Seasons & episodes
S3 · E1Death Stalks the Big Top (1) 1986-09-28 · 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.
S3 · E2Death Stalks the Big Top (2) 1986-10-05 · 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.
S3 · E3Unfinished Business 1986-10-12 · 45 min
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
S3 · E4One White Rose for Death 1986-10-19 · 45 min
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
S3 · E5Corned Beef And Carnage 1986-11-02 · 45 min
An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
S3 · E6Dead Man's Gold 1986-11-09 · 45 min
While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
S3 · E7Deadline for Murder 1986-11-16 · 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.
S3 · E8Magnum on Ice (II) 1986-11-23 · 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).
S3 · E9Obituary for a Dead Anchor 1986-12-07 · 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.
S3 · E10Stage Struck 1986-12-14 · 45 min
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
S3 · E11Night of the Headless Horseman 1987-01-04 · 45 min
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
S3 · E12The Corpse Flew First Class 1987-01-18 · 45 min
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
S3 · E13Crossed Up 1987-02-01 · 45 min
The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
S3 · E14Murder in a Minor Key 1987-02-08 · 45 min
Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
S3 · E15The Bottom Line Is Murder 1987-02-15 · 45 min
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
S3 · E16Death Takes a Dive 1987-02-22 · 45 min
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
S3 · E17Simon Says, Color Me Dead 1987-03-01 · 45 min
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
S3 · E18No Laughing Murder 1987-03-15 · 45 min
After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
S3 · E19No Accounting for Murder 1987-03-22 · 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.
S3 · E20The Cemetery Vote 1987-04-05 · 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".
S3 · E21The Days Dwindle Down 1987-04-19 · 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.
S3 · E22Murder, She Spoke 1987-05-10 · 45 min
During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.