Murder, She Wrote (Season 8)

Bite the Big Apple (Episode 1) 8.0

Writer: David Moessinger

Air date: 1991-09-15

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.

Night Fears (Episode 2) 8.0

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1991-09-22

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.

Unauthorized Obituary (Episode 3) 8.0

Writer: Robert Swanson

Air date: 1991-09-29

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.

Thicker Than Water (Episode 4) 8.0

Writer: Larry DiTillio

Air date: 1991-10-06

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.

Lines of Excellence (Episode 5) 8.0

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1991-11-03

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.

Judge Not (Episode 6) 8.0

Air date: 1991-11-10

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.

Terminal Connection (Episode 7) 8.0

Writer: Robert Swanson

Air date: 1991-11-17

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.

A Killing in Vegas (Episode 8) 7.0

Air date: 1991-11-24

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.

The Committee (Episode 9) 8.0

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1991-12-01

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.

The List of Yuri Lermentov (Episode 10) 7.0

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Air date: 1991-12-15

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.

Danse Diabolique (Episode 11) 8.0

Air date: 1992-01-05

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.

The Witch's Curse (Episode 12) 7.2

Air date: 1992-01-12

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.

Incident in Lot 7 (Episode 13) 4.5

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1992-01-19

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

The Monte Carlo Murders (Episode 14)

Air date: 1992-02-02

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.

Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief (Episode 15) 8.0

Writer: Robert Swanson

Air date: 1992-03-01

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.

Ever After (Episode 16) 6.0

Air date: 1992-03-08

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.

To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee (Episode 17) 6.5

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1992-03-15

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.

Programmed for Murder (Episode 18) 1.0

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Air date: 1992-04-05

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

Day of the Dead (Episode 19) 7.0

Air date: 1992-04-26

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.

Angel of Death (Episode 20) 4.0

Writer: Robert Swanson

Air date: 1992-05-03

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.

Badge of Honor (Episode 21)

Writer: David Moessinger

Air date: 1992-05-10

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.

Murder On Madison Avenue (Episode 22) 1.0

Air date: 1992-05-17

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.