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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Murder, She Wrote Season 7 Episode 3 - See You in Court, Baby
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    #1 - See You in Court, Baby

    S7:E3

    Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  2. Murder, She Wrote Season 7 Episode 10 - Murder in F Sharp
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    #2 - Murder in F Sharp

    S7:E10

    Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns his hands and then loses his wife.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Murder, She Wrote Season 7 Episode 18 - Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?
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    #3 - Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?

    S7:E18

    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

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  4. Murder, She Wrote Season 8 Episode 14 - The Monte Carlo Murders
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    #4 - 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.

    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Murder, She Wrote Season 8 Episode 21 - Badge of Honor
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    #5 - Badge of Honor

    S8:E21

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Moessinger

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  6. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 1 - Murder in Milan
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    #6 - Murder in Milan

    S9:E1

    During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  7. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 2 - Family Secrets
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    #7 - Family Secrets

    S9:E2

    Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  8. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 3 - The Mole
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    #8 - The Mole

    S9:E3

    Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  9. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 4 - The Wind Around the Tower
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    #9 - The Wind Around the Tower

    S9:E4

    While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  10. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 5 - The Dead File
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    #10 - The Dead File

    S9:E5

    Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  11. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 7 - Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice
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    #11 - Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice

    S9:E7

    Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  12. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 8 - The Classic Murder
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    #12 - The Classic Murder

    S9:E8

    After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 10 - The Sound of Murder
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    #13 - The Sound of Murder

    S9:E10

    The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 11 - Final Curtain
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    #14 - Final Curtain

    S9:E11

    The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:J. Michael Straczynski

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  15. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 12 - Double Jeopardy
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    #15 - Double Jeopardy

    S9:E12

    The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  16. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 13 - Dead Eye
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    #16 - Dead Eye

    S9:E13

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

    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  17. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 14 - Killer Radio
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    #17 - Killer Radio

    S9:E14

    The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 17 - The Big Kill
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    #18 - The Big Kill

    S9:E17

    The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.

    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 18 - Dead to Rights
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    #19 - Dead to Rights

    S9:E18

    Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  20. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 19 - Lone Witness
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    #20 - Lone Witness

    S9:E19

    A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writers:Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff

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  21. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 20 - Ship of Thieves
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    #21 - Ship of Thieves

    S9:E20

    A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Murder, She Wrote Season 9 Episode 21 - The Survivor
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    #22 - The Survivor

    S9:E21

    Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Murder, She Wrote Season 11 Episode 1 - A Nest of Vipers
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    #23 - A Nest of Vipers

    S11:E1

    When Jessica spends some time at a zoo researching her latest novel, she soon gets drawn into a case of murder when the body of Mark Atwater, the fiancé of one of the zoo workers, is found murdered (death by snake venom), and another employee is charged with his murder. In the course of her investigation, she soon learns that a number of people had a motive to want Mark dead.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Murder, She Wrote Season 11 Episode 2 - Amsterdam Kill
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    #24 - Amsterdam Kill

    S11:E2

    While on a visit to Amsterdam, Jessica meets up with fellow novelist and old friend Nigel Allison. When Allison goes missing, Colin Biddle, who claims to be Allison's publishing liaison, try to convince her that nothing is wrong. Jessica soon realises that both Nigel and Colin are secret agents, and despite Colin's request for her to stay out of it, Jessica investigates Allison's disappearance and soon convinces a previously reluctant inspector that there is something terribly wrong. At the same time, Philip and Lydia de Kooning are trying to make a deal in diamonds, and when Philip turns up dead after Jessica gets a note supposedly from him, Jessica is the prime suspect in his murder.

    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Murder, She Wrote Season 11 Episode 3 - To Kill a Legend
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    #25 - To Kill a Legend

    S11:E3

    The discovery of an old document may make Cabot Cove rewrite its history.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writers:David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll

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Worst Episodes Summary

"See You in Court, Baby" is the worst rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Peter S. Fischer, it aired on 9/30/1990. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Murder in F Sharp".