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Murder, She Wrote: Season One
Murder, She Wrote: Season Two
Murder, She Wrote: Season Three
Murder, She Wrote: Season Four
Murder, She Wrote: Season Five

Episodes:

  1. "J.B. As in Jailbird"
  2. "A Little Night Work"
  3. "Mr. Penroy's Vacation"
  4. "Snow White, Blood Red"
  5. "Coal Miner's Slaughter"
  6. "Wearing of the Green"
  7. "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel"
  8. "Prediction: Murder"
  9. "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue"
  10. "Weave A Tangled Web"
  11. "The Search for Peter Kerry"
  12. "Smooth Operators"
  13. "Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble"
  14. "From Russia With Blood"
  15. "Alma Murder"
  16. "Truck Stop"
  17. "The Sins of Castle Cove"
  18. "Trevor Hudson's Legacy"
  19. "Double Exposure"
  20. "Three Strikes, You're Out"
  21. "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Part 1)"
  22. "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Part 2)"
Murder, She Wrote: Season Six
Murder, She Wrote: Season Seven
Murder, She Wrote: Season Eight
Murder, She Wrote: Season Nine
Murder, She Wrote: Season Ten
Murder, She Wrote: Season Eleven
Murder, She Wrote: Season Twelve
Murder, She Wrote: TV Movies
The Law & Harry McGraw
Novels
Games
DVDs

Production Information[]

Production Number:
Aired: January 8th, 1989
Written By: Philip Gerson
Directed By: John Llewellyn Moxey
Created By: Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson & William Link
Executive Producers: Peter S. Fischer
Producer: Robert Van Scoyk

Summary[]

Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.

Trivia[]

Gale Storm's final acting performance.

Michael Horton and Debbie Zipp are married in real life so, in essence, Grady was marrying his real life wife.

Per the title, for good luck the bride must wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.

Conchata Ferrell would later go on to play a similarly tough housekeeper on Two & A Half Men.

It shouldn't surprise too many people (particularly horror and slashers fans) that Betsy Palmer's character is the killer, seeing how she had previously played Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th (1980). This is her second appearance in the show. Her first (not acting as a killer) was in the Season 2 episode “Sticks and Stones”. Another actor who had previously played a killer from a horror/slasher was also on the show. Dan O’Herlihy, who had played Cochran from Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) prior to being on the show. Dan’s start appearance was about 14 months before Betsy’s.

Victim: Harriet Lundgren

Killer: Valerie

Cause of death: Stabbed in back with a meat thermometer.

Motive: Harriet had worked for her under a different name, where she allegedly killed her husband for the insurance, and was afraid she might expose her.

Goofs[]

The party crasher is called "Cousin Clara" several times until Jessica approaches her to attempt to expose her as such. Jessica addresses the imposter as "Aunt Clara" and proceeds to ferret out the truth.

Starring[]

Regular Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

DVD Release[]

Episode Chronology[]

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