Murder, She Wrote — Season 3
She may be wrong. But frankly, we doubt it.
About this season
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Episodes (22)
1. Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
7.7Aired 28 September 1986 • 45 min
Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
2. Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
7.8Aired 5 October 1986 • 45 min
Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
3. Unfinished Business
7.9Aired 12 October 1986 • 45 min
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
4. One White Rose for Death
7.7Aired 19 October 1986 • 45 min
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
5. Corned Beef And Carnage
7.3Aired 2 November 1986 • 45 min
An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
6. Dead Man's Gold
7.5Aired 9 November 1986 • 45 min
While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
7. Deadline for Murder
7.9Aired 16 November 1986 • 45 min
A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.
8. Magnum on Ice (II)
7.5Aired 23 November 1986 • 45 min
Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).
9. Obituary for a Dead Anchor
7.6Aired 7 December 1986 • 45 min
Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.
10. Stage Struck
7.9Aired 14 December 1986 • 45 min
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
11. Night of the Headless Horseman
8.0Aired 4 January 1987 • 45 min
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
12. The Corpse Flew First Class
8.1Aired 18 January 1987 • 45 min
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
13. Crossed Up
8.1Aired 1 February 1987 • 45 min
The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
14. Murder in a Minor Key
4.9Aired 8 February 1987 • 45 min
Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
15. The Bottom Line Is Murder
7.1Aired 15 February 1987 • 45 min
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
16. Death Takes a Dive
7.9Aired 22 February 1987 • 45 min
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
17. Simon Says, Color Me Dead
8.0Aired 1 March 1987 • 45 min
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
18. No Laughing Murder
7.8Aired 15 March 1987 • 45 min
After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
19. No Accounting for Murder
7.6Aired 22 March 1987 • 45 min
Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
20. The Cemetery Vote
7.8Aired 5 April 1987 • 45 min
First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".
21. The Days Dwindle Down
8.3Aired 19 April 1987 • 45 min
Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.
22. Murder, She Spoke
8.0Aired 10 May 1987 • 45 min
During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.