Murder, She Wrote Season 5, Episode 20: Three Strikes, You're Out

1

J.B. As in Jailbird

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.

45 min

2

A Little Night Work

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

45 min

3

Mr. Penroy's Vacation

The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.

45 min

4

Snow White, Blood Red

A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.

45 min

5

Coal Miner's Slaughter

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

45 min

6

Wearing of the Green

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.

45 min

7

The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.

45 min

8

Prediction: Murder

A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

45 min

9

Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.

45 min

10

Weave a Tangled Web

Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.

45 min

11

The Search for Peter Kerry

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

45 min

12

Smooth Operators

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?

45 min

13

Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.

45 min

14

From Russia ... With Blood

A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.

45 min

15

Alma Murder

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?

45 min

16

Truck Stop

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.

45 min

17

The Sins of Castle Cove

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.

45 min

18

Trevor Hudson's Legacy

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

45 min

19

Double Exposure

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.

45 min

20

Three Strikes, You're Out

A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.

45 min

21

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)

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.

45 min

22

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)

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.

45 min