Murder, She Wrote deserves congratulations for running 12 seasons, and it is one of the longest running prime time network series.
Death by Demographics is the final episode every of the series (although MSW TV movies followed this, just like Diagnosis Murder). I'm not sure if the plot to this final episode, Death by Demographics, was a swipe at the network or the audience generally for abandoning the old and true formula of MSW for younger demographics watching Must See TV on NBC, but if there's any consolation, MSW ran for two seasons longer than Friends.
David Odgen Stiers (who played Major Winchester, a classical music buff in M*A*S*H), plays a classical music presenter in this episode.
I don't know if the axe fell on the MSW series before this episode was filmed, but I would have loved to have seen a special curtain call at the end of the episode with Angela Lansbury and the cast and crew, thanking the fans for 12 years of support.
Death by Demographics is the final episode every of the series (although MSW TV movies followed this, just like Diagnosis Murder). I'm not sure if the plot to this final episode, Death by Demographics, was a swipe at the network or the audience generally for abandoning the old and true formula of MSW for younger demographics watching Must See TV on NBC, but if there's any consolation, MSW ran for two seasons longer than Friends.
David Odgen Stiers (who played Major Winchester, a classical music buff in M*A*S*H), plays a classical music presenter in this episode.
I don't know if the axe fell on the MSW series before this episode was filmed, but I would have loved to have seen a special curtain call at the end of the episode with Angela Lansbury and the cast and crew, thanking the fans for 12 years of support.