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The Best Episodes of Murder, She Wrote Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 12 - The Corpse Flew First Class
    8.5/10(765 votes)

    S3:E12

    Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Donald Ross

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  2. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 21 - The Days Dwindle Down
    8.3/10(813 votes)

    S3:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 13 - Crossed Up
    8.0/10(728 votes)

    S3:E13

    The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writer:Craig W. Van Sickle

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  4. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 1 - Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
    7.6/10(648 votes)

    S3:E1

    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.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  5. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 2 - Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
    7.6/10(590 votes)

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Paul Savage

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  6. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 8 - Magnum on Ice (II)
    7.6/10(632 votes)

    S3:E8

    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).

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  7. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 17 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead
    7.6/10(560 votes)

    S3:E17

    An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  8. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 22 - Murder, She Spoke
    7.6/10(542 votes)

    S3:E22

    During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 9 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor
    7.5/10(561 votes)

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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  10. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 11 - Night of the Headless Horseman
    7.5/10(614 votes)

    S3:E11

    The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:R. Barker Price

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  11. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 19 - No Accounting for Murder
    7.5/10(537 votes)

    S3:E19

    Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Gerald K. Siegel

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  12. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 20 - The Cemetery Vote
    7.5/10(548 votes)

    S3:E20

    First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Robert Van Scoyk

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  13. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 4 - One White Rose for Death
    7.4/10(594 votes)

    S3:E4

    Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  14. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 7 - Deadline for Murder
    7.4/10(525 votes)

    S3:E7

    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.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writers:Tom Sawyer, Michael McGough

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  15. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 10 - Stage Struck
    7.4/10(552 votes)

    S3:E10

    The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

    Directors:Walter Grauman, John Astin
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 15 - The Bottom Line Is Murder
    7.4/10(521 votes)

    S3:E15

    A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

    Director:Anthony Pullen Shaw
    Writer:Craig W. Van Sickle

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  17. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 18 - No Laughing Murder
    7.3/10(609 votes)

    S3:E18

    After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Tom Sawyer

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  18. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 3 - Unfinished Business
    7.2/10(622 votes)

    S3:E3

    A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Jackson Gillis

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  19. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 5 - Corned Beef and Carnage
    7.2/10(589 votes)

    S3:E5

    An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Robert E. Swanson

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  20. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 6 - Dead Man's Gold
    7.2/10(595 votes)

    S3:E6

    While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 16 - Death Takes a Dive
    7.1/10(548 votes)

    S3:E16

    Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Peter S. Fischer

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  22. Murder, She Wrote Season 3 Episode 14 - Murder in a Minor Key
    6.7/10(579 votes)

    S3:E14

    Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Corpse Flew First Class" is the best rated episode of "Murder, She Wrote" season 3. It scored 8.5/10 based on 765 votes. Directed by Walter Grauman and written by Donald Ross, it aired on 1/18/1987. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Days Dwindle Down".