Murder, She Wrote
Genre: Drama · Mystery · Thriller ·
Release Date: September 30, 1984
Status: Ended
Seasons: 12
Episodes: 264
Running time: 45m
Content Rating: TV-14

Plot.
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.

Richard Levinson
Creator / Executive Producer / Story

William Link
Creator / Executive Producer / Story

Peter S. Fischer
Creator / Executive Producer / Story / Writer / Teleplay

Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher / Producer

John Addison
Main Title Theme Composer

Robert F. O'Neill
Producer

Douglas Benton
Producer

William Windom
Seth Hazlitt / Sam Breen

Tom Bosley
Sheriff Amos Tupper

Ron Masak
Sheriff Mort Metzger / Lieutenant Meyer / Marty Giles

Louis Herthum
Deputy Andy Broom

Will Nye
Deputy Floyd

Julie Adams
Eve Simpson

Keith Michell
Dennis Stanton

Herb Edelman
NYPD Lieutenant Artie Gelber / George / Max Hellinger / Lieutenant Varick / Lt. Artie Gelber

Rosanna Huffman
Miriam Harwood / Marge Brickman / Helen Stully / Dora Manchester / Eleanor Thompson / Nell Carson / Connie Miles

Gregg Henry
Sheriff Lynn Childs / Carl Ward / Lars Anderson / Mark Reisner / Richard Wellstood / Barry Bristol

Ken Howard
Hank Shipton / Bill Boyle / Max Hagen / Matt Kinkaid / Barnes

George DiCenzo
Sgt. Kettler / Mario Carboni / Inspector Lombardo / Lt. Harry Fogel / Johnny Blaze / Michael Gardner

Bradford Dillman
Eric Benderson / Dennis McConnell / Dep. Police Comm. Bradley Folkes / Simeon Kershaw / Carl Dorner / Richard Ellston

Jerry Orbach
Harry McGraw

Wayne Rogers
Charlie Garrett

John Astin
Harry Pierce / Ross Hayley / Fritz Randall / Director

Steve Forrest
Rev. Willie John Fargo / Lt. Paul Stratton / Captain Ned Larkin / Sheriff Hank Masters

Bruce Gray
Ted Hartley / R. L. Pierson / Dean Merrill

Ed Nelson
Judge Willard Clinton / Raymond 'Ray' Bascomb / Mayor Albert Simpson / Carl Turnball / Henry Post

Stephen Macht
Arthur Wainwright / Lloyd Mentone / Attorney Jason Farrell / Frank Stinson / Dan Keppner

Gregory Sierra
Lieutenant Gabriel Caceras / Ramon / Sanchez / Moreno

Barbara Babcock
Rosaline Gardner / Priscilla Daniels / Rosemary Taylor / Meredith Delaney / Carol Collins

William Lucking
Bo Dixon / Lt. Roy Quinlan / NOPD Lt. Charles Foret / Sheriff Leland Waterman / Sheriff Barnes

Robert Pine
Sen. Andrew Grainger / Graham Forbes / Walter Gillrich / Doug Helman / Edgar Warner

Alan Fudge
Councilman Axelrod / Brian Wade / Gus Hayward / Derek St. James / Thomas Godfrey

Martin Milner
Major Clint Phelps / Clint Phelps / Bill Maguire / Sheriff Bodine / Admiral Len Spalding

Allan Miller
Phil Kreuger / Victor Roscoe / Jake Farber / Frank Lord / John Crowley / Charles Crowe

Richard Paul
Mayor Sam Booth

Anne Lockhart
Grace Lamont / Veronica Harrold / Roz Briggs / Norma Willens

Hallie Todd
Rhoda Markowitz / Moira McShane

Theodore Bikel
Yuri Lermentov / Professor Harold Crenshaw / Inspector Van Horn / Rosanno Bertolucci

Monte Markham
Jimmy Haynes / Andrew Gant / Ned Olson / Insp. Donald Matheney

Mitchell Ryan
Captain Ernest Lenko / Ray Dixon / Senator Brent Renwyck / Rep. Arthur Prouty

John Karlen
Superintendent Arthur Joyce / Patrick MacNair / Lt. Martin McGinn

Claude Akins
Ethan Cragg

Leslie Easterbrook
Sally Templeton / Glenda Morrison / Vikki Palumbo / Antoinette Fishman

Carol Lawrence
Candice Drake / Silvana Bertolucci / Stella Knight / Rachel D'Argento

