Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Plot.
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher / Producer
Richard Levinson
Creator / Executive Producer / Story
William Link
Creator / Executive Producer / Story
Peter S. Fischer
Creator / Executive Producer / Teleplay / Story / Writer
John Addison
Main Title Theme Composer
Robert F. O'Neill
Producer
Douglas Benton
Producer
Tom Bosley
Sheriff Amos Tupper
Stanley Brock
Marvin
Ismael 'East' Carlo
Sheriff Serafio Zuniga / Frank Fernandez
Hap Lawrence
Young Deputy
Whip Hubley
Randy Jinks / Cleve the Musician
Kat Sawyer-Young
Feminist Interviewer
John McMartin
Hudson Blackthorn / Gavin Daniels
Howard Mann
New Holvang Cabbie
Nicholas Pryor
Harry Parmel / David Kingston / Theo Cayle
Diana Canova
Joan Germaine / Annie Lawson / Mary Margaret 'Maggie' McCauley
Freddye Chapman
Jane
Gary Lockwood
Tom Carpenter / Sam Mercer / Harris Talmadge
Mark Shera
Thor Danziger / Raymond Carmody / Van Buran
Russell Curry
Black Youth
Johnny Venocur
White Tough #2
Gene Evans
Otto Fry / Nils Highlander
Andy García
White Tough #1
Brenda Vaccaro
Sheila Kowalski Finley / Mimi Harcourt / Didi Blair
Howard Duff
Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Marilyn Hassett
Maggie Earl
Richard Hatch
Terry Jones
Charles Siebert
Don Simms / Dentist Penn 'Doc' Walker / Norman Edmonds
Alex Rocco
Ernie Santini / Bert Yardley
Robert Reed
Jackson / Adrian Winslow / Truman Calloway, Esq.
Tom Bower
Jonathan Bailey
Ron Palillo
Norman Lester
Anne Lockhart
Grace Lamont / Roz Briggs / Norma Willens / Veronica Harrold
José Pérez
Mike Hernandez
Michael Constantine
Ben Gibbons / Laszlo Dolby
Marianne McAndrew
Sunny Finch
John Bennett Perry
Dan Remsen / Coach Kevin Cauldwell
Leann Hunley
Shannon McBride / Dana Darren
Wayne Powers
First Assistant Director
John Astin
Harry Pierce / Fritz Randall / Ross Hayley / Director
Jack Scalici
TV Newsman #1
Paul Gleason
Steve Morrison / Sterling Bose / Lt. Barney Claymore
Bruce Kirby
Jeremy Woods / Andy Butler
Lisa Hope Ross
Tour Guide
Liz Vassey
Candace Bennett / Monica Evers
Dack Rambo
Bill Hampton / Brian Shelby / Arnold Hastings
David McCallum
Drew Garrison / Cyril Grantham
Cathryn Damon
Morgana Cramer
Dean Jones
Marcus Boswell
Fritz Weaver
Judge Lambert / Edwin Dupont / Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié
Jared Martin
Spencer Langley
Van Johnson
Elliot Robinson / Daniel Hannigan / Daniel O'Brien
Roger Miller
Sheriff
Linda Purl
Terry Shannon / Crystal Wendle / Laura Callan
Norman Alden
Bart Klapper / Mercer Hawthorne
Hallie Todd
Rhoda Markowitz / Moira McShane
Brian Mozur
Anthony
Theodore Bikel
Yuri Lermentov / Rosanno Bertolucci / Inspector Van Horn / Professor Harold Crenshaw
Pat Hingle
Lt. James Ignatius O'Malley / Ret. Lt. Det. Barney Kale / Zach Franklin
Peter Graves
Edmund Gerard
Greg Morris
Andrews
Andrew Pine
Todd Lowery
Ramon Bieri
Capt. Frank Browning / Pat Phillips
James Coco
Horatio Baldwin
Ben Masters
Police Chief Thurman Gillis / Evan Rafferty / Stanley Barton / Ray Dandridge
George Wyner
Jim Kenton / Dr. Lewis
George Grizzard
Edmund Hall / Dr. Aubrey Benton / Prof. Tyler Stoneham
Mitchell Ryan
Captain Ernest Lenko / Ray Dixon / Rep. Arthur Prouty / Senator Brent Renwyck
