Taken off the air after only one season because it forced the TV audience to think. Unfortunately, there were only a small percentage of us who did not want to simply sit in front of the idiot box and look at a screen but who wanted to be challenged mentally. These shows were formated in such a way as to give the audience all the clues in one form or another. About 3/4's of the way through the episode, Jim Hutton {Ellery} would face the camera and talk directly to the audience in a "well, there you have it. You have all the clues." And challenge the audience to fathom who the murderer was during the following commercial. In the final segment of the show, Ellery or Simon Brimmer {Radio Mystery Novelist Opponent of the Queens} would call all the suspects together and the clues would be explained or dismissed as nothing. The idiots watching television in 1975 were replaced 8 years later by a much more intelligent gooup and the writers of the Ellery Queen introduced a new show in 1983 using the same format of multiple plots, misleading clues mixed in with true clues, and major motion picture stars making guest appearances. And that is how "Murder, She Wrote" came to be. Jessica Fletcher became a female Ellery Queen. As of New Year's Day, 2000, This 1975 TV series will no longer be shown on TVLAND station of Nickelodeon. Does anyone out there know if it is being shown on any other channel?