Murder, She Wrote (Season 5)

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

J.B. As in Jailbird 6.5
Air date: 1988-10-23
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.
A Little Night Work 7.0
Air date: 1988-10-30
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
Mr. Penroy's Vacation 8.0
Air date: 1988-11-06
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
Snow White, Blood Red 7.0
Air date: 1988-11-13
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
Coal Miner's Slaughter 5.3
Air date: 1988-11-20
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
Wearing of the Green 7.5
Air date: 1988-11-27
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.
The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel 8.0
Air date: 1988-12-18
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
Prediction: Murder 7.0
Air date: 1989-01-01
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue 9.0
Air date: 1989-01-08
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
Weave a Tangled Web 8.0
Air date: 1989-01-15
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
The Search for Peter Kerry 8.0
Air date: 1989-02-05
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
Smooth Operators 7.5
Air date: 1989-02-12
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble 7.0
Air date: 1989-02-19
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
From Russia ... With Blood 7.0
Air date: 1989-02-26
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
Alma Murder 8.0
Air date: 1989-03-12
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
Truck Stop 7.0
Air date: 1989-04-02
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.
The Sins of Castle Cove 6.0
Air date: 1989-04-09
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.
Trevor Hudson's Legacy 4.5
Air date: 1989-04-16
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
Double Exposure 7.0
Air date: 1989-04-30
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.
Three Strikes, You're Out 7.0
Air date: 1989-05-07
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1) 9.0
Air date: 1989-05-14
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2) 8.0
Air date: 1989-05-21
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.