Paddi Edwards
Lois Hoey
John Karlen
Superintendent Arthur Joyce / Lt. Martin McGinn / Patrick MacNair
Anne Kerry Ford
Carol Donovan
Jay Acovone
Lieutenant Nick Acosta / Det. Sgt. Vinnie Grillo / Sgt. Nick Acosta
Bob Tzudiker
Clerk
Edie Adams
Kaye Sheppard
Herschel Bernardi
Avery Mendelsohn
Meg Foster
Laura Kerwin / Del Scott
Jack Bannon
Dr. Mark Brady / Chief Inspector Bernicker
Patrick Macnee
Dayton Whiting / Oliver Trumbull
Gary Sandy
Joe Blinn
Frank Aletter
Wendell Joyner
Kristoffer Tabori
Desmond / Phillip Carlson / Ernest Fielding
Colby Chester
Harold DeWitt
David Hooks
Ronald Olsen
Jensen Collier
Clerk
Leslie Easterbrook
Antoinette Fishman / Glenda Morrison / Sally Templeton / Vikki Palumbo
Robin Riker
Connie Kowalski / Colleen Sellers
Karen Hensel
Marie / Techie
Carol Lawrence
Stella Knight / Candice Drake / Silvana Bertolucci / Rachel D'Argento
Patrick O'Neal
Cy Parrish
Barbara Whinnery
Gretchen Pashko
Sharee Gregory
Kate Metcalf
Henry Gibson
Harold Banner / Oliver Thissle
Ed Bakey
Monsignor Kelly
Steve Forrest
Rev. Willie John Fargo / Captain Ned Larkin / Lt. Paul Stratton / Sheriff Hank Masters
Roberto Roman
Taki
Bert Hinchman
Carlin Nash
Florence Henderson
Maria Morgana / Patti Sue Diamond
Robin Bach
Ellsworth Buffum / Maitre D'
Bibi Besch
Fiona Gambini / Imogene Shaughnessy
Cameron Mitchell
Aaron Kramer
Bryan Cranston
Brian East / Parker Foreman
Garrett Morris
Lafayette Duquesne
Corinne Bohrer
Wanda Andrews / Helena McKenna
Bruce Gray
Ted Hartley / R. L. Pierson / Dean Merrill
Norman Lloyd
Philip Arkham / Edward St. Cloud / Lloyd Marcus
Mike Connors
Boyce Brown / Walter Murray
Robert O'Reilly
A.J. Grodin / Stephen Ridgely
Bobby Sherman
Jimmy Firth
Glynn Turman
Ben Coleman
Cynthia Harris
Phyllis Thurlow / Lauren Delagre
David Whitfield
Hec Tattersal
Madlyn Rhue
Jean O'Neill / Doris West
Roy Dotrice
Dr. Myles Purcell / Professor Chandler Fitzpatrick / Dr. Howard Sorenson
Bruce Marchiano
Assistant Director
Paul Carafotes
Ramon
Ed Nelson
Mayor Albert Simpson / Raymond 'Ray' Bascomb / Carl Turnball / Henry Post / Judge Willard Clinton
Herb Edelman
Artie Gelber / George / Lieutenant Varick / Max Hellinger
Jason Evers
Marshall MacGill
Rod Taylor
Inspector Rory Lanahan / Tom Dempsey
Richard Beymer
Sydney Jarvis / Dirk Mathison / Rick Lefko
Stephen Macht
Lloyd Mentone / Arthur Wainwright / Dan Keppner / Frank Stinson / Attorney Jason Farrell
Lynda Day George
Diane Shelley
Geoffrey Lewis
Hank Crenshaw / Roger Yates / Kenny Oakes / Lester Grinshaw
John Rhys-Davies
Lancaster / Harry Mordecai / Harry Waverly
Belinda Montgomery
Pamela Crane
Leslie Nielsen
Captain Daniels
Jo Anne Worley
Carla Raymond
Dwier Brown
Philip Polachek / Bill Richards
Robert Vaughn
Edwin Chancellor / Charles Winthrop / Gideon Armstrong
Robert Forster
Frank Roussel / Gilbert Gaston
Robert Curtis Brown
David Randall / Bud Forbes
Paul Winfield
Starkey
Floyd Levine
Archie Miles
Margery Nelson
Alma Leonard
Sean O'Bryan
Charlie D. McCumber / Paul Hampton / Steve Burke
Jeff Conaway
Howard Griffin / Nolan Walsh / Tom Powell
James McEachin
Grover Dillon
Eugene Roche
Lt. Jack Boyle / Billy Simms / Lt. Aloysius Jarvis / Franklin Mayberry
Pat Harrington, Jr.
