An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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- Seasons
- 12
- Episodes aired
- 264
- Latest aired
- S12E24
- Total runtime
- 8d 6h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1984 – April 1985 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1985 – May 1986 22 episodes
- Season 3 September 1986 – May 1987 22 episodes
- Season 4 September 1987 – May 1988 22 episodes
- Season 5 October 1988 – May 1989 22 episodes
- Season 6 September 1989 – May 1990 22 episodes
- Season 7 September 1990 – May 1991 22 episodes
- Season 8 September 1991 – May 1992 22 episodes
- Season 9 September 1992 – May 1993 22 episodes
- Season 10 September 1993 – May 1994 21 episodes
- Season 11 September 1994 – May 1995 21 episodes
- Season 12 September 1995 – May 1996 24 episodes
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S03E01 Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
September 28 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S03E02 Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
October 5 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S03E03 Unfinished Business
October 12 · 45min find the promo
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A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
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S03E04 One White Rose for Death
October 19 · 45min find the promo
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Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
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S03E05 Corned Beef And Carnage
November 2 · 45min find the promo
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An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
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S03E06 Dead Man's Gold
November 9 · 45min find the promo
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While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
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S03E07 Magnum on Ice (II)
November 23 · 45min find the promo
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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).
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S03E08 Deadline for Murder
November 16 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S03E09 Obituary for a Dead Anchor
December 7 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S03E10 Stage Struck
December 14 · 45min find the promo
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The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
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S03E11 Night of the Headless Horseman
January 4 · 45min find the promo
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The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
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S03E12 The Corpse Flew First Class
January 18 · 45min find the promo
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Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
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S03E13 Crossed Up
February 1 · 45min find the promo
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The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
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S03E14 Murder in a Minor Key
February 8 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
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S03E15 The Bottom Line Is Murder
February 15 · 45min find the promo
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A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
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S03E16 Death Takes a Dive
February 22 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
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S03E17 Simon Says, Color Me Dead
March 1 · 45min find the promo
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An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
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S03E18 No Laughing Murder
March 15 · 45min find the promo
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After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
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S03E19 No Accounting for Murder
March 22 · 45min find the promo
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Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
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S03E20 The Cemetery Vote
April 5 · 45min find the promo
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First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".
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S03E21 The Days Dwindle Down
April 19 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S03E22 Murder, She Spoke
May 10 · 45min find the promo
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During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.