Episode

Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Curtain Call

Name: Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Curtain Call
Released: 1984-12-16
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Angela Lansbury, William Windom, Ron Masak, Louis Herthum, Tom Bosley

Murder, She WroteSeason 11984-12-16

Overview

While attending a special ballet performance, Jessica helps solve the backstage murder of a young dancer by a defecting ballerina.

Details

Series: Murder, She Wrote
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 9
Air date: 1984-12-16
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

Death Takes a Curtain Call is Episode 9 in Season 1 of Murder, She Wrote. It aired on 1984-12-16. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 8: We're Off to Kill the Wizard 1984-12-09 | 45 min Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.

Episode 10: Death Casts a Spell 1984-12-30 | 45 min 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.

More episodes from this season

Episode 7: Hit, Run and Homicide 1984-11-25 | 45 min Jessica helps a most unconventional neighbor who is accused of murdering his former partner with one of his inventions.

Episode 11: Capitol Offense 1985-01-06 | 45 min 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.

Episode 6: Lovers and Other Killers 1984-11-18 | 45 min While in Seattle lecturing at the university, Jessica is convinced that the young man she hired as her secretary is not a killer.

Episode 12: Broadway Malady 1985-01-13 | 45 min 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 5: It's a Dog's Life 1984-11-04 | 45 min 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 13: Murder to a Jazz Beat 1985-02-03 | 45 min While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage.

Episode 4: Hooray for Homicide 1984-10-28 | 45 min 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 14: My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean 1985-02-10 | 45 min Jessica's niece is terrorized on a cruise intended to take her mind off her husband's recent death...or is he dead?

Episode 3: Birds of a Feather 1984-10-14 | 45 min Jessica heads to San Francisco for the wedding of her niece, Victoria Brandon, only to learn that Victoria is having second thoughts because she suspects that her fiancé, Howard, is having an affair. Although Jessica and Victoria are relieved to learn that Howard isn't cheating but rather dressing up as a woman to perform at a nightclub, the relief is short lived when Howard is arrested for murdering his boss, Al Drake, who had been refusing to pay him. The police are convinced that Drake was shot during Freddy York's act, which doesn't leave a lot of time, but Jessica is determined to prove Howard's innocence.

Episode 15: Paint Me a Murder 1985-02-17 | 45 min The life of a famous artist is threatened on what would be otherwise an idyllic Mediterranean island.