Most of the episodes took place either in Jessica Fletcher's fictional hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine, or in New York City, but her travels promoting books or visiting relatives and friends led to cases throughout the United States and around the world.
[2] In February 2007, on the ABC daytime talk show The View, Lansbury announced that she hoped to make another Murder, She Wrote TV movie in the near future but only if her son, director Anthony Shaw, could find a suitable story.
Guest stars: Eddie Barth, Jessica Browne, Bert Convy, Anne Francis, Dennis Patrick, Raymond St. Jacques, Ned Beatty, Arthur Hill, Brian Keith, Ellen Crawford, David Byrd, Richard Erdman, Danny Wells, John Hancock, Jay Fenichel, Stanley Brock, Joseph V. Perry, Russell Curry, Andy García, Anne Ramsey, Herb Edelman, Ken Olfson, Paula Victor, Billie Hayes, Beau Starr, Larry McCormick A multimillionaire appears to have drowned during a hurricane.
Guest stars: Doran Clark, Howard Duff, Marilyn Hassett, Richard Hatch, Anne Lockhart, Dack Rambo, Cassie Yates, Tom Bower, Carol Swarbrick, Jackie Joseph Jessica helps a groom charged with murder.
Cannon, Clu Gulager, Donald Moffat, Jeff Osterhage, Cliff Potts, Stella Stevens, Edith Díaz, Efrain Figueroa Jessica checks into a tropical hotel to find the killer of wealthy women.
As Jessica investigates the case, she finds that the truth will be hard to uncover, as the expedition's financier is more concerned about tracking down treasure than reporting a murder to the authorities, even if means keeping everyone traped at the dig site.
Guest stars: Richard Beymer, June Havoc, Art Hindle, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Martha Scott, Susan Strasberg, Tom Dreesen, Emory Bass, Gloria Stuart, Russ Marin, Katherine Emery At Red River Studios, Jessica is recording an audio book for the blind during a late-night session, when the lights suddenly go out during a blackout.
Amos recruits Jonathan Martin as his latest deputy for the night shift, as Jessica's friends at the local beauty salon in Cabot Cove make preparations to purchase their usual lottery tickets.
George Longbow, a Native American descended from a tribe who lived in the area of Cabot Cove, arrives in town with claims that he legally owns every building per an agreement made with the British centuries ago.
When a local man is later found murdered in the town hall, everyone is convinced that George is guilty, but Amos and Jessica are soon concerned that people are jumping to conclusions, especially when the victim's home life comes into question.
As his apartment is undergoing fumigation, Grady finds himself securing a room for himself and Jessica at a prestigious New York hotel, owned by his college fraternity brother Garrett Harper and his mature wife Cornelia.
A wall of secrecy behind the matter soon leads to her discovering that the hitman's victim was the leader of a group of American federal agents currently running a safe house to protect a foreign dignitary.
Senatorial candidate Kathleen Lane faces a difficult time in the run-up to the primaries, after a TV talk show host claims she is having an affair with her campaign manager Bud Johnson.
Sheriff Metzger learns that Bowman was facing divorce for his womanizing and financial problems, Jessica soon must help Vivian who feels trapped by the decisions of her life and the lies she has made, after her husband in Cabot Cove is charged with murder.
Jessica visits Scottsdale, Arizona, to cheer on her nephew Johnny Eaton, who recently joined the town's minor league baseball team alongside a fellow player as part of trade.
Father Donald Barnes is temporarily assigned to Cabot Cove in place of another priest who is visiting family, and is surprised when the young Kelly Barrett confess to killing her stepfather Evan West.
When the performance comes to its end, its lead singer, Rosanno Bertolucci, is found unconscious in a back alley, after seemingly shooting dead a young man that had attacked the opera company's new attractive soprano.
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.
Guest stars: Belinda Bauer, Ramon Bieri, Elinor Donahue, James Lew, David Warner, Bernie Coulson, Cliff Osmond Jessica receives a letter from her British agent friend Michael Haggerty, who recalls an intriguing assignment that led to him dealing with a mysterious murder.
The book itself was placed into a vault in Switzerland by a member of an Italian mafia family, prompting the agent to become involved in a sudden marriage between the widow and a local shyster seeking to secure her late husband's money.
Jessica recounts to the viewers a recent case that Dennis Stanton handled in San Francisco, concerning the arrest of Ed Kriegler for the murder of ruthless divorce attorney Truman Calloway.
Jessica is saddened to learn that her old friend Daniel Hannigan, a journalist and writer, is dying, and agrees to take finish a book he was writing that would reopen the investigation of a murder that took place 16 years ago.
Teaming up with Officer Kevin Bryce, a student who aspires to follow after his late father, Jessica is soon puzzled when bizarre messages turn up around campus, making it seem like the mugger is mentally unsound.
Christmas in Cabot Cove is even more holly-jolly when a hardware tycoon's daughter gets engaged, but when the groom (Sean O'Bryan) is accused of attempted murder, several other things from his past come to light.
Jessica is for a wild time when she visits the Los Angeles Animal Park to do research for her new book and ends up investigating the murder of a self-proclaimed anti-zoo activist who was bitten by a large poisonous snake.
Jessica's Hawaiian vacation to visit a power broker friend (Ken Howard) is interrupted when there's trouble in paradise as his family becomes involved in a political feud, which escalates into accusations of money laundering and, ultimately, the murder of his gardener.
Secrets and lies are exposed when Cabot Cove's bullying town barber is found electrocuted in his garage and the high school teacher who was his clandestine lover appears to subsequently commit suicide.
A book fair in Florida becomes the backdrop for a case of international intrigue when Jessica and a mysterious Russian detective (David Ogden Stiers) investigate the strange link between a stolen Faberge egg and the murder of a family member (Andrew Robinson) of one of the show attendees.
Guest stars: Katherine Cannon, Frank Converse, John D'Aquino, Mary Gordon Murray, Charles Napier, Yvette Nipar, Jay Patterson, Richardson Morse Beneath the serene surface of academia, Jessica discovers jealousy, bitterness and even murder when she delivers a creative-writing lecture at an exclusive Ivy League Prep school.
Jessica needs some luck o' the Irish when she visits the Emerald Isle and fights to stop a destructive mining conglomerate headed by a councilman who controls local politicians through bribery or even murder.