TONIGHT on Murder, She Wrote

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE we're goin' back to school where the teachers are all sluts who are lying to each other, the typewriters are ever so distinctive, and the train station attendant is just out to mess with you.  Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), noted mystery writer and murder solver, has been asked to speak at the commencement for Grenshaw College. She is quickly witness to...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're gettin' soapy. Anyone alive in the '80s knows that we were an American culture obsessed with bitchy women in shoulder pads duking it out and saying nasty things to each other in the world of soap operas.  We meet a cast of actors who either want job security or want to be off the series, and no one is getting what they want.  Villainous writer Joy...

When is it a good idea to lie to the FBI? We may learn TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE!  This week, we return to Cabot Cove just as a skeleton is unearthed on the construction site of a controversial hotel project. When the body is a likely candidate for either the town's revolutionary hero Joshua Peabody, some rando who liked reenactments, or this week's local good guy with a shameful secr...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, let's go on a vacation... of death! Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is undercover at the resort where a dear friend has been murdered, and she's determined to find the culprit.  Along the way, she finds the dashing Michael Haggarty (Len Cariou) who seems to know more than he's letting on, the suspicious hotel security (Howard Hesseman), the cornfed m...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE: We are stretching, candlelit bathing, and taking time for ourselves between jaunts on our bikes and bouts of on-land swimming. That's right, folks, get your peach onesie because we're exploring Angela Lansbury's POSITIVE MOVES.   This landmark in celebrity lifestyle, wellbeing, and fitness videotape is full of advice for the mah-tour, sexual, and active...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, it's a full-season review with Viktor and Petra to share the highs and lows of our first year of Jessica Fletcher, the denizens of Cabot Cove, and the many people who live and die in and around it.  In this special edition of the pod, revisit the hot guys, thrilling locales, sizzling action sequences, our favorite one-scene wonders, the most deserving to get bump...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE hits our first season finale: FUNERAL AT FIFTY-MILE, and we're super excited even if this one is kinda a downer! We head west with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to Wyoming to meet a whole bunch of guys and one lil' lady they're all dead set on protecting within an inch of her agency.  Mary Carver (Kathleen Beller) is mourning the loss of her father...

