Murder, She Wrote Season 3, Episode 9
"Obituary for a Dead Anchor"
Original Airdate: Dec. 7, 1986
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk; Story by Bob Shayne
Director: Walter Grauman
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, Richard Paul, Abby Dalton, Chad Everett, Robert Hogan, Robert Lipton, Kathleen Lloyd, Robert Pine, Rex Robbins, Mark Stevens, Erik Stern, Frank Annese, Patti Karr, Paul Ryan
Kevin Keats (Everett) is a journalist with a flare for the dramatic. The star of Scrutiny, a television news magazine in the vein of 60 Minutes, he specializes in hard-hitting, often dangerous exposés. Lately, he’s got a real mad-on for Ronald Ross (Annese), an art dealer with ties to South American drug cartels. So it comes as a surprise when producer Doug Helman (Pine) reassigns Keats to a cozy spotlight on Cabot Cove originally pitched by fellow reporter Paula Roman (Lloyd). Remember: despite our perception of Cabot Cove as the murder capital of New England, its in-universe reputation is much sleepier.