Gunnar Globle / Lt. Lou Brickman / Nick Cullhane / Mel Comstock
Elizabeth Savage
Elizabeth Savage
Arnold F. Turner
Security Guard
Marcianne Warman
Jill Farrell
Albert Lord
Baxter
Lee Meriwether
Leslie Hunter / Vanessa Thorpe / Grace Overholtz
Ken Howard
Hank Shipton / Bill Boyle / Max Hagen / Matt Kinkaid / Barnes
Ralph M. Clift
Clerk
Katherine Cannon
Lorna Buffum / Eleanor Revere / Marian Randall / Marion Taylor
Jennifer Holmes
Reagan Miller / Sandra Clemons
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Adam Quatrain / Gen. Marcus Havermeyer / Richard Thompson Grant
Constance Forslund
Lucinda Lark
Macon McCalman
Nolan Hayes / Hotel Det. Fritz Rice
Mark Harrison
ADA
William McDonald
Bailiff
Michael Kearns
Reporter
Rosanna Huffman
Nell Carson / Dora Manchester / Miriam Harwood / Helen Stully / Eleanor Thompson / Connie Miles / Marge Brickman
Nancy Marlowe
Lady
Cliff DeYoung
Carlton Reid / Father Patrick Francis / Mason Porter
Biff Yeager
Cop
Lana Schwab
Clerk
René Auberjonois
Homicide Captain Walker Thorn / Prof. Harry Papasian
David Ackroyd
Nate Parsons / Prosecutor Tom Casselli / Bert Lown
Linda Blair
Jane Pascal
Terence Knox
Steve Pascal
Kate Mulgrew
Sonny Greer / Maude Gillis / Joanna Rollins
Rue McClanahan
Miriam Radford
Albert Salmi
Joe Downing
Robert Costanzo
Det. Lt. Greco / Rudolfo Petrocelli / Freddie
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Ben Oliver / Capt. Joe Rawlings / Ray Kravitz / Father Timothy
Gregory Sierra
Lieutenant Gabriel Caceras / Ramon / Sanchez / Moreno
Don Stroud
Carey Drayson
David Wayne
Cyrus Leffingwell
George Maharis
Charlie Emmet Cosmo, Esq. / Alex Burton
Charles Bazaldua
Man
Eddie Bracken
Barney Ogden
Victoria Carroll
Melanie Barker
Stephen Elliott
Samuel Garver
Robert Knepper
Owen McLaglen / Robbie Dorow / Charles George Drexler
Barbara Babcock
Meredith Delaney / Priscilla Daniels / Carol Collins / Rosemary Taylor / Rosaline Gardner
James Gammon
Billy Don Baker
Sam Groom
Wes Kenyon
Bo Hopkins
Ray Jenkins
Martin Kove
Dr. Ellison
Kay Lenz
Jennie Wells
William Lucking
Bo Dixon / Sheriff Barnes / NOPD Lt. Charles Foret / Lt. Roy Quinlan / Sheriff Leland Waterman
Martha Raye
Sadie Winthrope
Lucille Meredith
Mrs. Brindle
Paul Tuerpe
Guard #1
Fred D. Scott
Fritz / Harlan
Gerald York
Guard #2
Lavelle Roby
Nurse
Wings Hauser
Wallace Evans / Howard Levering / Carl / Sam Bennett
Geoff Heise
Barnes
Edward B. Randolph
Croupier
Ektara
Desk Clerk
Reggie Savard
Antoinette Farnsworth
Jerry Boyd
Doorman
Claude Cole
Bellman
Tony Webster
Steward
Marilyn Conn
Secretary
John Ericson
Henderson Wheatley
Jessica Walter
Jane Dawson / Joan Fulton / Joyce Holleran / Gwen Noble
Robert Jayne
Eric Marsh
Cliff Potts
Ed Potts / Ralph Maddox
Alan Fudge
Brian Wade / Councilman Axelrod / Thomas Godfrey / Gus Hayward / Derek St. James
Barbara Ann Grimes
Sarah Harris
Jody Carter
Olive Newton
Sandra Hawthorne
Mavis Gillam
Rose Gregorio
Rosa Abruzzi
Martin Milner
Bill Maguire / Clint Phelps / Admiral Len Spalding / Sheriff Bodine / Major Clint Phelps
Mickey Gilley
Conrad Booker
Carrie Hamilton
Geraldine Stone
Lise Cutter
Melissa Maddox
Vera Miles
Charmaine Calloway Thompson / Nancy Landon / Elizabeth Gates
Janet Margolin
Rita Garrison
Mary Ann Pascal
Trudy Ludwig
Anne Francis
Margo Perry / Louise McCallum
Keri Johnson
Teen Boy
Allan Miller
Frank Lord / John Crowley / Charles Crowe / Phil Kreuger / Victor Roscoe / Jake Farber
Gregg Henry
