Episode
Murder, She Wrote: Keep the Home Fries Burning
Overview
Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, and murder interrupts their meal.
Details
- Series
- Murder, She Wrote
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1986-01-19
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Keep the Home Fries Burning is Episode 14 in Season 2 of Murder, She Wrote. It aired on 1986-01-19. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 13: Trial by Error
It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.
Episode 15: Powder Keg
After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield find themselves in a small southern town just in time for local bad boy Ed Bonner to be found dead, and young Matt Burns, the son of a former student of Ames', ends up accused of the murder. At the behest of Linda Bonner, the victim's sister who happens to care deeply about the accused, Jessica takes a look into the murder, but hatred runs deep in this town and it's pure luck (and Andy Crane) that leads Jessica and Ames to the right answer.
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Episode 11: Murder Digs Deep
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Episode 17: One Good Bid Deserves a Murder
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Episode 10: Sticks and Stones
When a woman is electrocuted in her bathroom, Amos chuckles that even Jessica can't make a murder out of it. Michael Dugby: Parker Stevenson. Harry Pierce: John Astin. Frederich Hoffman: Paul Benedict. Adam Frobisher: Christopher Stone. Edna: Evelyn Keyes.
Episode 18: If A Body Meet A Body
Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.
Episode 9: Jessica Behind Bars
Doing public service, Jessica becomes a hostage in a prison riot caused by anger in the handling of the doctor's murder.
Episode 19: Christopher Bundy -- Died On Sunday
Jessica and Grady head to the home of publisher Christopher Bundy, whose publishing company owns the rights to Jessica's first short story. Jessica is quite upset, as Bundy's magazine is known for it's racy pictures of young women. While there, Jessica is pleased to run into an old acquaintance, Chester Harrison, and when Harrison is accused of murdering Christopher Bundy, Jessica vows to prove his innocence but runs into trouble when the family isn't interested in having their own skeletons dragged out of the closet.
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Episode 20: Menace, Anyone?
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