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1. Hollywood Beat (1985)
Episode: Siege

Crime, Drama

Vance Bates is a wanted criminal, arms and drug dealer, and murderer of a federal police officer. He's been tracked in Hollywood and Nick and Rado are part of the dragnet.

Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, John Matuszak, Edward Winter

2. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Death by Demographics (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A radio station's new manager is murdered after changing their format from classical music to hard rock.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, James Acheson, Christian Bocher, Diana Canova

Votes: 291

3. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Death Goes Double Platinum (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Desi Ortega and his Latin group have a single climbing the charts until Max Daniels wants to own the group. When Daniels' assistant turns up dead, has someone in the group struck back?

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Jason Bernard, Robert Clohessy, Jsu Garcia

Votes: 247

4. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Evidence of Malice (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica has to solve two murders to clear the name of her old friend Deputy Andy, who becomes a suspect when a murder weapon is found in his car.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Colleen Coffey, Stephanie Dunnam, Louis Herthum

Votes: 254

5. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Kendo Killing (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica's delivery to a motorcycle racer in Japan speeds up a series of events that result in the death of another racer.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, George Cheung, Maggie Han, Jim Ishida

Votes: 244

6. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Mrs. Parker's Revenge (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A switched packet of amateur-written stories involves Jessica in an international plot to steal a biological-weapon virus.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Erick Avari, Gregg Henry, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Votes: 251

7. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder Among Friends (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In this spoof of Friends (1994), the producer of a hit TV show called "Buds" featuring an ensemble cast is about to kill off one of the characters when she is found dead in her office.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Bill Brochtrup, Frederick Coffin, Robin Curtis

Votes: 275

8. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder in Tempo (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Seth's benefit concert to save the woods near Cabot Cove is endangered when the lead singer is permanently silenced.

Director: Kevin Corcoran | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Sam Anderson, Keith Coulouris, John D'Aquino

Votes: 270

9. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Race to Death (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica investigates when a wealthy yachtsman is murdered two days before a big race, and the daughter of his rival is charged with the crime.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Dwier Brown, Christopher Buchholz, Steve Forrest

Votes: 270

10. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Something Foul in Flappieville (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After Jessica's story for children becomes a television puppet show, she must find the fiend who used one of the puppets as a murder weapon.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Corinne Bohrer, Maryedith Burrell, Bryan Cranston

Votes: 266

11. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Southern Double-Cross (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Australia, Jessica may be the legal owner of a valley that the sheepherders and miners are arguing over, and may be the cause of the disappearance of Jessica's lawyer.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Briony Behets, Donald Burton, Lisa Darr

Votes: 250

12. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: The Dark Side of the Door (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica's friend Erin is haunted by being kidnapped as a child, and when Erin reads a novel with a story too close for coincidence, Jessica makes a shocking revelation.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Richard Beymer, Dennis Creaghan, Meg Foster

Votes: 250

13. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Track of a Soldier (1996)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On vacation in the Tetons, Jessica encounters jewel thieves and a man from her Army vet host's past.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Vaitiare Hirshon, Brandon Douglas, Wings Hauser

Votes: 257

14. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: What You Don't Know Can Kill You (1996)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Johnny is engaged to Seth's niece Amy but enrages Les by visiting Sherri. When Johnny is the victim of a motorcycle accident, Amy insists that it was murder.

