Category: Season 1

Is Cagliostro a hypno-creep or just a super magnetic guy? Will Joan ever have an idea she doesn’t think is amazing or that Jessica likes?
Can earplugs prevent you from being hypnotized? Can Lake Tahoe reporters teleport? Is curiosity Jessica’s Kryptonite? How many character voices will Jessica roast Yambert’s office in? And would you let your worst enemy hypnotize you?

Talking slot machines, naked trapeze artists, questionable stunt doubles on motor bikes and an assistant editor who will make your head spin more than jogging at high altitudes. Turn up that Mayf Nutter album and do the happy-hypno-chicken strut with us while we chat about season 1, episode 9 – Death Casts a Spell.

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Jennie’s new fascination with Mayf Nutter all started with this wonderful image and song.

What are the odds of a second date after you use someone as a cover to commit an international crime? Did Jessica Fletcher have a hand in improving Russian-American relations during the cold war?Streets of Fire or Xanadu? Was Sheriff Tupper really “doing his best”? Is William Conrad the best guest star ever? How many fugitives can fit in the sea chest on Ethan’s boat? Does a search warrant cover a breakfast muffin?

Grab your marked playbill, lace up those ballet slippers and don that decorative dagger to join us down-east where we will unravel the mystery of “Death Takes a Curtain Call”.

Why are amusement park offices always located underground? How much would you pay to visit a JB Fletcher themed amusement park? Will Laurie Bascom’s book become a best seller or fade hastily into obscurity? What’s a more effective way of catching a mystery writer, with gun threats or by piquing their curiosity? And most importantly, what does Kiss or Chris Angel have to do with any of this?

Monk Robes, giant heads,  cat sounds, swanky house coats, and underground lairs abound! Unravel the mysteries of call forwarding with us as we discuss Season 1, Episode 7 – “We’re Off To Kill The Wizard”.

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We talked a little about about ‘Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park’ during the episode. Here’s a sweet NBC Saturday Night Movie bumper for it.

Tony, Tommy or does it even matter? Does your revolutionary angst get in the way of your pirate pride? Team Ethan or Team Amos? Does J.B. have an icy cool calm or a comfort with her mortality? And is there anything mechanical that a simple toggle switch can’t control?

Before there was Elon Musk….there was Daniel O’Brien, so put on your baseball bell bottoms and join us at the old Gentry Farm as we dissect this episode of Murder She Wrote, ‘Hit , Run and Homicide’! 

At the end of the episode we bring up that Andrew Stevens who played the mega-creepy David Tolliver in Episode 5 was the good cop in Charles Bronson’s ’10 To Midnight’. Jennie thinks it’s a good movie, Damien thinks it’s gross and exploitative. Here’s a trailer that shows how the whole movie goes down.

How many languages does Jessica speak? Is Doctor Edmund Gerard responsible for the 90’s Seattle grunge scene? How early is ‘too early’? Vonnegut, Fletcher or Hesse? Why does Damien think he learned to diagnose psychosis from a book that claims that untrained people shouldn’t?

These questions are raised and it’s all disco-jazz, Jennie’s pet peeves and inflatable raft charges when we discuss season 1, episode 5 of Murder She Wrote,  ‘Lovers And Other Killers’!

Among our diversions in this episode were mentions of the synth-wave band Drab Majesty and the 1986 film Eliminators. Here are vids for Drab Majesty’s 39 By Design and a trailer for Eliminators.

Do casts belong on safety shotguns? Can you slip a horse a mickey? Can young people hear dog whistles? Does Oprah have her own tea brand? Why is this episode so bananas? What do Potts and Spencer talk about? What is the median age of a metal detector user? And how legal is ‘legal as hell’?

This episode will kill the desire you have to get the answers to any of these questions because it’s all tally-ho and tea leaves when we talk about ‘It’s A Dog’s Life’!

Where would you fall on the Lydecker scale? Are break dancers flame-proof? Who would win if Gomez Adams threw down with Horshack? Does vodka mix well with Diet Coke? Where is Scott Bennett’s belt? Will Hernandez’s work become a Sunday night movie? Why was Damien fascinated by blue-eyed people as a kid? And just what do you get when you add Porky’s, Halloween and Flashdance together?

The first question only you can answer, five and six will remain mysteries that will haunt you for the rest of your life but all the other questions are answered in our coverage of the third regular episode of the first season of Murder She Wrote, ‘Hooray For Homicide’!