Murder, She Wrote Season 3, Episode 17: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

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Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

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.

45 min

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Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

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.

45 min

3

Unfinished Business

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

45 min

4

One White Rose for Death

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

45 min

5

Corned Beef And Carnage

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

45 min

6

Dead Man's Gold

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

45 min

7

Deadline for Murder

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.

45 min

8

Magnum on Ice (II)

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).

45 min

9

Obituary for a Dead Anchor

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.

45 min

10

Stage Struck

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

45 min

11

Night of the Headless Horseman

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

45 min

12

The Corpse Flew First Class

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

45 min

13

Crossed Up

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

45 min

14

Murder in a Minor Key

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

45 min

15

The Bottom Line Is Murder

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

45 min

16

Death Takes a Dive

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

45 min

17

Simon Says, Color Me Dead

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

45 min

18

No Laughing Murder

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

45 min

19

No Accounting for Murder

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

45 min

20

The Cemetery Vote

First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

45 min

21

The Days Dwindle Down

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.

45 min

22

Murder, She Spoke

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

45 min