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Murder, She Wrote Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Series 4 of Murder, She Wrote follows the amateur sleuth Jessica as she tries to get to the bottom of crimes that include a death at a 75th birthday party and the death of the sheriff's brother-in-law.
Episode 1
Fashionable Way to Die
Sun, Sep 20, 1987 60 mins
In Paris, murder becomes fashionable in the world of haute couture. Juliet Prowse (who plays Valerie Bechet) sings a medley of songs. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. Eva Taylor: Barbara Rush. Claudia: Taina Eig. Panassie: Fritz Weaver. Lu: Randi Brooks.
Episode 2
When Thieves Fall Out
Sun, Sep 27, 1987 60 mins
A walk down memory lane is anything but pleasant for Jessica when she re-examines a 20 year-old case involving her close friends and former students.
Episode 3
Witness for the Defense
Sun, Oct 4, 1987 60 mins
In Quebec, Jessica testifies at the trial of a colleague accused of murdering his wife and torching the house to cover it.
Episode 4
Old Habits Die Hard
Sun, Oct 11, 1987 60 mins
Jessica can't believe that a nun who was ill took her own life.
Episode 5
The Way To Dusty Death
Sun, Oct 25, 1987 45 mins
The apparently accidental death of a tycoon sets off a struggle among his would-be successors.
Episode 6
It Runs In The Family
Sun, Nov 1, 1987 45 mins
Angela Lansbury reprises her role of Jessica's English cousin Emma, whose reunion with an old love is terminated when someone laces his herring with strychnine.
Episode 7
If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly
Sun, Nov 8, 1987 60 mins
The murder of a sad and bitter housewife, made to look like a suicide, casts suspicion on her long-suffering husband, who has a pussycat demeanor and the heart of a tomcat. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. Jonathan Martin: Rick Lenz. Loretta Spiegel: Ruth Roman. George Tibbits: Ray Girardin.
Episode 8
Steal Me a Story
Sun, Nov 15, 1987 60 mins
A TV producer proves adept at producing enemies, any one of whom has ample motive to produce a real bomb. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. Bert Puzo: Vincent Baggetta. Gary Patterson: Doug McClure. Diane Crane: Gail Youngs. Stone: Bradford Dillman.
Episode 9
Trouble in Eden
Sun, Nov 22, 1987 60 mins
Jessica poses as her friend to investigate the rumoured murder of the friend's sister.
Episode 10
Indian Giver
Sun, Nov 29, 1987 60 mins
A Native American who claims to own Cabot Cove is threatened by a town resident, who's later found dead with an Algonquin lance in his chest.
Episode 11
Doom With a View
Sun, Dec 13, 1987 60 mins
At a hotel, Grady is found over the body of a woman he knew in college and who was seeing Grady's frat brother---the spouse of the hotel's considerably older owner. Jessica: Angela Lansbury. Cornelia: Janet Leigh. Gary: John Callahan. Mark Havlin: Robert Desiderio.
Episode 12
Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?
Sun, Jan 3, 1988 60 mins
Someone drugs Jessica's chowder, and Amos's brutish brother-in-law finds eternal peace. Angela Lansbury. Winnie Banner: Anne Meara. Kenny Oaks: Geoffrey Lewis. Harold Banner: Henry Gibson. Flo Oaks: Barbara Rhoades.
Episode 13
Harbinger of Death
Sun, Jan 24, 1988 60 mins
Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming of seeing a long-lost comet, but when Carrie's ex-boyfriend Drake Eaton is murdered in the home she's been staying in, Jessica has to prove not only her niece but also her husband innocent of murder.
Episode 14
Curse of the Danaav
Sun, Feb 7, 1988 60 mins
A ruby bearing an ancient curse figures in the attempted murder of its owner, and the successful murder of her wealthy husband, Seth's long-estranged brother. Angela Lansbury. Vikram Singh: Kabir Bedi. Bert Davies: Clive Revill. Mark Hazlitt: Doug Barr.
Episode 15
Mourning Among the Wisterias
Sun, Feb 14, 1988 60 mins
Jessica receives a proposal from an ailing playwright, who's later found holding a gun over the body of the lawyer who had been robbing him for years. Deidre French: Lois Nettleton. Crystal Wendle: Linda Purl. Goldman: Frank Gorshin.
Episode 16
Murder Through the Looking Glass
Sun, Feb 21, 1988 60 mins
A dying hit man's confession plunges Jessica into a murder case involving a priest and the top-secret guests of a government safe house. Van Buren: Mark Shera. Pierce: Dan Shor. Jackson: Robert Reed. Father Francis: Cliff De Young.
Episode 17
A Very Good Year for Murder
Sun, Feb 28, 1988 60 mins
The Gambinis are a winegrowing family in ferment over murder.
Episode 18
Benedict Arnold Slipped Here
Sun, Mar 13, 1988 60 mins
Someone is willing to kill for a dilapidated old house reputedly visited by Benedict Arnold and rumoured to contain hidden treasure.
Episode 19
Just Another Fish Story
Sun, Mar 27, 1988 60 mins
The maitre d' of a restaurant Jessica has invested in is found iced in the freezer.
Episode 20
Showdown in Saskatchewan
Sun, Apr 10, 1988 60 mins
Somebody's sufficiently burned up at a rodeo doctor to torch his trailer hospital with the doctor and a patient caught inside.
Episode 21
Deadpan
Sun, May 1, 1988 60 mins
It's curtains for a critic who raved about a play loosely based on one of Jessica's novels. The leading suspect: the archrival who panned it.
Episode 22
The Body Politic
Sun, May 8, 1988 45 mins
The suicide of a campaign manager who is suspected of having an affair with a married woman excites the press.
