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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes: Pilot
30 September 1984In this Pilot episode we are introduced to Jessica Fletcher, a recent widow, who lives in Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica is an English teacher who becomes a mystery book author thanks to her nephew, Grady Fletcher. Grady submits his Aunts manuscript to a publishing company who loves it and publishes it immediately. It is a best-seller and Jessica goes to New York City to promote her new book. While there Jessica gets involved in a murder while at her publishers home for a costume party. When her nephew becomes a suspect of the murder, Jessica must find the real killer.
 | Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Eddie Barth | ... | Bernie |
| Jessica Browne | ... | Kitty Donovan |
| Bert Convy | ... | Peter Brill |
| Herb Edelman | ... | George |
 | Anne Francis | ... | Louise McCallum (as Anne Lloyd Francis) |
| Michael Horton | ... | Grady Fletcher |
| Tricia O'Neil | ... | Ashley Vickers |
| Dennis Patrick | ... | Dexter Baxendale |
| Raymond St. Jacques | ... | Doctor |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Roy Gunderson |
| Arthur Hill | ... | Preston Giles |
| Brian Keith | ... | Caleb McCallum |
| Rosanna Huffman | ... | Eleanor Thmpson |
| Paddi Edwards | ... | Lois Hoey |
 | Ellen Crawford | ... | Muriel |
| David Byrd | ... | Davis |
| Richard Erdman | ... | Eggman |
| Danny Wells | ... | Talk Show Host |
| John Hancock | ... | Daniel |
| Jay Fenichel | ... | Cellini |
| Stanley Brock | ... | Marvin |
 | Hap Lawrence | ... | Young Deputy |
| Kat Sawyer-Young | ... | Feminist Interviewer |
| Joseph V. Perry | ... | Heavy Set Crude Man (as Joseph Perry) |
| Howard Mann | ... | New Holvang Cabbie |
| Freddye Chapman | ... | Jane |
| Russell Curry | ... | Black Youth |
| Johnny Venocur | ... | 2nd White Tough |
 | Andy Garcia | ... | 1st White Tough |
| Anne Ramsey | ... | Bag Lady |
| Jimmy Joyce | ... | Tom |
| Ken Olfson | ... | TV Book Critic |
| Paula Victor | ... | Agnes Peabody |
| Billie Hayes | ... | Peter Pan |
| Cathey Paine | ... | Young Woman |
| Beau Starr | ... | Policeman on Boat |
| Larry McCormick | ... | TV Reporter |
| Dan Chambers | ... | Cab Driver |
| Sallee Young | ... | Performer |
 | Donald Elson | ... | Bookstore Owner |
| Daniel Zippi | ... | Mailman |
Season 1, Episode 1: Deadly Lady
7 October 1984A mysterious man who briefly stops by Jessica's house turns up dead -- supposedly swept overboard during a hurricane before Jessica even met him.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Claude Akins | ... | Capt. Ethan Cragg |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Doran Clark | ... | Nancy Earl |
| Howard Duff | ... | Ralph / Stephen Earl |
 | Marilyn Hassett | ... | Maggie Earl |
| Richard Hatch | ... | Terry Jones |
 | Anne Lockhart | ... | Grace Earl Lamont |
| Dack Rambo | ... | Brian Shelby |
| Cassie Yates | ... | Lisa Earl Shelby |
 | Tom Bower | ... | Jonathan Bailey |
| Carol Swarbrick | ... | Deputy Emma |
| John Petlock | ... | Nils Andersen |
| Robert Beecher | ... | Elias Cobb |
Season 1, Episode 2: Birds of a Feather
14 October 1984Jessica visits her cousin Victoria 'Vicky' Brandon in San Francisco, who tells her fiancé, New York would be-actor Howard Griffin, isn't working in life insurance as he pretended. The ladies go to Mr. Drake's night-club which Vicky found out he's somehow connected to, see he's performing there as drag-queen, and worse: during star Michèle Dupont's act Howard runs out in panic after finding Drake's shot corps. Vicky believes in Howard's innocence unconditionally, even accepts his weird job, so Jessica is determined to help initially unappreciative SFPD Detective Lt. Floyd Novack find the real killer. The club proves a viper's nest full of motives both in showbiz, including promising performer Freddy York, who would miss out on a dream contract because held him to a lousy contract and later gets wounded in an intentional 'accident' on stage, and the Drake family's (adulterous) love life. It all hangs on the tiny details only Jessica notices and makes sense of..
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Bart Braverman | ... | Bill Patterson |
| Jeff Conaway | ... | Howard Griffin |
 | Genie Francis | ... | Victoria Brandon |
| Richard Gautier | ... | Mike Dupont (as Dick Gautier) |
| Harry Guardino | ... | Lt. Floyd Novack |
| Gabe Kaplan | ... | Freddy York |
 | Martin Landau | ... | Al Drake |
| Carol Lawrence | ... | Candice Drake |
| Barbara Rhoades | ... | Barbara Stevenson |
| Robin Bach | ... | Maitre d' |
 | John O'Leary | ... | Minister |
| William Phipps | ... | Charlie (as William Edward Phipps) |
 | Brian Avery | ... | Nightclub M.C. |
| Gary Pagett | ... | Security Guard |
| Herndon Jackson | ... | Waiter #2 |
| Tony Ballen | ... | Waiter |
| Nick Savage | ... | Leather Guy |
Season 1, Episode 3: Hooray for Homicide
28 October 1984When Jessica hears on TV that director-producer Jerry Lydecker is turning the movie after her respectable mystery book The Corps Danced At Midnight into cheap slash junk with sex and gore, she flies to Hollywood to protest, but studio boss Marty Strindberg, who sends her a junior lawyer, and Lydecker have a contract clause she signed waving her rights to object. When Jessica intends to apologize to Lydecker, she finds him killed on he set, and becomes the only obvious suspect. Fortunately LAPD Detective Mack Brody, an amateur mystery writer himself, has enough faith in Jessica to encourage her snooping and believe she saw evidence which disappeared during the minute she talked to the security guard. Lydecker's ruthless behavior and romantic affair with the unexperienced female co-star provide several possible motives...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Claude Akins | ... | Capt. Ethan Cragg |
| Melissa Sue Anderson | ... | Eve Crystal |
 | John Astin | ... | Ross Hayley |
| Samantha Eggar | ... | Marta Quintessa |
 | James MacArthur | ... | Allan Gebhart |
 | Virginia Mayo | ... | Elinor |
 | Ron Palillo | ... | Norman Lester, Esq. |
| José Pérez | ... | Lt. Mike Hernandez (as Jose Perez) |
| John Saxon | ... | Jerry Lydecker |
| Morgan Stevens | ... | Scott Bennett |
| Lyle Waggoner | ... | Marty Strindberg |
| Marianne McAndrew | ... | Sunny Finch |
| Wayne Powers | ... | 1st Assistant Director |
| Erik Holland | ... | Detective Mack Brody |
| Hank Rolike | ... | Paddy |
| Paul Ryan | ... | Ted Lafferty |
| Barbara Lynn Block | ... | TV Newswoman (as Barbara Block) |
 | Michael Milhoan | ... | Security Guard |
 | R.J. Adams | ... | TV Newsman #2 |
| Jack Scalici | ... | TV Newsman #1 |
| Lisa Hope Ross | ... | Tour Guide |
Season 1, Episode 4: It's a Dog's Life
4 November 1984While Jessica attends a hunting party, someone tampers in the stables with the normally quiet horse of the rich host, Denton Langley, which suddenly goes wild and causes him to have a fatal fall, yet the drug test Jessica suggests is negative. The will on videotape gives his shocked relatives and estate staff peanuts, $15,000,000 goes to Denton's pet hound Teddy, who is shortly after found drugged after biting old local Isaiah Potts. Family lawyer Marcus Boswell, who is constantly called by his broker, is challenged by the human heirs' lawyer on account of the dog's mental competence. Then Trish Langley is found killed by the security gate, the button which operates it from security guard Barnes's closed room has Teddy's paw print on it, he must have been trained to do do. Jessica works out precisely what ties in, how, and what doesn't..
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Cathryn Damon | ... | Morgana Cramer |
 | Dean Jones | ... | Marcus Boswell |
| Lenore Kasdorf | ... | Trish Langley |
 | Jared Martin | ... | Spencer Langley |
| Roger Miller | ... | Sheriff |
| Dan O'Herlihy | ... | Denton Langley |
 | Lynn Redgrave | ... | Abby Benton Freestone |
| Forrest Tucker | ... | Tom Cassidy |
| Gregory Walcott | ... | Isaiah Potts |
| Cherie Currie | ... | Echo Cramer |
| Byron Cherry | ... | Deputy Will Roxie |
| James Hampton | ... | Vet |
| Sandy Ward | ... | Barnes |
| Robert Cornthwaite | ... | Coroner |
| Donna Anderson | ... | Miss Sampson (as Donna Anderson Marshall) |
| Greg Norberg | ... | Gary |
| Bernard McDonald | ... | Master of the Hunt |
| Brian Mozur | ... | Anthony |
Season 1, Episode 5: Lovers and Other Killers
18 November 1984An intruder kills rich old lady Allison Brevard while burglarizing her townhouse. When Jessica goes to a college to give a mystery writing guest lecture, she takes a secretary for the first time, not an older woman as she expected but bright, charming, extremely efficient student David Tolliver. Just when they celebrated ending the work in a restaurant, the police gets David for questioning about Allison's murder, just because he was seen meeting her and accepted gifts and dinners. Jessica grants David the benefit of the doubt and follows up on a call to meet about an alibi for David with young married Lila Schroeder Kowalski, only to see her collapse murdered. David now has an alibi and admits he saw Lila, secretly because of her hunky but violently jealous husband Jack Kowalski, who claims David wasn't the threat to his marriage. Jessica tells dean Edmund Gerard's secretary Amelia she's not interested romantically in her host, who makes a surprising confession after Jessica is attacked in college after asking flirtatious professor Prof. Todd Lowery suspicious questions during her next lecture. Now she sets a trap...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Grant Goodeve | ... | Jack Kowalski |
| Peter Graves | ... | Dr. Edmund Gerard |
| Greg Morris | ... | Lt. Andrews |
| Lois Nettleton | ... | Amelia |
| Andrew Prine | ... | Prof. Todd Lowery |
 | Andrew Stevens | ... | David Tolliver |
| Lory Walsh | ... | Lila Schroeder Kowalski |
Season 1, Episode 6: Hit, Run and Homicide
25 November 1984Jessica isn't looking forward to tell Cabot Cove that her historical research for Founder's Day proves the captain was actually a pirate and fought on the British side, against Washington's troops. Businessman Charles Woodley lands in hospital after the surging of a car without driver which seemed to be pursuing local Ethan Cragg. Local inventor Daniel O'Brien, who devised a remote control system for cars before he was fired, denies having agreed to a meeting with his former employer Woodley, shortly after the car under remote control strikes again, killing Woodley's 50% Boston business partner, Dean Merrill. Daniel's heir, Tony Holiday, is back in town to present his bride, Leslie Andler Sheriff Amos Tupper happily 'allows' Jessica to 'observe for her next book', in fact doing the sleuthing with and without Amos, who arrests Daniel just for being most likely to have controlled the killer car....
