Murder, She Wrote
Mystery • Series

Murder, She Wrote

"She may be wrong. But frankly, we doubt it."

7.5/10 1984 12 Seasons 264 Episodes Ended

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

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Season 8 Episodes

S8E1
E1
Bite the Big Apple
45 min 1991

Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she l…

S8E2
E2
Night Fears
45 min 1991

Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, a…

S8E3
E3
Unauthorized Obituary
45 min 1991

After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Elle…

S8E4
E4
Thicker Than Water
45 min 1991

When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif M…

S8E5
E5
Lines of Excellence
45 min 1991

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

S8E6
E6
Judge Not
45 min 1991

The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder o…

S8E7
E7
Terminal Connection
45 min 1991

Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a lo…

S8E8
E8
A Killing in Vegas
45 min 1991

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

S8E9
E9
The Committee
45 min 1991

The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely s…

S8E10
E10
The List of Yuri Lermentov
45 min 1991

Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and …

S8E11
E11
Danse Diabolique
45 min 1992

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

S8E12
E12
The Witch's Curse
45 min 1992

The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a wi…

S8E13
E13
Incident in Lot 7
45 min 1992

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

S8E14
E14
The Monte Carlo Murders
45 min 1992

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

S8E15
E15
Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
45 min 1992

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, ei…

S8E16
E16
Ever After
45 min 1992

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

S8E17
E17
To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
45 min 1992

All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague o…

S8E18
E18
Programmed for Murder
45 min 1992

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

S8E19
E19
Day of the Dead
45 min 1992

The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the f…

S8E20
E20
Angel of Death
45 min 1992

While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family …

S8E21
E21
Badge of Honor
45 min 1992

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

S8E22
E22
Murder On Madison Avenue
45 min 1992

Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes t…

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Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher

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