Episodes
1. Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
8.0
September 28, 1986
45 min
Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
Guest Stars:
Mark Shera, Jackie Cooper, Joey Cramer, Martin Balsam, John Alvin
2. Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
8.0
October 5, 1986
45 min
Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.
Guest Stars:
3. Unfinished Business
8.0
October 12, 1986
45 min
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
Guest Stars:
Tom Bosley, J.D. Cannon, Pat Hingle, William Windom, Don DeFore
4. One White Rose for Death
7.8
October 19, 1986
45 min
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
Guest Stars:
Tony Bonner, Jenny Agutter, Michael Anderson Jr., Bernard Fox, Eric Braeden
5. Corned Beef And Carnage
7.7
November 2, 1986
45 min
An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
Guest Stars:
Bill Macy, Susan Anton, Peter Haskell, James Sloyan, Warren Berlinger
6. Dead Man's Gold
7.7
November 9, 1986
45 min
While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
Guest Stars:
Tom Bosley, Julia Montgomery, Wendy Kilbourne, Sean McClory, William Windom
7. Deadline for Murder
8.0
November 16, 1986
45 min
A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.
Guest Stars:
Harry Guardino, Tim O'Connor, Katherine Cannon, William Smith, Gretchen Corbett
8. Magnum on Ice (II)
7.7
November 23, 1986
45 min
Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).
Guest Stars:
Stephanie Faracy, Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Dorothy Loudon, Jessica Walter
9. Obituary for a Dead Anchor
8.0
December 7, 1986
45 min
Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.
10. Stage Struck
8.3
December 14, 1986
45 min
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
Guest Stars:
Ann Turkel, Eleanor Parker, Christopher Norris, Shea Farrell, Dan O'Herlihy
11. Night of the Headless Horseman
8.0
January 4, 1987
45 min
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
Guest Stars:
Thom Bray, Barry Williams, Guy Stockwell, Judy Landers, Fritz Weaver
12. The Corpse Flew First Class
8.7
January 18, 1987
45 min
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
Guest Stars:
Robert Walker Jr., David Hemmings, James Shigeta, John S. Ragin, Andrew Parks
13. Crossed Up
8.3
February 1, 1987
45 min
The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
Guest Stars:
Tom Bosley, Colleen Camp, Henry Brandon, Gisele MacKenzie, William Windom
14. Murder in a Minor Key
4.8
February 8, 1987
45 min
Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
Guest Stars:
Shaun Cassidy, Scott Jacoby, Karen Grassle, Dinah Manoff, Jennifer Holmes
15. The Bottom Line Is Murder
7.3
February 15, 1987
45 min
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
Guest Stars:
Judith Chapman, Joe Santos, Barry Corbin, Pat Klous, Adrienne Barbeau
16. Death Takes a Dive
8.3
February 22, 1987
45 min
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
Guest Stars:
LeVar Burton, Caren Kaye, Harold Sylvester, Adam West, Ray Girardin
17. Simon Says, Color Me Dead
8.3
March 1, 1987
45 min
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
Guest Stars:
Tom Bosley, Chris Hebert, Leonard Frey, William Windom, Tess Harper
18. No Laughing Murder
9.0
March 15, 1987
45 min
After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
Guest Stars:
Sheree North, Pat Crowley, George Furth, Arte Johnson, Steve Lawrence
19. No Accounting for Murder
7.7
March 22, 1987
45 min
Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
Guest Stars:
Dorothy Lamour, James Noble, Geoffrey Lewis, Barney Martin, Patty McCormack
20. The Cemetery Vote
8.0
April 5, 1987
45 min
First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".
Guest Stars:
Mitchell Ryan, Marie Windsor, Charlene Tilton, Ed Lauter, Bruce Davison
21. The Days Dwindle Down
8.7
April 19, 1987
45 min
Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.