Director: Kevin Corcoran | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michele Abrams, Anthony Michael Hall, Jerry Hardin

Votes: 281

15. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: A Quaking in Aspen (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica is fired up to find the murderer of her friend's husband, but private detective Charlie Garrett is unwittingly putting out the flames.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Wendy Benson-Landes, Victor Bevine, Thom Bierdz

Votes: 270

16. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Another Killing in Cork (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset by a consortium that wants to buy his land for a strip mine.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Eleanor Comegys, Bairbre Dowling, Francis Guinan

Votes: 263

17. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Big Easy Murder (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica travels to New Orleans and is caught up in a web of voodoo related murders.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Lisa Akey, Elizabeth Ashley, G.W. Bailey

Votes: 274

18. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Deadly Bidding (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charlie Garrett's outrageous bid at an auction arouses Jessica's suspicions after the artist becomes the subject of a homicide.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tyrees Allen, Kathleen Garrett, Doug Hutchison

Votes: 234

19. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Death 'N Denial (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica takes a trip to Egypt to finalize a cultural exchange program and ends up searching for a killer and a stolen artifact.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Turhan Bey, Finn Carter, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 282

20. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Film Flam (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Homicide haunts the release of a restored movie, and Jessica investigates the current crime and the 1960 murder that prevented the original release.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, John Astin, Jim Caviezel, Mike Connors

Votes: 307

21. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Frozen Stiff (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gary and Larry's Frozen Stuff accountant is found dead. Shortly thereafter, $750,000 earmarked for Jessica's Literacy Fund is found missing. It's up to Jessica to find the killer.

Director: Paul Lazarus | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Dirk Benedict, Christopher Curry, Kristen Dalton

Votes: 260

22. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Game, Set, Murder (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A domineering father forces a teenager to play tennis beyond her desire, and she suffers emotional problems.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, J.C. Brandy, Bobby Hosea, Joyce Hyser

Votes: 245

23. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Home Care (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica immerses herself in the medical profession when a young nurse is accused of murdering two patients to whom she was providing home care.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Frances Bay, William Converse-Roberts, Megan Follows

Votes: 283

24. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder a la Mode (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica's excursion into the world of the fashion elite in Paris leads to murder, sweatshops and smugglers.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Clifford David, David Garrison, François-Eric Gendron

Votes: 239

25. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder in High "C" (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An opera singer tries to make her debut before a stalker can fulfill his promise to kill her.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Bruce Abbott, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Charles Cioffi

Votes: 258

26. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Nailed (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica uses her head to weave through the makeup and hairspray concealing the murderer of a financier at a beauty salon.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Daphne Ashbrook, Rosalind Chao, Leslie Easterbrook

Votes: 260

27. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Nan's Ghost: Part 1 (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A haunted spirit and antique smugglers are just a few challenges Jessica faces on her Irish vacation.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Leslie Bevis, Edita Brychta, Mark Lindsay Chapman

Votes: 332

28. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Nan's Ghost: Part 2 (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica is trapped in the dungeon of an ancient Irish castle, but uses her ingenuity to get rescued and find the treasure and a murderer.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Leslie Bevis, Edita Brychta, Mark Lindsay Chapman

Votes: 283

29. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: School for Murder (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

It seems that more than schoolboy pranks are going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Dana Barron, Roy Dotrice, Robert Foxworth

Votes: 280

30. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Shooting in Rome (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica is doing re-writes for a movie that is beset with both artistic and financial problems. When the stunt man dies doing a car jump scene, the director is charged with murder. It is up to Jessica to find the real killer.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Bruce Abbott, Lisa Banes, Lorenzo Caccialanza

Votes: 250

31. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: The Dream Team (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cabot Cove's townspeople are concerned about a proposed massive coastline development. It's more complicated for Jessica as the development company in question employs her nephew, Grady. Soon, malfeasance and murder are ushered in.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Katherine Cannon, Frank Converse, John D'Aquino

Votes: 262

32. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: The Scent of Murder (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The pervasive stench of death looms over Jessica and Seth's visit to his cousin's South Carolina plantation.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, David Byron, Ann Cusack, Robert Hooks

Votes: 272

33. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: The Secret of Gila Junction (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Jessica's friend Norma asks her to come to Gila Junction, Jessica is roped into helping Norma investigate a possible conspiracy while a rumored treasure may have led to a murder.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Lawrence Bayne, Guy Boyd, Dorothy Lyman

