After the pilot. The second episode Death Casts a Spell boasts a hypnotic cast. Murray Hamilton still insisting that there is no shark, Robert Loggia, Michelle Phillips among others.
The Great Cagliostro (José Ferrer) is a stage hypnotist who has been wowing the audiences. However his act is controversial, his past is mysterious. All people know that he came over from England a few years ago and he has made enemies.
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) has been invited to by her publisher's assistant to write a mystery based upon Cagliostro 's act. Instead she ends up investigating his murder.
The Great Cagliostro had invited some journalists to ask questions about his life but they would all be hypnotised. He was murdered in the presence of six hypnotised journalists.
In essence this was a locked room mystery for Jessica to solve. The police have a lot of suspects including a trapeze artist who might have somersaulted into the room.
The actual method was deceptively easy but hypnotism does not work this way. Jessica Fletcher meets so many people that can do hypnotism here, by the end any random person can practice it.
The Great Cagliostro (José Ferrer) is a stage hypnotist who has been wowing the audiences. However his act is controversial, his past is mysterious. All people know that he came over from England a few years ago and he has made enemies.
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) has been invited to by her publisher's assistant to write a mystery based upon Cagliostro 's act. Instead she ends up investigating his murder.
The Great Cagliostro had invited some journalists to ask questions about his life but they would all be hypnotised. He was murdered in the presence of six hypnotised journalists.
In essence this was a locked room mystery for Jessica to solve. The police have a lot of suspects including a trapeze artist who might have somersaulted into the room.
The actual method was deceptively easy but hypnotism does not work this way. Jessica Fletcher meets so many people that can do hypnotism here, by the end any random person can practice it.