Season 8

October 6, 1991

When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.

November 3, 1991

Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.

November 10, 1991

The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.

November 17, 1991

Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.

November 24, 1991

Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.

December 1, 1991

The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.

December 15, 1991

Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.

January 5, 1992

When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.

January 12, 1992

The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.

January 19, 1992

The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.

February 2, 1992

Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.

March 1, 1992

No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.

March 8, 1992

A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.

March 15, 1992

All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.

April 5, 1992

There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.

April 26, 1992

The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.

May 3, 1992

While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.

May 10, 1992

Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.

May 17, 1992

Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.