Madlyn Rhue
Jean O'Neill / Doris West

Geoffrey Lewis
Roger Yates / Kenny Oakes / Hank Crenshaw / Lester Grinshaw

Jeff Conaway
Howard Griffin / Nolan Walsh / Tom Powell

Pat Harrington, Jr.
Gunnar Globle / Lt. Lou Brickman / Mel Comstock / Nick Cullhane

Eugene Roche
Lt. Aloysius Jarvis / Franklin Mayberry / Lt. Jack Boyle / Billy Simms

Katherine Cannon
Eleanor Revere / Marian Randall / Marion Taylor / Lorna Buffum

Shea Farrell
Pete Briggs / Reed Harding / Kevin Tibbles / Larry Matthews

Mike Connors
Boyce Brown / Walter Murray / Eric

Wings Hauser
Carl / Sam Bennett / Wallace Evans / Howard Levering

Jessica Walter
Jane Dawson / Joyce Holleran / Joan Fulton / Gwen Noble

Larry Wilcox
Andy Crane / Dave Hastings / Boone Talbot / Floyd Bigelow

Andrew Johnson
Ahmed Shankar

Leonard Lightfoot
Detective Henderson

Hurd Hatfield
Jean-Pierre Dusant / Leo Peterson / William Readford

Lois Nettleton
Amelia / Ginny Blanchard / Deidre French

Richard Libertini
Lt. Gabriel Rodino / Carson Robbins

Clu Gulager
Mike Gann / Ray Carter / Carl Mestin

Evelyn Keyes
Edna / Wanda Polaski / Sister Emily

Lee Purcell
Maylene Sutter / Joanna Benson

Olivia Cole
Callie Coleman / Melinda Coop / Yvette Dauphin

Christopher Neame
Dr. John Sullivan / Peter Jatich

Nicholas Pryor
David Kingston / Theo Cayle / Harry Parmel

Diana Canova
Mary Margaret 'Maggie' McCauley / Joan Germaine / Annie Lawson

Gary Lockwood
Tom Carpenter / Sam Mercer / Harris Talmadge

Brenda Vaccaro
Didi Blair / Sheila Kowalski Finley / Mimi Harcourt

Charles Siebert
Don Simms / Dentist Penn 'Doc' Walker / Norman Edmonds

Robert Reed
Adrian Winslow / Jackson / Truman Calloway, Esq.

Judith Chapman
Dr. Jayne Honig / Harriet Simmons Wooster / Karen Davies

Christopher Allport
Jim Harlan / Donald Granger / Maurice Delagre

Lawrence Pressman
George Reed / Tom Dutton / Philip Holt

Paul Gleason
Steve Morrison / Sterling Bose / Lt. Barney Claymore

Dack Rambo
Bill Hampton / Brian Shelby / Arnold Hastings

Fritz Weaver
Judge Lambert / Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié / Edwin Dupont

Van Johnson
Elliot Robinson / Daniel O'Brien / Daniel Hannigan

Linda Purl
Terry Shannon / Laura Callan / Crystal Wendle

Edward Winter
Baker Lawrence / Capt. Everett Larson / Edward Dunsany

Pat Hingle
Lt. James Ignatius O'Malley / Zach Franklin / Ret. Lt. Det. Barney Kale

Guy Stockwell
Dorn Van Stotter / Ret. Det. Bert Kravitz / Elmo Banner

Ben Masters
Ray Dandridge / Police Chief Thurman Gillis / Evan Rafferty / Stanley Barton

George Grizzard
Dr. Aubrey Benton / Prof. Tyler Stoneham / Edmund Hall

Joe Dorsey
Harry Kingman / Bennett J. Devlin

Pamela Susan Shoop
Katie McCallum / Dorothy Porter

Bruce Abbott
Wayne Metzger / Stearns / Monte Hayes / Drew Granger

Gregory Walcott
Isaiah Potts / Lamar Morgan / Willie Patchecki

Jay Acovone
Lieutenant Nick Acosta / Det. Sgt. Vinnie Grillo / Sgt. Nick Acosta

Michael Horton
Grady Fletcher

Linda Kelsey
Mary Stamm / Ellen Levering / Diana Simms

Florence Henderson
Maria Morgana / Patti Sue Diamond

Norman Lloyd
Philip Arkham / Edward St. Cloud / Lloyd Marcus

Roy Dotrice
Dr. Howard Sorenson / Dr. Myles Purcell / Professor Chandler Fitzpatrick

