Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.Grady's wedding day arrives, and so does an unpleasant fate for the shrewish housekeeper of his prospective father-in-law's estate.
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- TriviaMichael Horton (Grady Fletcher) and Debbie Zipp (Donna Mayberry) are married in real life.
- GoofsThe party crasher is called "Cousin Clara" several times until Jessica approaches her to attempt to expose her as such. Jessica addresses the imposter as "Aunt Clara" and proceeds to ferret out the truth.
- Quotes
Franklin Mayberry: Calm down, Maisie, before another gray cell hits the bug light!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits: Fishkill, N. Y. You Are Invited To A Wedding
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Featured review
Grady's wedding produces a laugh-filled episode
Jessica's nephew Grady is finally getting married, and to a woman we met on a previous episode, Donna, who Jessica proclaimed on that episode to be a perfect match for Grady. We join the day before the wedding, with Jessica and other guests coming to Donna's parents' estate in Fishkill (a real New York town not too far north of the big metropolis). Donna's mother is worried about everything and is relying on her maid to handle most of the duties for the big garden wedding to take place the next day.
We meet several relatives and one disagreeable maid who bosses everyone around and refers to the place as "her house." Of course, before the wedding takes place we see a body that has been stabbed. I will state that the victim was a surprise to me because it didn't fit the usual victim in series of this type. For that matter, the murderer was also a surprise, partly because there were no real clues for us to see until we got to the "reveal."
Murder, She Wrote is one series that didn't stick to one standard way of presenting things. Sometimes we got all the clues Jessica used to solve the case and truly could on those episodes "know" who did it, not just guess. Sometimes we never got any telltale clues and could only guess the murderer. Most episodes were about 92% serious and 8% humorous. This one was more like 75% funny and 25% serious.
One reviewer here before me totally dislikes the Grady character and downgrades any show he is on. Another says Grady was good in this episode, even though they don't normally like him. I won't say he was a huge favorite of mine, but I do not see where he makes any of his episodes worse at all.
Another reviewer dislikes this episode because of the "silly slapstick." There was no "exaggerated physical activity exceeding the boundaries of normal physical comedy"-the definition of slapstick, so I don't know what their complaint is. Perhaps they just mean they don't want an episode to focus so much on comedy.
Just as a good situation comedy CAN have a really good, poignant dramatic episode, so can a dramatic series have a really good comedy episode-hey, the great dramatic 1960s WWII-based series Combat used to have one episode a season that was largely humorous.
I fully agree with the reviewer who thought there was so much entertainment going on that "the death seems almost unimportant." Any episode that makes me laugh as much as this one gets a 10 from me.
We meet several relatives and one disagreeable maid who bosses everyone around and refers to the place as "her house." Of course, before the wedding takes place we see a body that has been stabbed. I will state that the victim was a surprise to me because it didn't fit the usual victim in series of this type. For that matter, the murderer was also a surprise, partly because there were no real clues for us to see until we got to the "reveal."
Murder, She Wrote is one series that didn't stick to one standard way of presenting things. Sometimes we got all the clues Jessica used to solve the case and truly could on those episodes "know" who did it, not just guess. Sometimes we never got any telltale clues and could only guess the murderer. Most episodes were about 92% serious and 8% humorous. This one was more like 75% funny and 25% serious.
One reviewer here before me totally dislikes the Grady character and downgrades any show he is on. Another says Grady was good in this episode, even though they don't normally like him. I won't say he was a huge favorite of mine, but I do not see where he makes any of his episodes worse at all.
Another reviewer dislikes this episode because of the "silly slapstick." There was no "exaggerated physical activity exceeding the boundaries of normal physical comedy"-the definition of slapstick, so I don't know what their complaint is. Perhaps they just mean they don't want an episode to focus so much on comedy.
Just as a good situation comedy CAN have a really good, poignant dramatic episode, so can a dramatic series have a really good comedy episode-hey, the great dramatic 1960s WWII-based series Combat used to have one episode a season that was largely humorous.
I fully agree with the reviewer who thought there was so much entertainment going on that "the death seems almost unimportant." Any episode that makes me laugh as much as this one gets a 10 from me.
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