Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher | |
Susan Anton | ... | Christine Clifford | |
Warren Berlinger | ... | Jim Ingram | |
Jeff Conaway | ... | Howard Griffin | |
Genie Francis | ... | Victoria Brandon 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 Barth | |
Marcia Wallace | ... | Polly Barth | |
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Phil Rubenstein | ... | Deli Clerk |
Russ Fega | ... | Delivery Man | |
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David Starwalt | ... | Officer |
Visiting 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... Written by KGF Vissers
Yet another one of Jessica Fletcher's innumerable nieces or nephews gets into a jackpot in this Murder She Wrote story. The niece is Genie Francis who is married her to Jeff Conaway who is an aspiring actor much like the character he played on Taxi.
Someone ought to make a count of the Angela Lansbury relations that she runs into in the run of the show. Other than Michael Horton who was on the Fletcher side, none ever made any reappearances that I can remember. Both Fletchers and McGills.
In any event Francis works in an advertising agency for a rather ruthless boss in Richard Kline. If needed Kline wants Francis to put out for Ken Swofford who is the agency's number one account.
Kline isn't loved, not even by his brother Bill Macy who handles the finances and is appalled by Kline's free spending ways. As is usual no shortage of suspects, but the cops land on Francis.
This particular murder was well planned and it was a simple mistake involving a corned beef sandwich delivered to Kline that unravels things for the perpetrator. As usual it's Angela Lansbury who picks up on it.
Nicely done how the murderer walks into a trap. You have to see it.