The BEST episodes of Murder, She Wrote season 9

Every episode of Murder, She Wrote season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Murder, She Wrote season 9!

Murder seems to follow Jessica Fletcher, a former English teacher and a mystery writer full of charm, zest-for-life, and personality; who happens to become "the investigator" when traveling around the country to promote a series of novels. Murder always occurs when she is present. Even in Cabot Cove!

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Night of the Coyote
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7.83
178 votes

#1 - Night of the Coyote

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1992

The legend of a stage coach robber's hidden treasure leads to the murder of an old mining town entrepreneur.

Directors: Jerry Jameson
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A Christmas Secret
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7.82
146 votes

#2 - A Christmas Secret

Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1992

The return of a Gulf War veteran and his reunion with his fiancee is marred by his big secret.

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The Petrified Florist
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7.65
138 votes

#3 - The Petrified Florist

Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1993

Was a Beverly Hills florist killed because he was supplying more than flowers for gossip magazine editors?

Writer: Donald Ross
Killer Radio
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7.60
165 votes

#4 - Killer Radio

Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1993

The prospective owner of a radio station in the prairies is killed before the sale goes through.

Directors: Peter Salim
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Dead to Rights
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7.57
141 votes

#5 - Dead to Rights

Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/1993

Jessica knows her former researcher is a congenital liar, so why should she believe her now?

Writer: Tom Sawyer
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The Mole
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7.32
118 votes

#6 - The Mole

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1992

Jessica is mistaken for someone else and kidnapped at the airport. When the woman she is mistaken for is killed, Jessica finds the murderer.

Directors: Peter Salim
Writer: Tom Sawyer
Family Secrets
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7.29
119 votes

#7 - Family Secrets

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1992

Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

Directors: Walter Grauman
Threshold of Fear
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7.29
113 votes

#8 - Threshold of Fear

Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1993

A recluse is terrified when the killer she sees in her dreams tries to see her in real life.

Directors: Vincent McEveety
The Wind Around the Tower
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7.28
122 votes

#9 - The Wind Around the Tower

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1992

While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.

Directors: Walter Grauman
The Dead File
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7.22
140 votes

#10 - The Dead File

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1992

Jessica is appalled when, upon returning to New York City, she finds herself caricatured as a fox in a politically satirical comic strip with libelous dialogue.

Writer: Tom Sawyer
Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice
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7.20
114 votes

#11 - Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1992

Agent Michael Hagarty is arrested for the murder of his estranged daughter's crooked fiancee.

Directors: Vincent McEveety
Dead Eye
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7.18
119 votes

#12 - Dead Eye

Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/1993

Are the disappearance of a private eye in 1963 and the Kennedy assassination of the same year connected?

Directors: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Tom Sawyer
The Classic Murder
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7.18
177 votes

#13 - The Classic Murder

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1992

After a tycoon disappears, a psychic divines that the has been murdered--then she is found dead!

Directors: Vincent McEveety
Final Curtain
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7.17
141 votes

#14 - Final Curtain

Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1993

The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

Directors: Walter Grauman
The Sound of Murder
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7.17
138 votes

#15 - The Sound of Murder

Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/1993

The last sound the producer hears is not from a record.

The Big Kill
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7.15
86 votes

#16 - The Big Kill

Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1993

The town is concerned when a local fisherman dies, but concern turns to confusion when a second body is discovered aboard a fishing boat. Both men died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but seem to have no connection until the fisherman's daughter receives her father's logbook and nautical charts in the mail.

Directors: Jerry Jameson
Double Jeopardy
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7.15
170 votes

#17 - Double Jeopardy

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1993

The confessional is the site of the last rites as an estranged father seeks absolution from his priest son.

The Survivor
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7.14
104 votes

#18 - The Survivor

Season 9 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1993

Jessica's computer tech becomes an inadvertent target when she dates an undercover cop, whom she has just met.

Love's Deadly Desire
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7.06
138 votes

#19 - Love's Deadly Desire

Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1993

The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.

Lone Witness
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7.06
109 votes

#20 - Lone Witness

Season 9 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/1993

A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.

Directors: Walter Grauman
Ship of Thieves
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6.96
140 votes

#21 - Ship of Thieves

Season 9 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1993

A pleasant cruise is marred by the discovery that there are thieves on board and possibly a murderer.

Murder in Milan
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6.81
156 votes

#22 - Murder in Milan

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1992

During the Milan Film Festival, famous film producer Catherine Wayne is murdered.