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

Episodes:

  1. "A Fashionable Way to Die"
  2. "When Thieves Fall Out"
  3. "Witness for the Defense"
  4. "Old Habits Die Hard"
  5. "The Way to Dusty Death"
  6. "It Runs in the Family"
  7. "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly"
  8. "Steal Me a Story"
  9. "Trouble in Eden"
  10. "Indian Giver"
  11. "Doom With a View"
  12. "Who Threw the Barbitals
    in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?
    "
  13. "Harbinger of Death"
  14. "Curse of the Daanav"
  15. "Mourning Among the Wisterias"
  16. "Murder Through the Looking Glass"
  17. "A Very Good Year for Murder"
  18. "Benedict Arnold Slipped Here"
  19. "Just Another Fish Story"
  20. "Showdown in Saskatchewan"
  21. "Deadpan"
  22. "The Body Politic"
Murder, She Wrote: Season Five
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: May 8th, 1988
Written By: Donald Ross
Directed By: Anthony (Pullen) Shaw
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Created By: Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson & William Link
Executive Producers: Peter S. Fischer
Producer: Robert Van Skoyk


Summary[]

Jessica is visiting her old friend Kathleen Lane, who is running for a senate seat. A rumor circulates that she is romantically involved with her speech writer, Bud Johnson and after he disappears, Jessica is chosen as new speechwriter. When Bud appears to have committed suicide, a skeptical Jessica suspects it's murder and delves into the dirty business of politics to find out who seeks to damage Kathleen's campaign.

Trivia[]

The late Eddie Albert is probably best known as Oliver Wendell Douglas from the series Green Acres (1964).

Daphne Maxwell-Reid, who plays Nan, will later be known as the second actress to play Vivian Banks on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990).

Shirley Jones is best known for her time on The Partridge Family.

Victim: Bud Johnson

Killer: Jackson Lane

Cause of death: Thrown off balcony after being hit by hammer (rigged to look like suicide).

Motive: Wanted his wife Kathleen's senate campaign to end, as it was bringing too much media attention to his questionable finances and hoped Bud's "suicide" would do so.

Yes, Bud knew that Jackson wasn't in the Bahamas, & it was brought up that he knew, but not once was there a story to explain as to how he knew, now was there?

To me, in this episode plays up the old adage: Putting the cart before the horse. Jackson creates the illusion that his wife had done it, by sending her on a wild goose chase, leaving her without an alibi, showing that she is the main suspect in Bud's murder, given that she was on the goose chase at the time he had done it, how does it frame her when he was the one that sent her on the goose chase, showing that she wasn't there, now was she?

With where Bud & Kathleen were when he had lost a ping-pong game with Kathleen, & he had began to cry, Jackson was told what the score was in the hotel room with his wife, if he was where Bud & Kathleen were to take photos of their embrace, he wouldn't have needed to know the score, he would have known about it, now wouldn't he?

Starring[]

Regular Cast[]

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

Eddie Albert as Jackson Lane

Peter Fox as Bud Johnson

Robert Fuller as Arthur Drelinger

George Grizzard as Edmund Hall

Shirley Jones as Kathleen Lane

Harrison Page as Lt. Dennis Gowens

Daphne Maxwell Reid as Nan Wynn

James Sloyan as C.W. Butterfield

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