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Claude Akins | ... | Capt. Ethan Cragg |
 | Edward Albert | ... | Tony Holiday |
 | June Allyson | ... | Katie Simmons |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
 | Patti D'Arbanville | ... | Leslie Andler |
 | Van Johnson | ... | Daniel O'Brien |
| Stuart Whitman | ... | Charles Woodley |
 | Bruce Gray | ... | Dean Merrill |
| Lois Foraker | ... | Eliza Bates |
| Paddi Edwards | ... | Lois Hoey |
| Dee Croxton | ... | Cora McIntyre |
| Douglas Stevenson | ... | Gas Station Attendant |
| Harry Stephens | ... | Doctor |
| G.R. Smith | ... | Deputy |
| Roger Price | ... | Local #1 |
 | Ed Morgan | ... | Local #2 |
| David Ashrow | ... | Umpire |
| Steven Ameche | ... | Musician |
 | Crystal Jenious | ... | Mrs. Miley |
| Michael Rogers | ... | Policeman |
Season 1, Episode 7: We're Off to Kill the Wizard
9 December 1984When Jessica visits her Kansas relatives, police detective Lieutenant Bert Donovan's family, she is invited by theme park magnate Horatio Baldwin and firmly turns down his project for another one based on horror elements from her mystery books. Shirtly after Horatio is found dead in his self-locked office, apparently suicided, but actually got a fatal blow on the head before the shot. After Erica Baldwin becomes a rich widow for the fourth time, she hires Jessica to prove it was murder so the life-insurance can be cleared. Horatio's secretary makes a false confession. Almost everybody had some reason to hate Horatio, who was quite dirty in business in various ways. Jessica soon finds out how the killer got in and out while stealing Horatio's secret files and more, while the murder makes another victim, then she sets a trap...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| James Coco | ... | Horatio Baldwin |
| George DiCenzo | ... | Michael Gardner |
| Gene Evans | ... | Nils Highlander |
| Richard Sanders | ... | Arnold Megrim |
| John Schuck | ... | Capt. Davis |
| James Stephens | ... | Police Det. Lt. Bert Donovan |
| Kristoffer Tabori | ... | Phillip Carlson |
| Eric Server | ... | Ned O'Brien |
 | Joaquin Phoenix | ... | Billy Donovan (as Leaf Phoenix) |
 | Henry G. Sanders | ... | Skycap |
| Vince Howard | ... | Guard #2 (as Vincent Howard) |
| Ivan Saric | ... | Security Guard |
| Christine Belford | ... | Erica Baldwin |
 | Kim Darby | ... | Laurie Bascomb |
| Anne Kerry | ... | Carol Donovan |
| Laura Leyva | ... | Clerk |
 | Summer Phoenix | ... | Cindy Donovan |
Season 1, Episode 8: Death Takes a Curtain Call
16 December 1984Invited by Leo Peterson, a former dancer who defected long ago, Jessica attends a Boston performance of the famous Soviet Russian Rostoff ballet. She guesses something is up when Leo gets a program from the bottom of the pile with a code; after the performance they are joined in his car by defecting star dancers Alexander and Natalia Masurov but hear on the radio that KGB security agent Serge Berensky has been found dagger-murdered in their dressing room, so Jessica gives them short-term sanctuary at her home while she snoops. KGB Major Anatole Karzof declares to be a fan of her books and joins her, defending he thesis the defectors did it, while FBI Agents O'Farrell and Dewey Johnson conduct the official investigation. She discovers there is more...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Claude Akins | ... | Captain Ethan Cragg |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Dane Clark | ... | FBI Agent O'Farrell |
 | William Conrad | ... | Major Anatole Karzof |
| George De La Pena | ... | Alexander Masurov |
| Hurd Hatfield | ... | Leo Peterson |
 | James Carroll Jordan | ... | Skip Fleming |
| Paul Rudd | ... | Palmer Eddington |
| Patrick Thomas | ... | FBI Agent Dewey Johnson (as Courtney Burr) |
 | Anthony De Longis | ... | Serge Berensky |
 | Adam Gregor | ... | Nagy |
| Steve Arvin | ... | TV Reporter |
| Read Morgan | ... | Sgt. Kevin Hogan |
| Kerry Armstrong | ... | Irina Katsa |
| Vicki Kriegler | ... | Natalia Masurov |
| Jessica Nelson | ... | Velma Rodecker |
Season 1, Episode 9: Death Casts a Spell
30 December 1984English hypnotist Cagliastro is fired by casino-hotel-owner Joe Kellijian, because he does his glamorous wife Regina. Jessica saves her editor's assistant Joan Germaine's bacon covering for making a date for her with Cagliostro as inspiration for another mystery book. They overhear the master dare local press journalists Bud Michaels and rookie Andy Townsend to be hypnotized before a revealing interviewer so they won't remember a word unless he's a charlatan as they claim, Joan gets them invited too but they're late; when the door is opened after a scary bang, Cagliostro lies dead, the six journalists (Bud sent Andy in his place) are hypnotized motionless. Fortunately for the startled police detective Lt. Bergkamp, Jessica is as resourceful and inspired as ever after Dr. Yambert proves hypnosis works even on her, but nobody seems to have both motive and opportunity...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| José Ferrer | ... | Cagliostro |
| Murray Hamilton | ... | Bud Michaels |
 | Robert Hogan | ... | Lt. Bergkamp |
 | Conrad Janis | ... | Dr. Yambert |
| Brian Kerwin | ... | Andy Townsend |
 | Robert Loggia | ... | Joe Kellijian |
| Mayf Nutter | ... | Zack Bernard |
| Rance Howard | ... | Fillmore |
| Ritchie Montgomery | ... | Busboy |
| Alex Rebar | ... | Jay Colucco |
| Lee Duncan | ... | Policeman #1 |
| Gay Hagen | ... | Hypnotized Person #4 |
| Bob Tzudiker | ... | Clerk |
| Hartley Silver | ... | Hypnotized Person #2 |
| Bill Shick | ... | Hypnotized Person #3 |
| Robert Balderson | ... | Hypnotized Person #1 |
| Elvia Allman | ... | Elderly Lady |
| Diana Canova | ... | Joan Germaine |
| Joy Ellison | ... | Hypnotized Person #5 |
| Elaine Joyce | ... | Sheri Diamond |
| Kathy Karges | ... | Hypnotized Person #6 (as Kathy Stangel) |
| Marylou Kenworthy | ... | Liz |
| Michelle Phillips | ... | Regina Kellijian |
 | Dianne Turley Travis | ... | Helsema (as Diane Turley-Travis) |
Season 1, Episode 10: Capitol Offense
6 January 1985US Congressman Wendell Joyner gets a fatal heart-attack at 's party, arranged by Congressman Dan Keppner and dodgy lobbyist Harry Parmel, actually at a party for a potential successor, officially in his bed. The governor of Maine demands Jessica to fill in as federal legislator for a few weeks till the party can officially select a new Congressman. She keeps on Joyner's staff for her short tenure, notably helpful driver-press agent Joe Blinn and administrative assistant Diana Simms. Detective Lieutenant Avery Mendelsohn tails Jessica and explains he suspects Joyner to be murdered after finding out his corpse was moved. She decides to help him sleuthing on and around Capitol Hill, including dirty lobbying, after suspiciously well-housed nobody Martha Craig is found murdered and recovering alcoholic Keppner was drugged and robbed on the street, believing he was framed clumsily and discovering if it all ties in to a legislature vote on a cannery in Maine...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Edie Adams | ... | Kaye Sheppard |
| Herschel Bernardi | ... | Det. Lt. Avery Mendelsohn |
| Linda Kelsey | ... | Diana Simms |
 | Stephen Macht | ... | Congressman Dan Keppner |
| Nicholas Pryor | ... | Harry Parmel |
 | Mitch Ryan | ... | Ray Dixon (as Mitchell Ryan) |
| Gary Sandy | ... | Joe Blinn |
| Mark Shera | ... | Thor Danziger |
| Frank Aletter | ... | Wendell Joyner |
 | Colby Chester | ... | Harold DeWitt |
| David Hooks | ... | Chairman |
| Jensen Collier | ... | Clerk |
| Jade McCall | ... | Driver's Partner |
Season 1, Episode 11: Broadway Malady
13 January 1985Grady Fletcher invites aunt Jessica to be his guest at a Broadway show he's doing the bookkeeping for and meet both his girl-friend and has-been movie star Rita Bristol, whose prima donna-attitude and drinking endanger the show that was to be her come-back and the launch of daughter Patti Bristol. They all dine with others including son Barry Bristol, director Marc Faber and banker Si Parrish, the principal investor. On the way home, Pati is shot in the spine by street mugger Manny Farkus, who gets a fatal bullet from Barry. To reluctant Barry's surprise, the show isn't canceled but LA star Lonnie Valerian takes recovering Pati's part. NYPD Detective Sergeant Moreno didn't feel like investigating further, but Jessica does dig into past and present of the Bristol family, the show people, the mugger who she recognizes as unemployed actor Morley Farmer and some New York street witnesses.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Milton Berle | ... | Lew Feldman |
 | Gregg Henry | ... | Barry Bristol |
| Michael Horton | ... | Grady Fletcher |
| Robert Morse | ... | Marc Faber |
| Patrick O'Neal | ... | Si Parrish |
| Gregory Sierra | ... | NYPD Det. Sgt. Moreno |
| Ed Bakey | ... | Monsignor Kelly |
| Roberto Roman | ... | Taki |
| Johnny Seven | ... | Manny Farkus / Morley Farmer |
 | Edson Stroll | ... | Dr. Peter Weber |
| Joe Nesnow | ... | Doorman |
| Dante D'Andre | ... | Captain |
| Bob Gorman | ... | Jimmy Finley |
| Vivian Blaine | ... | Rita Bristol |
| Irma García | ... | Veronica |
| Elaine Giftos | ... | Lonnie Valerian |
| Sharee Gregory | ... | Kate Metcalf |
| Victoria Harned | ... | Newscaster |
 | Bert Hinchman | ... | Carlin Nash |
| Lorna Luft | ... | Patti Bristol |
 | Barbara Whinnery | ... | Gretchen Pashko |
Season 1, Episode 12: Murder to a Jazz Beat
3 February 1985Jessica is invited to New Orleans by TV station WDX, but arrives two days early by mistake, so her host Jonathan Hawley has 48 hours to show her the 'Cajun paradise' (French quarter). Jessica soon notices the jazz show circuit can be nastily competitive; then clarinetist Ben Coleman dies from an apparent heart-attack during a recording, as she presumed actually curare-poisoning, but why and how exactly? NOPD Detective Lt. Simeon Kershaw gets help from Jessica investigating Ben's private, artistic and business context, even smuggling...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Bradford Dillman | ... | Det. Lt. Simeon Kershaw |
| George Kirby | ... | Eubie Sherwin |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Dr. Aaron Kramer |
| Ed Nelson | ... | Carl Turnball |
| Clive Revill | ... | Jonathan Hawley |
| Bobby Sherman | ... | Jimmy Firth |
| David Whitfield | ... | Hec Tattersal |
 | Michael Canavan | ... | Doctor Allan Collyer |
| Robert Clarke | ... | Actor |
| Mario Machado | ... | TV Announcer |
| Wally K. Berns | ... | Proprietor |
 | Bruce Marchiano | ... | Assistant Director |
| Olivia Cole | ... | Callie Coleman |
| Jackie Joseph | ... | Actress |
| Garrett Morris | ... | Lafayette Duquesne |
| Stan Shaw | ... | Eddie Walters |
 | Glynn Turman | ... | Ben Coleman |
Season 1, Episode 13: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
10 February 1985When Jessica's recently widowed friend takes a cruise to get away from it all, a would-be murderer follows her.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Paul Carafotes | ... | Ramon, Ship's Steward |
| Jason Evers | ... | Dr. Marshall Fletcher |
 | Leslie Nielsen | ... | Captain Daniels |
 | Andrew Parks | ... | Russell Tompkins |
| Lawrence Pressman | ... | George Reed |
| Don Dubbins | ... | Dr. Carmichael |
| Byron Webster | ... | Maitre d' |
| Michael G. Hawkins | ... | Dr. Ross |
| Don Matheson | ... | Oklahoma Cowboy |
| Mark Pilon | ... | 2nd Ship's Officer |
| George Marshall Ruge | ... | Morley, Ship's Ofc. |
 | Lynda Day George | ... | Diane Shelley |
| Rosemary Forsyth | ... | Dr. Andrea Jeffreys Reed |
| Kay Freeman | ... | Ship's Nurse |
| Vicki Lawrence | ... | Phoebe Carroll |
| Belinda Montgomery | ... | Pamela Crane |
| Jo Anne Worley | ... | Carla Raymond |
Season 1, Episode 14: Paint Me a Murder
