The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
- Episode aired Dec 18, 1988
- TV-PG
- 47m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
461
YOUR RATING
Jessica is summoned to California where a recently-recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.Jessica is summoned to California where a recently-recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.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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Leonard Federico
- Pilot
- (uncredited)
Bob Minor
- 2nd Mugger
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe vintage "Dixie Damsel", one of the few "Air Fortresses" still in mechanical order for flight, was flown into Burbank from where the airplane is berthed in Idaho State.
- GoofsThe Dixie Damsel supposedly went down at the time of the Korean War, in the Kuskokwim Mountains of Alaska. The crew had bailed out and the plane somehow landed itself without being destroyed. The plane was found in reasonably good condition that it could be flown to the Air Force base where the episode takes place. It is not explained how that happened.
- Quotes
Lee Goddard: We have to be back her at 0830 in the morning, which is 'militarese' for... too confounded early.
- Crazy creditsDale Robertson, who was a featured guest in back-to-back episodes The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel (1988) and Prediction: Murder (1989), is not credited in either show. The following explanation is given in the book "The Unofficial Murder She Wrote Casebook" by James Robert Parish: Dale Robertson...was one of the few MSW performers to question the show's policy of listing the guest stars in the credits in alphabetical order. According to then executive producer and co-creator Peter S. Fischer, "This arrangement didn't sit well with Dale Robertson, who allowed as how he would just as soon have no billing...This was okay with us. He did two shows, we didn't break our top fee and he didn't get billing. That was his choice and I never knew why."
- ConnectionsReferences The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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A very good episode...but HOW did that plane land?!
Back towards the end of the Korean War, Frank Fletcher, Jessica's husband, was aboard a plane that supposedly crashed....and the crew bailed out due to icing on the wings. However, over 35 years later, the plane is discovered intact. Somehow it landed (something they never really explained in the show) and has been sitting in an icy grave all these years. When Jessica travels to the air base where the lost plane is expected to land, she learns that the plane was NOT devoid of crew when it landed. It seems that a sergeant was left aboard...and was found with a bullet wound to the chest! Obviously he was murdered...but by whom? To make things worse, the Air Force seems to think Frank did the killing...but once again this does NOT explain how the plane landed in the ice instead of exploding on impact. Oddly, NO ONE thinks about this during the entire episode!! Jessica, as you'd expect, is going to investigate and prove her husband was no killer.
This was a very good episode...but as I said a couple times already...how did the plane land? Even once they arrested the real killer...this was never explained. What a gaping plot hole in an otherwise decent show.
This was a very good episode...but as I said a couple times already...how did the plane land? Even once they arrested the real killer...this was never explained. What a gaping plot hole in an otherwise decent show.
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- planktonrules
- Nov 28, 2022
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