Season 3

Murder, She WroteSeason 3

1986
22 Episodes

Episodes

Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
S03E01
8.0

Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

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.

28 Sept 198645m
Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
S03E02
8.0

Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

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.

05 Oct 198645m
Unfinished Business
S03E03
8.0

Unfinished Business

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

12 Oct 198645m
One White Rose for Death
S03E04
7.8

One White Rose for Death

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

19 Oct 198645m
Corned Beef And Carnage
S03E05
7.7

Corned Beef And Carnage

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

02 Nov 198645m
Dead Man's Gold
S03E06
7.7

Dead Man's Gold

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

09 Nov 198645m
Deadline for Murder
S03E07
8.0

Deadline for Murder

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.

16 Nov 198645m
Magnum on Ice (II)
S03E08
7.7

Magnum on Ice (II)

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).

23 Nov 198645m
Obituary for a Dead Anchor
S03E09
8.0

Obituary for a Dead Anchor

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.

07 Dec 198645m
Stage Struck
S03E10
8.3

Stage Struck

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

14 Dec 198645m
Night of the Headless Horseman
S03E11
8.0

Night of the Headless Horseman

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

04 Jan 198745m
The Corpse Flew First Class
S03E12
8.7

The Corpse Flew First Class

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

18 Jan 198745m
Crossed Up
S03E13
8.3

Crossed Up

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

01 Feb 198745m
Murder in a Minor Key
S03E14
4.8

Murder in a Minor Key

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

08 Feb 198745m
The Bottom Line Is Murder
S03E15
7.2

The Bottom Line Is Murder

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

15 Feb 198745m
Death Takes a Dive
S03E16
8.3

Death Takes a Dive

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

22 Feb 198745m
Simon Says, Color Me Dead
S03E17
8.3

Simon Says, Color Me Dead

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

01 Mar 198745m
No Laughing Murder
S03E18
9.0

No Laughing Murder

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

15 Mar 198745m
No Accounting for Murder
S03E19
7.7

No Accounting for Murder

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

22 Mar 198745m
The Cemetery Vote
S03E20
8.0

The Cemetery Vote

First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

05 Apr 198745m
The Days Dwindle Down
S03E21
8.7

The Days Dwindle Down

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.

19 Apr 198745m
Murder, She Spoke
S03E22
8.0

Murder, She Spoke

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

10 May 198745m