17 February 1985Famous painter Diego Santana celebrates his sixtieth anniversary on his Mediterranean island retreat with his second wife, ex, son Miguel, daughter, protégé and a few friends. He is nearly killed by a massive flower pot thrown down by a left-handed shadow, and asks Jessica, who arrives the next morning by helicopter with gallery keeper Sir John Landry, to investigate in secret, helped by first batch guest police inspector Henry Kyle, but Diego is soon killed on a walk with his own crossbow, the weapon son Miguel excels at, who took another guest, art collector in financial trouble Willard Kaufmann, to the mainland after a heart attack. Then arson destroys Diego's latest paintings, who were tripled in value by his death...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Fernando Allende | ... | Miguel Santana |
 | Robert Goulet | ... | Willard Kaufmann |
| Stewart Granger | ... | Sir John Landry |
| Steven Keats | ... | Stefan Conrad |
| Ron Moody | ... | Insp. Henry Kyle |
 | Cesar Romero | ... | Diego Santana |
| Pepe Hern | ... | Antonio |
| Alma Beltran | ... | Rosa |
| Capucine | ... | Belle Chaney |
| Judy Geeson | ... | Elaine McComber |
| Cristina Raines | ... | Margo Santana |
Season 1, Episode 15: Tough Guys Don't Die
24 February 1985While highly respected P.I. Archie Miles, who even teaches at the police academy, is working on the old Danbury scalpel murder case, involving judge Lambert, for Jessica's research, he is shot in his office. His rather shady, clumsier partner Harry McGraw contacts Jessica as Archie was working on only two other cases, about allegedly adulterous contractor Ernie Santini and editor Priscilla Daniels of Femininity Magazine, who suddenly backs down on her political ambitions. Detective Lieutenant Starkey confides into Jessica the police wouldn't mourn Harry getting rid of Archie's killer, anyhow, she snoops herself, then teams up with Harry...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Barbara Babcock | ... | Priscilla Daniels |
| John Furey | ... | Larry King |
| Nancy Lee Grahn | ... | Erin Carey |
| John McMartin | ... | Gavin Daniels |
 | Jerry Orbach | ... | Harry McGraw |
| Gerald S. O'Loughlin | ... | Ray Kravitz |
 | Alex Rocco | ... | Ernie Santini |
| Fritz Weaver | ... | Judge Lambert |
| Paul Winfield | ... | Det. Lt. Starkey |
 | Floyd Levine | ... | Archie Miles |
| Margery Nelson | ... | Alma Leonard |
| Rosanna Huffman | ... | Connie Miles |
 | Conrad Bachmann | ... | Office Manager |
 | Tina Lifford | ... | Leora Cargill |
| Jana Brown | ... | Receptionist (as Janna Brown) |
| Steven Ameche | ... | Musician (uncredited) |
Season 1, Episode 16: Sudden Death
3 March 1985Jessica inherits from uncle Cyrus a holding company, the only asset being the crucial 4% in the Leopards professional American football team which two groups control at 48% each, and executive lawyer Brad Lockwood fails to make her sign proxy powers for it before she checks it out herself. She meets player Zak Farrell, his wife Kathy and adopted mute daughter Jill. Businessman Phil Kreuger is dead-eager to buy Jessica out for one share-holders group and move the franchise to a bigger city, coach Pat Patillo bids against him for the other group which wants to keep the team home. After a party with nearly everyone, Krueger is found drowned in the club's stadium, Zak arrested as he was seen storming in and out around the time of the murder, Jessica rather then police Lt. Clyde Pitts finds out -at peril- who else had motive and opportunity till she can set a trap...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| John Beck | ... | Web McCord |
| Warren Berlinger | ... | Coach Pat Patillo |
| Dick Butkus | ... | Tank Mason |
| David Doyle | ... | Brad Lockwood |
| Bruce Jenner | ... | Zak Farrell |
| Gary Lockwood | ... | Harris Talmadge |
| Allan Miller | ... | Phil Kreuger |
 | Tim Thomerson | ... | Lt. Clyde Pitts |
| Arnold F. Turner | ... | Security Guard (as Arnold Turner) |
| Albert Lord | ... | Baxter |
| Ralph Clift | ... | Clerk (as Ralph M. Clift) |
| James McEachin | ... | Grover Dillon |
| Elizabeth Savage | ... | Mavis Kreuger |
| Jan Smithers | ... | Kathy Farrell |
| Marcianne Warman | ... | Jill Farrell |
Season 1, Episode 17: Footnote to Murder
10 March 1985Jessica sets out to clear the name of a friend who is a prime suspect in a murder case.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Vincent Baggetta | ... | Frank Lapinski |
| Pat Harrington Jr. | ... | A.D.A. Mel Comstock |
| Kenneth Mars | ... | Hemsley Post |
 | Ron Masak | ... | Lt. Meyer |
| Robert Reed | ... | Adrian Winslow |
| Paul Sand | ... | Horace Lynchfield |
| John C. Becher | ... | Optometrist |
| John Brandon | ... | Ernie |
| Mark Harrison | ... | Assistant D.A. |
| Bill MacDonald | ... | Bailiff (as William MacDonald) |
 | Michael Kearns | ... | Reporter |
 | Biff Yeager | ... | Cop |
 | Talia Balsam | ... | Debbie Delancey |
 | Morgan Brittany | ... | Tiffany Harrow |
| Constance Forslund | ... | Lucinda Lark |
| Nancy Marlow | ... | Lady |
| Diana Muldaur | ... | Alexis Post |
| Lana Schwab | ... | Clerk |
Season 1, Episode 18: Murder Takes the Bus
17 March 1985On the bus back from a convention in Boston, Jessica, Amos Tupper and a slew of passengers are forced to take refuge from a fierce storm at a remote diner where one of the passengers is discovered murdered in his seat, stabbed.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
 | Michael Constantine | ... | Ben Gibbons |
| Terence Knox | ... | Steve Pascal |
| Larry Linville | ... | Prof. Kent Radford |
| Albert Salmi | ... | Joe Downing |
| Don Stroud | ... | Carey Drayson |
 | Mills Watson | ... | Ralph Leary |
| David Wayne | ... | Cyrus Leffingwell |
| John Davis Chandler | ... | Gilbert Stoner |
| Charles Bazaldua | ... | Man |
 | Linda Blair | ... | Jane Pascal |
| Rue McClanahan | ... | Miriam Radford |
Season 1, Episode 19: Armed Response
31 March 1985While in the hospital with a fractured leg, Jessica investigates the murder of a fellow patient.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Eddie Bracken | ... | Barney Ogden |
| Stephen Elliott | ... | Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Garver |
 | James Gammon | ... | Billy Don Baker |
| Sam Groom | ... | Dr. Wes Kenyon |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Lt. Ray Jenkins |
 | Martin Kove | ... | Dr. Ellison |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Milton Porter |
| Paul Tuerpe | ... | Security Guard #1 |
| Fred D. Scott | ... | Henry the Chauffer |
| Gerald York | ... | Security Guard #2 |
| Victoria Carroll | ... | Melanie Barker |
| Denise Cheshire | ... | Candy Striper |
| Kay Lenz | ... | Nurse Jennie Wells |
| Lucille Meredith | ... | Mrs. Brindle |
| Susan Oliver | ... | Nurse Marge Horton |
| Martha Raye | ... | Sadie Winthrope |
 | Lavelle Roby | ... | Nurse |
Season 1, Episode 20: Murder at the Oasis
7 April 1985An unpopular comic's life is threatened, but guess who turns up dead?
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Ed Ames | ... | Johnny Shannon |
 | Joey Bishop | ... | Buster Bailey |
| Joseph Bottoms | ... | Mickey Shannon |
| Joseph Cali | ... | Vic LaRosa |
| Ken Howard | ... | Det. Sgt. Barnes |
| Piper Laurie | ... | Peggy Shannon |
 | Jack O'Halloran | ... | Lou Ross |
| Linda Purl | ... | Terry Shannon |
| David Bowman | ... | Chico Miller |
| John Miranda | ... | Gus |
 | Mark Costello | ... | CHP Officer |
| Fred Ponzlov | ... | Waiter (as Fredrick Ponzlov) |
| Michael Griswold | ... | Guard |
Season 1, Episode 21: Funeral at Fifty-Mile
21 April 1985Jessica has to unravel the secrets and threats at the funeral of a friend in Wyoming.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Noah Beery Jr. | ... | Doc Wallace (as Noah Beery) |
| Kathleen Beller | ... | Mary Carver |
| J.D. Cannon | ... | Bill Carmody |
 | Clu Gulager | ... | Carl Mestin |
| Donald Moffat | ... | Tim Carver |
| Jeff Osterhage | ... | Art Merrick (as Jeffrey Osterhage) |
 | Cliff Potts | ... | Sheriff Ed Potts |
| Stella Stevens | ... | Sally Mestin |
| William Windom | ... | Attorney Sam Breen |
| Brooke Alderson | ... | Alice |
| Edith Diaz | ... | Emma |
 | Efrain Figueroa | ... | Hay-Soos |
| Archie Lang | ... | Minister |
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Widow, Weep for Me
29 September 1985Jessica's friend has been murdered, so Jessica masquerades as a wealthy widow at a luxurious tropical hotel in an effort to trap the murderer.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Len Cariou | ... | Michael Hagarty |
| Mel Ferrer | ... | Eric Brahm |
 | Howard Hesseman | ... | Sheldon Greenberg |
| John Phillip Law | ... | Sven Torvald |
| Raymond St. Jacques | ... | Chief Inspector Claude Rensselaer |
| Jerry Boyd | ... | Doorman |
| Emmett Dennis III | ... | Sgt. D'arcy |
| Geoff Heise | ... | Mr. Barnes |
| Edward B. Randolph | ... | Croupier |
| Ekta Sohini | ... | Desk Clerk (as Ektara) |
| Claude Cole | ... | Bellman |
| Tony Webster | ... | Steward |
 | Cyd Charisse | ... | Myrna Montclair LeRoy |
| Marilyn Conn | ... | Secretary |
| Anne Lockhart | ... | Veronica Harrold |
| Reggie Savard | ... | Antoinette Farnsworth |
 | Mary Wickes | ... | Mrs. Alva Crane |
Season 2, Episode 2: Joshua Peabody Died Here... Possibly
6 October 1985A cheap tycoon with many enemies is found dead on the construction site of his high-rise hotel.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| John Astin | ... | Harry Pierce |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Chuck Connors | ... | FBI Agt. Fred Keller |
| John Ericson | ... | Henderson Wheatley |
| Meg Foster | ... | Del Scott |
| Michael Sarrazin | ... | David Marsh |
| David Sheiner | ... | Arthur Griswold (as David S. Sheiner) |
| Ken Swofford | ... | Leo Kowalski |
| William Windom | ... | Seth Hazlitt, M.D. |
| Deborah White | ... | Matty Marsh |
| Robin Bach | ... | Ellsworth Buffum |
 | Robert Jayne | ... | Eric Marsh (as Bobby Jacoby) |
| Ed Morgan | ... | Austin Bailey |
| Roger Price | ... | Eli Harris |
| Barbara Ann Grimes | ... | Sarah Harris |
| Jody Carter | ... | Olive Newton |
| Sandra Hawthorne | ... | Mavis Gillam |
| Bruce Lawrence | ... | Earthmover Driver |
Season 2, Episode 3: Murder in the Afternoon
13 October 1985Jessica's niece, an actress in a daytime drama, becomes a suspect when the head writer for the show is murdered.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | William Atherton | ... | Larry Holleran |
| Paul Burke | ... | Herbert Upton |
 | Nicholas Hammond | ... | Todd Worthy |
| Terry Kiser | ... | Gordon LaMonica |
 | Robert Lipton | ... | Martin Grattop |
| Lloyd Nolan | ... | Julian Tenley |
| Robert Walden | ... | Lt. Antonelli |
 | George Murdock | ... | Sgt. Kaplan |
| John Miranda | ... | Prop Man (as John M. Miranda) |
| Elven Havard | ... | Guard |
| Alice Krige | ... | Nita Cochran |
| Tricia O'Neil | ... | Bibi Hartman |
| Mackenzie Phillips | ... | Carol Needom |
| Lurene Tuttle | ... | Agnes Cochran |
 | Jessica Walter | ... | Joyce Holleran |
Season 2, Episode 4: School for Scandal
25 October 1985Jessica arrives at Grenshaw to hold the commencement speech and receive an honorary degree at the local college. The preceding faculty party is animated by host Dr. Jocelyn Laird's daughter Daphne Clover, who jumps into the pool naked and her beefy, drunk New York lover Nick Fulton who knocks down Professor Ron Mercer and a vase with one punch, still shirtless. Next morning Jessica finds Nick's corps under a construction site as if he fell to his death, but that must be staged as he has no dust on his shoes. Local Police Chief E. Griffin, who knows Jessica from criminology studies, arrests Daphne after an anonymous phone call leads to finding a typed blackmail note from Nick and a bloody candle stick in her room, but Jessica convinces him it may well be all planted. She checks on other party-goers' links with Nick and each-other, leading to two contradictory confessions, neither of which she believes...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Jack Kehoe | ... | Police Chief E. Griffin |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Dr. Alger Kenyon, PHD |
| Morgan Stevens | ... | Nick Fulton |
 | James Sutorius | ... | Professor Ron Mercer |