Sheriff Lynn Childs / Carl Ward / Barry Bristol / Lars Anderson / Mark Reisner / Richard Wellstood
John Petlock
Michael / Nils Andersen
Barry Newman
Andrew Bascombe / Ex-NYPD Lt. Ed McMasters / Lt. Amos 'Jake' Ballinger
James Stephens
Bert Donovan / U.S. Treasury Agent Lennihan
Lyle Waggoner
Marty Strindberg / Vic DeMarco
Bradford Dillman
Avery Stone / Carl Dorner / Simeon Kershaw / Dennis McConnell / Eric Benderson / Dep. Police Comm. Bradley Folkes / Rich...
Rosemary Forsyth
Estelle Freelander / Andrea Reed
Larry Wilcox
Dave Hastings / Andy Crane / Boone Talbot / Floyd Bigelow
Fionnula Flanagan
Eileen O'Bannon / Freida Schmidt / Fiona Delaney Griffith
Clive Revill
Jonathan Hawley / Bert Davies
Jerry Orbach
Harry McGraw
Vincent Baggetta
Frank Lapinski / Bert Puzo
John Beck
Ben Olston / Web McCord
Brandon Douglas
Todd Carrier / Pete Levering
John David Bland
Colin Burnham
Ed Morgan
Austin Bailey / Motel Manager / Local #2
Ethan Embry
Mike Seresino / Jimmy Taylor
Ken Swofford
Sid Sharkey / Leo Kowalski / Lt. Catalano
Bobby Hosea
Officer Kevin Bryce
John Lavachielli
NYPD Ofc. David Morelli
Julie St. Claire
Roslyn Aramendi
Alan Feinstein
Mike Freelander
Scott McGinnis
Scott Freelander
Andrew Johnson
Ahmed Shankar
Alexander Folk
Painter
David Schall
Man at Party
Claire Paradis
Waitress
Darrell Harris
Detective
Robert Lewis Cameron
Fingerprint Man
Miki Oikawa
The Secretary (uncredited)
Jim Metzler
Tom Benzinger
Mike Jolly
Elmo
David Stenstrom
Budding Comic
Jeffrey Jena
Comic #2
Jana Grant
Insurance Coworker #2
Kevin McCoy
Insurance Coworker #1
Susan Welby
Insurance Coworker #4
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 30, 1984
StatusEnded
Seasons12
Episodes264
Running Time45m
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
Wiki.
Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series focuses on the life of Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer and amateur detective, who becomes involved in solving murders that take place in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, across the United States, and abroad. The program ran for 12 seasons from September 30, 1984, to May 19, 1996, for a total of 264 episodes and included amongst its recurring cast Tom Bosley, William Windom and Ron Masak, as well as a vast array of guest cast members including Michael Horton, Keith Michell and Julie Adams.
The series was a ratings hit during its broadcast, becoming a staple of CBS Sunday night TV schedule for around a decade, while achieving distinction as one of the most successful and longest-running television shows in history, averaging 25 million viewers per week in its prime. In syndication, the series is still highly successful and popular throughout the world. For her role on the program, Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes, winning four, along with nominations for 12 Emmy Awards, earning her the record for the most Golden Globe nominations and wins for Best Actress in a television drama series and the most Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The series itself also received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, and six Golden Globe nominations in the same category, with two major wins.
After the series finished in 1996, four television films were released from 1997 to 2003. Two point-and-click video games were released for PC: one in 2009, and a sequel in 2012. A spin-off book series continues publication as of 2024.