Murder, She Wrote Season 3

Season 3

Air date: 1986-09-28

Episodes: 22

Episodes

E1: Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

Air date: 1986-09-28 • ★ 8

E2: Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

Air date: 1986-10-05 • ★ 8

E3: Unfinished Business

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

Air date: 1986-10-12 • ★ 8

E4: One White Rose for Death

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

Air date: 1986-10-19 • ★ 7.75

E5: Corned Beef And Carnage

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

Air date: 1986-11-02 • ★ 7.667

E6: Dead Man's Gold

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

Air date: 1986-11-09 • ★ 7.667

E7: Deadline for Murder

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

Air date: 1986-11-16 • ★ 8

E8: Magnum on Ice (II)

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

Air date: 1986-11-23 • ★ 7.667

E9: Obituary for a Dead Anchor

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

Air date: 1986-12-07 • ★ 8

E10: Stage Struck

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

Air date: 1986-12-14 • ★ 8.333

E11: Night of the Headless Horseman

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

Air date: 1987-01-04 • ★ 8

E12: The Corpse Flew First Class

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

Air date: 1987-01-18 • ★ 8.667

E13: Crossed Up

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

Air date: 1987-02-01 • ★ 8.333

E14: Murder in a Minor Key

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

Air date: 1987-02-08 • ★ 4.8

E15: The Bottom Line Is Murder

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

Air date: 1987-02-15 • ★ 7.25

E16: Death Takes a Dive

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

Air date: 1987-02-22 • ★ 8.333

E17: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

Air date: 1987-03-01 • ★ 8.333

E18: No Laughing Murder

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

Air date: 1987-03-15 • ★ 9

E19: No Accounting for Murder

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

Air date: 1987-03-22 • ★ 7.667

E20: The Cemetery Vote

First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

Air date: 1987-04-05 • ★ 8

E21: The Days Dwindle Down

Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

Air date: 1987-04-19 • ★ 8.667

E22: Murder, She Spoke

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

Air date: 1987-05-10 • ★ 8