Episode
Murder, She Wrote: Death Casts a Spell
Overview
Jessica's deductive abilities are in demand when a flamboyant hypnotist turns up dead, behind locked doors, in front of an audience of journalists whom he had put into a trance.
Details
- Series
- Murder, She Wrote
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1984-12-30
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Death Casts a Spell is Episode 10 in Season 1 of Murder, She Wrote. It aired on 1984-12-30. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 9: Death Takes a Curtain Call
While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.
Episode 11: Capitol Offense
Jessica is assigned to fill the empty seat of a deceased congressman for a brief period of time and finds a great deal of political game-playing in Washington.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: We're Off to Kill the Wizard
Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.
Episode 12: Broadway Malady
Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.
Episode 7: Hit, Run and Homicide
Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one of his inventions.
Episode 13: Murder to a Jazz Beat
While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage.
Episode 6: Lovers and Other Killers
While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.
Episode 14: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?
Episode 5: It's a Dog's Life
While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.
Episode 15: Paint Me a Murder
The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.
Episode 4: Hooray for Homicide
Jessica's first book, The Corpse Danced at Midnight, is being made into a major Hollywood motion picture, backed by producer Jerry Lydecker. Jessica is furious to see how her book is being butchered by Lydecker and his crew. She heads out to Hollywood to confront Lydecker, but things take a turn when Lydecker is found dead on stage. Jessica ends up being the prime suspect in the murder, but luckily the officer in charge of the investigation believes she's too smart to be the killer and sets her up to find the real murderer.
Episode 16: Tough Guys Don't Die
Jessica meets Harry McGraw and they figure out which one of three cases may contain the motive for the death of a private detective. One dates back 25 years.