Episode List
Season 5
Oct. 23, 1988
J.B.. as in Jailbird
A chance encounter with her old British intelligence friend Michael Hagarty leaves Jessica standing over a dead Bulgarian diplomat and accused of murder. Incarcerated, she has to leave it up to Grady and Michael to prove her innocence.
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Oct. 30, 1988
A Little Night Work
After her publisher announces his impending retirement, Jessica heads to NYC where she is simultaneously wooed by potential new publishers and a smooth-talking jewel thief.
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Nov. 6, 1988
Mr. Penroy's Vacation
Jessica is perplexed by the apparent murder of an elderly man points to two simple-minded, spinster sisters he was living with. First appearance of Ron Masak as the new sheriff Mort Metzger.
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Nov. 13, 1988
Snow White, Blood Red
A massive storm results in Jessica snowed in at a ski lodge with an Olympic men's ski team and a murderer on the loose.
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Nov. 20, 1988
Coal Miner's Slaughter
When a former student is arrested for murder, Jessica heads to West Virginia to bail her out. The unfriendly town hinders her investigation.
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Nov. 27, 1988
Wearing of the Green
In New York City researching her next book, Jessica is drawn into a mystery involving a priceless tiara, a reclusive former actress and a news reporter accused of murder.
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Dec. 18, 1988
The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
Jessica is summoned to California where a recently recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.
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Jan. 1, 1989
Prediction: Murder
Lee Goddard successfully coaxed Jessica to join him at his ranch in Arizona after the harrowing events of the previous episode, but intrigue and murder follow them there when a mysterious psychic joins them.
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Jan. 8, 1989
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.
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Jan. 15, 1989
Weave a Tangled Web
The murder of a womanizing gambler leads to double lives being exposed in seemingly quaint and old-fashioned Cabot Cove.
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Feb. 5, 1989
The Search for Peter Kerry
Jessica aids yet another dear old friend in his search for his missing grandson.
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Feb. 12, 1989
Smooth Operators
While in New York, a missing shoe on the discovered dead body of a homeless person leads Jessica to believe the supposed accidental death was not an accident.
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Feb. 19, 1989
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
Jessica is suspicious when the appearance of the ghost of a long-dead witch burned at the stake coincides with the release of a book on the very subject.
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Feb. 26, 1989
From Russia... with Blood
Jessica is detained in Moscow when a spy attempts to smuggle film out of the Soviet Union in her handbag.
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Mar. 12, 1989
Alma Murder
Jessica is summoned to her old alma mater when one of her college professors confesses to a murder Jessica believes he didn't really commit.
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Apr. 2, 1989
Truck Stop
Jessica is detoured on her way to LA at a seedy truck stop where a series of murders makes it apparent she isn't there by accident.
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Apr. 9, 1989
The Sins of Castle Cove
A vindictive, tell-all work of fiction mirroring Cabot Cove sends the townspeople into an uproar, and when a murder occurs following the plot of the book it's up to Jessica to separate fact from fiction.
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Apr. 16, 1989
Trevor Hudson's Legacy
Jessica heads to Montana to aid a young friend editing the last manuscript of the late writer Trevor Hudson, but when murder results she must weed through the lies of Hudson's scheming family to uncover the truth.
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Apr. 30, 1989
Double Exposure
Jessica encounters a man in Boston whom she is convinced is her neighbor from years back, but when the man denies it--and his wife claims the man is dead--Jessica recruits Harry McGraw to dig to the bottom of the mystery.
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May 7, 1989
Three Strikes, You're Out
Jessica visits her nephew Johnny, recently recruited onto a Major League Baseball team, and then must solve the murder of a scheming news reporter.
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May 14, 1989
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 1
Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
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May 21, 1989
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 2
Jessica fears the worst when Seth is poisoned, meanwhile Cabot Cove is abuzz when Eudora McVeigh is determined to fill Jessica's role in solving a local murder.
