Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher
Series SeasonSeason 5 episodes1988
Murder, She Wrote
Season 5
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Episodes
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Episode 145 min1988-10-23
J.B. As in Jailbird
When Jessica is arrested for murder, secret agent Michael Haggerty and her nephew Grady conspire to keep her safely in jail while they seek the real killer.
Episode 245 min1988-10-30
A Little Night Work
A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
Episode 345 min1988-11-06
Mr. Penroy's Vacation
The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
Episode 445 min1988-11-13
Snow White, Blood Red
A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
Episode 545 min1988-11-20
Coal Miner's Slaughter
The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
Episode 645 min1988-11-27
Wearing of the Green
A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.
Episode 745 min1988-12-18
The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
Episode 845 min1989-01-01
Prediction: Murder
A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
Episode 945 min1989-01-08
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
Episode 1045 min1989-01-15
Weave a Tangled Web
Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
Episode 1145 min1989-02-05
The Search for Peter Kerry
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
Episode 1245 min1989-02-12
Smooth Operators
When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?
Episode 1345 min1989-02-19
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
Episode 1445 min1989-02-26
From Russia ... With Blood
A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
Episode 1545 min1989-03-12
Alma Murder
An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
Episode 1645 min1989-04-02
Truck Stop
Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.
Episode 1745 min1989-04-09
The Sins of Castle Cove
A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.
Episode 1845 min1989-04-16
Trevor Hudson's Legacy
A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
Episode 1945 min1989-04-30
Double Exposure
In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.
Episode 2045 min1989-05-07
Three Strikes, You're Out
A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
Episode 2145 min1989-05-14
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
Episode 2245 min1989-05-21
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.