 | John Vernon | ... | Henry Hayward |
| Gary Bisig | ... | Will Small |
| John C. Becher | ... | Station Master |
| Dean Dittman | ... | Faculty Man |
| Ron Asher | ... | Student #1 |
| James Greenblatt | ... | Student #3 (as Jim Greenblatt) |
| R.J. Adams | ... | Mr. Packman |
| Polly Bergen | ... | Dr. Jocelyn Laird |
| Darleen Carr | ... | Trish Mercer |
| June Lockhart | ... | Beryl Hayward |
| Mary Kate McGeehan | ... | Daphne Clover |
| Kerry Noonan | ... | Student #2 |
| Grace Simmons | ... | Faculty Wife |
 | James Marshall | ... | Student (uncredited) |
Season 2, Episode 5: Sing a Song of Murder
27 October 1985Jessica's red-hair British niece Emma McGill has her fly over to London to attend her 'funeral' as requested by last will, but actually it's a staged car accident so they can sleuth who is behind three incidents Emma considers but can't prove to be murder attempts, in her view for ownership of her old-fashioned Mayhew music hall, which is in financial trouble but valuable if sold -would be-buyers even awaited Jessica at the airport-, half of the profits would go to her late co-founder's wimpy son Archie Weems and his greedy spouse Violet. Jessica turns to a Scotland Yard friend but as he is on holiday confides in his colleague Inspector Roger Crimmins, who plays along so the suspects can be examined. While they approach Emma's London apartment, Mayhem dresser Bridget O'Hara leaves it and is fatally struck by a fast car, possibly because she was dressed like Emma in a coat promised to her; Emma admits she left a reassuring message to her old friend, has-been Shakespearian actor Oliver Trumbull, father of Mayhew actress Kitty, who is arrested for lying about hearing the answering machine message, but...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher / Emma McGill |
| Barrie Ingham | ... | Insp. Roger Crimmins |
| Patrick Macnee | ... | Oliver Trumbull |
 | Gregory Paul Martin | ... | Danny Briggs (as Greg Martyn) |
| Kristoffer Tabori | ... | Ernest Fielding |
 | Kenneth Danziger | ... | Archie Weems |
| Terrence Scammell | ... | Director (as Terence Scammell) |
| Richard Davies | ... | First Tough |
| Neil Hunt | ... | Tough #2 |
| John Straightley | ... | Police Sergeant |
| David Grant Hayward | ... | Policeman |
| Ron Southart | ... | Plainclothesman |
| Sarah Douglas | ... | Violet Weems |
| Gillian Eaton | ... | Landlady |
 | Olivia Hussey | ... | Kitty Trumbull |
| Glynis Johns | ... | Bridget O'Hara |
Season 2, Episode 6: Reflections of the Mind
3 November 1985Scott Lodge thinks his wife Francesca is going crazy and trying to kill him. But when a phone call from her supposedly dead first husband precedes the fatal incident, Jessica must unravel fact from hysteria to find a killer.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Ann Blyth | ... | Francesca Lodge |
 | Wings Hauser | ... | Carl |
| Steven Keats | ... | Dr. Victor March |
| Martin Milner | ... | Sheriff Bodine |
 | Ben Murphy | ... | Scott Lodge |
| Stacey Nelkin | ... | Cheryl Lodge |
| Esther Rolle | ... | Margaret |
| Janet DeMay | ... | Brooke Devon |
| Franny Parrish | ... | Nurse (as Frannie Parrish) |
Season 2, Episode 7: A Lady in the Lake
10 November 1985Jessica's fellow guests at a remote inn include an obsessive birdwatcher, an enthusiastic nature lover who likes to streak through the woods, a rich jerk and his shy wife, and a devoted fisherman whose wife doesn't sit home waiting for him. When Jessica sees one guest push another into the lake, she's determined to understand what happened and why.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| John Astin | ... | Harry Pierce |
| Susan Blanchard | ... | Carolyn Hester Crane |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| William Christopher | ... | Burton Hollis |
| Charles Frank | ... | Lyle Jordan |
| Laurence Luckinbill | ... | Howard Crane |
 | Lee Meriwether | ... | Grace Overholtz |
 | Lee Purcell | ... | Joanna Benson |
| Charles Taylor | ... | Jack Turney |
 | Lauren Tewes | ... | Betty Jordan |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
 | Johnny Crawford | ... | Noah Paisley |
Season 2, Episode 8: Dead Heat
24 November 1985Under instructions from big boss Tony, local mobster boss Vince Shackman leans heavily on race horse trainer Mike Gann to settle his gambling debts by fixing a race, which takes quite a lot, including making a Panamese illegal jockey be replaced 'sick' by greenhorn Tracy Macgill, a niece of Jessica, who made a stop-over on the way to San Francisco to see her debut. When Tracey is arrested for the tranquilizer gun murder of Jack Bowen, Jessica fears the police won't solve the case and takes crash courses in betting and running a stable while investigating everybody involved, including unethical betting by the track security chief...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Ramon Bieri | ... | Pat Phillips |
| Jack Carter | ... | Cliff Carpenter |
| Lonny Chapman | ... | Jack Bowen |
| Norman Fell | ... | Vince Shackman |
| Clu Gulager | ... | Mike Gann |
 | Bert Rosario | ... | Carlos Gallegos |
| Roy Thinnes | ... | Lt. Ted Misko |
| Derrel Maury | ... | Cookie Milford |
| Tom Dreesen | ... | Ernie |
| Alex Rebar | ... | Guzmann |
| Robert Ellenstein | ... | Mr. P |
| Don Matheson | ... | Chief Steward |
| Stu Gilliam | ... | Ernie, the Taxi Driver |
| Tony Ballen | ... | Bookie #1 |
| Richard Paradise | ... | Bookie #2 |
| Joe Faust | ... | Security Guard |
 | Priscilla Barnes | ... | Vicky Gallegos |
| Freddye Chapman | ... | Nurse |
 | Carole Cook | ... | Christine Carpenter |
| Linda Grovenor | ... | Jockey Tracy Macgill |
Season 2, Episode 9: Jessica Behind Bars
1 December 1985During Jessica's lecture in a woman's prison with an all-female staff, the doctor is found, killed by a morphine injection, with convict Mary's fingerprints on, but this is proven not to be the murder weapon. Next there is a revolt, which takes Jessica hostage but is ill-prepared: even the demands are a matter for debate. Jessica is now asked to investigate, and while she digs into malpractices apparently involving warden Gates, who has political ambition, and conflicts involving staff as well as prisoners, another staff member is killed. Jessica discovers things are not as they appear.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Margaret Avery | ... | Dixie |
| Adrienne Barbeau | ... | Kathryn |
| Barbara Baxley | ... | Deputy Warden Amanda Debs |
 | Diana Bellamy | ... | Head Guard |
| Darlene Conley | ... | Mims |
 | Yvonne De Carlo | ... | Miss Springer |
| Aimée Eccles | ... | Susie |
| Kristall Eklund | ... | Prisoner |
| Gay Hagen | ... | Guard #1 |
| Linda Kelsey | ... | Mary Stamm |
| Janet MacLachlan | ... | Dr. Irene Matthews |
 | Vera Miles | ... | Warden Elizabeth Gates |
| Faith Minton | ... | Guard #2 |
| Susan Oliver | ... | Louise |
| Susan Peretz | ... | Bertha |
| Eve Plumb | ... | Tug |
| Donna Ponterotto | ... | Jamie |
 | Linda L. Rand | ... | Reception Guard |
| Jan Stratton | ... | Gate Guard |
| Mary Woronov | ... | Brady |
Season 2, Episode 10: Sticks and Stones
15 December 1985Amos eagerly retires, handing over his sheriff's star to real estate agent Harry Pierce, but then Beverly Gareth is found electrocuted in her bath. She was the heir to land of vital importance to Friedrich Hoffman's environmentally horrible 400 condos Cabot Cove coast development project. The town is flooded by gossip letters badmouthing -at least part are lies- Beverly, only one of which was sent by Elvira Tree, who is next found hung. Jessica, her guest New York travel reporter Michael Digby and Amos discover both women were murdered, how, by whom and why; meanwhile the new sheriff Pierce arrests repairman Larry Burns, who allegedly didn't fix Beverly's fatally ragged electric cord after an accusation from Adam Frobisher, then him and Hoffman, but Jessica does her own sleuthing...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| John Astin | ... | Harry Pierce |
| Paul Benedict | ... | Friedrich Hoffman |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Joseph Campanella | ... | George Knapp |
| John David Carson | ... | Larry Burns |
| Denny Miller | ... | Nils Anderson |
| Parker Stevenson | ... | Michael Digby |
| Christopher Stone | ... | Adam Frobisher |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Howard Witt | ... | Bart Nelson |
| Philip Brown | ... | Deputy Willard |
| Ken Sansom | ... | Man |
| Bob Tzudiker | ... | Agent |
| Garnett Smith | ... | Mel |
| Danny McCoy Jr. | ... | Waiter |
| Ceil Cabot | ... | Mabel Bemish |
| Marsha Hunt | ... | Elvira Tree |
| Evelyn Keyes | ... | Edna |
| Betsy Palmer | ... | Lila Norris |
| Kristy Syverson | ... | Beverly |
Season 2, Episode 11: Murder Digs Deep
29 December 1985Jessica visits Dr. Seth Hazlitt at the New Mexico archaeological dig paid by Gideon Armstrong, led by Southwest University professor Dr. Stan Garfield, on the site of an Anasazi village, and perhaps Coronado's legendary city of gold, to which story TV celebrity Dr. Aubrey Benton holds the rights. Every evening an Indian ghost costume wearer sings on a cliff, till Armstrong's guards climb up scare him off, but on Jessica's second night Gideon's young wife Cynthia shoots at him and local Navajo Indian guide Raymond Two Crows -already found suspiciously uninformed about Pre-Columbian civilizations- falls to his death, although not hit by her bullet. After Jessica digs up a golden prayer stick, Seth finds Raymond actually died earlier of drowning. More gold is found, Gideon is determined to keep the news from spreading, according to his wife so he can buy the land first. Raymond's belongings inspire Jessica to unmasks several scammers.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| George Grizzard | ... | Dr. Aubrey Benton |
| David Groh | ... | Dr. Stan Garfield |
 | Randolph Mantooth | ... | Raymond Two Crows / DeMarco |
| Stephen Shortridge | ... | Steve Gamble |
 | Robert Vaughn | ... | Gideon Armstrong |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Robert Dryer | ... | Guard #1 |
| Cecile Callan | ... | Karen Parks |
| Connie Stevens | ... | Cynthia Armstrong |
 | Curtis Credel | ... | (voice) (uncredited) |
Season 2, Episode 12: Murder by Appointment Only
5 January 1986Jessica's nephew Grady is applying for a job with the Lila Lee Cosmetics empire. Lila's brother Norman tries to soothe wounded feelings as Lila Lee tyrannizes her employees. Jessica is delighted to see former student Elizabeth Gordon, Norman's intended fiancée. When the inevitable murder happens, Jessica goes undercover as a Lila Lee lady to find the killer.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Jayne Meadows | ... | Lila Lee Amberson (as Jayne Meadows Allen) |
| Christine Belford | ... | Fiona Keeler |
| Robert Culp | ... | Norman Amberson |
 | Robert Desiderio | ... | Roger Adiano |
| Ann Dusenberry | ... | Elizabeth Gordon |
| Herb Edelman | ... | Lieutenant Varick (as Herbert Edelman) |
| Michael Horton | ... | Grady Fletcher |
| Leigh McCloskey | ... | Todd Amberson |
| Millie Perkins | ... | Glenda Vandevere |
| Catherine Battistone | ... | Actress #1 |
| Cathy McAuley | ... | Actress #2 (as Catherine McAuley) |
| Fred Ponzlov | ... | Mr. Hillsdale |
| Robert Stoneman | ... | Photographer |
Season 2, Episode 13: Trial by Error
12 January 1986After Mark Lee Reynolds's wife Stephanie has a car accident which at best leaves her cripple for life while he is wounded at the left shoulder, criminal John Detweiler who sees him picking up a woman in a bar where he tries to drink some courage calls her jealous husband, goon Cliff Anderson, who knows his Becky is serially unfaithful. Jessica is foreperson of the jury which must decide if Mark committed murder or only killed in self-defense. She makes everyone go over the crucial witness and expert testimonies during the trial and slowly makes them shift focus from prejudices to evidence and logical deduction concerning premeditation, motive and material facts, pondering both theories, till she comes up with a crucial twist.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| David Ackroyd | ... | Prosecutor Tom Casselli |
