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Croney

(4,924 posts)
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 02:57 PM Oct 2022

What a hoot--Murder, She Wrote!

I never watched this show when it was current. When Angela Lansbury died, I started from Episode 1. So many famous guest stars in every show!

Jessica Fletcher jogs. She rides her bike. She has at least the innuendo of a love interest in every episode; she's written as a savvy, attractive, mature woman.

Before cell phones! No internet! The plots border on the ridiculous, but I'm going to keep watching until the novelty wears off.

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What a hoot--Murder, She Wrote! (Original Post) Croney Oct 2022 OP
I have a soft spot for this show. n/t TDale313 Oct 2022 #1
In every episode leftieNanner Oct 2022 #2
I've noticed that already! Today she looked down at a credit card Croney Oct 2022 #10
DH and I never missed this show in the 1980s. :-) spooky3 Oct 2022 #3
It's on Peacock. CurtEastPoint Oct 2022 #4
It has ads and you can't skip them, but it's worth it so far. Croney Oct 2022 #11
So does Hallmark Rebl2 Oct 2022 #13
Serial killer underpants Oct 2022 #5
Wouldn't Cabot Cove really have been a ghost town? rsdsharp Oct 2022 #6
The same could be said of the locales of other whathehell Oct 2022 #9
my wife has been in mourning rampartc Oct 2022 #7
Loved it malaise Oct 2022 #8
oh goodness,,,, KarenS Oct 2022 #12
She would never embarrass the "real" detectives and cops she'd work with Rocknation Oct 2022 #14
Leslie Nielson LessAspin Oct 17 #15

leftieNanner

(15,698 posts)
2. In every episode
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 03:04 PM
Oct 2022

Watch for a specific camera shot that seems to last too long on something innocuous. That's usually the clue that tells you the perpetrator. A clock on the mantel, a bulletin board, something on the floor. It adds to the fun of figuring it out.

Also, a little tidbit of info on the exterior shots. They were filmed in Mendocino, California. Not the east coast at all.

Loved that show. I wish it were in syndication.

Croney

(4,924 posts)
10. I've noticed that already! Today she looked down at a credit card
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 04:27 PM
Oct 2022

a guy was paying with at a restaurant, and that figured in the solution of the murder.

underpants

(186,651 posts)
5. Serial killer
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 03:21 PM
Oct 2022

She shows up in some New England town and someone dies. This best selling author convinces the local yocal Sheriff that it’s someone else. She then moves on to the next town....repeat

I’m kidding. Angela was deeply liberal and Labour in Britain. Check out the story about her kids, moving to Ireland, and Charles Manson.

rsdsharp

(10,121 posts)
6. Wouldn't Cabot Cove really have been a ghost town?
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 03:23 PM
Oct 2022

Who lives in a village that has a minimum of a murder a week? Especially when the sheriff is Howard Cunningham.

whathehell

(29,798 posts)
9. The same could be said of the locales of other
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 04:12 PM
Oct 2022

popular mystery series. Inspector Morse, Inspector Lewis, and Endeavor are all set in Oxford England.
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rampartc

(5,835 posts)
7. my wife has been in mourning
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 03:41 PM
Oct 2022

she has been binging on murder she wrote all week, long enough for every inhabitant of that small maine village to die a hideous death.

KarenS

(4,633 posts)
12. oh goodness,,,,
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 04:46 PM
Oct 2022

I used to watch this show ages ago while I was sewing quilts,,,,, but now,,,, I think I can start it again and enjoy one of the few benefits of getting old is that the plots of many shows just disappear allowing my Husband & I to rewatch them and not remember things!!

Rocknation

(44,883 posts)
14. She would never embarrass the "real" detectives and cops she'd work with
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 05:26 PM
Oct 2022

Last edited Mon Oct 17, 2022, 10:42 AM - Edit history (3)

by asking, "You didn't notice that the position of the body makes it obvious that the murderer is left-handed?" She would always say, "I'm SURE that you noticed, OF COURSE, that the position of the body CLEARLY indicates that the murderer HAS to be left-handed..."

Last month, I "ran a Jessica Fletcher" on my new landlord: "I figured you didn't tell us you'd be disconnecting the Wifi because you were installing surveillance cameras. So I just went to the library and got a mobile hotspot -- and since it was free, it won't have to come out of next month's rent!" Our wifi re-appeared within 48 hours: thanks, Angela!


Rocknation

LessAspin

(1,407 posts)
15. Leslie Nielson
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 11:17 PM
Oct 17

Stumbled across an episode today with the late great Leslie Nielson playing a captain of a cruise ship.

Looked it up on IMdB and this appearance was sandwiched between his comedic breakout role in the movie Airplane! and The Naked Gun movie franchise.

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