Rod Taylor
Inspector Rory Lanahan / Tom Dempsey

Richard Beymer
Dirk Mathison / Sydney Jarvis / Rick Lefko

John Rhys-Davies
Lancaster / Harry Mordecai / Harry Waverly

David Hedison
Victor Casper / Mitch Payne / Victor Caspar

Charles Napier
Hank Sutter / Denver Martin

Robert Vaughn
Gideon Armstrong / Edwin Chancellor / Charles Winthrop

Sean O'Bryan
Paul Hampton / Charlie D. McCumber / Steve Burke

Daphne Ashbrook
Kathy Stafford / Alice Diamond / Alexis Hill

Lee Meriwether
Leslie Hunter / Vanessa Thorpe / Grace Overholtz

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Gen. Marcus Havermeyer / Adam Quatrain / Richard Thompson Grant

David Ackroyd
Prosecutor Tom Casselli / Nate Parsons / Bert Lown

Kate Mulgrew
Sonny Greer / Joanna Rollins / Maude Gillis

Robert Costanzo
Det. Lt. Greco / Rudolfo Petrocelli / Freddie

Robert Knepper
Owen McLaglen / Charles George Drexler / Robbie Dorow

John D'Aquino
Sgt. Tom Jarrow / J. Peter Carmody / Wylie Trey

Ed Morgan
Motel Manager / Austin Bailey / Local #2

Jennifer Runyon
Kelly Barrett

Kathryn Grayson
Ideal Molloy

Arlene Golonka
Gloria Winslow / Sally Conover

Tricia O'Neil
Ashley Vickers / Bibi Hartman

Raymond St. Jacques
Doctor / Claude Rensselaer

Mary Crosby
Laura Corman / Mariah Osborn

Stan Shaw
Eddie Walters / Det. Sgt. Vince Lofton

J.D. Cannon
Sheriff McCoy / Bill Carmody

Kevin McCarthy
Milton Porter / Walter Bowman

Bert Convy
Peter Brill / Christopher Bundy

David Groh
Gordon Tully / Dr. Stan Garfield

William Atherton
Larry Holleran

Christopher Stone
Adam Frobisher

Colleen Camp
Deputy Marigold Feeney / Dody Rogers

James Warwick
Paul Lafferty

Bill Macy
Myron Kinkaid / Uncle Ben Mayberry

Thom Christopher
Dimitri Popadopalous / Rev. Willard Manchester

Jonna Lee
Sally Ann Carmichael / Margaret Gable

Robert Walker Jr.
Otto Hardwick / George Owens

Max Baer Jr.
Johnny Wheeler / St. Trooper Boone Willoughby

James Hampton
Veterinarian / Jerry Blevins

Mills Watson
Ralph Leary / Glen Roy Sitwell

Morgan Brittany
Tiffany Harrow / Candice Ashcroft

Nancy Valen
Selina Williams Waverly / Lily Roland

Ron Leibman
Roland Trent / Darryl Heyward

Grant Goodeve
Larry Gaynes / Jack Schroeder

Robert Lansing
Lawrence Jarvis / Herb Walsh

Stephen Caffrey
Alex Seletz / Jonathan Baker

David Soul
Wes McSorley / Jordan Barnett

Joseph V. Perry
Ralph / Heavy Set Crude Man

Barbara Stock
Daniella Morgana Carmody

Shelley Fabares
Liza Caspar

Kathleen Beller
Maria Deschier / Mary Carver

Jack Carter
Harry Finlay / Cliff Carpenter

Joseph Cali
Vic LaRosa / Paul Grimaldi

Laurence Luckinbill
Lt. Steve Warren / Howard Crane

Kate McNeil
Kate Walden / Carrie Palmer

Terry Kiser
Gordon LaMonica / Wally Bryce

Carrie Snodgress
Irene Macinoy / Connie Vernon

Joe Santos
Joe Rinaldi / NYPD Lt. Bert Alfano

David Sheiner
Arthur Griswold / Leo Selkirk

Judith Hoag
Gretchen Price / Nancy Godfrey

Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Ray Kravitz / Ben Oliver

John Dye
Andy Broom / Dr. Ray Stinson

Cassie Yates
Lisa Shelby / Dorie Sparling

Susan Anton
Celia James / Christine Clifford

Cindy Fisher
Linda Bonner / Nancy Bates

Bill Maher
Rick Rivers / Frank Albertson

Anthony Geary
