Murder, She Wrote: Season 03  (1986)

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Murder, She Wrote: Season 03

Season three of Murder, She Wrote finds peppery mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) periodically leaving the comfort of her hometown of Cabot Cove for business-and-pleasure jaunts in such locales as Washington, D.C., New York City, and California. No matter where she goes, however, murder is sure to follow -- and, of course, Jessica will be able to apply her acute skills as an amateur detective to solve the case. The season opens with the two-part "Death Stalks the Big Top," in which such notable actors as Jackie Cooper and Martin Balsam figure into the intrigue. In later episodes, the guest-star roster includes Pat Hingle, Susan Anton, David Hemmings, Adrienne Barbeau, and future ER leading man George Clooney. Episodes worthy of special notice include "Murder in a Minor Key," wherein for the first time Jessica Fletcher does not appear as the main character, but instead "narrates" an adventure from her latest novel; the two-part "Magnum on Ice," in which Tom Selleck recreates his famous TV role as Hawaii-based detective Thomas Magnum; and "The Days Dwindle Down," a mystery built around black-and-white footage from the 1949 B-picture Strange Bargain, and featuring three of that film's leading players, Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott, and Harry Morgan. ~ All Movie Guide