Murder, She Wrote

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Template:Infobox television Murder, She Wrote was a American mystery television series, starring Angela Lansbury as the lead character, Jessica Fletcher, who was a mystery writer turned professional sleuth. It aired as a weekly series on CBS from 1984 to 1996, and continued with several made-for-TV movies into 2003. Lansbury served as executive producer of the series during its later seasons. It was at the time the longest running prime time drama series on American TV.

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Plot

The show revolved around the day to day life of a substitute english teacher turned professional mystery writer named Jessica Fletcher. In each episode Jessica would some how become entangled in a murder investigation and she would come out being the one person able to make sense of the case. This being the nature of the show it was viewed by critics as ridiculous how murders seemed to follow this character around the country. Many of the episodes took place in either Jessica's home town of Cabot Cove or New York, and there were a number of episodes in England and an episode which took place in Hawaii, which was a cross over episode with Magnum P.I.. Jessica has connections with many law enforcement officials as well as a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard and a British MI6 Agent of Irish origin named Michael Haggerty

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Regular Cast

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Guest Stars

Many famous or soon to be famous actors have had guest spots on Murder, She Wrote:

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DVD releases

DVD Name
Release dates
Region 1
Region 2
Region 4
The Complete 1st Season March 29 2005 August 29 2005 N/A
The Complete 2nd Season December 6 2005 May 1 2006 N/A
The Complete 3rd Season March 14 2006 N/A N/A
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Trivia

Image:TVGuidemurdershewrote.jpg In the beginning, Fletcher was not even interested in publishing her first novel, and definitely not interested in sleuthing real-life cases. However, trouble usually followed her, and the formerly peaceful life she lived in Cabot Cove became a rarity, only showing up from time to time before she was involved in her next investigation.

Despite the leading lady's success in Murder, She Wrote, she was not the producer's original choice of star. Actresses Jean Stapleton and Doris Day were offered, and consecutively turned down, the main part.

The show enjoyed a wide audience, and was for several years the longest-running mystery show on television. Throughout its run, countless notable stars played guest parts, making it a considerably diverse show. In total there were 264 weekly episodes, and Lansbury subsequently reprised the character in four (to date) T.V. movies between 1997 and 2003.

Although Lansbury was the show's main star, the series was arranged so that several episodes each year would focus upon one of her friends and their mystery-solving exploits, allowing Lansbury to appear only briefly in the episodes and take a break in filming. One of these recurring characters, a private detective named Harry McGraw (Jerry Orbach) was popular enough to garner his own, short-lived spinoff series in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw. The character of Jessica Fletcher also appeared in an episode of Magnum P.I. in 1986.

Lansbury holds the record for the most Prime-time Emmy Nominations for an outstanding lead actress in a drama series, 12, one for every season 1984-1996—she never won (which is also a record).

A series of original novels based upon Murder, She Wrote began in the late 1980s and new books continue to be written and published ; in keeping with the spirit of the TV show, the author credit for these books, which are written by Coffee, Tea, or Me? author Donald Bain, is shared with the fictitious "Jessica Fletcher".

Murder, She Wrote is often shown in the United Kingdom in the 14:35 BBC1 time slot on weekdays and on Ten Network in Australia weekdays at noon. Australian cable viewers also enjoy the show on TV1, (During Crime Time AM.) It continues to air multiple times daily in the United States and Canada on both A&E (a basic cable network) and its sister network on extended cable, the Biography Channel. Murder, She Wrote also is viewed in Finnish Yle TV1 on Mondays and Tuesdays 15.05.

Exterior shots of "Cabot Cove" were filmed in Mendocino, California.

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See also

List of Murder, She Wrote episodes

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External links

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