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In New Orleans at Mardi Gras, a distant cousin of Jessica is falsely accused of murder.In New Orleans at Mardi Gras, a distant cousin of Jessica is falsely accused of murder.In New Orleans at Mardi Gras, a distant cousin of Jessica is falsely accused of murder.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
310
YOUR RATING
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George DiCenzo
- Johnny Blazeas Johnny Blaze
- (as George Di Cenzo)
Raf Mauro
- Napoleanas Napolean
- (as Rafael Mauro)
Storyline
Jessica goes to New Orleans during Mardi Gras to check on cousin-in-law Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher as promised to Aunt Mildred. As her hotel was booked for the next night, she goes 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 beside 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 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 charge, he probably committed, on Cavette's 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, and Kitty Manette's infidelity, before trapping the killer at a reconstruction. —KGF Vissers
- Genres
- Certificate
- TV-PG
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaFinal on-screen appearance of Penny Singleton, movies' Blondie and television's Jane Jetson.
- GoofsWhen Jessica is first talking to her cousin Cal in the police station, Cal doesn't have a pen in his shirt pocket. By the time the lawyer, Mitch Payne, enters the station and begins to engage in conversation with Jessica and Cal, a pen has mysteriously appeared in Cal's shirt pocket.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher: I'll open.
Johnny Blaze: Cards?
Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher: Two, please.
Mitch Payne: Three.
Congressman Brad Gardner: One.
Johnny Blaze: Dealer's taking two.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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Why the rush?
Murder She Wrote should have had two-parters, this episode definitely should've been one - Gorgeous costumes, camera work, lighting and sets - good character work and actors - but rushed and unfinished.
It was an amazing time in television that gave us so many wonderful shows with just the right mix of drama and light heartedness, and with such high production values, but if only they could've known how lacking that sort of thing would be today, they'd have valued it more, given episodes like this one more time, given the story and the characters more time to breathe and develop, and given the audience more time to bathe in the gorgeousness of this episode.
It was an amazing time in television that gave us so many wonderful shows with just the right mix of drama and light heartedness, and with such high production values, but if only they could've known how lacking that sort of thing would be today, they'd have valued it more, given episodes like this one more time, given the story and the characters more time to breathe and develop, and given the audience more time to bathe in the gorgeousness of this episode.
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- mytwopence
- Jun 9, 2021
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