| Tony Bill | ... | Mark Lee Reynolds |
| Macdonald Carey | ... | Defense Atty. Oscar Ramsey |
| Jon Cypher | ... | Defense Atty. Max Flynn |
| Gene Evans | ... | Otto Fry |
| Tom Ewell | ... | Josh Corbin |
| Gary Frank | ... | Lee Callahan |
| Alan Hale Jr. | ... | Fenton Harris (as Alan Hale) |
| Allan Miller | ... | Frank Lord |
 | Brock Peters | ... | Thornton Bentley |
| Richard Sanders | ... | Gerald Richards |
| Gregory Walcott | ... | Willie Patchecki |
| R.J. Adams | ... | Victor Assmussen |
| Norman Burton | ... | Drew Narramore |
| Virginia Capers | ... | Margo Webster |
| Robert Casper | ... | Arthur Jasper |
| John Davis Chandler | ... | John Detweiler (as John Chandler) |
| Doran Clark | ... | Becky Anderson |
| Arlene Golonka | ... | Sally Conover |
| Javier Grajeda | ... | Paramedic |
| James Hampton | ... | Jerry Blevins |
| Lenore Kasdorf | ... | Ally Collins |
| Warren J. Kemmerling | ... | Dr. Maurice Webster (as Warren Kemmerling) |
| Diane Lander | ... | Stephanie Reynolds |
| Vicki Lawrence | ... | Jackie MacKay |
| Walter Mathews | ... | Judge Philo Walker |
 | Michael Swan | ... | Cliff Anderson |
Season 2, Episode 14: Keep the Home Fries Burning
19 January 1986Bo Dixon is getting desperate as all his diner customers, even sheriff Tupper and his former waitress Cornelia, desert to the Joshua Peabody Inn on the Interstate. When he checks out the competition during breakfast and sees the owner Floyd Nelson row with the pseudo-French chef Alan Dupree, who wanted out of his three year contract by getting fired, there is a mild case of food poisoning and a fatal one: businessman Harrison Fraser III's wife Wilhelmina's best friend Betty Fiddler. While Dr. Seth Hazlitt calls in haughty health inspector Margo Perry and concludes on atropine, Jessica looks into the possibility of murder. The only missing item is a jar of old Mrs. Margo Perry's strawberry preserves, which Amos is allergic to. Jessica unmasks Dupree as a fake cordon bleu and Harrison as Betty Fiddler's adulterous lover, but also doubts the intended victim and ties up more minute observations...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Norman Alden | ... | Mercer Hawthorne |
 | Orson Bean | ... | Ebeneezer McEnery |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Gary Crosby | ... | Ted Stully |
| William Lucking | ... | Bo Dixon |
| John McCook | ... | Harrison Fraser III |
| Henry Polic II | ... | Alan Dupree |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Alan Young | ... | Floyd Nelson |
| Jean Paul Donovan | ... | Margo's Asistant |
| Leonard O. Turner | ... | Mr. O'Connor |
| Dion Williams | ... | Jimmy O'Connor |
| Michael McCabe | ... | Orderly |
| Sharon Acker | ... | Wilhelmina Fraser |
 | Alexander Folk | ... | Cook |
| Anne Francis | ... | Margo Perry (as Anne Lloyd Francis) |
| Rosanna Huffman | ... | Helen Stully |
| Donna Pescow | ... | Cornelia |
 | Dale Raoul | ... | Nurse |
| Marcia Rodd | ... | Betty Fiddler |
| Patricia Wilson | ... | Cashier |
| Roger Price | ... | Diner Patron (uncredited) |
| Hartley Silver | ... | Diner Patron (uncredited) |
Season 2, Episode 15: Powder Keg
9 February 1986When her friend Professor Ames Caulfield takes Jessica along to recover in the country after a literary conference, his car breaks down in southern Roper County, they'll have to stay a few days in the inn of Cassie Latham Burns, to his amazement a former student of his, whose charming adolescent son Matthew performs Country in Frank Kelso's saloon. Ames witnesses how the kid is publicly humiliated by slutty waitress Linda Bonner's brother Ed and his goons, including service station employees Andy Crane and Billy Willetts, all storm out furious and shouting threats. After Ed is found dead with stab wounds behind the rectory, his dad farmer Bonner uses his considerable clout to weigh on Sheriff Claudell Cox, who assures Jessica Matt is safest in jail, while after pulling a knife on Kelso the lynching-minded rabble assembles outside till Bonner breaks them up; the sheriff admits taking the bloody knife all the way to his home across town where it was found without dumping it in the river makes no sense. Jessica also guesses Cassie's and another secret.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Pat Corley | ... | Frank Kelso |
 | Brian Lane Green | ... | Matthew Burns (as Brian L. Green) |
 | Jackie Earle Haley | ... | Billy Willetts |
 | John Dennis Johnston | ... | Peter Fargo |
| Bill McKinney | ... | Demsey |
| Jeff Osterhage | ... | Ed Bonner |
| Craig Stevens | ... | Prof. Ames Caulfield |
| Stuart Whitman | ... | Mr. Bonner |
 | Larry Wilcox | ... | Andy Crane |
| W.K. Stratton | ... | Deputy Morgan |
| John Alvin | ... | Dr. Frazier |
| Hartley Silver | ... | Man |
| Dave Adams | ... | Barfly |
| Mariclare Costello | ... | Cassie Latham Burns |
| Debra Dusay | ... | Desk Clerk |
| Cindy Fisher | ... | Linda Bonner |
| Dorian Harewood | ... | Sheriff Claudell Cox |
 | Muriel Minot | ... | Woman |
 | Helen Kelly | ... | (uncredited) |
Season 2, Episode 16: Murder in the Electric Cathedral
16 February 1986In Oklahoma, Electrical Cathedral TV preacher Willie John Fargo gets Jessica's philanthropist friend Carrie McKittrick to leave his church most of her family's oil fortune by last will. After a heart-attack provoked by her stepson Harvey McKittrick and his son Sam McKittrick's opposition to the will, Carrie dies in the Cathedral's hospital, from cyanide poisoning. Now the heirs produce a deathbed will leaving everything to the family again, which Jessica proves to be posthumously 'signed' by Sam holding her hand. Examining the trails of the fatal syringe in the hospital and the money in the virtual church, Jessica finds Fargo is a diabetic refusing to disclose his alibi; his prints are on the syringe, but...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Jack Bannon | ... | Dr. Mark Brady |
 | Frank Bonner | ... | Earl Fargo |
| Steve Forrest | ... | Rev. Willie John Fargo |
 | Richard Herd | ... | Harvey McKittrick |
 | Art Hindle | ... | Sam McKittrick |
 | Dick Van Patten | ... | District Atty. Fred Whittaker |
| Donald Craig | ... | T.V. Director |
| Owen Bush | ... | Driver |
| Don Brodie | ... | Neighbour (as Don L. Brodie) |
| Huck Liggett | ... | Intern |
| David Bowman | ... | Edgar |
| Bob Lee | ... | Ad-Lib Man |
| Belinda Beatty | ... | Ethel |
| Barbi Benton | ... | Nurse Sue Beth |
| Judy Geeson | ... | Sister Ruth Fargo |
| Jill Hill | ... | Tammy Lee |
| Toni Lamond | ... | Ad-Lib Woman |
| Mildred Natwick | ... | Carrie McKittrick |
| Pat Van Patten | ... | Head Nurse |
| Jeannie Wilson | ... | Alice McKittrick |
Season 2, Episode 17: One Good Bid Deserves a Murder
23 February 1986Celebrity Richard Bennett gets Jessica to bid for him in San Francisco on suicided fellow star friend Evangeline's diary to destroy it. Before the auction she witnesses security guard Albert Cromwell reporting to auctioneer William Readford a failed offer of $5,000 to steal it for Evangeline's therapist Dr. Sylvia Dunn. At the auction, Richard's corpse is found in an armoire. SFPD Lt. Casey nearly arrests Jessica, speculating his check was made out in her name, but still doesn't do after Readford is found murdered too just when Jessica comes return to him the diary she found in the secret compartment of a chess set she privately bought from him. Dodgy P.I. Harland 'Harry' McGraw takes it on himself to 'offer for sale' a photocopy of the diary. Meanwhile Jessica follows up on people mentioned in the diary, finds out who had it auctioned and...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Ray Girardin | ... | Lt. Casey |
| Robert Gray | ... | Albert Cromwell |
| Hurd Hatfield | ... | William Readford |
| Edward Mulhare | ... | Richard Bennett |
| Jerry Orbach | ... | Harland 'Harry' McGraw |
 | Cotter Smith | ... | Robert Rhine |
| Vic Tayback | ... | Sal Domino |
| David Ankrum | ... | Young Doctor |
| Sterling Swanson | ... | Desk Sgt. Hogan |
| Howard Huston | ... | Uniformed Cop |
 | Karen Black | ... | Dr. Sylvia Dunn |
| Nancy Lee Grahn | ... | Sheila Saxon |
| Marvin Newman | ... | Auctioneer |
| Allysia Sneed | ... | Desk Clerk |
 | Rebecca Street | ... | Deborah Chase |
| Jean Vander Pyl | ... | Lydia |
Season 2, Episode 18: If a Body Meet a Body
9 March 1986Cabot Cove financial adviser Henry Burning is scheduled to be cremated suspiciously quickly after dying on vacation in Fransdale with his wife and sole beneficiary Connie Vernon, who claims it was a heart-attack but is accused during the church service of killing him by his mistress Phyllis Walters; when the closed casket gets knocked over, it contains another man's corpse. Amos wants to solve this case himself, while Jessica has a manuscript deadline, and gets on great with the widow. Phyllis implores Jessica to find her lover's killer, claiming Henry was ready to leave Connie for her, and tells undertaker Silas Pike she's not romantically interested in him. Clients start asking their investment back from Henry's partner Ned Olson, who fails to find new takers and disapproves of his daughter Christy's relationship with idealist student Stew Bennett. Then Phyllis finds Henry's corpse in her place, but he dies two days after his 'funeral', Connie claims John Doe is a hitchhiker who happened to die from a heart-attack so they staged Henry's death to collect his life insurance. Olson announces the Pheasant Ridge investment fund's $1,000,000 capital was entirely withdrawn by Henry and is missing. Jessica looks very inspired when Stew reports his van stolen, things speed up and she sets a trap...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Robert Donner | ... | Silas Pike |
 | Monte Markham | ... | Ned Olson |
| Rex Smith | ... | Stew Bennett |
| Richard Stahl | ... | Rev. Matthews |
| Robert Sterling | ... | Ben Shipley |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Joe Maross | ... | Henry Vernon |
 | Scott Palmer | ... | Deputy |
| Timothy Jecko | ... | Townsperson #3 |
| Ellaraino | ... | Townsperson #1 (as Ella Raino Edwards) |
| Anne Jeffreys | ... | Agnes Shipley |
| Sonia Kara | ... | Townsperson #2 |
 | Audrey Landers | ... | Phyllis Walters |
| Lori Lethin | ... | Christy Olson |
| Carrie Snodgress | ... | Connie Vernon |
Season 2, Episode 19: Christopher Bundy - Died on Sunday
30 March 1986Jessica is unhappy her nephew accountant Grady Fletcher's new employer is the publisher Christopher Bundy, who just purchased the magazine Literary Lines which is to run one of her stories and transformed it from classy content to 'centerfold' thrash. When they visit him in the villa where he lives with his sister Rachel and her son Tony and daughter Vanessa from different marriages, Bundy convinces her to stay the night and meet with his lawyers and assures her the security cameras record only images, no sound, and not in bedrooms. Jessica convinces the magazine's broke original publisher Chester Harrison, kept on as figurehead, to put on a fight for its respectability. Then Bundy is shot dead inside, in a camera-dead angle. Detective Lt. Greco just suspects Chester, Jessica and Grady at first the butler but he's really undercover after Bundy's criminal family, then dig deeper. The sister inherits the empire and proves a shark herself, with Vanessa as right-hand. Then Jessica sees trough the killer's alibi.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Bert Convy | ... | Christopher Bundy |
| Robert Costanzo | ... | Det. Lt. Greco |
| Bobby Di Cicco | ... | Antonio D'Argento |
 | Robert Hooks | ... | Everett Charles Jensen |
| Michael Horton | ... | Grady Fletcher |
| Alex Rocco | ... | Bert Yardley |
 | Robert Stack | ... | Chester Harrison |
| Eric Server | ... | Pete Morgan |
| Charles Sweigart | ... | Uniformed Officer |
| Josh Gordon | ... | Announcer |
| Carol Lawrence | ... | Rachel D'Argento |
| Katherine Moffat | ... | Millicent Moore |
| Michelle Nicastro | ... | Vanessa D'argento |
Season 2, Episode 20: Menace, Anyone?
