Murder, she wrote - season 3

ep 1 - Death stalks the big top, part one - Jessica is in Columbia for Carol's wedding. Carol (Courteney Cox)'s grandfather Neil was Frank Fletcher's brother. Howard is her father, Audrey her mother, and Constance her terrible grandmother. When Neil died ten years ago, Frank was devastated, and could never believe it. Now Carol thinks he might be alive too, and he is, working in a circus, where a man gets killed. Neil is arrested, and he confesses to the murder! - I liked it very much how Jessica looked at Neil, so happy and moved, with so much love, what with Neil reminding her so much of his brother Frank and all :-)
ep 2 - Death stalks the big top, part two - Jessie makes Neil confess he was protecting the young boy he thought was responsible, because it wasn't him. Another man is found dead. In a hotel room, Jessica finds a circus girl lying on the floor and approaches but someone gets her from behind leaving her unconcious, before starting a fire trying to kill them both. Neil finds them and saves them. Jessica comes out with her usual line "I know who it was, but I don't know how to prove it", and I'm very glad it was that annoying, unpleasant man with the moustache.
At the end, Jess takes Neil to visit Carol; after that, he'll return to his circus where he's finally been happy (far away from Constance, that is) :-)
ep 3 - Unfinished business - A retired cop is decided to close a ten years old case, and back then Dr Seth was one of the suspects. !! - Mr Roberts is killed; unfortunately this is not Amos (Tom Bosley)'s jurisdiction, so he doesn't get to question Mrs Maggie Roberts (Erin Moran) :lol: It turns out the cop had killed his partner , and now wanted to kill the man who was blackmailing him, making it look like it was an attempt on his own life, but he can't fool Jessica!!!
ep 4 - One white rose for death - Jessica was invited to a concert and following party, and she meets Michael again!!!  I'm glad, I like Michael a lot!!  He was MI5, now he's SIS (secret intelligence service) and is called Dennis :-) He involves Jessica in a difficult situation: a german man working for SIS and his sister, a famous musician, seek refuge at the British Embassy, but then a man is murdered there.
ep 5 - Corned beef and carnage - Jessica is visiting her niece Victoria and her husband Howard. Her boss Kinkaid is murdered, and of course she's a suspect and is arrested, but her aunt Jessica is there for her :-) Howard is an actor... wait, this is the couple from season 1 :-) Glad to see they're doing fine together :-)
Although I admit I don't like the actor playing Howard, doesn't seem very good to me. There's a scene with him that is so artificial, one of those cases where I could clearly imagine the set in front of me... I wasn't seeing a character, but a man working... annoying is what it is.
Funny thing, the murderer admits he had thought a lot of how to get rid of Mr Kinkaid, and when he finally decides to put his plan into action? When Jessica was there...
ep 6 - Dead man's gold - David Everett (Leslie Nielsen) is at Cabot Cove, searching the sea for some lost treasure; when he sees Jessica, he goes "Jessie McGill?" and he kisses her on the mouth! They last saw each other 35 years ago.
"You had a good life with Frank" - "Wonderful" - "I hadn't realise how much I missed you" and after saying this he gets invited to stay with her : "but the neighbours are liable to start talking!" - "Do you really think so? Good! They think I lead a very dull life chained to my typewriter" :lol:
Talking to Dr Seth, she says "I've known David Everett for the past 35 years" - "Correction, you knew him 35 years ago. There is a difference".  Then she talks to David : "David, I want some straight answers" _ "For you Jess, anything" _ "Don't patronise me. I've been acting like a fool, and I don't like it. I don't like the fact that because I may have felt something for you a long time ago I'm afraid to ask you the hard questions that I have to ask" :-) At the end, they say goodbye again "Seems you're always sailing away" _ "I never said I was smart" aww this is cute :-)
ep 7 - Deadline for murder - In Boston, Jessica's journalist friend has a heart attack because of the new Sentinel publisher. Jessica steps in, working the case in his place. Personally, I coldn't stand the guy. "Oscar, will you stop treating me like a two year-old? You know, it's all beginning to come back to me, why I chose to marry Frank instead of pursuing a newspaper career with you"
There's a female investigator at Boston P.D., this is a first!
ep 8 - Magnum on ice - Crossover, Magnum with Jessica! I didn't know that, but apparently there was an ep of Magnum with Jessica was there, and this is the conclusion. It starts "previously on Magnum p.i." : Higgins met three women at the airport, and one of them is Pamela Bates, old friend of Jessica. Magnum was hired, Pamela's sister went missing.. Pamela wrote to Jessica and she went there to help. When someone shot at Magnum he shot back, but the police found him near a body shot in the back and unarmed...
Jessica looks really good in that blue dress,Je looks like she adapted to Magnum's style a bit.:-) Again later she's dressed in white, with flowers on her shirt... she clearly adjusted to the atmosphere :-)
I love the smile she gives the Lt after threatening him to personally call the governor..
Magnum is always surprised when she finds something, he doesn't take her seriously, he thinks she's just an old lady poking around where she could get hurt, he never even read her books, not even the one Higgins gave him as a present... well, he'll finally read it, better late than never.
