Murder She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote – Murder Takes the Bus

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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. “Murder Takes the Bus” offers a fun setting for an episode of Murder, She Wrote when Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and Sheriff Amos Tupper‘s (Tom Bosley) short bus ride is delayed due to bad weather stranding the travelers (Linda Blair, Terence Knox, Rue McClanahan, Larry Linville, David Wayne, Don Stroud, and Albert Salmi) in a small roadside diner where they discover one of the passengers, the paroled convict that joined the bus during their journey, has been killed.

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Murder, She Wrote – Tough Guys Don’t Die

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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. “Tough Guys Don’t Die” introduced hardboiled private detective Harry McGraw (Jerry Orbach) as the partner of the PI Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) hired to look into an unsolved case. Although the pair don’t initially hit it off (with Harry unnecessarily breaking into her house and, like so many others, offering Jessica advice to stay out of a real criminal investigations), eventually McGraw accepts Jessica’s help and would become a recurring character on the show and even earn his own (short-lived) spin-off.

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Murder, She Wrote – Paint Me a Murder

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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. In an episode that has a strong Agatha Christie flavor with a group of people trapped together on a private island, and one of them almost certainly the killer, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) works to uncover the identity of the person who killed their host and friend, artist Diego Santana (Cesar Romero). Playing the role of Jessica’s more official assistant is another of the guests, and also a suspect, Inspector Henry Kyle (Ron Moody).

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Murder, She Wrote – My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean

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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) certainly had her share of friends and family getting mixed up in murder. In “My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean,” fresh off the apparent suicide of her neices’s huband, Jessica accompanies Pamela (Belinda Montgomery) on a cruise ship hoping to lift her spirits. However, when someone begins gaslighting the young woman the fun vacation turns into anything but.

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Murder, She Wrote – Lovers and Other Killers

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Murder She Wrote - Lovers and Other Killers TV review

Today’s Throwback Tuesday takes us on the hunt for a killer with murder-mystery novelist J.B. Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) who invariably finds herself in the middle of homicide investigations. “Lovers and Other Killers” offers multiple red herrings in the murder of two women with romantic ties to Jessica’s old friend (Peter Graves), her new secretary (Andrew Stevens), and another professor (Andrew Prine) at the school where Jessica is guest lecturing. Of the three, David Tolliver (Stevens) is the most interesting of the lot given his skill, intelligence, and genuine (if off-putting) interest in Jessica. The ending offers plenty of foreshadowing that we might likely see the character again. Although Stevens did return to the show for one more episode five years later, it was as a different character.

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