KGB Lt. Fyodor Alexandrov / Eric Grant

Tim Thomerson
Bert Rodgers / Clyde Pitts

Kristoffer Tabori
Ernest Fielding / Phillip Carlson

Maxwell Caulfield
Derek Padley / Roger Travis

Don Matheson
Oklahoma Cowboy / Chief Steward

Scott Valentine
Dean Richards / Darman H. Keene

Tim Choate
Daryl Croft / Luke Phillips

Beah Richards
Ola Mae / Emma Coop

Barbara Bain
Ellen Lombard / Nora Morgan

Brian McNamara
Tom McCray / Randall Sloan

Dirk Benedict
Gary Herling / Dr. David Latimer

Melanie Smith
Nina Larson / Diana Barrow

Nick Tate
Insp. Stillwell / Tim Jarvis

Michael Zelniker
Henry Phelps / Harley Foote

Judson Mills
Stu Yates / Toby Grant

Ronny Cox
Mayor Powers

Dan O'Herlihy
Alexander Preston / Denton Langley

Christopher Norris
Pru Mattson / Denise Quinlan

David Birney
Lawrence Baker / Franchesco

Barrie Ingham
Brian Dunbar / Insp. Roger Crimmins

Earl Holliman
Sheriff J.T. Tanner / Wayne Platte

Pamela Bellwood
Vivian Proctor / Vanessa Cross

Alex Cord
Preston Bartholomew

Andrew Parks
Fred Jenkins / Russell Tompkins

John Callahan
Preston Howard / Garrett Harper

Courteney Cox
Carol Bannister

Gail Strickland
Kate Hollander / Edith Peabody

Chris Mulkey
Joey Freeman / Al Wallace

Stacy Edwards
Officer Frances Xavier Rawley / Elaine Brown

Rosanna DeSoto
Iza Decalde / Maria Galvan

Michael Sarrazin
David Marsh / Jacob Beiler

Bo Svenson
Cal Harding / Karl Anderson

Nigel Gibbs
Policeman / Len Thomas

Stuart Whitman
Charles Woodley / Ben Miller

Leslie Bevis
Barbara Desmond (uncredited) / Andrea Nader

Joseph Campanella
George Knapp / George McDaniels

Janet Julian
Ellen Harper / Bonnie Hartman

John Davis Chandler
John Detweiler / Gilbert Stoner

Melinda Culea
Sara Lloyd / Nicole Gary

Talia Balsam
Debbie Delancey / Julie Pritzer

Kirk Thornton
Forensic Man / Policeman

James Sloyan
Lt. Spoletti / C.W. Butterfield

Dennis Christopher
Dr. Henry Carlson / Lyman Taggart

Jane Withers
Marge Allen / Alma Sobel

Arthur Hill
Preston Giles

Roddy McDowall
Gordon Fairchild / Dr. Alger Kenyon, PHD

Michelle Johnson
Monica Chase / Janet Fisk

Larry Linville
Paige Corbin / Kent Radford

Warren Berlinger
Jim Ingram / Pat Patillo

Christian Bocher
T. T. Baines / Dave Wolski

Kim Johnston Ulrich
Andrea Cromwell / Julia Harris

Edward Mulhare
Richard Bennett / Julian Lord

Judy Geeson
Elaine McComber / Sister Ruth Fargo

Susan Oliver
Louise / Marge Horton

Marj Dusay
Miriam Bowman / Alice Reynard Carson

Richard Sanders
Gerald Richards / Arnold Megrim

John Schuck
Chief Merton P. Drock / Davis

Elizabeth Ashley
Vera Gerakaris / Emily Broussard Renwyck

Betsy Palmer
Lila Norris / Valerie

Peter Donat
Sergei Chaloff / David North

Ismael 'East' Carlo
Sheriff Serafio Zuniga / Frank Fernandez

John McMartin
Hudson Blackthorn / Gavin Daniels

Whip Hubley
Randy Jinks / Cleve the Musician

Gene Evans
Otto Fry / Nils Highlander

Audrey Landers
Phyllis Walters / Greta Bayer

Kevin Kilner
Paul Marlow / Eugene Gillrich

John Getz
Kyle Kimball / Jonas Cole

Alex Rocco
Ernie Santini / Bert Yardley

John Glover
Franz Mueller / Andrew Durbin

Doug McClure
Sheriff Sam Rankin / Gary Patterson

Katherine Moffat
Millicent Moore / Lauren Hastings

