Murder, She Wrote Season 3, Episode 14
“Murder in a Minor Key”
Original Airdate: February 8, 1987
Story by : Arthur Marks
Teleplay by : Gerald K. Siegel and Peter S. Fischer
Director: Nick Havinga
Cast: Angela Lansbury, René Auberjonois, Shaun Cassidy, Paul Clemens, Karen Grassle, George Grizzard, Tom Hallick, Jennifer Holmes, Scott Jacoby, Dinah Manoff, Alex Henteloff
After 57 grizzly capers, Jessica decides it’s time for us to pick up the slack and solve some murders on our own. “Murder in a Minor Key” is the first of 14 special episodes where Jessica breaks the fourth wall and narrates the story. She introduces the week’s caper like a TCM host presenting an MGM classic and checks back in with us around each commercial break. These are fun little backdoor pilots with fresh-faced crimestoppers that serve as bite-size movies-of-the-week. Some leave us wanting more, and others feature a young Bill Maher.