Murder, She Wrote Season 1, Episode 7
"Hit, Run and Homicide"
Original airdate: November 25, 1984
Writer: Gerald K. Siegel
Director: Alan Cooke
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, Claude Akins, Van Johnson, Edward Albert, June Allyson, Patti D'Arbanville, Stuart Whitman, Bruce Gray, Lois Foraker, Paddi Edwards, Dee Croxton
In a sendup of Stephen King's Christine, both the novel and John Carpenter's film adaptation released just the year before, Jessica confronts a murderous, driverless automobile. What better foundation for a reunion of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract stars? Dame Angela coaxed dozens of Hollywood and Broadway icons out of retirement as guest stars over the years, and we've got two golden oldies in Van Johnson (Brigadoon, The Caine Mutiny) and June Allyson (Words and Music, The Stratton Story). The pair starred together in 1944's Two Girls and a Sailor and five more, so they enjoy a lovely chemistry.