Votes: 273

34. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Twice Dead (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then actually murdered, Jessica sets the record straight when the wrong man is arrested.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Sam Anderson, Annie Corley, Robert Curtis Brown

Votes: 246

35. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Unwilling Witness (1995)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After being subpoenaed to testify at the Grand Jury probe of a brokerage house, Jessica is charged with contempt. Released on a technicality, she has to dodge further subpoenas while finding out who killed the man they think she talked to.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Joel Brooks, Ron Dean, J. Downing

Votes: 268

36. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: A Murderous Muse (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica searches for the truth when a legendary maestro is found murdered and an innocent man is charged with the crime.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Eddie Barth, Pamela Bellwood, Ronald Guttman

Votes: 257

37. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: A Nest of Vipers (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Los Angeles, to research an animal park, Jessica finds the employees trying to protect themselves in the middle of a skimmed-funds scandal. Then an amoral publicist turns up dead.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Dion Anderson, David Beecroft, Susan Blakely

Votes: 278

38. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Amsterdam Kill (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica's investigation of a novelist's kidnapping leads her into the dark world of diamond smuggling and murder.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Theodore Bikel, Cliff Emmich, Marcus Gilbert

Votes: 275

39. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: An Egg to Die For (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica helps a Russian police officer capture the elusive mastermind behind the theft of a Faberge egg.

Director: Robert M. Williams Jr. | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Efrain Figueroa, Kaitlin Hopkins, Sara Melson

Votes: 253

40. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Crimson Harvest (1994)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The mysterious deaths of a winery matriarch's son and a rival vintner lead Jessica into a world of greed and betrayal.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Joseph Cali, Ismael 'East' Carlo, Diane DiLascio

Votes: 263

41. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Deadly Assets (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Back in Cabot Cove to orchestrate a surprise birthday dinner for Seth, Jessica is drawn into what looks like a small-time theft by Charlie Garrett and an apparent Mob connection.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, R.D. Call, Frederick Coffin, Rebecca Cross

Votes: 252

42. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Dear Deadly (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a newspaper columnist becomes the target of a crazed gunman, Jessica's advice to be careful is ignored.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Daphne Ashbrook, Casey Biggs, Eileen Brennan

Votes: 264

43. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Death in Hawaii (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica's vacation to Honolulu becomes chaotic when the son of her host vanishes during a hotly contested U.S. Senate election.

Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Nina Foch, Gretchen German, Tom Hallick

Votes: 271

44. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Fatal Paradise (1994)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique for her vacation at the same time he is accused of murder.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Christopher Allport, Patricia Barry, Michael Callan

Votes: 257

45. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder by Twos (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica searches for a link between the town bully's death and the death of the woman he was having an affair with.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Bibi Besch, Ben Browder, Claire Malis

Votes: 274

46. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder of the Month Club (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The taping of an infomercial by Jessica and two fellow novelists is plagued by problems including the mysterious death of an audience member.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Jeff Conaway, George DiCenzo, Patrick Fabian

Votes: 267

47. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Murder on the Thirtieth Floor (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In New York, Jessica's publisher Edward Graham seems to be cracking up following the death of his wife. But was a fall from the top of the building suicide or murder?

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Jay Acovone, Dennis Boutsikaris, Robert Curtis Brown

Votes: 280

48. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Northern Explosion (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While stranded in a small Canadian town, Jessica helps the Mounties solve two local murders.

Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Ana Alicia, Brian Frejo, Alan Fudge

Votes: 279

49. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Portrait of Death (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica comes to the rescue when a friend's sculpture is used as a murder weapon.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Angela Lansbury, David Ackroyd, Herb Edelman, Denise Gentile

Votes: 269

50. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Proof in the Pudding (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica attends the opening of a new restaurant. But when the chef is killed, Jessica is the only one who can find the real killer.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Fran Bennett, Michael Brandon, Jsu Garcia

Votes: 259