Episode
Murder, She Wrote: Witness for the Defense
Overview
Jessica goes to Quebec to testify at the trial of a friend who is accused of killing his wife and burning his house.
Details
- Series
- Murder, She Wrote
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1987-10-04
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Witness for the Defense is Episode 3 in Season 4 of Murder, She Wrote. It aired on 1987-10-04. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 2: When Thieves Fall Out
A walk down memory lane is anything but pleasant for Jessica when she re-examines a 20 year-old case involving her close friends and former students.
Episode 4: Old Habits Die Hard
A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: A Fashionable Way to Die
Ooh la la! Jessica travels to gay Paris to spend some time with an old friend... and finds herself entangled in a case involving fashion, finance and murder.
Episode 5: The Way To Dusty Death
After the 'accidental' death of a tycoon, his associates battle for position to succeed him.
Episode 6: It Runs In The Family
Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.
Episode 7: If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly
When Deputy Martin becomes a widower by murder, the investigation turns up some surprising activity.
Episode 8: Steal Me a Story
The special effects used by a TV producer are a real bomb.
Episode 9: Trouble in Eden
Hostility and other surprises await Jessica in a town where she's posing as her friend to investigate the rumoured murder of the friend's sister.
Episode 10: Indian Giver
A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.
Episode 11: Doom with a View
Grady gets into a spot again when he is found with the body of woman known from college days and now had been dating a frat brother who was married.
Episode 12: Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?
Somebody laced Mrs. Fletcher's chowder and Amos' brutish brother-in-law was in for the long sleep.
Episode 13: Harbinger of Death
Jessica is thrilled to be visiting her niece Carrie and her husband Leonard, an astronomer dreaming of seeing a long-lost comet, but when Carrie's ex-boyfriend Drake Eaton is murdered in the home she's been staying in, Jessica has to prove not only her niece but also her husband innocent of murder.