Lloyd Bochner
Jason Richards / Dr. Terence Mayhew

Cliff DeYoung
Carlton Reid / Mason Porter

John Hillerman
Jonathan Higgins / Edgar Greenstreet

Owen Bush
Hank / Driver

Diane Baker
Mary Forsythe / Eleanor Thane

Louis Giambalvo
Raimondo Bonelli / Lt. Blaisdell

Edd Byrnes
Sid Hooper / Kenneth Rundle (uncredited)

Michael Constantine
Ben Gibbons / Laszlo Dolby

John Bennett Perry
Coach Kevin Cauldwell / Dan Remsen

Leann Hunley
Shannon McBride / Dana Darren

Shirley Jones
Ann Owens Arden / Kathleen Lane

Vicki Lawrence
Jackie MacKay / Phoebe Carroll

Bruce Kirby
Jeremy Woods / Andy Butler

David McCallum
Cyril Grantham / Drew Garrison

Liz Vassey
Candace Bennett / Monica Evers

Norman Alden
Bart Klapper / Mercer Hawthorne

John Laughlin
Mike Lowery / Bill Ainsley

Art Hindle
Sam McKittrick / Rod Wilson

Roy Thinnes
J. K. Davern / Lt. Ted Misko

Elizabeth Gracen
Michelle Scarlotti / Sydney Pembrook

Jay Underwood
Will Rafferty / Spencer

Don Most
Ozzie Gerson / T.J. Holt

Reni Santoni
Juan Ramos / Lt. Caceras

Vera Miles
Charmaine Calloway Thompson / Elizabeth Gates

Meg Foster
Del Scott / Laura Kerwin

Jack Bannon
Dr. Mark Brady / Chief Inspector Bernicker

Patrick Macnee
Dayton Whiting / Oliver Trumbull

Robin Riker
Colleen Sellers / Connie Kowalski

Karen Hensel
Techie / Marie

Charles Frank
Alan Miller / Kyle Jordan

Henry Gibson
Oliver Thissle / Harold Banner

Robin Bach
Ellsworth Buffum / Maitre D'

Bryan Cranston
Parker Foreman / Brian East

Corinne Bohrer
Wanda Andrews / Helena McKenna

Cynthia Harris
Phyllis Thurlow / Lauren Delagre

David Ogden Stiers
Aubrey Thornton / Howard Deems

Clifton Powell
Det. Eddie Flowers / Ralph Danton

Jon Cypher
Defense Atty. Max Flynn / Capt. Rory O'Neil

Dwier Brown
Philip Polachek / Bill Richards

Robert Forster
Gilbert Gaston / Frank Roussel

Robert Curtis Brown
Bud Forbes / David Randall

Ann Hearn
Connie Anderson / Peggy Evans

William O'Leary
Hank Duncan / FBI Agt. Ed Crider

Frederick Coffin
Lt. Roy Flint / Tim Mulligan

Fred D. Scott
Fritz / Harlan

Cliff Potts
Ralph Maddox / Ed Potts

Rosemary Forsyth
Estelle Freelander / Andrea Reed

Brandon Douglas
Pete Levering / Todd Carrier

Ethan Embry
Jimmy Taylor / Mike Seresino

Michael Blue
Explorer / Policeman #1

Richard Jaeckel
Dr. Leon Chatsworth

Ektara
Desk Clerk

Reggie Savard
Antoinette Farnsworth

Jerry Boyd
Doorman

Claude Cole
Bellman

Tony Webster
Steward

Marilyn Conn
Secretary

John Ericson
Henderson Wheatley

Ken Swofford
Leo Kowalski

David Schall
Man at Party

Claire Paradis
Waitress

Darrell Harris
Detective

Robert Lewis Cameron
Fingerprint Man

Robert Rothwell
Lucas McCoy

Doug Mears
Arthur Morris

Richard G. Camphuis
Guard

Tony Brafa
Gino

Dick Nelson
Writer

Steven Hensley
Writer

Robert Hamner
Writer

David Moessinger
Writer

Craig W. Van Sickle
Writer

Linda Shank
Writer

Mark Giles
Writer

Lisa Seidman
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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 (but “only one plot”), 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 proved 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 at present.
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