The Best Episodes Written By Peter S. fischer

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   #1 - The Five and a Half Pound Junkie

   S1:E21/24/1975

   When his childhood friend is murdered, Baretta tries to protect the pregnant widow and her unborn child from the killers, and from her own drug habit.

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   #2 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)

   S5:E215/14/1989

   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.

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   #3 - Close Cover Before Killing

   S2:E161/5/1975

   Kojak investigates a homicide in which the murder was covered up by a torched building.

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   #4 - Tough Guys Don't Die

   S1:E162/24/1985

   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.

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   #5 - A Friend in Deed

   S3:E85/5/1974

   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.

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   #6 - It Runs In The Family

   S4:E611/1/1987

   Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.

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   #7 - Hannigan's Wake

   S7:E410/28/1990

   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.

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   #8 - When the Fat Lady Sings

   S6:E811/19/1989

   The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

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   #9 - The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

   S5:E712/18/1988

   The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

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    #10 - The Search for Peter Kerry

    S5:E112/5/1989

    A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

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    #11 - We're Off to Kill the Wizard

    S1:E812/9/1984

    Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.

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    #12 - The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express

    S1:E510/9/1975

    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.

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    7.9/10(5 votes)

    #13 - My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean

    S1:E142/10/1985

    Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?

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    7.9/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Paint Me a Murder

    S1:E152/17/1985

    The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.

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    7.9/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Death Takes a Dive

    S3:E162/22/1987

    Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

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    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #16 - Lovers and Other Killers

    S1:E611/18/1984

    While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

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    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #17 - Negative Reaction

    S4:E210/15/1974

    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.

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    7.7/10(5 votes)

    #18 - One White Rose for Death

    S3:E410/19/1986

    Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

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    7.6/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Widow, Weep for Me

    S2:E19/29/1985

    Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.

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    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Capitol Offense

    S1:E111/6/1985

    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.

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    #21 - A Very Good Year for Murder

    S4:E172/28/1988

    The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.

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    #22 - Wearing of the Green

    S5:E611/27/1988

    A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.

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    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #23 - The Murder of Sherlock Holmes

    S1:E19/30/1984

    Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel, but when an unwanted guest is murdered at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.

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    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #24 - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo

    S9:E43/31/1990

    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.

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    7.3/10(30 votes)

    #25 - Publish or Perish

    S3:E51/18/1974

    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.

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