Seasons & episodes
S5 · E1J.B. As in Jailbird 1988-10-23 · 45 min
When Jessica is arrested for murder, secret agent Michael Haggerty and her nephew Grady conspire to keep her safely in jail while they seek the real killer.
S5 · E2A Little Night Work 1988-10-30 · 45 min
A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.
S5 · E3Mr. Penroy's Vacation 1988-11-06 · 45 min
The sisters used a new type of fertilizer to make their chrysanthemums best of show.
S5 · E4Snow White, Blood Red 1988-11-13 · 45 min
A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
S5 · E5Coal Miner's Slaughter 1988-11-20 · 45 min
The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
S5 · E6Wearing of the Green 1988-11-27 · 45 min
A Fletcher novel is the entree to a legendary actress who is a hermit refusing to meet anyone. The occasion is the theft of a famous tiara.
S5 · E7The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel 1988-12-18 · 45 min
The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
S5 · E8Prediction: Murder 1989-01-01 · 45 min
A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.
S5 · E9Something Borrowed, Someone Blue 1989-01-08 · 45 min
Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
S5 · E10Weave a Tangled Web 1989-01-15 · 45 min
Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room and she can't explain why.
S5 · E11The Search for Peter Kerry 1989-02-05 · 45 min
A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.
S5 · E12Smooth Operators 1989-02-12 · 45 min
When a drunk is found dead in the alley, it raises a lot of questions. He was well dressed (but only one shoe) and had no id or money--a robbery or something else?
S5 · E13Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble 1989-02-19 · 45 min
A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
S5 · E14From Russia ... With Blood 1989-02-26 · 45 min
A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
S5 · E15Alma Murder 1989-03-12 · 45 min
An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
S5 · E16Truck Stop 1989-04-02 · 45 min
Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.
S5 · E17The Sins of Castle Cove 1989-04-09 · 45 min
A red hot novel, written by a former Fletcher student, seems to expose the small town's secrets and inspires murder. Julie Adams, Gloria DeHaven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman appear again as the local gossips.
S5 · E18Trevor Hudson's Legacy 1989-04-16 · 45 min
A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.
S5 · E19Double Exposure 1989-04-30 · 45 min
In a strange case, Jessica bumps into an old friend who is supposed to be dead. His widow insists he is dead and Jessica hires Harry McGraw to investigate.
S5 · E20Three Strikes, You're Out 1989-05-07 · 45 min
A surprised burglar is blamed for the death of the team's pre-game TV Host.
S5 · E21Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1) 1989-05-14 · 45 min
Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
S5 · E22Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2) 1989-05-21 · 45 min
After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.