6 April 1986Jessica is the guest of honor opening the children's fund benefit exhibition tournament in Elliot Robinson's Green River Rocquet tennis club, where her young friend Carol McDermott has a managing position. Brian East, Carol's charming fiancé who dumped haughty fellow tennis player Cissy Barnes for her, is killed by a dynamite explosion in the car he borrowed from Carol. Investigating detective lieutenant Tad Travis is a fan of Jessica, but is killed by knife when he visits Carol at home; she claims the killer is her beloved sister Barbara, an alcoholic who was buried three years ago after a plane-crash, however her grave is untended and Carol was in a psychiatric institution at the time, which Travis had already discovered. Then Barbara turns up alive, admitting she switched identity with a dead passenger. Jesscii snoops on among the tennis people...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Dennis Cole | ... | Mitch Mercer |
 | Bryan Cranston | ... | Brian East |
| Van Johnson | ... | Elliot Robinson |
 | Doug McKeon | ... | Donny Harrigan |
| Barry Primus | ... | Det. Sgt. Berger |
 | David Spielberg | ... | Det. Lt. Tad Travis |
| Harold Ayer | ... | Sexton |
| Laurence Haddon | ... | Judge |
 | Gus Corrado | ... | Paramedic |
| Rod Porter | ... | Reporter #2 |
| Rick Jason | ... | Patrolman (as Richard Jacobson) |
| Helen Baron | ... | Reporter #1 |
| Karlene Crockett | ... | Barbara McDermott |
 | Linda Hamilton | ... | Carol McDermott |
 | Kelli Maroney | ... | Cissy Barnes |
 | Betsy Russell | ... | Doris Robinson |
| Kerry Sherman | ... | Rosie |
Season 2, Episode 21: The Perfect Foil
13 April 1986Jessica goes to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras festival to check on cousin-in-law Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher as promised to old aunt Mildred. As her hotel was only booked from the next night, she goes straight to Cal's place, but the only man in the Cyrano de Bergerac costume she was told he wears ignores her and storms with drawn sword into a room besides the party hall from where a fight is heard, which leaves a real corpse, Johnny Blaze, with Cal written in blood besides him. NOPD Lt. Edmund Cavette concludes from her eye for murder scene details who Jessica is and explains the Lafitte mansion which Cal inherited is no home but a gambling place. Cavette arrests at his humbler home Cal, who claims he didn't even know what happened there, Cavette knows he was indebted to Blaze, now Cal admits he recently accused Blaze of cheating. Fellow gambler attorney Mitch Payne promises bail tomorrow and considers pleading self-defense; he got Blaze off a murder over cards he probably committed- on Cavette's own son Eric. Jessica untangles more sordid intrigues concerning such matters as Congressman Brad Gardner's IOU's which his rich wife Rosaline tried to buy back, Cal's fiancée Kitty Manette's infidelity, before trapping the killer at a reconstruction...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Peter Bonerz | ... | Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher |
| Cesare Danova | ... | Lt. Edmund Cavette |
| George DiCenzo | ... | Johnny Blaze |
 | Robert Forster | ... | Gilbert Gaston |
 | David Hedison | ... | Mitch Payne |
 | Granville Van Dusen | ... | Congressman Brad Gardner |
| Morgan Jones | ... | Sgt. Baxter |
| Joe Ross | ... | Desk Clerk |
 | Raf Mauro | ... | Costumed Napoleon (as Rafael Mauro) |
| Guerin Barry | ... | Costumed Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Richard Brose | ... | Headsman |
| Barbara Babcock | ... | Rosaline Gardner |
 | Lisa Langlois | ... | Kitty Manette |
| Sherry McFarland | ... | Receptionist |
| Wendy Oates | ... | Costumed Madame Dracula |
| Hank Rolike | ... | Taxi Driver |
| Penny Singleton | ... | Aunt Mildred |
Season 2, Episode 22: If the Frame Fits
18 May 1986Just when Jessica visits her Cedar Heighs senior friend Lloyd Marcus, who insists to show her a manuscript 'from a friend' to read and comment on, the mysterious local art thief strikes again, right there on houseman Forbes's day off, as he does every few months without any witnesses. Next day they find his daughter Julia is robbed in her home, but also killed. Jessica, rather then police chief Cooper, who retired from the NYPD, investigates, examining the crime scenes, neighbors, friends, other art owners...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Christopher Allport | ... | Donald Granger |
| John de Lancie | ... | Binky Holborn |
| Cliff Gorman | ... | Police Chief Cooper |
| Gordon Jump | ... | Frank Tilley |
| Norman Lloyd | ... | Lloyd Marcus |
 | Aubrey Morris | ... | Forbes |
| Michael Morgan | ... | Young Man |
| Deborah Adair | ... | Ellen Davis |
| Audrey Meadows | ... | Mildred Tilley |
| Russell Merritt | ... | Waiter |
| Andra Millian | ... | Sabrina Marcus |
| Anne Schedeen | ... | Julia Granger |
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 1
28 September 1986Favorite aunt Jessica arrives three days before the society wedding of Constance Fletcher, who is convinced the silver leprechaun she receives among the wedding gifts is from her grandfather, Jessica's late husband Frank's brother Neil Fletcher, who is presumed dead. When the antiques salesman sort of recognizes his picture as the out of town buyer, Jessica guesses right he may be among Edgar Carmody's family circus which was in town then, and goes snooping there. She in on Neil's rail, as he works there as roustabout under the name Carl Schulman, as Edgar knows. Carl ran but is arrested after unpopular Hank Sutter, who harassed fellow artist Katie McCallum and bullied her teenage son Charlie, is found dead near, however not trampled by elephants, as none has a blood-stained foot, but beaten to death, like with Charlie's beloved baseball bat which Hank took from the boy. Carl explains why he staged his own death to escape his loveless marriage. Jessica is determined to prove her in-law's innocence, investigating the other circus people, despite the almighty mayor Powers, who overrules the cripple, weak sheriff Lynn Childs, but then Hank confesses and indicates where the murder weapon is...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Edgar Carmody |
| Jackie Cooper | ... | Carl Schulman / Neil Fletcher |
| Alex Cord | ... | Preston Bartholomew |
 | Ronny Cox | ... | Mayor Powers |
| Joey Cramer | ... | Charlie McCallum |
 | Greg Evigan | ... | Brad Kaneally |
| Gregg Henry | ... | Sheriff Lynn Childs |
| Charles Napier | ... | Hank Sutter |
| Mark Shera | ... | Raymond Carmody |
| Joe Dorsey | ... | Harry Kingman |
| Dennis Howard | ... | Howard Bannister |
| Ken Sansom | ... | Bert, the Desk Clerk |
| Robin Bach | ... | Mark |
| John Alvin | ... | Mr. Tucker |
| James R. Parkes | ... | Officer #1 |
 | Rob Monroe | ... | Alex |
| Michael Dunnagan | ... | Clyde |
| T. Lee Griffin | ... | Townsman |
| Susan Brown | ... | Audrey Bannister |
 | Courteney Cox | ... | Carol Bannister |
| Laraine Day | ... | Constance Fletcher |
| Florence Henderson | ... | Maria Morgana |
| Virginia Peters | ... | Ticket Seller |
| Lee Purcell | ... | Maylene Sutter |
 | Pamela Susan Shoop | ... | Katie McCallum |
| Barbara Stock | ... | Daniella Morgana Carmody |
| Greg Norberg | ... | Officer #2 (uncredited) |
| Harry Stephens | ... | Neal (uncredited) |
| Harry Woolf | ... | Maria's Driver (uncredited) |
Season 3, Episode 2: Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 2
5 October 1986Only when Jessica tells Neil, who is cancer-terminal and inflicted himself a nasty wound, that Charlie's bat was taken away by bully Hank before his murder, he admits he only took the blame to protect the kid before running after finding the bloody bat behind the corpse. Roustabout Brad Kaneally swears his hands are always roughed up, from work. Then there is another staged near-accident and Harry Kingman is found strangled in an inn while Neil is still in jail on the mayor's orders, sheriff Lynn Childs decides to brave him and help Jessica, who makes circus owner Edgar Carmody tell her and his son Raymond is a former boxer and alcoholic on the run after a fatal fist fight in a bar and protected the McCallums against Hank, leaving him unconscious on the murder night, only the killer hit below the neck. Next Jessica finds Maylene Sutter knocked down and is drugged while her cart is torched where Jessica was lured by a note, but they are found in time. She now accuses and enforces a confession from...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Martin Balsam | ... | Edgar Carmody |
| Alex Cord | ... | Preston Bartholomew |
| Ronny Cox | ... | Mayor Powers |
| Joey Cramer | ... | Charlie McCallum |
| Greg Evigan | ... | Brad Kaneally |
| Gregg Henry | ... | Sheriff Lynn Childs |
| Charles Napier | ... | Hank Sutter |
| Mark Shera | ... | Raymond Carmody |
| Joe Dorsey | ... | Harry Kingman |
| Dennis Howard | ... | Howard Bannister |
| Ken Sansom | ... | Bert, the Desk Clerk |
| Harry Stephens | ... | Neal |
| Dan Priest | ... | Doctor |
| Greg Norberg | ... | Officer #2 |
| Roz Bosley | ... | Housekeeper |
| Susan Brown | ... | Audrey Bannister |
| Jackie Cooper | ... | Carl Schulman / Neil Fletcher |
| Courteney Cox | ... | Carol Bannister |
| Laraine Day | ... | Constance Fletcher |
| Florence Henderson | ... | Maria Morgana |
| James R. Parkes | ... | Officer #1 |
| Lee Purcell | ... | Maylene Sutter |
| Pamela Susan Shoop | ... | Katie McCallum |
| Barbara Stock | ... | Daniella Morgana Carmody |
Season 3, Episode 3: Unfinished Business
12 October 1986When lieutenant detective Barney Kale is offered a trip around the world at his third and final retirement, he announces to delay it till Spring to finish full-time what he considers his only unsolved murder case, his friend Lowel Dixon's drowning ten years ago at Juniper Lake in the midst of a property development scandal. Local motel proprietor Jake Sanford informs everyone who was into it, including Seth Hazlit. Worying doc may get in trouble, Jessica and Amos go looking, and find ex-con Gary Roberts shot in Kale's cabin, the cop claims his accident at the lake dock was doctored. They stay to help sheriff McCoy and Kale investigate the new and old murders, if linked to each-other -which she proves unlikely- and of course the other guests, including Gary's young widow Maggie Roberts whom he promised a fortune after this trip, Seth's period friend Cynthia Tate and her present friend Dr. Terence Mayhew. Finding Gary's killed cell-mate's phone-number makes Jessica wonder...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | Dr. Terence Mayhew |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| J.D. Cannon | ... | Sheriff McCoy |
