Murder, She Wrote

Hooray for Homicide

45 min

Jessica's first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, is being made into a major Hollywood motion picture, backed by producer Jerry Lydecker. Jessica is furious to see how her book is being butchered by Lydecker and his crew. She heads out to Hollywood to confront Lydecker, but things take a turn when Lydecker is found dead on stage. Jessica ends up being the prime suspect in the murder, but luckily the officer in charge of the investigation believes she's too smart to be the killer and sets her up to find the real murderer.

It's a Dog's Life

45 min

While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.

Lovers and Other Killers

45 min

While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

Hit, Run and Homicide

45 min

Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one of his inventions.

We're Off to Kill the Wizard

45 min

Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.

Death Takes a Curtain Call

45 min

While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.

Death Casts a Spell

45 min

Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.

Capitol Offense

45 min

Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and finds a great deal of political game-playing in Washington.

Broadway Malady

45 min

Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.