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Murder, She Wrote

Season 3 1986 - 1987
TV-14

  • 1986-09-29T00:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 16h 30m (22 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

22 episodes

Season Premiere

1986-09-29T00:00:00Z

3x01 Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

Season Premiere

3x01 Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

  • 1986-09-29T00:00:00Z45m

Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

1986-10-13T00:00:00Z

3x03 Unfinished Business

3x03 Unfinished Business

  • 1986-10-13T00:00:00Z45m

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

1986-10-20T00:00:00Z

3x04 One White Rose for Death

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

1986-11-03T01:00:00Z

3x05 Corned Beef And Carnage

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

1986-11-10T01:00:00Z

3x06 Dead Man's Gold

3x06 Dead Man's Gold

  • 1986-11-10T01:00:00Z45m

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

1986-11-17T01:00:00Z

3x07 Deadline for Murder

3x07 Deadline for Murder

  • 1986-11-17T01:00:00Z45m

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

1986-11-24T01:00:00Z

3x08 Magnum on Ice (II)

3x08 Magnum on Ice (II)

  • 1986-11-24T01:00:00Z45m

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target.

The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

1986-12-15T01:00:00Z

3x10 Stage Struck

3x10 Stage Struck

  • 1986-12-15T01:00:00Z45m

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

1987-02-02T01:00:00Z

3x13 Crossed Up

3x13 Crossed Up

  • 1987-02-02T01:00:00Z45m

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

1987-02-09T01:00:00Z

3x14 Murder in a Minor Key

3x14 Murder in a Minor Key

  • 1987-02-09T01:00:00Z45m

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

1987-02-16T01:00:00Z

3x15 The Bottom Line Is Murder

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

1987-02-23T01:00:00Z

3x16 Death Takes a Dive

3x16 Death Takes a Dive

  • 1987-02-23T01:00:00Z45m

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

1987-03-02T01:00:00Z

3x17 Simon Says, Color Me Dead

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

1987-03-16T01:00:00Z

3x18 No Laughing Murder

3x18 No Laughing Murder

  • 1987-03-16T01:00:00Z45m

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

1987-03-23T01:00:00Z

3x19 No Accounting for Murder

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

1987-04-06T00:00:00Z

3x20 The Cemetery Vote

3x20 The Cemetery Vote

  • 1987-04-06T00:00:00Z45m

First, the reform mayor dies in an ""accident"" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the ""accident"".

1987-04-20T00:00:00Z

3x21 The Days Dwindle Down

3x21 The Days Dwindle Down

  • 1987-04-20T00:00:00Z45m

Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

Season Finale

1987-05-11T00:00:00Z

3x22 Murder, She Spoke

Season Finale

3x22 Murder, She Spoke

  • 1987-05-11T00:00:00Z45m

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

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