It's a family affair TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE.  Acclaimed but total douche Johnny Shannon (Ed Ames) is found dead, and the suspects are mostly all related to him: the sultry ex-wife (Piper Laurie), the sensitive son (Joseph Bottoms), and the promiscuous daughter (Linda Purl) all make good cases as they are used and abused.  Instead, let's also consider the help: the devoted but goofy...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, nothing can keep Jessica Fletcher from meddling - not even a fractured ankle! JB Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is on the scene in a Texan private hospital where the doctors hate each other, the nurses wear false eyelashes, and the patients are comedy legends. Why, yes, we'd love to spend a weekend.  Naturally, someone everyone seems to hate is murdered (Stephen Elli...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're in the scariest place ever: public transportation.  Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and Sheriff Tupper (Tom Bosley) are heading to Portland with a busload of criminals and curios in a heavy rainstorm. When a recently released prison inmate (John Davis Chandler) is murdered while on board, they'll need to figure out who had a motive and who is just a...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we keep misplacing our umbrellas, eyeglasses, and manuscripts.  Famed writer who might not have it anymore, Hemsley Post (Kenneth Mars) ends up dead after a posh NYC literary awards gala, and the suspects are multiple. We have, of course: - The Wife (Diana Muldaur) - The Guy Whose Book He Stole (Vincent Baggetta) - The Sexy Opportunistic Editor (Morgan Brittany) - The...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're going into SUDDEN DEATH.  In a bizarre turn of events, mystery novelist and busybody with a high success rate, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), inherits 4% of a football team, and everyone wants her share.  However, things get complicated when one of the primary shareholders that no one likes (Allan Miller) is found dead in a jacuzzi after a team and sta...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, the TOUGH GUYS DON'T DIE... until they do.  Famed mystery novel author Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is researching a tragic crime from years earlier when her private detective researcher (Floyd Levine) turns up dead. She suspects it might be her case that led to him being targeted, but he was also working on two other cases, so the suspects are threefold. ...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Angela Lansbury is coming in via helicopter.  Distinguished painter Diego (the iconic Cesar Romero) is under siege by one of his Mediterranean island guests during his worst birthday party ever. Among the suspects: it might be his awfully young bride (Cristina Raines), his fabulous but arthritic ex-wife (Capucine), a philanthropic do-gooder (Judy Geeson), his handsome...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're feeling very Brian De Palma neo-noir.  Writer and sleuth Jessica (Angela Lansbury) joins her niece, Pamela (Belinda Montgomery), who is suffering from major PTSD after her husband, Johnny, has died, so they go on a girls' weekend cruise to get her nerves right.  You see, the husband just couldn't cope with his being... adopted? Really? That's...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're in New Orleans, everyone!  Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is in town with a few days to kill... and someone's about to! Legendary clarinet player Ben Coleman (Glynn Turman) collapses during a spirited party where everyone is mad at him. It might be someone in the band, his trusted confidante (Stan Shaw), his manager (Cameron Mitchell), or his jilte...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're putting on a show! And it's all very Judy Garland-coded.  Mystery novelist and always there at the wrong time Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is summoned to Boston by her nephew Grady (Michael Horton), who's part of the team bringing up-and-coming talent Patti Bristol (Lorna Luft), and her mother, legend Rita (Vivian Blaine), in their joint-sta...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we're heading to the illustrious and captivating setting of... Congress?!  Somehow, some way, JB Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) finds herself as a temporary statesperson for Maine. And no one shall be seated during the thrilling discussion of bureaucratic protocol... but there's also a murder to solve.  When the eyewitness to an unseemly cover-up involving DC po...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we head to a Lake Tahoe casino to witness the flabbergasting powers of The Great Calamari... the Great Castellaneta... the Great Caligari... (what?) oh, The Great Cagliostro! This master of hypnosis is our victim for DEATH CASTS A SPELL. In front of hypnotized witnesses, the Great Cag-- uh, the hypnotist (José Ferrer) in question is found dead in his hotel room after...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE we--BAN THE BALLET--excuse us, we're having an interruption from the wings.  Anyway, what we have to see--BAN THE BALLET!--Ok look, we're trying to have a lovely little slice of culture over here.  We and Jessica (Angela Lansbury) head to Boston to check out some Soviet dancers prance about; and our anti-ballet activist Velma Rodecker (Jessica Nelson) is havi...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, we try to solve a variation on the classic murder made behind a door, locked from the inside!  The Worst Person Ever this week comes in the form of theme park owner and total maniac "Horrible" Horatio (James Coco), who tries to strongarm Jessica (Angela Lansbury) into... writing a story for his next attraction? We don't know; it's not important. Wh...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, it's Jessica versus... the brake pedal!  A driverless car creates mayhem at a Cabot Cove picnic, and it takes the combined forces of Sherrif Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley), Captain Ethan Cragg (Claude Akins), and mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to figure it out.  When the car sends one man into the hospital, another to the morgue, and our heroine care...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica faces one of her toughest antagonists: stairs. Oh, and a pretty boy secretary who may be trying to kill her. You know how it is. Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is tasked with a lecture at a prestigious Washington state university where she also happens to need a typist; she encounters this dreamy-eyed co-ed David Tolliver (Andrew Stevens), already a suspec...

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica is investigating the death of the fox-hunting Virginian patriarch of the worst family ever, which she refuses to believe is an accident.  She might be right, as the greedy children (the deadwood, the kook, the lush) are shocked to learn they've been passed over for his inheritance. The actual beneficiary? The family dog Teddy; and they are all peeved as h...

Jessica Fletcher is going to Hollywood to try to stop her first novel, The Corpse Danced At Midnight, from being turned into a grotesque, tacky movie set in a roller disco graveyard! And she is super pissed.  TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, someone's killed off the douche movie producer!  Was it his current (somewhat age-inappropriate) lover, the ingenue actress?  Her new secret lover,  the hun...