Seasons & episodes
S8 · E1Bite the Big Apple 1991-09-15 · 45 min
Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
S8 · E2Night Fears 1991-09-22 · 45 min
Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
S8 · E3Unauthorized Obituary 1991-09-29 · 45 min
After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
S8 · E4Thicker Than Water 1991-10-06 · 45 min
When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
S8 · E5Lines of Excellence 1991-11-03 · 45 min
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
S8 · E6Judge Not 1991-11-10 · 45 min
The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
S8 · E7Terminal Connection 1991-11-17 · 45 min
Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
S8 · E8A Killing in Vegas 1991-11-24 · 45 min
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
S8 · E9The Committee 1991-12-01 · 45 min
The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
S8 · E10The List of Yuri Lermentov 1991-12-15 · 45 min
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
S8 · E11Danse Diabolique 1992-01-05 · 45 min
When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
S8 · E12The Witch's Curse 1992-01-12 · 45 min
The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
S8 · E13Incident in Lot 7 1992-01-19 · 45 min
The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
S8 · E14The Monte Carlo Murders 1992-02-02 · 45 min
Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
S8 · E15Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief 1992-03-01 · 45 min
No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
S8 · E16Ever After 1992-03-08 · 45 min
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
S8 · E17To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee 1992-03-15 · 45 min
All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
S8 · E18Programmed for Murder 1992-04-05 · 45 min
There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
S8 · E19Day of the Dead 1992-04-26 · 45 min
The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
S8 · E20Angel of Death 1992-05-03 · 45 min
While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
S8 · E21Badge of Honor 1992-05-10 · 45 min
Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
S8 · E22Murder On Madison Avenue 1992-05-17 · 45 min
Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.