Murder, She Wrote: The Grand Old Lady (1989)
- Director(s):
- Vincent McEveety
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The death of Jessica's role model, Agatha Christie-like mystery novelist Lady Abigail Austin (June Havoc), sets Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to thinking of an incident back in 1947 in which Lady Abigail was involved in a real-life murder case. In an extended flashback, the action takes place on board the luxury liner "Queen Mary", where an ex-Gestapo officer has been stabbed to death--and Lady Abigail is the primary suspect. The presence of a father-son team of detectives (played by John Karlen and Gary Kroeger) suggests that this episode may have actually been intended for an earlier Richard Levinson-William Link TV mystery series, Ellery Queen. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Dane Clark - Henri Viscard
- June Havoc - Lady Abigail Austin
- Gary Kroeger - Christy McGinn
- Joan McMurtrey - Eleanor Cantrell
- Wolf Muser - Peter Daniken
- James Stephens - Special Agent Lenehan
- Robert Vaughn - Edwin Chancellor
- Derek Partridge - Doctor
- Mark Lindsay Chapman - Paul Viscard
- Joi Staton - Nurse
- Terry Sheppard - Busboy
- Donald Craig - Nicholas Crane
- John Karlen - Lt. Martin McGinn
- Floyd Levine - Garry Krumholtz
- Aubrey Morris - Mr. Bellows
- Henry Polic II - Arthur Bishop
- Gordon Thomson - Maj. Daniel McGuire
- Paxton Whitehead - Capt. Oliver
- Gregg Binkley - Copy Boy
- Lisa Dean Ryan - Woman
- Michael Douglas Scott - 2nd Officer
- Director(s):
- Vincent McEveety
- Writer(s):
- Peter S. Fischer
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