Best of "Murder, She Wrote"
My personal list of the best episodes of the iconic detective series. Listed in chronological order, not by personal favorite.
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- 1984–19961h 34mTV-PG8.0 (1.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorCorey AllenStarsAngela LansburyEddie BarthJessica BrowneFormer English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel. But when an unwanted guest is murdered by gunfire at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAngela LansburyBart BravermanJeff ConawayJessica's niece Victoria Brandon is horrified when her fiancé Howard Griffin is arrested following the gunshot murder of nasty San Francisco drag club owner Al Drake.
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsAngela LansburyClaude AkinsEdward AlbertJessica and the police are baffled by a seemingly driver-less car that suddenly appears in Cabot Cove and runs down a visitor who had fired local inventor Dan O'Brien.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsAngela LansburyLinda BlairTom BosleyJessica and a slew of passengers are forced to take refuge from a storm at a remote diner when one of the passengers is found stabbed in his seat on a bus to Boston.
- DirectorSeymour RobbieStarsAngela LansburyNoah Beery Jr.Kathleen BellerJessica has to unravel the secrets and threats at the funeral of a friend in Wyoming.
- DirectorMichael A. HoeyStarsAngela LansburyLen CariouCyd CharisseJessica masquerades as a wealthy widow at a luxurious tropical hotel in order to trap a murderer.
- 1984–199647mTV-PG7.4 (584)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter CraneStarsAngela LansburyJohn AstinTom BosleyA cheap tycoon with many enemies is found dead on the construction site of his high-rise hotel.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsAngela LansburyWilliam AthertonPaul BurkeJessica's niece, an actress in a daytime drama, becomes a suspect when the head writer for the show is murdered.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsAngela LansburyJohn AstinSusan BlanchardJessica spends a little time at a lakeside inn where she witnesses what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling into the lake.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAngela LansburyMargaret AveryAdrienne BarbeauJessica visits a women's prison and is held captive when an uprising occurs because of abuse and murder at the facility.
- DirectorPeter CraneStarsAngela LansburySharon AckerNorman AldenPoisoned strawberry preserves served at the Joshua Peabody Inn result in murder.
- 1984–199647mTV-PG7.4 (452)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter CraneStarsAngela LansburyBert ConvyRobert CostanzoJessica must find out the truth when the ruthless owner of a periodical is murdered.
- DirectorPeter CraneStarsAngela LansburyJenny AgutterMichael Anderson Jr.While attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
- DirectorPeter CraneStarsAngela LansburyRamon BieriStephanie FaracyJessica comes to the assistance of Magnum when he's framed for two murders that occurred during her vacation in Hawaii in Novel Connection (1986).
- DirectorNick HavingaStarsAngela LansburyMacdonald CareyJoan CaulfieldTo look into a small-town murder, Jessica poses as the sister of the slain woman.
- 1984–199647mTV-PG7.9 (524)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAngela LansburyTom BosleyColleen CampWhen Amos' sister & her in-laws descend upon Cabot Cove, Jessica hosts a dinner party with homicidal results, leaving the finger pointing at the Sheriff's sister.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsAngela LansburyRonnie Claire EdwardsEric Allan KramerA massive storm results in Jessica snowed in at a ski lodge with an Olympic men's ski team and a murderer on the loose.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsAngela LansburyHoyt AxtonBarbara BainWhen a former student is arrested for murder, Jessica heads to West Virginia to bail her out. The unfriendly town hinders her investigation.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAngela LansburyJuliana DonaldBrad DourifJessica is suspicious when the appearance of the ghost of a long-dead witch burned at the stake coincides with the release of a book on the very subject.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsAngela LansburyJulie AdamsLuke AskewA vindictive, tell-all work of fiction mirroring Cabot Cove sends the townspeople into an uproar and when a murder occurs, following the plot of the book, it's up to Jessica to separate fact from fiction.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsAngela LansburyNeill BarryPatrick BauchauJessica probes a Monte Carlo murder for which her hotelier friend is a suspect.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsAngela LansburyBarbara BabcockJoel FabianiJessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsAngela LansburyNeil Patrick HarrisBeth HowlandJessica helps solve a murder when the only witness, a local delivery boy she has befriended, becomes the prime suspect.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsAngela LansburyLois ChilesGeorge CoeOut on parole, Jessica's former publisher tries to woo her back into the fold.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsAngela LansburyBill BrochtrupFrederick CoffinIn this spoof of Friends (1994), the producer of a hit TV show called "Buds" featuring an ensemble cast is about to kill off one of the characters when she is found dead in her office.