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Murder, She Wrote Season 5

October. 23,1988

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TV-14

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Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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Murder, She Wrote

1984 / TV-14

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An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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Angela Lansbury

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Murder, She Wrote Season 5 Full Episode Guide

Episode 22 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

First Aired: May. 21,1989

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.

Episode 21 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)

First Aired: May. 14,1989

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.

Episode 20 - Three Strikes, You're Out

First Aired: May. 07,1989

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

Episode 19 - Double Exposure

First Aired: April. 30,1989

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.

Episode 18 - Trevor Hudson's Legacy

First Aired: April. 16,1989

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

Episode 17 - The Sins of Castle Cove

First Aired: April. 09,1989

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.

Episode 16 - Truck Stop

First Aired: April. 02,1989

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.

Episode 15 - Alma Murder

First Aired: March. 12,1989

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?

Episode 14 - From Russia ... With Blood

First Aired: February. 26,1989

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

Episode 13 - Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

First Aired: February. 19,1989

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

Episode 12 - Smooth Operators

First Aired: February. 12,1989

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?