroiled in a murder. After the boyfriend of (in)famous writer Daphne Clover is found murdered, Jessica agrees to assist the chief of police, who has never had a murder case before, find out who the killer is. She soon has more on her plate than she bargained for when first Daphne's mother confesses, then Daphne herself confesses. Jessica realises the two women are simply trying to protect each other, and begins to look at the faculty at the university.

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman

Writer: Robert Swanson

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse. Then the horse's owner is murdered after a dispute.

Director: Peter Crane

Writer: Steven Hensley, J. Miyoko Hensley

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

Director: Jerry Jameson

Writer: Tom Sawyer

A step-father may have been eliminated by his step-son, a graffiti artist.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: Laurence Heath

Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.

Director: Hy Averback

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Michael Hagarty is involved in a case in Sicily which has many twists and turns including the Mafia.

Director: N/A

Writer: Robert Swanson

Motorcycle racing in Osaka, Japan, puts a man's life in danger when he tries to wed a girl from a traditional Japanese family.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Laurence Heath

The puppets are dancing to a different tune, much to the dismay of the young designer.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw

Writer: N/A

Arson is intended to remove the Rodeo doctor and his patient permanently.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Dick Nelson

When a famous mystery writer dies, Jessica recalls a 1947 case that the writer was personally involved in.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: Chris Manheim

Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheritance in the area--land used for sheep grazing. The natives are not all happy with this.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: N/A