Jessica unravels the death of a ballerina after she dances a ballet that has killed everyone who has tried it.Jessica unravels the death of a ballerina after she dances a ballet that has killed everyone who has tried it.Jessica unravels the death of a ballerina after she dances a ballet that has killed everyone who has tried it.
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Robert Buckingham
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Marcello Clay
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Jenna Elfman
- Ballet Dancer in background
- (uncredited)
Suzanne Lodge
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Randy Masoner
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Gary Moerke
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Los Angeles Orpheum theater, originally built as a combination vaudeville and feature film venue, located on the South end of the theatrical Broadway Main Street, has been used for television locations. The Orpheum was where the "Gumm (Garland) Sisters were performing their vaudeville act in 1935 when Busby Berkeley was told by his MGM Boss, "catch their act, report if the kids should get an audition!" .... Berkeley drove from the studio, parking in the lot across the street, buying a ticket at the box office, entering the theater to wait, and then catch their act! Returning to MGM the same afternoon, Berkeley reported to Louis B. Mayer, and arranged with their mother to bring the sisters to the Culver City Studio for a meeting and audition. Afterwards, the sisters were signed to a contract, appearing in a short musical filmed in Santa Barbara, California. "Murder, She Wrote -Danse Diabolical" used the theater because the stage had an under stage with a stage trap opening centered in the stage's middle floor.
- GoofsThe "fast-acting" poison used to kill the victim was Thallium. Thallium is a heavy metal, which takes a long time to kill its victims.
- Quotes
Jessica Fletcher: There are three things you can never get enough of in life, Lieutenant. Chocolate, friends, and the theater.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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The politics of the dance.
As this particular episode is based in San Francisco I'm surprised that Jessica
Fletcher doesn't get her good friend insurance investigator and former cat
burglar Dennis Stanton involved. Keith Michell really belongs in this story.
While Angela Lansbury is doing a book tour she runs into some old friends from the ballet. Adrian Paul's company will be performing the Danse Diabolique a ballet written for the Czar's mistress back in the day. Twice it has been performed and twice the lead ballerina was killed.
That makes no never mind to young ballerina Nancy Valen who schemes her way into the lead elbowing aside Paul's wife Marisa Berenson a popular but aging star. Then Valen is killed during the performance and of course it's Angela Lansbury who figures out both the how and the why. Not that there was any shortage of suspects among the ballet company.
A very good story, but Dennis Stanton should have been there.
While Angela Lansbury is doing a book tour she runs into some old friends from the ballet. Adrian Paul's company will be performing the Danse Diabolique a ballet written for the Czar's mistress back in the day. Twice it has been performed and twice the lead ballerina was killed.
That makes no never mind to young ballerina Nancy Valen who schemes her way into the lead elbowing aside Paul's wife Marisa Berenson a popular but aging star. Then Valen is killed during the performance and of course it's Angela Lansbury who figures out both the how and the why. Not that there was any shortage of suspects among the ballet company.
A very good story, but Dennis Stanton should have been there.
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