TONIGHT on Murder, She Wrote

We are back in Cabot Cove TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, and the weather is stormy! Viktor and Petra take on the recap of a three (four?) sisters' plot this side of King Lear.  Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is feeling some kinda way when she arrives home to a stranger who's taken it upon himself to trim her hedges...in exchange for breakfast!  Find out about the man missing, the one who's washed ashore, and our illustrious guest handyman (and if they're all the same person!).  Will this mystery man be competition for Claude Akins as yet another crusty man in town who consistently finds himself in Jessica's kitchen?  And who did it?  Is it... ungrateful daughter number one, two, three, or four?  One of their suspicious love interests who shows up unexpectedly just in time to inherit?  One longshoreman or another?  Someone rocking a pink pump?  Or was it the boiled scrod all along?  We see Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) take on a case for the first time, and entirely how useless he is in solving the crime.  Dack Rambo, Cassie Yates, Anne Lockhart, and Howard Duff join the cast for this episode, known as DEADLY LADY. 

On our inaugural episode of TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, Viktor and Petra explore the double premiere episode, THE MURDER OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.  This venture will have a long-lasting impact on the rest of the series (and its episode count) as it introduces small-town retired English teacher Jessica Fletcher and follows her meteoric rise to fame as a murder mystery writer.  We meet the enemy that is the press, Jessica's well-meaning but utterly useless nephew Grady, and the underused force that is Agnes Peabody, and attend the most incongruous masquerade party featuring some of the worst guests possible, all under a highly-trafficked flight path. Who did it?  Is it... Jessica's new love interest (and publisher- we sense a conflict of interest); the fabulous, hard-drinking Anne Francis dressed as a saloon girl; or our new favorite obsession, Ashley Vickers, in the best series of pantsuits this side of Designing Women?

Viktor Devonne hosts WEBurlesque, a chat show with burlesque and nightlife stars; he presently lives in Southern California and travels the country as a stripping hobo clown.

Petra Fried hosts Petra Fried Tries, a YouTube cooking show where she attempts recipes from some of the world's leading chefs.  She presently lives in northern Colorado.

Murder, She Wrote aired on CBS from 1984 to 1996, starring theatre legend Angela Lansbury as the inquisitive and insightful mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, who travels the world (or stays local in Cabot Cove, Maine) as bodies mount all around her.  Invariably, she will determine who did it, why, and how; hopefully it wasn't one of her many nieces, nephews, former sorority sisters, now-adult students, or new person she is incontrovertibly linked to forever after meeting only hours earlier.

This is TONIGHT on Murder, She Wrote.