The BEST episodes written by Philip Gerson
#1 - The Days Dwindle Down
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 21
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.
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Mysterious Ways - Season 1 - Episode 10
A window washer falls from the side of a very tall building and crashes through the top of a parked convertible landing in the passenger's seat next to a very frightened driver. He is dazed but un-injured. Declan, Peggy and Miranda must investigate how this could happen and find a very interesting coincidence.
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#3 - The Ice Man Cometh
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 4 - Episode 16
When a charlatan passes through town selling shares in a nonexistent invention, nearly everyone in Colorado Springs buys into the scam.
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#4 - Runaway Train
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 1
Finally ready to work again after giving birth to her baby, Dr. Mike must lead a rescue party when Sully and Cloud Dancing are among the passengers on a train that has been overtaken by robbers and wrecked. Sully had negotiated Cloud Dancing's release from Army detention, and the two were taking the train to Colorado Springs when a gang of thieves derailed the train in an effort to rob it. Meanwhile, Dr. Mike must again face the prejudice against women doctors when she finds that the townspeople have become used to being treated by young Dr. Andrew Cook who filled in for her while she was on maternity leave. For his part, Andrew has become reluctant to return the practice to Dr. Mike and go back to Boston, as originally agreed.
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#5 - Fear Itself
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 4 - Episode 25
Isabelle Maynard, an attractive painter, arrives in town attracting the eligible bachelors particularly Preston. But after the citizens learn Isabelle has leprosy they are determined to drive her out of town over Dr. Mike's objections.
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#6 - Moment of Truth (2)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 26
Sully tries to get Cloud Dancing to safety in the north. The actions of the renegade dog soldiers take their toll on the town. An old enemy goes after Sully and Cloud Dancing.
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#7 - Town Father
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 11
The town gets a shock when bachelor Mayor Sam is confronted on the speaker's platform by a young woman claiming he is the father of her five children. Julie Adams, Gloria De Haven, Kathryn Grayson and Ruth Roman return as gossips Eve, Phyllis, Idal and Loretta.
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#8 - Right or Wrong
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 7
Dr. Mike is arrested and put in jail for treating a fugitive Indian; Jake and Preston run against each other for mayor of Colorado Springs.
#9 - A Place to Die
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 12
Dr. Mike desperately attempts to find out why patients are dying mysteriously after having been treated in her clinic. As Dr. Mike searches for the answer to why a deadly and mysterious infection haunts her clinic, the townspeople begin to fear coming in for treatment. Unable to find out what is causing the deaths, Dr. Mike then makes a fateful decision that could mean destroying everything she has worked for through the years. Meanwhile, the attraction between Colleen and Andrew grows while she is home from college for a visit.
#10 - If the Frame Fits
Murder, She Wrote - Season 2 - Episode 22
After Julia Marcus Granger is found murdered during what seems to have been an apparent art theft, suspicion turns to her husband Donald, who, as a result, also ends up being suspected in a recent rash of art thefts where there were no fatalities. Julia's sister Sabrina is convinced that Donald didn't do it and begs Jessica for help. While looking into Julia's murder, Jessica realises that she has two completely different criminals on her hands, and someone tampered with the scene of Julia's murder to make it look like something else.
#11 - The Way to Dusty Death
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 5
After the 'accidental' death of a tycoon, his associates battle for position to succeed him.
#12 - Moment of Truth (1)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 5 - Episode 25
After Cloud Dancing is beaten almost to death, Sully organizes an escape for him and the others on the reservation, which turns deadly. Sully flees with a price on his head.
#13 - Stage Struck
Murder, She Wrote - Season 3 - Episode 10
The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.
#14 - Civil Wars
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6 - Episode 10
Dorothy discovers the deed to the property that Grace's cafe is on. Hank accidently breaks Horace's nose and won't pay for the damage. There is a sudden rash of lawsuits and Michaela acts as Judge.
#15 - Truck Stop
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 16
Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.
#16 - Vengeance
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6 - Episode 19
U.S. Marshall Elias Burch asks Matthew, still a student of law, to defend him when he's accused of murder.
#17 - Dorothy's Book
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 4 - Episode 6
Dorothy gets her book about the town published, but the townsfolk read her depiction of them differently than she intended.
#18 - Something Borrowed, Someone Blue
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 9
Grady's wedding seems doomed when someone does in the persnickety housekeeper.
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Mysterious Ways - Season 2 - Episode 10
Declan investigates when an agoraphobic, clairvoyant police sketch artist creates remarkably accurate pictures, leading to a showdown with a serial killer.
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Mysterious Ways - Season 2 - Episode 12
Declan investigates when an uneducated blue-collar worker is suddenly able to perform complicated emergency surgeries. But will the man's new medical skill help him stop his teenage son from making a tragic mistake?
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#21 - Halloween III
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 4 - Episode 5
Elderly Abner Foley comes to town looking for alternative treatment and a very friendly dog adopts Jake Slicker. The rest of the town looks forward to the costume party but first Brian must face a very big fear.
#22 - Just Another Fish Story
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 19
Somebody put the maitre d' on ice. Jessica wonders if she has made a bad investment. When Jessica's nephew recommends that she invest in a trendy New York City restaurant, she makes the change from author to tycoon. But when the eatery becomes a crime scene, she finds herself in hell's kitchen.
#23 - The Sweetest Gift (2)
Christy - Season 2 - Episode 2
Christy's father suffers a stroke, that leads to a visit from her mother, culminating in her being ordered to return home to Asheville to care for her ailing father. Meanwhile, the the Cutter Gap men have a surprise in store for the Reverend.
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