Die Witwe Jessica Fletcher lebt alleine in der kleinen Küstenstadt Cabot Cove. Ihr erster selbstgeschriebener Krimi erobert auf Anhieb die Bestsellerlisten. Anlässlich einer Pressekampagne wird Jessica von ihrem Verleger zu einem Kostümfest eingeladen. Als auf der Party ein Mord geschieht, beginnt Jessica zu ermitteln und schlittert seitdem immer wieder in Mordfälle.
Autor: Paul Savage
Sendedatum: 1986-09-28
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
Autor: Paul Savage
Sendedatum: 1986-10-05
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
Autor: Jackson Gillis
Sendedatum: 1986-10-12
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
Autor: Peter S. Fischer
Sendedatum: 1986-10-19
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
Autor: Robert E. Swanson
Sendedatum: 1986-11-02
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
Sendedatum: 1986-11-09
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
Autor: Robert E. Swanson
Sendedatum: 1986-11-23
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).
Autor: Michael McGough
Sendedatum: 1986-11-16
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.
Autor: Robert Van Scoyk
Sendedatum: 1986-12-07
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.
Sendedatum: 1986-12-14
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
Autor: R. Barker Price
Sendedatum: 1987-01-04
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
Autor: Donald Ross
Sendedatum: 1987-01-18
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
Autor: Craig W. Van Sickle
Sendedatum: 1987-02-01
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
Sendedatum: 1987-02-08
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
Autor: Craig W. Van Sickle
Sendedatum: 1987-02-15
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
Autor: Peter S. Fischer
Sendedatum: 1987-02-22
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
Autor: Robert E. Swanson
Sendedatum: 1987-03-01
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
Autor: Tom Sawyer
Sendedatum: 1987-03-15
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
Autor: Gerald K. Siegel
Sendedatum: 1987-03-22
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
Autor: Robert Van Scoyk
Sendedatum: 1987-04-05
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".
Sendedatum: 1987-04-19
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.
Sendedatum: 1987-05-10
Laufzeit: 45 min
Übersicht: During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
