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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S08E01 Bite the Big Apple
September 15 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
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S08E02 Night Fears
September 22 · 45min find the promo
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Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
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S08E03 Unauthorized Obituary
September 29 · 45min find the promo
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After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
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S08E04 Thicker Than Water
October 6 · 45min find the promo
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When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
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S08E05 Lines of Excellence
November 3 · 45min find the promo
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Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
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S08E06 Judge Not
November 10 · 45min find the promo
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The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
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S08E07 Terminal Connection
November 17 · 45min find the promo
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Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
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S08E08 A Killing in Vegas
November 24 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
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S08E09 The Committee
December 1 · 45min find the promo
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The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
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S08E10 The List of Yuri Lermentov
December 15 · 45min find the promo
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Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
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S08E11 Danse Diabolique
January 5 · 45min find the promo
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When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
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S08E12 The Witch's Curse
January 12 · 45min find the promo
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The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
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S08E13 Incident in Lot 7
January 19 · 45min find the promo
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The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
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S08E14 The Monte Carlo Murders
February 2 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
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S08E15 Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
March 1 · 45min find the promo
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No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
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S08E16 Ever After
March 8 · 45min find the promo
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A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
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S08E17 To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee
March 15 · 45min find the promo
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All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
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S08E18 Programmed for Murder
April 5 · 45min find the promo
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There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
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S08E19 Day of the Dead
April 26 · 45min find the promo
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The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
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S08E20 Angel of Death
May 3 · 45min find the promo
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While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
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S08E21 Badge of Honor
May 10 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
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S08E22 Murder On Madison Avenue
May 17 · 45min find the promo
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Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.