9.0/101 votes#1 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/1989
Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/102 votes#2 - Lovers and Other Killers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1984
While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#3 - Tough Guys Don't Die
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1985
Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for the death of a private detective. One dates back 25 years.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#4 - Death Takes a Dive
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1987
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#5 - It Runs In The Family
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1987
Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#6 - The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/1988
The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#7 - The Search for Peter Kerry
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1989
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/102 votes#8 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1989
After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#9 - When the Fat Lady Sings
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1989
The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/102 votes#10 - Hannigan's Wake
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1990
A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/101 votes#11 - The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1975
News mogul Henry Manners is murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor of his building with nobody inside the elevator except the victim. The suspects include Manners' sister who had previously run the paper while her brother was absent in WW II, the right-wing columnist who was always getting the paper into legal hot water, the Editor being forced into retirement, and (yes, you knew this was coming) the paper's lawyer. Ole Frank Flannigan is on the scene too making the usual nuisance of himself and trying to beat Ellery to the solution. They'll have to take things one day at a time in this case.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.7/1024 votes#12 - Negative Reaction
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1974
Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife, Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. His plan is to make it look as if Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her before picking up the ransom money.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.7/1023 votes#13 - A Friend in Deed
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/5/1974
A police commissioner provides an alibi to a friend who has just killed his wife. Later the commissioner kills his own wife and gets the friend to repay the favour.
Director: Ben Gazzara
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.3/1022 votes#14 - An Exercise in Fatality
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1974
A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.3/1021 votes#15 - Publish or Perish
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/18/1974
A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.2/1016 votes#16 - Butterfly in Shades of Grey
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/1994
Ego-maniac Fielding Chase, is a radio talk show host who in order to prevent his daughter from moving to New York, murders a member of his staff.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.1/1019 votes#17 - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 3/31/1990
Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#18 - Capitol Offense
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1985
Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and finds a great deal of political game-playing in Washington.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#19 - My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1985
Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#20 - Paint Me a Murder
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1985
The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#21 - Widow, Weep for Me
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1985
Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.
Director: Michael A. Hoey
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/102 votes#22 - Powder Keg
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1986
After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield find themselves in a small southern town just in time for local bad boy Ed Bonner to be found dead, and young Matt Burns, the son of a former student of Ames', ends up accused of the murder. At the behest of Linda Bonner, the victim's sister who happens to care deeply about the accused, Jessica takes a look into the murder, but hatred runs deep in this town and it's pure luck (and Andy Crane) that leads Jessica and Ames to the right answer.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#23 - One White Rose for Death
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1986
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
Director: Peter Crane
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#24 - A Very Good Year for Murder
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/1988
The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/101 votes#25 - A Little Night Work
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/1988
A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
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"Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)" is the best rated episode written by Peter S. Fischer. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Vincent McEveety. It aired on 5/14/1989 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Lovers and Other Killers".