Murder, She Wrote — Season 5

Aired 23 October 1988 • 45 min

When Jessica is arrested for murder, secret agent Michael Haggerty and her nephew Grady conspire to keep her safely in jail while they seek the real killer.

Aired 30 October 1988 • 45 min

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

Aired 6 November 1988 • 45 min

The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

Aired 13 November 1988 • 45 min

A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.

Aired 20 November 1988 • 45 min

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

Aired 27 November 1988 • 45 min

A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.

Aired 18 December 1988 • 45 min

The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

Aired 1 January 1989 • 45 min

A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

Aired 8 January 1989 • 45 min

Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

Aired 15 January 1989 • 45 min

Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

Aired 5 February 1989 • 45 min

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

Aired 12 February 1989 • 45 min

When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?

Aired 19 February 1989 • 45 min

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

Aired 26 February 1989 • 45 min

A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.

Aired 12 March 1989 • 45 min

An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?

Aired 2 April 1989 • 45 min

Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.

Aired 9 April 1989 • 45 min

A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.

Aired 16 April 1989 • 45 min

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

Aired 30 April 1989 • 45 min

In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.

Aired 7 May 1989 • 45 min

A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.

Aired 14 May 1989 • 45 min

Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.

Aired 21 May 1989 • 45 min

After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.