IMDb RATING
7.3/10
250
YOUR RATING
A show cancellation coincides with a network executive's murder.A show cancellation coincides with a network executive's murder.A show cancellation coincides with a network executive's murder.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
250
YOUR RATING
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Ann Morgan Guilbert
- Harriet De Volas Harriet De Vol
- (as Ann Guilbert)
Storyline
Jessica talks about Maggie, her most promising high school English pupil, who made it as an author, albeit not in literature but as TV script writer. However, her hit series 'Beat Cop' may be canceled after a mystery man shoots a network VP during a screening, after the widow whose money controls the studio intervened against axing it. Lead actor Bert Rodgers' fingerprints are found on the gun, so LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Palermo, after who his character was modeled, arrests him. The new executive will cancel it without the star, so Maggie must find the killer or another job. —KGF Vissers
- Genres
- Certificate
- TV-PG
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode's lead actor, "Bert Rodgers", is making fun of actor Fred Dryer, who was notoriously difficult on the set of "Hunter", on which this episode's "Beat Cop" is loosely based.
- GoofsJessica says, "Will we ever hear from Margaret Mary again?" when the character she is referring to is named Mary Margaret.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Mary Margaret 'Maggie' McCauley: Two years I've been waiting for this day and nothing, I mean nothing, is gonna spoil it.
Bert Rodgers: [off screen] Maggie!
[entering]
Bert Rodgers: I just finished reading this new script. What the hell are you trying to do? Ruin my career, huh? Who writes this drivel, anyway?
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Top review
An ok episode.
One of Jessica's former pupils Maggie gets caught up in a murder at the studio she works at.
I can see this has been generally well received by other reviewers, for me however, it was a fairly average episode.
When I watch an episode, and see Jessica holding an empty cup and saucer, and address the camera, I know it spells trouble, and her absence. This could have been any show, it sadly doesn't have the Murder she wrote DNA running through it.
A clunky, if watchable mystery, one where the victim was glaringly obvious, and the killer's identity didn't come as much of a surprise. I wasn't crazy about the character of Maggie.
Dwayne Hickman was the standout for me as Brian, a typical early nineties yuppy, with braces and patterned shirt, one imagined a red Porsche 911 in the car park.
I have preferred most of the other non Jessica mysteries.
I can see this has been generally well received by other reviewers, for me however, it was a fairly average episode.
When I watch an episode, and see Jessica holding an empty cup and saucer, and address the camera, I know it spells trouble, and her absence. This could have been any show, it sadly doesn't have the Murder she wrote DNA running through it.
A clunky, if watchable mystery, one where the victim was glaringly obvious, and the killer's identity didn't come as much of a surprise. I wasn't crazy about the character of Maggie.
Dwayne Hickman was the standout for me as Brian, a typical early nineties yuppy, with braces and patterned shirt, one imagined a red Porsche 911 in the car park.
I have preferred most of the other non Jessica mysteries.
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- Sleepin_Dragon
- Mar 23, 2021
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