Murder, She Wrote - Season 1 [DVD]

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When famous artist Simon Thane spends the summer in Cabot Cove, Jessica attends a dinner party hosted by him alongside his wife, art dealer, and his lawyer and their wife. The day after announcing plans for a second honeymoon, Thane is found stabbed to death and a new painting he was working on missing. Amos soon arrests Thane's housekeeper for the crime, as she was struggling financially, but Jessica is not convinced. She soon suspects the killer may have been one of the guests at the party, and is convinced that the motive may have something to do with the subject of his missing work. Keith Michell as Dennis Stanton (9 episodes, 1988–1991, 1993), a suave English former jewel thief turned insurance claims investigator, who always solves his cases using unusual methods, and often sends a copy of the story to Jessica afterwards. Many of the episodes starring Dennis do not involve Jessica, and usually begin with her introducing the story to the audience, breaking the fourth wall. Keith Michell is the only actor other than Angela Lansbury to receive star billing (before the episode titles), on episodes which focus on Dennis. Jessica's friend, Dennis Stanton, sends a cassette tape to her in Cabot Cove, revealing how he now works as an investigator for an insurance company in San Francisco. In his recording, he relate how he became involved in solving a murder during his first case - the theft of a valuable coin. The crime led to the murder of the owner's gardener, and eventually suspicion fell on businessman Langston Douglas, the owner's son, who was facing serious financial debt. However, Langston was later found murdered during the police investigation and coin not in his possession, prompting Dennis to determine what really happened after the theft. Seth invites one of his old Army buddies ( Gerald S. O'Loughlin) to visit Cabot Cove, but the ex-soldier is subsequently accused of murdering a yacht dealer ( Cliff DeYoung).

Jessica meets some lowlifes in the world of high fashion when she visits Paris to help launch her novel and learns about a plot to assassinate the ruthless owner of slave-labor sweatshops. Murder, She Wrote was renewed for a twelfth season after finishing the 1994-95 season as the eighth-most watched program on television, tied with NBC's new sitcom Friends for the spot. Despite the continued popularity of the program, Lansbury was considering retirement again after the upcoming season as she would be nearing seventy years of age at its conclusion. The decision, ultimately, would not be left up to her as CBS would make a decision regarding the series that would prove problematic for the network on two separate nights of programming. A member of a prestigious committee faces disciplinary action for alleged misconduct, but is murdered before his punishment can be enforced, and Jessica must step in when the other members' suspicions pit them against one another.

James Sloyan as Robert Butler (5 episodes, 1990–1991). Sloyan had previously appeared as different characters in the season 3 episode "Corned Beef and Carnage" and the season 4 episode "The Body Politic". Madlyn Rhue as Jean O'Neil (4 episodes, 1993–1996), Cabot Cove's disabled librarian. Rhue had previously appeared as another character in the season 6 episode "Seal of the Confessional". Jessica's friend Dr. Seth Hazlitt takes her to visit his wealthy cousin's plantation, but the trip takes an unexpected turn when their host is killed and the doctor becomes co-owner of the estate with the victim's young fiancee.

In New Mexico, Jessica investigates a long ago stagecoach robbery, that may be connected to the murder of the owner ( Steve Forrest) of an Old West tourist attraction.

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Legacygames.com" (Press release). Legacy Interactive. December 18, 2009. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012 . Retrieved May 14, 2012. Deadline Hollywood reported in October 2013 that NBC was planning a reboot of the series, starring Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer as a "hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel." [44] The next month, Lansbury said that while she was a fan of Spencer, she was not a fan of using the title; she said "I think it's a mistake to call it Murder, She Wrote because Murder, She Wrote will always be about Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person." It was decided by producers that Spencer's character would not be named Jessica Fletcher, for only Lansbury could play Fletcher. [45] On January 21, 2014, Deadline Hollywood announced that the reboot would not be going forward. [46] Film adaptation [ edit ]

It's lights, camera, murder when a powerful producer is killed the night before announcing which of the six stars of a hit series is going to be fired. After Jill Morton runs away to Canada to be with a rodeo cowboy, her mother requests that Jessica follow after her. When she arrives, she finds that Jill appears happy helping one out, but discovers that the rodeo's doctor, Doc Schaeffer, is an unpleasant man with some of the others. The night after arriving, a fire breaks out in his mobile home that nearly kills a rodeo worker resting inside from a broken leg. However, the smoke suffocates Schaeffer, prompting an inspector of the RCMP to suspect murder. Jessica decides to investigate, learning that despite the doctor's behaviour, he may have been killed because he was looking into something that the killer wished to cover up.Jessica's accountant struggles to conceal his gambling habit and is framed for murdering a sheriff's deputy who was in love with his daughter. Jessica invites viewers to hear the tale of one of her former students, Maggie McCauley, who went on to become the producer and writer for a hit television program. Despite the show's success, the network executive Keith Carmody threatened to cancel it, until he was later found shot dead in the screening room for the show's studio. Maggie decides to find out what happened, and, aided by a police lieutenant friend investigating the murder, learns that Carmody had plenty of enemies, many of whom resented the way he behaved and worked, along with the decisions he undertook in his job. Both soon suspect the murder may have been linked to something the victim did against the killer. Murder, She Wrote". Television Academy. Archived from the original on October 11, 2022 . Retrieved October 31, 2021. Murder, She Wrote for PC". Archived from the original on November 10, 2016 . Retrieved November 9, 2016.