Season 3

1. 
   S03 E01

   Death Stalks the Big Top (1)

   28 Sept 1986 · 45 min

   Jessica's niece receives a gift from her grandfather---a man long thought dead---which leads Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to a circus beset by accidents and murder. Part 1 of two. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

2. 
   S03 E02

   Death Stalks the Big Top (2)

   5 Oct 1986 · 45 min

   Conclusion. Despite her brother-in-law's confession, Jessica refuses to believe he killed the circus foreman. Neil Fletcher: Jackie Cooper. Preston Bartholomew: Alex Cord. Edgar Carmody: Martin Balsam. Brad Kaneally: Greg Evigan. Katie McCallum: Pamela Susan Shoop.

3. 
   S03 E03

   Unfinished Business

   12 Oct 1986 · 45 min

   A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

4. 
   S03 E04

   One White Rose for Death

   19 Oct 1986 · 45 min

   Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

5. 
   S03 E05

   Corned Beef and Carnage

   2 Nov 1986 · 45 min

   An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

6. 
   S03 E06

   Dead Man's Gold

   9 Nov 1986 · 45 min

   While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

7. 
   S03 E07

   Deadline for Murder

   16 Nov 1986 · 45 min

   A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

8. 
   S03 E08

   Magnum on Ice (II)

   23 Nov 1986 · 45 min

   Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

9. 
   S03 E09

   Obituary for a Dead Anchor

   7 Dec 1986 · 45 min

   Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

10. 
    S03 E10

    Stage Struck

    14 Dec 1986 · 45 min

    The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

11. 
    S03 E11

    Night of the Headless Horseman

    4 Jan 1987 · 45 min

    The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

12. 
    S03 E12

    The Corpse Flew First Class

    18 Jan 1987 · 45 min

    Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

13. 
    S03 E13

    Crossed Up

    1 Feb 1987 · 45 min

    The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

14. 
    S03 E14

    Murder in a Minor Key

    8 Feb 1987 · 45 min

    Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

15. 
    S03 E15

    The Bottom Line Is Murder

    15 Feb 1987 · 45 min

    A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

16. 
    S03 E16

    Death Takes a Dive

    22 Feb 1987 · 45 min

    Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

17. 
    S03 E17

    Simon Says, Color Me Dead

    1 Mar 1987 · 45 min

    An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

18. 
    S03 E18

    No Laughing Murder

    15 Mar 1987 · 45 min

    After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

19. 
    S03 E19

    No Accounting for Murder

    22 Mar 1987 · 45 min

    Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

20. 
    S03 E20

    The Cemetery Vote

    5 Apr 1987 · 45 min

    First, the reform mayor dies in an "accident" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the "accident".

21. 
    S03 E21

    The Days Dwindle Down

    19 Apr 1987 · 45 min

    Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

22. 
    S03 E22

    Murder, She Spoke

    10 May 1987 · 45 min

    During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

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