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Murder, She Wrote Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1989 - 1990
Series 6 of Murder, She Wrote follows the amateur sleuth Jessica as she tries to get to the bottom of crimes that include the murder of a film heiress and a stockbrocker, one for which her niece is the prime suspect.
Episode 1
Appointment in Athens
Sun, Sep 24, 1989 60 mins
Jessica travels to Athens, where Michael Haggerty persuades her to pose as his wife to free a fellow agent from kidnappers. Angela Lansbury. Harold Baines: Ian Ogilvy. Col. Alec Scofield: Richard Todd. Henryk Stuyvesant: Peter Van Norden. Dimitri Popadopalous: Thom Christopher.
Episode 2
Seal of the Confessional
Sun, Oct 1, 1989 60 mins
A priest is bound by the seal of the confessional to reveal nothing of a parishioner's admission to a killing in self-defense. Angela Lansbury. Doris West: Madlyn Rhue. Kelly Barrett: Jennifer Runyon. Nurse Marilyn: Bonnie Bartlett. Jack Hutchings: Robert Horton. Eddie Frayne: Lance Kerwin.
Episode 3
Grand Old Lady
Sun, Oct 8, 1989 60 mins
The death of the grande dame of mystery writers moves Jessica to recall a 1947 case in which the lady was involved: the stabbing of a former Gestapo officer. Lady Abigail: June Havoc. Christy: Gary Kroeger. Paul Viscard: Mark Lindsay Chapman. Henri Viscard: Dane Clark. Edwin: Robert Vaughn.
Episode 4
The Error of Her Ways
Sun, Oct 15, 1989 60 mins
Jessica identifies the wife of a murder victim as his killer and the woman commits suicide. But, where is the $3 million he apparently embezzled? Angela Lansbury. Lt. Hanna: Elliott Gould. Kay Weber: Barbara Parkins. Pauline Byrne: Susan Blakely. Linda Dixon: Marilyn Jones. Rose: Paul Gleason.
Episode 5
Jack and Bill
Sun, Oct 29, 1989 60 mins
A football star turned gumshoe dogsits a poodle for a friend who is subsequently murdered---and now the killers want the dog.
Episode 6
Dead Letter
Sun, Nov 5, 1989 60 mins
A firemen is found dead in a furniture store on the day Jessica had given him a dead letter found in an old bureau she bought at a rummage sale.
Episode 7
Night of the Tarantula
Sun, Nov 12, 1989 60 mins
In Jamaica, the heir to a plantation marries the daughter of a priest, dashing hopes of reuniting two families and triggering a death curse.
Episode 8
When the Fat Lady Sings
Sun, Nov 19, 1989 60 mins
A famous opera tenor suffers a heart attack after shooting the man he warned to stay away from his young protégé.
Episode 9
Test of Wills
Sun, Nov 26, 1989 60 mins
A tycoon invites Jessica to his island retreat to find out which heir is trying to kill him---but one succeeds on the night she arrives.
Episode 10
Class Act
Sun, Dec 3, 1989 60 mins
A criminology professor assigns a closed murder case to his class of two students as a project.
Episode 11
Town Father
Sun, Dec 17, 1989 60 mins
Bachelor mayor Sam faces an election race that's murder, particularly for the woman who shows up claiming he fathered her five children.
Episode 12
Goodbye Charlie
Sun, Jan 7, 1990 60 mins
A PI and his wife try to prove that a mangled body is the PI's uncle, who became heir to a fortune after freeloading off them for years.
Episode 13
If the Shoe Fits
Sun, Jan 21, 1990 60 mins
A factory worker struggling to make ends meet for herself and her son is charged with doing in the landlord who was forever trying to do her wrong.
Episode 14
How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying
Sun, Feb 4, 1990 60 mins
Someone makes a killing on Wall Street, and the victim is Jessica's stockbroker.
Episode 15
Fixer Upper
Sun, Feb 11, 1990 60 mins
Jessica's real-estate-broker niece arrives at a mansion to meet the buyer---and finds the seller dead.
Episode 16
Big Show of 1965
Sun, Feb 25, 1990 60 mins
Jessica is swept into a 25-year-old unsolved murder case by a variety-show star who is haunted by a mysterious woman in black.
Episode 17
Murder---According to Maggie
Sun, Mar 4, 1990 60 mins
A producer turns investigator after someone terminates the programmer who was about to cancel her series.
Episode 18
O'Malley's Luck
Sun, Mar 25, 1990 60 mins
To a hard-nosed Irish detective, the presumed suicide of a mogul's wife is malarkey.
Episode 19
Always a Thief
Sun, Apr 8, 1990 60 mins
Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton uses his skills as an ex-thief to probe a theft and two murders.
Episode 20
Shear Madness
Sun, Apr 29, 1990 60 mins
The fiancé of Jessica's cousin is murdered just after the release of her brother, a mental patient confined for a similar killing.
Episode 21
Szechuan Dragon
Sun, May 6, 1990 60 mins
Grady and Donna are housesitting for Jessica when a mysterious seafarer is killed in her living room.
Episode 22
Sicilian Encounter
Sun, May 20, 1990 60 mins
In Sicily, British agent Michael Haggerty poses as a monsignor in a caper involving a fortune hunter, a rich widow and her Mafia in-laws.
