The BEST episodes of Murder, She Wrote season 3
Every episode of Murder, She Wrote season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Murder, She Wrote season 3!
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!
#1 - The Days Dwindle Down
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/19/1987
Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.
#2 - No Accounting for Murder
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/22/1987
Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.
#3 - Murder, She Spoke
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1987
During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.
#4 - Night of the Headless Horseman
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1987
The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.
#5 - The Corpse Flew First Class
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1987
Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.
#6 - Crossed Up
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1987
The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.
#7 - Death Stalks the Big Top (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1986
After Jessica's great-niece Carol receives a wedding gift of a silver leprechaun, she confides in Jessica that it was the one gift her grandfather had always promised her. Years earlier Neil was presumed dead in a boating accident, but his body was never found. Jessica agrees to search for Neil, and her search leads her to the Carmody circus, and a roustabout named Carl Schum, who she soon realises is Neil. Unfortunately, when a body is found on the grounds, Neil is the primary suspect, even though everyone had good reason to want Hank Sutter dead.
#8 - Death Stalks the Big Top (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1986
Despite Neil's confession to Hank Sutter's murder, Jessica is convinced that he didn't do it, and soon Neil confesses that he only said he did to protect young Charlie McCallum after finding his baseball bat at the scene. When rival circus owner Harry Kingman is found dead in his motel room, Jessica realises that the connection isn't Hank Sutter, but rather the Kingman circus, where many of the employees used to work. Unfortunately, she's up against an arrogant mayor who fancies himself a cop, and a circus full of people who aren't too helpful.
#9 - Unfinished Business
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1986
A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.
#10 - Dead Man's Gold
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1986
While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.
#11 - Obituary for a Dead Anchor
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1986
Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.
#12 - Stage Struck
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1986
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
#13 - The Cemetery Vote
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/5/1987
First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".
#14 - Simon Says, Color Me Dead
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/1987
An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
#15 - No Laughing Murder
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1987
After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.
#16 - Death Takes a Dive
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1987
Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.
#17 - Corned Beef and Carnage
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1986
An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.
#18 - Magnum on Ice
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1986
Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target.
#19 - Murder in a Minor Key
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1987
Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
#20 - The Bottom Line Is Murder
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/1987
A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?
#21 - One White Rose for Death
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1986
Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.
#22 - Deadline for Murder
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1986
A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.