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Murder, She Wrote

Specials 1986 - 2008
TV-14

  • 1986-11-19T05:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 5h 15m (7 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

9 episodes

Higgins is driving visiting Pamela Bates - an old editor friend of Robin Master's - along with her friend, and her secretary, to the Estate, when someone tries to run them off the road and over a cliff. But it seems that it's not a case for Thomas, when Pamela insists on waiting for her own mainland investigator friend to arrive and look into it - much to the annoyance of Thomas, who is supposed to be busy entering into a hotel land buying venture with Rick and T.C., but can't help himself investigating the case none-the-less. Pamela's investigator friend turns out to be famous crime mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and so both Jessica and Magnum set about investigating just who wants one of the visiting guests dead, and why...

1997-11-03T01:00:00Z

Special 2 South by Southwest

Special 2 South by Southwest

  • 1997-11-03T01:00:00Z45m

Jessica is on a train headed for El Paso where she is to lecture at a conference. She shares a table in the dining car with a woman who subsequently vanishes, leaving her purse on the table. Then a message is announced for the woman and Jessica accepts it. This leads to an attack in her compartment and a demand for 'it'. She has no idea what 'it' is and is rescued by a man claiming to be a journalist. The plot thickens. She is warned away by an FBI man, but continues to follow her clues to Agua Verde where the woman apparently lives. The plot twists and turns as she delves deeper in a most devious mystery.....

2000-05-19T00:00:00Z

Special 3 A Story to Die For

Special 3 A Story to Die For

  • 2000-05-19T00:00:00Z45m

Jessica Fletcher puts her sleuthing skills to work at a writer's conference after a Russian author is found dead.

2001-05-03T00:00:00Z

Special 4 The Last Free Man

Special 4 The Last Free Man

  • 2001-05-03T00:00:00Z45m

Jessica discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.

2003-05-10T00:00:00Z

Special 5 The Celtic Riddle

Special 5 The Celtic Riddle

  • 2003-05-10T00:00:00Z45m

Jessica Fletcher travels to Ireland, where she attends the reading of an old acquaintance's will. The will contains the clues to finding a secret treasure, one that will require an already strained family to work together in order to solve the mystery.

Interviews with Angela Lansbury (J.B. Fletcher), Robert F. O'Neill (supervising producer), William Link (co-creator), Roger Swanson (writer/producer) and others on how the series Murder, She Wrote was created. Murder, She Wrote made TV history because it was the first time a TV series featured a woman protagonist. Needless to say, it was an instant hit.

In this behind the scenes look, with segments Motive, Means and Opportunity, Angela Lansbury, William Link and others discuss how the actors made the show's characters their own.

Special 8 The Perils of Success

  • 2008-06-09T00:00:00Z45m

Angela Lansbury, her producers and co-stars talk about the physical and emotional drain that takes place filming a weekly TV show, and how the show was adapted in later seasons to provide Angela as many opportunities as possible to rest and recharge.

Magnum, PI - S07E09

Higgins is driving visiting Pamela Bates - an old editor friend of Robin Master's - along with her friend, and her secretary, to the Estate, when someone tries to run them off the road and over a cliff. But it seems that it's not a case for Thomas, when Pamela insists on waiting for her own mainland investigator friend to arrive and look into it - much to the annoyance of Thomas, who is supposed to be busy entering into a hotel land buying venture with Rick and T.C., but cant help himself investigating the case none-the-less. Pamela's investigator friend turns out to be famous crime mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, and so both Jessica and Magnum set about investigating just who wants one of the visiting guests dead, and why...

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