| Don DeFore | ... | Jake Sanford |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Ret. Lt. Det. Barney Kale |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Erich Anderson | ... | Gary Roberts (as E. Erich Anderson) |
| Phillip Clark | ... | Deputy #1 |
| William Mims | ... | Mayor |
 | James Bartz | ... | Second Deputy |
| Armand Cerami | ... | Searcher |
| Hayley Mills | ... | Cynthia Tate |
| Erin Moran | ... | Maggie Roberts |
| Connie Sawyer | ... | Ethel, the Housekeeper |
Season 3, Episode 4: One White Rose for Death
19 October 1986Another convoluted Michael Hagarty story, this one featuring hidden pasts, a secret society, and a murdered Embassy employee found clutching a white rose.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Michael Anderson Jr. | ... | Dr. Lynch |
 | Tony Bonner | ... | First Secretary Henry Claymore |
| Eric Braeden | ... | Col. Gerhardt Brunner |
| Len Cariou | ... | Michael Hagarty |
| Bernard Fox | ... | Andrew Wyckham |
| John Glover | ... | Franz Mueller |
| Warwick Sims | ... | Jack Kendall |
| Julian Barnes | ... | British Sgt. |
 | Jenny Agutter | ... | Margo Claymore |
 | Maria Mayenzet | ... | Greta Mueller |
Season 3, Episode 5: Corned Beef & Carnage
2 November 1986Visiting her niece Victoria Brandon Griffin, Jessica finds her crumbled by her job in advertising to give husband Howard financial comfort to pursue his acting career, while he feels guilty for being a kept man. However Vicky gets arrested after finding her mean boss, Larry Kinkaid, skull smashed with an award her fingerprints are on, just after she resigned refusing to court a married client. Jessica forces NYPD lieutenant Spoletti to look further, notably the security guard's list of building visitors, including an obvious alias she traces to Christine Clifford, the man-eater from an agency which competed with Kinkaid for the Corned Beef Castle account, and the delivery of a sandwich. Furthermore she looks into the agency's office politics, notably Larry's older brother and heir Myron Kinkaid and senior account manager Aubrey Thornton, whose position was most precarious...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Warren Berlinger | ... | Jim Ingram |
| Jeff Conaway | ... | Howard Griffin |
| Peter Haskell | ... | Leland Biddle |
| Richard Kline | ... | Larry Kinkaid |
| Bill Macy | ... | Myron Kinkaid |
| James Sloyan | ... | Lt. Spoletti |
 | David Ogden Stiers | ... | Aubrey Thornton |
| Ken Swofford | ... | Grover Bart |
| Phil Rubenstein | ... | Deli Clerk |
 | Russ Fega | ... | Pizza Delivery Man |
 | David Starwalt | ... | Officer |
 | Susan Anton | ... | Christine Clifford |
| Genie Francis | ... | Victoria Brandon Griffin |
| Marleta Giles | ... | Receptionist (as Marleta Marrow) |
 | Marcia Wallace | ... | Polly Barth |
Season 3, Episode 6: Dead Man's Gold
9 November 1986Retired Navy Dr. Wylie Graham takes a yacht in Cabot Cove near his friend Seth while working in the nearest hospital. Ladiesman David Everett, a former flame of Jessica, is in town to have an 18th century treasure ship found by four young people who entered a tontine: the survivors inherit any deceased member's share. Just after they locate the ship, diver Bill Ainsley had a nearly fatal accident, probably equipment sabotage. Next Alexandra Bell, drunk from the celebratory champagne at Jessica's, is run over after twen partner Coby Russell dropped her off with money for a cab and a phone call; he's arrested, Jessica snoops on- 'Alex' actually died from a blow on the head before the hit. David is a plausible suspect for both acts, and deep in debt with loan-shark Ross Barber and his goon Gregory Small. When Ross Barber bails out, fearing for his safety, Jessica realizes he was the silent investor too and puts up a $10,000 loan. Then a key inspires her a chilling alternative scenario.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Grant Goodeve | ... | Larry Gaynes |
| Robert Hogan | ... | Dr. Wylie Graham |
 | John Laughlin | ... | Bill Ainsley |
| Sean McClory | ... | Ross Barber |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... | David Everett |
| J. Eddie Peck | ... | Coby Russell |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Ian Ruskin | ... | Gregory Small |
| Wendy Kilbourne | ... | Susan Ainsley |
| Julia Montgomery | ... | Alexandra Bell |
Season 3, Episode 7: Deadline for Murder
16 November 1986Respactable old-fashioned reporter Haskell Drake lands in hospital with a fit after his attack for sensationalist copy-doctoring at tycoon Lamar Bennett, who recently bought the Boston Daily Sentinel from equally conservative Walter Revere, gets him fired on the spot. Jessica tries to reason with Bennett on her old friend Drake's behalf but is told to come back at a celebratory drink in a hotel, where she witnesses Bennet getting a fatal brain hemorrhage while announcing Walter is fired too, which Jessica realizes can be induced by a combination of alcohol and pills, not necessarily taken simultaneously, while Bennet was on sinusitis medication, as she explained to grumpy BPD lieutenant A. Caruso, who concurs from the autopsy it was methaltionide and rather sees her as a suspect because of a rather defamatory recent article on her. When Jessica accepts to 'do some legwork' for an article Haskel plans on Lamar's sordid career she finds the Revere family, which hopes in vain to buy back control of the newspaper, touchy about that subject. Haskel discovers Lamar probably has an illegitimate child, possibly Walter's son Perry's fiancée and newspaper colleague Kay Garrett. Jessica thinks that trough plus an anomaly in Lamar's death's reporting.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Harry Guardino | ... | Haskell Drake |
| Tim O'Connor | ... | Walter Revere |
| Ken Olin | ... | Perry Revere |
 | Peter Mark Richman | ... | Lamar Bennett |
 | Eugene Roche | ... | Billy Simms |
| William Smith | ... | Clyde Thorson |
| Glynn Turman | ... | Stan Lassiter |
| Tom Henschel | ... | Dr. Framer |
| Morgan Jones | ... | Sgt. Tierney |
| Matt Roe | ... | Guard |
| Erwin Fuller | ... | Harry |
 | Barbara Allyne-Bennet | ... | Edith, the Secretary |
 | Katherine Cannon | ... | Eleanor Revere |
| Gretchen Corbett | ... | Lt. A. Caruso |
| Dorothy Meyer | ... | Nurse O'Hanlon |
| Lisa Nelson | ... | Police Woman |
 | Sydney Walsh | ... | Kay Garrett |
 | Mary Wickliffe | ... | Nurse Phillips |
Season 3, Episode 8: Magnum on Ice: Part 2
23 November 1986In Part 2 of a crossover story with "Magnum, P.I." (both episodes are shown on the "Murder" DVD, although not consecutively), Magnum has shot it out with a hired gunman at a party, killing him. Magnum claims the thug had fired several shots at him, including one just before Magnum returned fire. But the police can't find the gunman's weapon, and furthermore he was shot in the back. An overzealous police captain calls it murder one (huh?) and throws Magnum into the cooler pending trial. Jessica searches the crime scene and finds a shell casing which doesn't match Magnum's gun, fitting Magnum's theory. A horrified Higgins realizes that a gun similar to Magnum's -- and with a silencer, at that -- stolen from Robin Masters' collection could well be the murder weapon. The police captain won't give up, and puts out a fugitive warrant on Magnum when a second murder occurs in the same fashion as the first.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Ramon Bieri | ... | Capt. Frank Browning |
| John Hillerman | ... | Jonathan Higgins |
| Jared Martin | ... | Arthur Houston |
| John McMartin | ... | Jason Bryan |
| Andrew Prine | ... | Victor Salyer |
 | Tom Selleck | ... | Thomas Magnum |
| Kwan Hi Lim | ... | Lieutenant Tanaka |
| Keahi Farden | ... | Bellboy |
| Harry Endo | ... | Desk Clerk |
| Winston Char | ... | Houseboy #2 |
| Pe'a | ... | Officer (as Turner Pe'a) |
 | Rhonda Aldrich | ... | Maid |
| Stephanie Faracy | ... | Amy Salyer |
| Dorothy Loudon | ... | Pamela Bates |
| Byron Ono | ... | Houseboy #1 |
| Jessica Walter | ... | Joan Fulton |
Season 3, Episode 9: Obituary for a Dead Anchor
7 December 1986When an obnoxious out-of-town TV personality is murdered, it's up to Jessica to figure out the killer.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Chad Everett | ... | Kevin Keats |
| Robert Hogan | ... | Dr. Wylie Graham |
| Robert Lipton | ... | Richard Abbott |
 | Richard Paul | ... | Mayor Sam Booth |
| Robert Pine | ... | Doug Helman |
| Rex Robbins | ... | George Fish |
| Mark Stevens | ... | Nick Brody |
| Frank Annese | ... | Ronald Ross |
| Abby Dalton | ... | Judith Keats |
| Patti Karr | ... | Clara Polsby |
| Kathleen Lloyd | ... | Paula Roman |
| Paul Ryan | ... | TV Commentator |
| Erik Stern | ... | Gerald Foster |
Season 3, Episode 10: Stage Struck
14 December 1986Jessica visits a rural revival of a play she was in with her late husband Frank and present stars Julian Lord and Maggie Tarrow. On opening night, something scares Maggie out of performing, and her understudy Barbara Bennington is killed by cyanide poisoning of her red wine on stage. Local chief of police Merton P. Drock, who plays the butler, never solved a real murder, but trusts Jessica will provide him with the 'script', yet keeps on making precipitous conclusions and accusations as the links appear with the breaking off of the productions 30 years ago, when Maggie took a year off by ruse, as now appears to give birth in secret, plausibly to fake reporter T.J. Holt. Julian prevents a second cyanide killing which would murder Maggie. Who knew and resented what exactly?
