8.0/101 votes#1 - The Return of Preston Giles
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1990
This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Tom Sawyer
8.0/101 votes#2 - The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1991
The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.5/102 votes#3 - Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1985
Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that had been buried deeply that many of the townspeople believe to be the remains of Joshua Peabody. Not everyone is thus inclined though, and many people believe it's just a random dead body. But when Jessica and Amos head back to the dig site, they find there's another body there! Jessica not only has to find out who killed Wheatley, she has to help an old friend when his past comes back to haunt him.
Director: Peter Crane
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/101 votes#4 - Broadway Malady
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1985
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
7.0/101 votes#5 - Deadline for Murder
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1986
A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/102 votes#6 - Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/19/1989
A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/101 votes#7 - Appointment in Athens
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1989
Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/101 votes#8 - The Szechuan Dragon
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1990
Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/101 votes#9 - The Family Jewels
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1990
A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/101 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
6.0/101 votes#11 - Deadly Assets
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1994
A mobster is upset when he learns that a petty thief has found an unexpected $900,000.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Tom Sawyer
6.0/101 votes#12 - Death in Disguise
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1978
Diana is assigned to protect an industrialist from an assasination attempt.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Tom Sawyer
5.0/101 votes#13 - A Quaking in Aspen
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1995
In Aspen, Colo, Jessica's friend, Laney, seems to be the best suspect in the murder of her husband, Grant Boswell.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Tom Sawyer
1.0/101 votes#14 - 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
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"The Return of Preston Giles" is the best rated episode written by Tom Sawyer. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Walter Grauman. It aired on 11/18/1990 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane".