The BEST episodes of Murder, She Wrote season 8
Every episode of Murder, She Wrote season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Murder, She Wrote season 8!
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 - A Killing in Vegas
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1991
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
#2 - Incident in Lot 7
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1992
The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
#3 - Bite the Big Apple
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1991
Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
#4 - The Witch's Curse
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1992
The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
#5 - Unauthorized Obituary
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1991
After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
#6 - The List of Yuri Lermentov
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1991
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
#7 - Night Fears
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1991
Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
#8 - Murder on Madison Avenue
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/1992
Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.
#9 - The Committee
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1991
The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
#10 - Ever After
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/8/1992
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
#11 - Thicker Than Water
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1991
When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
#12 - Programmed for Murder
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/5/1992
There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
#13 - Lines of Excellence
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1991
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
#14 - Angel of Death
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1992
While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
#15 - Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/1/1992
No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
#16 - Danse Diabolique
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1992
When a beautiful ballerina dies during her premiere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
#17 - Terminal Connection
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1991
Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a ling list of suspects who wished him dead.
#18 - To the Last Will I Grapple with Thee
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/1992
All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
#19 - Day of the Dead
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/1992
The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
#20 - The Monte Carlo Murders
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1992
Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
#21 - Judge Not
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1991
The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
#22 - Badge of Honor
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1992
Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.