My name is Alexis and I am a Murder, She Wrote fan.

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We semi-made our way through these 20 episodes before I had to come back to work today.

Some of them are good, some of them aren't.

I'll say my least favorite of those I watched was "Tough Guys Don't Lie" (Season 1, Episode 16), which introduces investigator Harry McGraw. I thought that episode was boring.

My favorite episode was "Murder Takes the Bus" (Season 1, Episode 19).

I'll probably come back for a better write-up later.
This is actually a pretty great list but I agree with you on that Harry McGraw episode. The one really great one I’d swap it with is The Szechuan Dragon from season six. I like that Grady plays such a big role in solving the mystery.
 

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I agree with you on that Harry McGraw episode
It's probably more of a milestone episode than a best-of as such. As you probably know, Jerry Orbach was spun of from MSW before his big role came on Law & Order.
 

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Jessica Fletcher bobblehead!

 

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No one can fill Angela Lansbury's sensible shoes, but if you had to save the world by choosing an actress to play Jessica Fletcher in a movie, who would it be?
 

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No one can fill Angela Lansbury's sensible shoes, but if you had to save the world by choosing an actress to play Jessica Fletcher in a movie, who would it be?

It´s been done (sort of):

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Jamie Lee Curtis as a mystery-solver could be great, but why does she have to be Jessica Fletcher?

Or worse, why did Alex O'Loughlin have to be Steve McGarrett on the newer Five-0, for that matter?
 

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Wow I never heard of this and l love love Jayne Seymour!
I´ve only watched the pilot but it seems promising! She is as pretty as ever and in full form acting-wise. I guess every episode is a self-contained case, and then there´s also an ongoing plot with her son´s family, which doesn´t seem as promising... Tell me your opinion if you watch it!
 

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So, the complete series of MURDER, SHE WROTE, plus the made-for-TV movies, are out on Blu-ray. If I didn't already have the DVD box set (minus the movies), I would be intrigued by this set, and I would throw on my to-go-list.

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Perhaps there could be a one-off film where the "murder of the week" features a poor Amazon warehouse worker who is killed when this box set falls out of the racking and lands on him.


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I've been rewatching Murder, She Wrote for a while now and I'm currently on season 6. Although I think I've watched most of the series, a lot of it is unfamiliar to me. There were only a few episodes from seasons 2 and 3 that I actually remember.

Today I watched the episode where Grady got married. Incidentally, the two actors are also married in real life, as I just found out. In the wedding episode, Jessica tells a relative of Donna (Grady's wife) that she and her husband took Grady in after his parents died in a car accident. Until now, I always thought Grady was just some random nephew of Jessica's, but he actually lived with her. Was it ever mentioned how old Grady was when he came to live with Jessica and Frank?

I'm amazed at how silly Murder, She Wrote is in season 6. There was an episode with two over-the-top female detectives, clearly meant to evoke Cagney & Lacey, and many other episodes are no longer idyllic like the beginning, but just silly. I hope this is just a phase and won't continue for the rest of the series.
 

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Angela Lansbury was worn out from being the sole lead of an hour-long series (meaning she appeared in almost every scene). She only agreed to continue if they would reduce her schedule, so this is why you have episodes with guest detectives in seasons 6 and 7. But they realized those episodes weren’t as well received as the regular one, so they dropped the idea after season 7.

If CBS hadn’t agreed to the guest detective idea, there was talk of shifting to a monthly, two-hour format and moving the show over to ABC, rotating with the Columbo and Kojak revivals.
 
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