Murder, She Wrote (Season 9)

Murder in Milan (Episode 1)

Writer: Laurence Heath

Air date: 1992-09-20

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: During the Milan Film Festival, famous fim producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.

Family Secrets (Episode 2)

Writer: Robert Hamner

Air date: 1992-09-27

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

The Mole (Episode 3)

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Air date: 1992-10-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

The Wind Around the Tower (Episode 4)

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1992-11-01

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.

The Dead File (Episode 5)

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Air date: 1992-11-15

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

Night of the Coyote (Episode 6) 6.0

Air date: 1992-11-22

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The legend of a stage coach robber's hidden treasure leads to the murder of an old mining town entrepreneur.

Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice (Episode 7)

Writer: Robert Swanson

Air date: 1992-11-29

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.

The Classic Murder (Episode 8)

Air date: 1992-12-06

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!

A Christmas Secret (Episode 9) 9.0

Air date: 1992-12-13

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancée is marred by his big secret.

The Sound of Murder (Episode 10)

Air date: 1993-01-03

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.

Final Curtain (Episode 11)

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Air date: 1993-01-10

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

Double Jeopardy (Episode 12)

Writer: Laurence Heath

Air date: 1993-01-17

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.

Dead Eye (Episode 13)

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Air date: 1993-02-07

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

Killer Radio (Episode 14)

Air date: 1993-02-14

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.

The Petrified Florist (Episode 15) 6.0

Writer: Donald Ross

Air date: 1993-02-21

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?

Threshold of Fear (Episode 16) 1.0

Air date: 1993-02-28

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A recluse is terrified when the killer she sees in her dreams tries to see her in real life.

The Big Kill (Episode 17)

Air date: 1993-03-07

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.

Lone Witness (Episode 18)

Writer: Mary Ann Kasica

Air date: 1993-04-04

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.

Dead to Rights (Episode 19)

Writer: Tom Sawyer

Air date: 1993-03-21

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

Ship of Thieves (Episode 20)

Air date: 1993-05-02

Runtime: 46 min

Overview: A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.

The Survivor (Episode 21)

Air date: 1993-05-09

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.

Love's Deadly Desire (Episode 22) 1.0

Writer: Chris Manheim

Air date: 1993-05-16

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.