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Poirot – The Cornish Mystery

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  • Title: Poirot – The Cornish Mystery
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to early 20th Century London and another case for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The day after a visit by a frightened woman (Amanda Walker) who believes her husband is poisoning her and planning to make off with his beautiful new assistant (Laura Girling), Poirot (David Suchet) and Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) arrive to find their client dead. The police look to the husband as the obvious culprit, but Poirot believes something even more nefarious is afoot.

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Scooby-Doo! – Eating Crow

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  • Title: Be Cool, Scooby-Doo – Eating Crow
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Scooby Saturday takes us back to another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. A stop at a farmer’s market leads to a pair of farms both being terrorized by a living Scarecrow. The clue gathering is a bit nonsensical, as is the ending, meaning the episode has to be held up mostly by the running gags (and in this episode it seems like everyone has one).

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Neagley – Team Building Exercises

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  • Title: Neagley – Team Building Exercises
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In an episode that continues Neagley’s (Maria Sten) partnership with Riley (Greyston Holt), while she continues to ignore the work for the firm who is paying for her, we get a flashback to events at the compound which led Tommy Crane (Jhaleil Swaby) to leave, and likely led to his death. In a show centered our central character  uncovering the truth, the sequence feels a bit out of place, although honestly it doesn’t provide anything that Neagley won’t eventually work out on her own.

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Murder, She Wrote – Funeral at Fifty-Mile

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  • Title: Murder, She Wrote – Funeral at Fifty-Mile
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. There are times you can really feel an Agathe Christie influence in Murder, She Wrote, and “Funeral at Fifty-Mile” certainly qualifies. In Wyoming to attend the death of an old friend, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) stumbles on another murder of a man who seemingly everyone had a reason to kill but few had the means and opportunity to do so.

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Silk Stalkings – Baser Instincts

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  • Title: Silk Stalkings – Baser Instincts
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Silk Stalkings Saturday takes us back to the unsolved crimes of passion in the wealthy playground of Palm Beach, Florida. Murder on a movie set forces Chris (Rob Estes) to deal with a lifetime of hurt feelings towards his estranged mother (Beverly Sassoon) who is one of the actors in the film. The episode starts with Chris and Rita (Mitzi Kapture) assigned to the set undercover prior to the murder, but the pretense is dropped once the agent (Mark Hutter) everyone hated turns up dead.

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