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Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Season released 23rd Oct, 1988Rated TV-PG44 episodes

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Murder, She Wrote Season 5 episodes

  1. S05 E01

    J.B. As in Jailbird

    45 mins · Sun, 23 Oct 1988

    A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.

  2. S05 E01

    J.B. ... As in Jailbird

    44 mins · Sun, 23 Oct 1988

    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.

  3. S05 E02

    A Little Night Work

    45 mins · Sun, 30 Oct 1988

    A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

  4. S05 E02

    A Little Night Work

    44 mins · Sun, 30 Oct 1988

    Jessica attends a gala fundraiser for a New York publisher, which is complicated by a robbery and murder.

  5. S05 E03

    Mr. Penroy's Vacation

    45 mins · Sun, 6 Nov 1988

    The new sheriff of Cabot Cove thinks he has found the perfect job in a quiet town, until a man disappears at his own birthday party. Jessica Fletcher steps in to investigate.

  6. S05 E03

    Mr. Penroy's Vacation

    45 mins · Sun, 6 Nov 1988

    The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

  7. S05 E04

    Snow White, Blood Red

    45 mins · Sun, 13 Nov 1988

    The US World Cup ski team are murdered one by one at the ski lodge where they are practising. Jessica investigates as a snowstorm prevents everyone, including the killer, from leaving.

  8. S05 E04

    Snow White, Blood Red

    45 mins · Sun, 13 Nov 1988

    A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.

  9. S05 E05

    Coal Miner's Slaughter

    45 mins · Sun, 20 Nov 1988

    The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

  10. S05 E05

    Coal Miner's Slaughter

    45 mins · Sun, 20 Nov 1988

    Jessica becomes embroiled in a town's tensions while investigating the shooting death of a coal mine owner.

  11. S05 E06

    Wearing of the Green

    45 mins · Sun, 27 Nov 1988

    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.

  12. S05 E06

    The Wearing of the Green

    44 mins · Sun, 27 Nov 1988

    The theft of a legendary tiara and the subsequent murder of a gem dealer leads Jessica through a puzzling maze to an equally legendary actress.

  13. S05 E07

    The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

    44 mins · Sun, 18 Dec 1988

    A cargo plane abandoned on an Alaskan ice field in 1952 is the scene of a murder implicating Jessica's late husband.

  14. S05 E07

    The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

    45 mins · Sun, 18 Dec 1988

    The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

  15. S05 E08

    Prediction: Murder

    44 mins · Sun, 1 Jan 1989

    On a visit to a friend's Arizona ranch, Jessica is perturbed when the predictions of a psychic threaten to disrupt the peaceful surroundings.

  16. S05 E08

    Prediction: Murder

    45 mins · Sun, 1 Jan 1989

    A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

  17. S05 E09

    Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

    44 mins · Sun, 8 Jan 1989

    When the wedding of Jessica's nephew, Grady Fletcher, is interrupted by the murder of one of the guests, she tries to get to the bottom of it.

  18. S05 E09

    Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

    45 mins · Sun, 8 Jan 1989

    Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

  19. S05 E10

    Weave a Tangled Web

    44 mins · Sun, 15 Jan 1989

    While attending a New York party, Jessica discovers that a steadfast Cabot Cove resident is apparently leading a double life.

  20. S05 E10

    Weave a Tangled Web

    45 mins · Sun, 15 Jan 1989

    Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

  21. S05 E11

    The Search for Peter Kerry

    45 mins · Sun, 5 Feb 1989

    Jessica investigates the reappearance of an heir who had disappeared without a trace 20 years ago and claims to have suffered from amnesia.

  22. S05 E11

    The Search for Peter Kerry

    45 mins · Sun, 5 Feb 1989

    A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

  23. S05 E12

    Smooth Operators

    45 mins · Sun, 12 Feb 1989

    When Jessica pays an impromptu visit to an old friend, she walks right into the middle of a puzzling murder case.

  24. S05 E12

    Smooth Operators

    45 mins · Sun, 12 Feb 1989

    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?

  25. S05 E13

    Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

    45 mins · Sun, 19 Feb 1989

    A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

  26. S05 E13

    Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

    44 mins · Sun, 19 Feb 1989

    Jessica investigates some strange occurrences in Cabot Cove involving a woman who has been dead for 300 years.

  27. S05 E14

    From Russia ... With Blood

    45 mins · Sun, 26 Feb 1989

    A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.

  28. S05 E14

    From Russia, with Blood

    44 mins · Sun, 26 Feb 1989

    At the International Artists and Writers Conference in Moscow, Jessica finds herself under suspicion of espionage.

  29. S05 E15

    Alma Murder

    45 mins · Sun, 12 Mar 1989

    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?

  30. S05 E15

    Alma Murder

    44 mins · Sun, 12 Mar 1989

    Jessica Fletcher comes to the rescue of a much-loved professor, when he confesses to the murder of an undergraduate.

  31. S05 E16

    Truck Stop

    45 mins · Sun, 2 Apr 1989

    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.

  32. S05 E16

    Truck Stop

    45 mins · Sun, 2 Apr 1989

    Jessica encounters murder when car trouble strands her and a fellow writer at a run-down truck stop owned by a disillusioned woman.

  33. S05 E17

    The Sins of Castle Cove

    45 mins · Sun, 9 Apr 1989

    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.

  34. S05 E17

    The Sins of Castle Cove

    44 mins · Sun, 9 Apr 1989

    Jessica's former student publishes a tell-all novel with characters resembling Cabot Cove residents, but when a murder occurs that follows the book's plot, Jessica gets involved.

  35. S05 E18

    Trevor Hudson's Legacy

    45 mins · Sun, 16 Apr 1989

    A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

  36. S05 E18

    Trevor Hudson's Legacy

    45 mins · Sun, 16 Apr 1989

    Jessica must find the truth when murder befalls a young writer she had recommended to edit a dead author's last novel.

  37. S05 E19

    Double Exposure

    45 mins · Sun, 30 Apr 1989

    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.

  38. S05 E19

    Double Exposure

    45 mins · Sun, 30 Apr 1989

    Jessica's delight at running into an old friend in Boston is short-lived when he claims he has never met her before. Stranger still, his wife says he died a few weeks earlier.

  39. S05 E20

    Three Strikes, You're Out

    45 mins · Sun, 7 May 1989

    A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.

  40. S05 E20

    Three Strikes, You're Out

    44 mins · Sun, 7 May 1989

    Jessica's nephew has a golden opportunity to pitch in Major League baseball, until murder steps up to bat.

  41. S05 E21

    Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)

    45 mins · Sun, 14 May 1989

  42. S05 E21

    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

    45 mins · Sun, 14 May 1989

    A jealous mystery writer creates havoc for Jessica when her own publisher tells her that her work is slipping.

  43. S05 E22

    Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

    45 mins · Sun, 21 May 1989

  44. S05 E22

    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

    44 mins · Sun, 21 May 1989

    With Seth ailing from the poison apple meant for her, Jessica steps up her efforts to find the New York detective's murderer.

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