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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S05E01 J.B. As in Jailbird
October 23 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S05E02 A Little Night Work
October 30 · 45min find the promo
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A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
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S05E03 Mr. Penroy's Vacation
November 6 · 45min find the promo
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The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
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S05E04 Snow White, Blood Red
November 13 · 45min find the promo
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A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
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S05E05 Coal Miner's Slaughter
November 20 · 45min find the promo
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The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
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S05E06 Wearing of the Green
November 27 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S05E07 The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
December 18 · 45min find the promo
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The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
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S05E08 Prediction: Murder
January 1 · 45min find the promo
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A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
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S05E09 Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
January 8 · 45min find the promo
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Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
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S05E10 Weave a Tangled Web
January 15 · 45min find the promo
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Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
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S05E11 The Search for Peter Kerry
February 5 · 45min find the promo
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A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
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S05E12 Smooth Operators
February 12 · 45min find the promo
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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?
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S05E13 Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
February 19 · 45min find the promo
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A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
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S05E14 From Russia ... With Blood
February 26 · 45min find the promo
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A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
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S05E15 Alma Murder
March 12 · 45min find the promo
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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?
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S05E16 Truck Stop
April 2 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S05E17 The Sins of Castle Cove
April 9 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S05E18 Trevor Hudson's Legacy
April 16 · 45min find the promo
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A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
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S05E19 Double Exposure
April 30 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S05E20 Three Strikes, You're Out
May 7 · 45min find the promo
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A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
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S05E21 Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
May 14 · 45min find the promo
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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.
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S05E22 Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
May 21 · 45min find the promo
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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.