I love this bit : Jessica "Magnum, where were you when Mr Houston was killed?" - Magnum"When was he killed?" - "An hour after you made bail", it was fun because they are always catching bad guys saying things like' how could you know when he was murdered?' and such things :lol:
"Jonathan, you were magnificent!" she says to Higgins after he saves her and Amy. :-)
ep 9 - Obituary for a dead anchor - Mr Keats was at Cabot Cove to interview Jessica. He's believed dead, but it turns out it was his collegue Doug, killed by one of his reporters.
In this episode there is also Sheriff Amos (Tom Bosley), but not Dr Seth, so Jessica plays chess with the other doctor...
ep 10 - Stage struck - Directed by John Astin :-) A substitute actress, Barbara, is killed during a performance, and the chief of police was quite funny at first, with his french words : Ales="Good Lord, I think he's playing Hercule Poirot" Julian="Yes, and badly too" :lol:
Julian Lord (Edward Mulhare) killed Barbara because she was blackmailing him., because he wanted to protect Maggie who secretely gave a child away thirty years ago.
A sweet scene was when Jessica remembered meeting her Frank in the teatre, and he offered to help her. :-)
ep 11 - Night of the headless horseman - Vermont. Dorian has told everyone that Jessica is his mother :lol: When a man turns out dead, his head cut off because the recent dental work would have brought the police to his murderer right away, who did it to avenge the death of his fiancèe, the whole truth comes out and he loses his girlfriend :lol:
ep 12 - The corpse flew first class - Jessica is on her way to London for research, and boards a plane. Ms Green (Kate Mulgrew)'s friend has probably been murdered, and her jewels stolen. The killer turns out to be Ms Green, out of pride and jealousy,  but the thief was a man on the plane (Robert Walker, seen in the old Star Trek, but still looks exactly the same - he was Charlie) along with the 'Scotland yard' man .
ep 13 - Crossed up - Grady is at his aunt Jessica's house for a week because she's forced to bed. Trying to make a call, her line is crossed up with an ongoing call between two men planning to kill another man. Grady, Seth and Amos (Tom Bosley) think she's gone crazy, but a man gets really killed!! How could they think that!! They should know her well enough!!
She recognizes the voice of one of his sons, but he's not the killer.. the right killer went to her bedroom, but Jessica was prepared and the police caught her on time.
ep 14 - Murder in a minor key - It starts with Jessica at home, talking to us, proofreading a book, and narrating it to us. Then the story starts. Michael Prentiss, a music student, is arrested charged with the murder of the professor that stole his music. A law student and his wanna-be-social-worker girlfriend try to help him as his friends. He's the one doing all the investigations, and catching the real killer, freeing his friend of any suspicions; Jessica only makes two or three interruptions to talk to us about the story, telling us at the end that she's thinking of a sequel to this. A bit boring, to tell you the truth.
Rene Auberjonois (another STrek-world name) plays Harold 'Harry' Papazian.
ep 15 - The bottom line is murder - In Denver, a tv man is killed and Steve is arrested. Seven years ago Jessica was at Steve and Jane's marriage. The dead man may have been a hard and unpleasant man, but he was just a mistake: Steve was the intended victim!
George Takei (no need to say it, but ST again!!) plays cleaning guy Burt Tanaka.
ep 16 - Death takes a dive - Harry (Jerry Orbach) has Jessica lend him 5.000 dollars, next thing she knows he's arrested for murder! She works to help him poking around with Blaster the boxer as a bodyguard, and catches the real killer. Ernest Borgnine works in the gym, and LeVar Burton (STworld!) is journalist Dave Robinson.
ep 17 - Simon says, color me dead - Simon, a painter, is killed after a dinner with friends, including Jessica. He was killed by his jealous model, and frankly her expressions betrayed it from the start, all she did and said lead there, even before his death, actually.
Sorry for Amos (Tom Bosley), he was getting fond of the young boy.
ep 18 - No laughing murder - George Clooney, like a new Romeo, is in love with the daughter of a man that doesn't get along with his father... he already had his charming smile, didn't he? Unfortunately, most of the time the girl's father was on, and I didn't like him at all. What a face, I didn't like it at all, so strange.
ep 19 - No accounting for murder - Grady is finally working :-) , and when his boss meets his aunt Jessica he tells her that he's loved her books for twenty years... even though she's been a writer only a few years, after Frank died, and also tells her of the importance of love-story book! :lol: She doesn't correct him, but says instead "where would we be without Barbara Cartland?"  :-)
He will turn out to be a very nasty one: he killed his associate and tried to kill Jessica at the end, because she had figured everything out. Obviously, she was saved by the 'ghost', the man living in the secret passages of the building.
ep 20 - The cemetery vote - Jessica came back because Dr Seth told her this James died, while she was in Rome. Her friend Jim has been murdered, and so his father. Maybe not the details, but the who was really simple.
ep 21 - The days dwindle down - A man spent thirty years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, and his wife asks Jessica to reopen the case. It was suicide. The cool thing was that they showed pieces of the old case like a black&white 'noir' movie :-)
ep 22 - Murder, she spoke - Jessica is recording novels for the blind.
Lt. Faraday (G.W. Bailey) considers Jess just an irrational woman, because the hard work of investigarion is a man's job :-/ but of course it'll be Jessica to crack the case :-)