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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S07E01 Trials & Tribulations
September 16 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica is blamed for the death of an escapee who was wrongly convicted.
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S07E02 Deadly Misunderstanding
September 23 · 45min find the promo
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A young reporter is persuaded to help a typist alter the evidence and move her husband's body.
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S07E03 See You in Court, Baby
September 30 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica introduces this story of a lawyer with many enemies who is the victim and Dennis who must investigate.
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S07E04 Hannigan's Wake
October 28 · 45min find the promo
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A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.
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S07E05 The Family Jewels
November 4 · 45min find the promo
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A wealthy woman's passion for jewellery, not always hers, and her involvement with the chauffeur might be connected
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S07E06 A Body to Die For
November 11 · 45min find the promo
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Eve is appalled to find the body of a friend of the local gym owner in her bedroom, but at a loss to explain it.
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S07E07 The Return of Preston Giles
November 18 · 45min find the promo
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This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.
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S07E08 The Great Twain Robbery
November 25 · 45min find the promo
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Proving a burnt Mark Twain manuscript is a fake is the reason for a book expert's murder.
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S07E09 Ballad for a Blue Lady
December 2 · 45min find the promo
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Jimmy Dean plays a country-music star who's the victim in this story.
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S07E10 Murder in F Sharp
December 16 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica plays a tape sent to her by Dennis. Bad luck follows a famous concert pianist as he burns his hands and then loses his wife.
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S07E11 Family Doctor
January 6 · 45min find the promo
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In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.
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S07E12 Suspicion of Murder
January 20 · 45min find the promo
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Dennis is suspected in the murder of the husband of an old flame with whom he has been spending some time.
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S07E13 Moving Violation
February 3 · 45min find the promo
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An influential father cuts no ice with Sheriff Metzger.
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S07E14 Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?
February 10 · 45min find the promo
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A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.
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S07E15 The Taxman Cometh
February 17 · 45min find the promo
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The owner of Edna's Pies near St. Louis, is accused of skimping on her IRS payments. She in turn blames her ex-husband who, consequently, is found murdered.
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S07E16 From the Horse's Mouth
February 24 · 45min find the promo
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An argument over stud fees ends in murder.
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S07E17 The Prodigal Father
March 10 · 45min find the promo
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A bank robber, long thought dead, returns to see his daughter and face the wrath of the townspeople.
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S07E18 Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy?
March 17 · 45min find the promo
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A locked room mystery with the missing ventriloquist's dummy found with the Club owner's corpse.
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S07E19 Thursday's Child
April 7 · 45min find the promo
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A woman turns up claiming that Jessica's late husband was the father of her child and he is in deep trouble involving fraud in his construction company and murder.
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S07E20 Murder, Plain & Simple
April 28 · 45min find the promo
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When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
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S07E21 Tainted Lady
May 5 · 45min find the promo
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The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.
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S07E22 The Skinny According to Nick Cullhane
May 12 · 45min find the promo
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The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.