Season 3

Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

Sep 28, 19867.745 min

Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Bra

Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

Oct 5, 198645 min

Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCa

Unfinished Business

Oct 12, 198645 min

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

One White Rose for Death

Oct 19, 19867.745 min

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

Corned Beef And Carnage

Nov 2, 198645 min

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

Dead Man's Gold

Nov 9, 198645 min

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

Magnum on Ice (II)

Nov 23, 198645 min

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

Deadline for Murder

Nov 16, 198645 min

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.

Obituary for a Dead Anchor

Dec 7, 198645 min

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

Stage Struck

Dec 14, 198645 min

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

Night of the Headless Horseman

Jan 4, 198745 min

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

The Corpse Flew First Class

Jan 18, 198745 min

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

Crossed Up

Feb 1, 198745 min

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

Murder in a Minor Key

Feb 8, 19874.945 min

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

The Bottom Line Is Murder

Feb 15, 19877.145 min

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

Death Takes a Dive

Feb 22, 198745 min

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

Simon Says, Color Me Dead

Mar 1, 198745 min

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

No Laughing Murder

Mar 15, 198745 min

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

No Accounting for Murder

Mar 22, 198745 min

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

The Cemetery Vote

Apr 5, 198745 min

First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

The Days Dwindle Down

Apr 19, 198745 min

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' requ

Murder, She Spoke

May 10, 198745 min

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.