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Shea Farrell | ... | Larry Matthews |
| Bob Hastings | ... | Eddie Bender |
 | Don Most | ... | T.J. Holt (as Donald Most) |
| Edward Mulhare | ... | Julian Lord |
| Christopher Norris | ... | Pru Mattson |
| Dan O'Herlihy | ... | Alexander Preston |
| John Pleshette | ... | Nicky Saperstein |
| John Schuck | ... | Chief Merton P. Drock |
 | Richard Hoyt-Miller | ... | Young Reporter |
| Weldon Bleiler | ... | Young Doctor |
| Jeffrey Lippa | ... | Reporter #1 |
| Annie Gagen | ... | Reporter #2 |
| Eleanor Parker | ... | Maggie Tarrow |
 | Ann Turkel | ... | Barbara Bennington |
Season 3, Episode 11: Night of the Headless Horseman
4 January 1987Only after arrival at Wenton, Vermont Jessica learns she was asked by her orphaned literary protégé Dorian Beecher, who succeeded as boys boarding school poetry teacher to the car accident-drowned daughter of local dentist Penn 'Doc' Walker, to play Dorian's 'mother' to impress his employer, Wenton Academy's pedigree-obsessed owner Edwin Dupont, whose daughter Sarah he loves, rivaled only by the studly riding instructor Nate Findley, an obnoxious womanizer who even did headmistress Charlotte Newcastle. Walking home after an embarrassing saber fight in a pub with Nate, Dorian is run down by the disguised headless horseman he always assumes to be Nate, on his black stallion Gunshot. Sheriff Rankin jails liar Dorian after Nate's decapitated corpse is found nearby, clumsily redressed as the horseman. Jessica sifts two plots from secrets and motives, involving an anonymous school funds embezzlement note, the secret society of mischievous schoolboys Todd Carrier, Robert and Brendan and a past crime...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Thom Bray | ... | Dorian Beecher |
| Doug McClure | ... | Sheriff Sam Rankin |
| Charles Siebert | ... | Dentist Penn 'Doc' Walker |
| Guy Stockwell | ... | Dorn Van Stotter |
| Fritz Weaver | ... | Edwin Dupont |
| Barry Williams | ... | Nate Findley |
| Brandon Douglas | ... | Todd Carrier |
| Donald Thompson | ... | Robert |
| Adam Ferris | ... | Brendan |
| Sanford Clark | ... | 1st Man |
| Gary Pagett | ... | Deputy |
 | Tom Ohmer | ... | Uniformed Policeman |
| John England | ... | 3rd Man |
| Forry Smith | ... | 2nd Man |
| Brad Zerbst | ... | 4th Man |
| Karlene Crockett | ... | Sarah Dupont |
 | Judy Landers | ... | Bobbie |
 | Hope Lange | ... | Charlotte Newcastle |
Season 3, Episode 12: The Corpse Flew First Class
18 January 1987The luxury airline owned by Jessica's friend may go bankrupt unless Jessica can find out who is sabotaging it.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Pat Harrington Jr. | ... | Gunnar Globle (as Pat Harrington) |
| David Hemmings | ... | Errol Pogson |
| Gene Nelson | ... | Louis Metcalf |
| Andrew Parks | ... | Fred Jenkins |
| John S. Ragin | ... | Dr. Cliff Strayhorn |
| Chris Robinson | ... | Capt. Whetsel |
| James Shigeta | ... | John Sukahara |
| Robert Walker Jr. | ... | Otto Hardwick (as Robert Walker) |
| Mark Venturini | ... | Leon Bigard |
| Charles Hoyes | ... | Carney |
| Vince Howard | ... | Blanton |
| Charles Davis | ... | Mr. Stegmeyer |
| Don Maharry | ... | Mr. Miley |
| Ron Barker | ... | The British Chief |
| Ian Howard | ... | Security Man |
| Ron Southart | ... | Bobby |
| Jim Malinda | ... | Photographer |
| John Straightley | ... | Customs Man |
| Gerald York | ... | Man on Phone |
| Mary Jo Catlett | ... | Mrs. Metcalf |
| Robin Dearden | ... | Kay Davis |
| Crystal Jenious | ... | Mrs. Miley |
 | Kate Mulgrew | ... | Sonny Greer |
| Lia Sargent | ... | Elizabeth Welsh |
Season 3, Episode 13: Crossed Up
1 February 1987Grady nurses Jessica who must stay in bed with her bad back for weeks, bored to death. During a hurricane she overhears a crossed-up call from a raspy male voice about selling a Cabot Cove estate and killing an old male relative. Seth, Grady and Amos think she imagines the hired gun, but indeed that night widowed lumber millionaire Jedediah Rogers is found shot in his lavish estate where he lived alone with his sons Adam, Gordon and Morgan, who wanted him to leave the business and have no alibis, and orphaned granddaughter Leslie Cameron who was about to be made the sole heir instead. While Amos believes it's a mere burglary, Jessica joins the investigation by remote control Grady. Soon after once fired employee Abel Gorcey dies in a suspicious accident, a potential hired gun, and more danger lurks...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Tony Dow | ... | Gordon Rogers |
| Michael Horton | ... | Grady Fletcher |
| James Carroll Jordan | ... | Adam Rogers |
| Sandy McPeak | ... | Morgan Rogers |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Henry Brandon | ... | Abel Gorcey |
| James McIntire | ... | Deputy Wells |
 | Colleen Camp | ... | Dody Rogers |
| Stephanie Dunnam | ... | Leslie Cameron |
| Gisele MacKenzie | ... | Mona |
| Yolanda Nava | ... | TV Announcer |
Season 3, Episode 14: Murder in a Minor Key
8 February 1987College music student Michael 'Mike' Prentice discovers that his professor Tyler Stoneham published a song based on a theme part of one of his assignments as his own composition, under the alias Alden Gilbert, but can't prove the plagiarist theft. The professor's wife Christine Stoneham also suspects him of adultery with a student. Professor Harry Papasian, Stoneham's assistant, is furious not to be mentioned as co-author on their new music dictionary. Stoneham is found stabbed to death in the archives where Mike was looking for the original partitions, enough for an arrest. His friend, law student Chad Singer, starts sleuthing, helped by fellow music student who helps trace more musical malversations to Broadway. Christine actually has a secret affair herself with Vice Chancellor Simon. Musical producer Max Hellinger promises Papazian $5,000 to help find some Gilbert songs, Chad finds out. After the lyrics writer is traced, Chad stages an elaborate reconstruction to trick the killer...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Rene Auberjonois | ... | Prof. Harry Papasian |
| Shaun Cassidy | ... | Chad Singer |
| Paul Clemens | ... | Michael 'Mike' Prentice |
| Herb Edelman | ... | Max Hellinger |
| George Grizzard | ... | Prof. Tyler Stoneham |
| Tom Hallick | ... | Vice Chancellor Simon |
| Scott Jacoby | ... | Danny Young |
| Alex Henteloff | ... | Raymond Parnell (as Alexander Henteloff) |
| Alexander Folk | ... | Hargrove |
| Stephen Swofford | ... | Templeton |
| Karen Grassle | ... | Christine Stoneham |
| Hope Haves | ... | Young Woman |
| Jennifer Holmes | ... | Reagan Miller |
| William Hubbard Knight | ... | Lt. Perkins |
| Dinah Manoff | ... | Jenny Coopersmith |
| Brenda Thompson | ... | Pianist (as Brenda Thomson) |
| Paris Vaughan | ... | Pauline |
Season 3, Episode 15: The Bottom Line Is Murder
15 February 1987Jessica visits Denver for a TV book review program at KBLR, where her friend Dr. Jayne's husband Steve Honig produces arrogant Kenneth Chambers's program The Bottom Line, which exposes faulty products, or when he has his way picks his victim and even doctors the story unethically, while grossly abusing all staff. Janitor Bert Tanaka finds Chambers shot twice in his office chair shortly after he unjustly fired production assistant Ryan Monroe. DPD Lieutenant Lou Flannigan, who was Chambers's unofficial police consultant, lets Jessica 'observe'. The murder weapon is found in Steve's car. Jessica considers motives from ambition among station staff, as many get a better job and Kenneth was considering to leave everyone behind for a bigger one, and toy producer Joe Rinaldi, against whom Kenneth prepared a show, the tapes of which seem missing but are found in his safe with cash and other 'evidence' he used to extort Rinaldi and others potential show targets, but is puzzled by Chambers's chair facing the broken TV set and the cleaning, leading her to guess a major twist and set a trap...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Barry Corbin | ... | Lt. Lou Flannigan |
 | Robert F. Lyons | ... | Steve Honig |
| Rod McCary | ... | Kenneth Chambers |
 | Joe Santos | ... | Joe Rinaldi |
| Morgan Stevens | ... | Robert Warren |
 | George Takei | ... | Bert Tanaka |
| Brian Matthews | ... | Ryan Monroe |
| Paul Tompkins | ... | TV Reporter Rick Coleman |
| William Ian Gamble | ... | Security Guard |
| Mark Phelan | ... | Uniformed Cop |
| Adrienne Barbeau | ... | Lynette Bryant |
| Judith Chapman | ... | Dr. Jayne Honig |
| Pat Klous | ... | Clare Henley |
Season 3, Episode 16: Death Takes a Dive
22 February 1987Jessica visits her old friend Harry McGraw (Orbach) in New York who has become wrangled in the high stakes game of boxing.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Ernest Borgnine | ... | Cosmo Ponzini |
| Bradford Dillman | ... | Dennis McConnell |
| Ray Girardin | ... | Lt. Casey |
 | Michael McGrady | ... | Sean Shaleen |
| Jerry Orbach | ... | Harry McGraw |
 | Adam West | ... | Wade Talmadge |
| Bill Capizzi | ... | Doorman |
| Richard Balin | ... | TV Sports Commentator |
| Richard Bravo | ... | Sanchez |
| John Amos | ... | Doc Penrose |
 | LeVar Burton | ... | Reporter Dave Robinson |
| Caren Kaye | ... | Lois Ames |
| Lynne Moody | ... | Pam Collins |
 | Marcia Moran | ... | Waitress |
 | Harold Sylvester | ... | Blaster Boyle |
Season 3, Episode 17: Simon Says, Color Me Dead
1 March 1987Irene Rutledge can't afford a bike for her son Tommy, and Jessica lets him earn her husband's old bike by working in her garden. Artist Simon Thane says he has been working on a special canvas all summer, but hasn't let anyone see it. When Simon is found dead and the mysterious painting has disappeared, Amos arrests Irene for murder. But Jessica is convinced that Irene is innocent.
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
| Diane Baker | ... | Eleanor Thane |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Foster Brooks | ... | Simon Thane |
| Ann Dusenberry | ... | Carol Selby |
| Leonard Frey | ... | Felix Casslaw |
 | Tess Harper | ... | Irene Rutledge |
| Steve Inwood | ... | Cash Logan |
| Dick Sargent | ... | George Selby |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Phillip Clark | ... | Deputy Collins |
| Chris Hebert | ... | Tommy Rutledge |
| Daryl Lynn Wood | ... | Martha Sommers (as Daryl Wood) |
Season 3, Episode 18: No Laughing Murder
15 March 1987Mack Howard and Murray Gruen were a celebrated comical duo but party in anger. Murray's daughter Corey brings their friend Jessica along to his own Hiawatha lodge for her and Mack's son Kip Howard's engagement dinner. Murray however makes a scene, claiming Mack stole a fortune in royalties on videos of the duo, denied by Mack and his agent who claims there is no profit. Then Murray is stabbed in the back and suggests he only saw a color, that of Mack's robe. Later Murray's agent Phil Rinker is found hanging in the store-room, suicide according to a note apparently in his hand-writing. The sheriff being sick, his only deputy, local youngster Wylie B. Ledbetter, now proud Acting Police Chief, is delighted as a mystery fan to have Jessica coach his forensics and interviews, but startled when she proves by measurements it must have been a murder, staged as suicide. Jessica next concludes from a peephole the stabbing was a separate mischief, then proves it by setting a trap for Phil's killer...
| Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | George Clooney | ... | Kip Howard |
| George Furth | ... | Farley Pressman |
 | Buddy Hackett | ... | Murray Gruen |
| Arte Johnson | ... | Phil Rinker |
 | David Knell | ... | Acting Police Chief Wylie Ledbetter |
| Steve Lawrence | ... | Mack Howard |
| Richardson Morse | ... | Dr. Worth |
| Daniel Chodos | ... | Al |
 | Paul Ganus | ... | P.A. |
| Pat Crowley | ... | Edie Howard |
| Pat Delaney | ... | Ms. Kline |
| Sheree North | ... | Norma Lewis |
| Alice Nunn | ... | Henrietta |