Murder, She Wrote - Season 5
Run Time: 45 mins
Air Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1988
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.531 (400 votes)
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J.B. As in Jailbird
Season 5 - Episode 1
A colossal mix-up puts Jessica in jail as a suspect in a murder only she witnessed. British agent Hagarty returns.
A Little Night Work
Season 5 - Episode 2
A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
Mr. Penroy's Vacation
Season 5 - Episode 3
The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
Snow White, Blood Red
Season 5 - Episode 4
A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
Coal Miner's Slaughter
Season 5 - Episode 5
The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
Wearing of the Green
Season 5 - Episode 6
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.
The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
Season 5 - Episode 7
The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
Prediction: Murder
Season 5 - Episode 8
A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
Season 5 - Episode 9
Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
Weave a Tangled Web
Season 5 - Episode 10
Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
The Search for Peter Kerry
Season 5 - Episode 11
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
Smooth Operators
Season 5 - Episode 12
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 rob...
Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
Season 5 - Episode 13
A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
From Russia ... With Blood
Season 5 - Episode 14
A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
Alma Murder
Season 5 - Episode 15
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?
Truck Stop
Season 5 - Episode 16
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 even...
The Sins of Castle Cove
Season 5 - Episode 17
A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeH...
Trevor Hudson's Legacy
Season 5 - Episode 18
A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
Double Exposure
Season 5 - Episode 19
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 ...
Three Strikes, You're Out
Season 5 - Episode 20
A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
Season 5 - Episode 21
Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a we...
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
Season 5 - Episode 22
After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sh...