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Murder, She Wrote: Season 05
Running Time: 60 min.
Having carried virtually the whole weight of Murder, She Wrote during the series' first four seasons, star Angela Lansbury began curtailing her appearances during season five. A handful of episodes are built not around grandmotherly mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury, of course), but instead around such fellow sleuths as Keith Michell as reformed jewel thief Dennis Stanton and Len Cariou as secret agent Michael Hagarty. Nonetheless, Jessica is given ample screen time to poke her nose into other people's business and calmly solve baffling murders in the process. With Tom Bosley having exited the role of Cabot Cove's sheriff Amos Tupper, Jessica finds herself with a new friendly adversary, Sheriff Mort Metzger, played by Ron Masak. Like Tupper, Metzger is none too keen on having Jessica accompany him on his various murder investigations, but he is invariably grateful for her assistance when she helps him collar the guilty party. Among the many guest stars dotting the series' landscape during its fifth season are former movie ingenues Teresa Wright and Joan Leslie, wonderfully cast as a pair of dotty Arsenic and Old Lace-like spinster sisters; Jean Peters, former wife of Howard Hughes, in a rare latter-day acting performance; Jane Greer, one of the foremost film noir heroines of the 1940s; and onetime Man From U.N.C.L.E. co-star David McCallum, in an espionage escapade set in Moscow. The season ends with the two-part "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall," which pits the likable Jessica against her unlikable literary rival Eudora McVeigh Shipton (Jean Simmons). All Movie Guide
Murder, She Wrote: Season 05 Cast and Crew:
 Angela Lansbury - (Jessica Fletcher) |
Murder, She Wrote: Season 05 Episodes:
Murder, She Wrote: J.B. ...as in Jailbird
Murder, She Wrote: A Little Night Work
Murder, She Wrote: Mr. Penroy's Vacation
Murder, She Wrote: Snow White, Blood Red
Murder, She Wrote: Coal Miner's Slaughter
Murder, She Wrote: Wearing of the Green
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
Murder, She Wrote: Prediction: Murder
Murder, She Wrote: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
Murder, She Wrote: Weave a Tangled Web
Murder, She Wrote: The Search for Peter Kerry
Murder, She Wrote: Smooth Operators
Murder, She Wrote: Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
Murder, She Wrote: From Russia...With Blood
Murder, She Wrote: Alma Murder
Murder, She Wrote: Truck Stop
Murder, She Wrote: The Sins of Castle Cove
Murder, She Wrote: Trevor Hudson's Legacy
Murder, She Wrote: Double Exposure
Murder, She Wrote: Three Strikes, You're Out
Murder, She Wrote: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Part One
Murder, She Wrote: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Part Two
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