TONIGHT on Murder, She Wrote

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we enter season 5 with "J.B. AS IN JAILBIRD," wherein police take in our heroine, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), under suspicion of being a hired foreign agent assassin.  You know, the usual. Vexed by frenemy Michael Hagarty (Len Carriou), Jessica sits behind bars as Michael and her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) hunt the true killer, while Jessica inves...

As a treat for finishing Season 4 of Murder, She Wrote, Viktor and Petra dive into Angela Lansbury's award winning turn as Mrs. Lovett in the 1982 recording of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Happy Halloween!!

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra present their SEASON 4 POST MORTEM.  Let's talk about the last season and all that happened, from the hot guys, the vamps, the villains, and yeah, that one about the comet we never even got to see. First, we headed to Paris for a fashion show, with intrigue and blackmail thrown in, then returned to Cabot Cove for a demand for justice from 20 year...

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TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra return to the world of theatre as Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) has her first stage adaptation of one of her books opening directly on Broadway.  Alas, the script is a mess, the actors are terrible, the staging is grade school, and the critics are vicious.  Or maybe everything's great? We'll have to check the most recent draft of the re...

Yeehaw, folks! TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're heading to the ro-DE-o!  SHOWDOWN IN SASKATCHEWAN has our heroine Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) visiting her miserable niece Jill (Kristy McNichol) in Canada; Jill is struggling with her hot but noncommittal horse-rider boyfriend (Patrick Houser) in this unconventional workplace drama.  Indeed, everyone is having issues; the boss (Joe Do...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, you will never look at frozen seafood the same way again.  Touted as JUST ANOTHER FISH STORY, the episode features marine life as weaponry, stolen goods unaccounted for, investor subterfuge, journalistic conflict of interest, and Mr. Sonny Bono! Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is back in New York, learning her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has gone the urban cowboy...

BENEDICT ARNOLD MAY HAVE SLIPPED HERE, but you almost definitely kept looking for the light switch, sought the perfect chessboard, burnt the beans, and made up stories about whose brooch belongs to whom.  Because that's all gonna happen, TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE! Petra and Viktor are back in Cabot Cove for the final ride of Tom Bosley's Sheriff Tupper!  As Mr. Bosley's chapter c...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) has her chance to meddle with an Italian family.  The elderly Gambini patriarch (Eli Wallach) is worried about his legacy, as his son (John Saxon) and his wife (Bibi Besch) can't inspire their children to give much a damn about the family business: wine and lots of it!  When a murder attempt is presumably made against one of the...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Petra and Viktor head to a house of spies with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Jessica hears the confession of a dying assassin. Naturally, she makes it her business to investigate, much to the chagrin of the local authorities (Laurence Luckinbill) and the covert special agency that houses a high-risk informant.  Inundated with deception, denial, and efforts to th...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Petra and Viktor explore the Southern Gothic charm of MOURNING AMONG THE WISTERIAS.  Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is visiting her ailing playwright friend Eugene McClenden (Barry Nelson), who seems to be getting progressively sicker as his next drama drones on in production.  He is surrounded by family (his heir and nephew, Matt McCoy, and his wife, Linda Purl),...

If you've ever said to yourself, "This northeastern family drama does not have enough cursed gemstone jewelry," this episode is for you.  TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and pal Seth (William Windom) are in Maryland to visit his estranged brother Richard (Richard Bradford), newly married to sweet but milquetoast Alice (Jane Windsor), approximately thirty year...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, JB Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) enters SPACE... well, at least exploration via optical instruments on Earth.  It's HARBINGER OF DEATH, and the stars are aligned for the murder of sexy male secretary Drake Eaton (Steve Ford), potentially tangled up in observatory politics as per his employer: the lamé enthusiast and financially sought-after Madeline DeHaven (Marcia...

TONIGHT ON MURDER SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra solve the mystery of all mysteries: WHO THREW THE BARBITALS IN MRS. FLETCHER'S CHOWDER?  Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is surprised by his sister, Winnie (Anne Meara), after an altercation with her brutish husband, Elmo (Guy Stockwell).  He soon passes her on to Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to deal with, much to her chagrin as she's...

TONIGHT ON MURDER SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra join mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) as they visit a very deluxe New York City hotel, filled with brandied chocolates, Freudian nonsense, and vases with vermouth. The Montaigne is run with an iron floral blouse by Janet Leigh's Cornelia, who never met a ruffle she didn't love.  Her rec...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we address uncomfortable race relations in idyllic Cabot Cove, Maine.  When a war bonnet'd First Nations man on horseback throws a spear at the Mayor (Richard Paul), the townspeople are irked. It turns out the theatrical equestrian is Algonquin George Longbow (Bernard White, who, uh, isn't), and he has a claim on the town, which further instigates worry, rag...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, there's TROUBLE IN EDEN—Eden naturally being a charming hotel in idyllic suburban Oregon that also happens to serve gentlemen with the companionship of ladies for a short while. Yes, this cozy mystery enters the brothel life where the lingerie is questionable, the rooms are quaintly tacky, and the floorboards contain the blackmailed secrets of powerful men!  Jess...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we return to the magical backstage world of network television and all of the terrible people who make it! JB Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is famous enough to get ripped off; she learns from an intrepid novice telewriter, Gayle (Kim Miyori), that her latest novel will be used nearly plot point for plot point in an upcoming medical soap.  Instead of seeking a lawyer, or...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra celebrate getting to the beloved episode IF IT'S THURSDAY, IT MUST BE BEVERLY! Sex lives of the small-town Maine women over 50 are exposed when a shocking murder startles the beauty salon. It all comes down to the swingin' log of Deputy Jonathan Martin (Jonathan Lenz), who has been laying pipe all over town:  The realtor, Eve Simpson (Julie...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra are enjoying our jolly holiday this week in England for the first (only?) episode of the series where Jessica Fletcher doesn't appear.  Perhaps you'll be able to satiate yourself with a serving of cousin Emma MacGill (Angela Lansbury) as she explores the family dynamics of her former flame, now a lord (Richard Johnson). Everyone sucks: his s...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're on THE WAY TO DUSTY DEATH... whatever that means.  In this Shakespeare-inspired escapade set in office boardrooms, curiously designed bathrooms, and a lavish estate, JB Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) attends a gathering where the host ends up dead.  Our motivated social-climbing Lady MacB is Virginia McCormack (Joanna Pettet), who urges her husband (Richard Bey...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Petra and Viktor acknowledge that OLD HABITS DIE HARD, particularly when it comes to convent humor.  Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and her college bud Claire (Jane Powell) are a Sister Act as they determine the identity of the unholy murderer behind the death of popular nun Sister Emily (Evelyn Keyes). When she is found in her room, pill bottle emptied, Jessica i...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we run to the wilds of the Canadian court system as Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) unravels the motives of the accused in WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE.  When the matriarch (Claire Trevor) of a well-to-do Quebec family does not approve of the marriage between her son (Christoper Allport) and his common choice of wife (Marilyn Hassett), she may have gotten rid of her via...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra discover WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT, no one is safe: the youth with their indiscretions, the mature with their secrets and lies, and the set designers who have to use Photoshop.  John Glover is back as a wronged man out for revenge, and when the object of his ire (Dack Rambo) is found murdered, he's the only logical suspect. But he wasn't there,...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we explore the Parisian fashion runways! And there's a lot more dead guy in the hotel room than anticipated.   When blackmailing tycoon Maxim Soury (Lee Bergere) tells designer-on-the-rise Eva Taylor (Barbara Rush) that he wants 50% of her new business, she seeks out her close, rich friend Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) for help.  During a fashion show full o...