Murder, She Wrote

Season 5 1988 - 1989
TV-14

  • 1988-10-24T00:00:00Z 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

1988-10-24T00:00:00Z

5x01 J.B. As in Jailbird

Season Premiere

5x01 J.B. As in Jailbird

  • 1988-10-24T00:00:00Z45m

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

1988-10-31T01:00:00Z

5x02 A Little Night Work

5x02 A Little Night Work

  • 1988-10-31T01:00:00Z45m

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

1988-11-07T01:00:00Z

5x03 Mr. Penroy's Vacation

5x03 Mr. Penroy's Vacation

  • 1988-11-07T01:00:00Z45m

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

1988-11-14T01:00:00Z

5x04 Snow White, Blood Red

5x04 Snow White, Blood Red

  • 1988-11-14T01:00:00Z45m

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

1988-11-21T01:00:00Z

5x05 Coal Miner's Slaughter

5x05 Coal Miner's Slaughter

  • 1988-11-21T01:00:00Z45m

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

1988-11-28T01:00:00Z

5x06 Wearing of the Green

5x06 Wearing of the Green

  • 1988-11-28T01:00:00Z45m

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.

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

1989-01-02T01:00:00Z

5x08 Prediction: Murder

5x08 Prediction: Murder

  • 1989-01-02T01:00:00Z45m

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

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

1989-01-16T01:00:00Z

5x10 Weave a Tangled Web

5x10 Weave a Tangled Web

  • 1989-01-16T01:00:00Z45m

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

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

1989-02-13T01:00:00Z

5x12 Smooth Operators

5x12 Smooth Operators

  • 1989-02-13T01:00:00Z45m

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?

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

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

1989-03-13T01:00:00Z

5x15 Alma Murder

5x15 Alma Murder

  • 1989-03-13T01:00:00Z45m

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?

1989-04-03T00:00:00Z

5x16 Truck Stop

5x16 Truck Stop

  • 1989-04-03T00:00:00Z45m

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.

1989-04-10T00:00:00Z

5x17 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.

1989-04-17T00:00:00Z

5x18 Trevor Hudson's Legacy

5x18 Trevor Hudson's Legacy

  • 1989-04-17T00:00:00Z45m

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

1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

5x19 Double Exposure

5x19 Double Exposure

  • 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z45m

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.

1989-05-08T00:00:00Z

5x20 Three Strikes, You're Out

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

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.

Season Finale

1989-05-22T00:00:00Z

5x22 Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

Season Finale

5x22 Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

  • 1989-05-22T00:00:00Z45m

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.

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