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"Murder, She Wrote" If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly (1987)
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Peter S. Fischer (creator) and
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8 November 1987 (Season 4, Episode 7)
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A handyman who has been paying attention to more than the houses of various Cabot Cove ladies needs Jessica's help when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. full summary | add synopsis
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(Episode Credited cast) | Angela Lansbury | ... | Jessica Fletcher |
 | Julie Adams | ... | Eve Simpson |
| Tom Bosley | ... | Sheriff Amos Tupper |
| Antoinette Bower | ... | Mrs. Audrey Martin |
| Gloria DeHaven | ... | Phyllis Grant |
| Ray Girardin | ... | George Tibbits |
| Dody Goodman | ... | Beverly Hills |
| Kathryn Grayson | ... | Ideal Molloy |
| Rick Lenz | ... | Deputy Jonathan Martin |
| Ruth Roman | ... | Loretta Speigel |
| William Windom | ... | Dr. Seth Hazlitt |
| Sally Klein | ... | Coreen |
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Well, who can really solve these things? Still, it was an intriguing mystery and set up.
Angela Lansbury would recruit a virtual plethora of her old buddies to appear in this episode, rather amusingly too. Among them, Julie Adams, Kathryn Grayson, Dodie Goodman, Gloria DeHaven, Antoinette Bower and Ruth Roman, perfectly working as the owner and operator of the hair salon.
I used to think Roman would have made an ideal Dr. Watson as Jessica Fletcher's personal hair stylist for when she made TV appearances to promote her books. Ah well.
Anyway, one of the ladies is murdered, and it is learned her husband has been having affairs with all the other women, all single by widowhood or other means (husband left her).
So did he kill his wife to get one of his mistresses permanently, or did one of the mistresses do it? As I watched this episode, it was by now evident to me and my slow-moving grey matter that a minor background character was going to be the killer, seen only twice before the revelation of the crime.
Upon watching it again, I now see we are given another secondary background character, no doubt as a distraction, but nothing came of that.
The revelation of the murder is actually quite good, extremely simplistic, but plausible, in a TV crime sort of way.
Had a simple conversation about lying about their ages not occurred with the women in the beauty salon, then Jessica would have had no way of solving this one.