Jessica gets mixed up with a nasty scheme involving a theme park creator whilst visiting relatives.Jessica gets mixed up with a nasty scheme involving a theme park creator whilst visiting relatives.Jessica gets mixed up with a nasty scheme involving a theme park creator whilst visiting relatives.
Anne Kerry Ford
- Carol Donovan
- (as Anne Kerry)
Joaquin Phoenix
- Billy Donovan
- (as Leaf Phoenix)
Vince Howard
- Second Guard
- (as Vincent Howard)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaReal life siblings, Joaquin Phoenix and Summer Phoenix, play Jessica's great-nephew and great-niece.
- GoofsWhen Arnold Megrim (Richard Sanders) walks into Phillip Carlson's (Kristoffer Tabori) office to tell him that Jessica Fletcher is there, you can see the shadow of a boom mike in the upper left-hand corner of the screen as Megrim enters during the wide shot.
- Quotes
Horatio Baldwin: Don't you go to the movies?
Jessica Fletcher: When Cary Grant bowed out, so did I.
- ConnectionsReferences The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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A familiar plot device...but done well.
I noticed that the death of Horatio Baldwin looked VERY familiar, as this method (or a variation on it) has been used in many movies, TV shows and books. Despite this, the episode is entertaining...though the murderer's actions are complicated to say the least.
While visiting family, Jessica Fletcher meets the owner and guiding force of a strange amusement park, Horatio Baldwin (James Coco). However, she soon realizes the guy is a real nasty piece of work...so you assume that HE will be the murder victim...or at least the first one. This turns out to be true but the way his body is discovered is odd. Guards hear a shot ring out and when they use an axe to enter the room from which it came, they find that their boss shot himself. But the autopsy shows he was already dead before the show rang out...which makes you wonder what the heck really happened.
Apart from an overly complicated way to hide the murder, this is a very enjoyable episode...worth seeing and clever.
While visiting family, Jessica Fletcher meets the owner and guiding force of a strange amusement park, Horatio Baldwin (James Coco). However, she soon realizes the guy is a real nasty piece of work...so you assume that HE will be the murder victim...or at least the first one. This turns out to be true but the way his body is discovered is odd. Guards hear a shot ring out and when they use an axe to enter the room from which it came, they find that their boss shot himself. But the autopsy shows he was already dead before the show rang out...which makes you wonder what the heck really happened.
Apart from an overly complicated way to hide the murder, this is a very enjoyable episode...worth seeing and clever.
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- planktonrules
- Oct 17, 2022
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