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Murder, She Wrote: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 29, 1985 Updated Sep 25, 2026

Murder, She Wrote Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes. The television and film series features an unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth who uses her professional expertise to solve crimes. The production is classified under the mystery, crime, and drama genres and holds a TV-14 rating. As an ongoing television work, the second season builds upon the premise established by the creators, featur

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Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ An unassuming mystery writer serves as the central sleuth.
  • ⚡ The protagonist uses her professional expertise to solve crimes.
  • ⚡ The series falls under the genres of mystery, crime, and drama.
  • ⚡ The television program carries a TV-14 rating.
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Season overview

Murder, She Wrote Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes. The television and film series features an unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth who uses her professional expertise to solve crimes. The production is classified under the mystery, crime, and drama genres and holds a TV-14 rating. As an ongoing television work, the second season builds upon the premise established by the creators, featuring the central investigator as she applies her sharp detective skills to various cases. The narrative unfolds across its designated episode count, maintaining the core thematic elements of crime-solving and investigation established in the earlier portion of the series. Viewers following the broadcast or streaming availability can track the twenty-two episodes that comprise this specific installment of the broader television run.

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2·E1 Mytharc

Widow, Weep for Me

Sep 29, 1985 · 45 min

Jessica's vacation at a Caribbean resort is not solely for pleasure, but to investigate a friend's murder.

S2·E2 Core

Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly

Oct 6, 1985 · 45 min

Plans to build a new hotel in Cabot Cove are put on hold when diggers discover an old skeleton that had been buried deeply that many of the townspeople believe to be the remains of

S2·E3 Core

Murder in the Afternoon

Oct 13, 1985 · 45 min

While filming a soap opera in which Mrs. Fletcher's niece plays a part, a 'pretend' victim is really dead.

S2·E4 Mytharc

School for Scandal

Oct 20, 1985 · 45 min

When Jessica is offered an honorary degree from Crenshaw University, she has no idea she's about to become embroiled in a murder. After the boyfriend of (in)famous writer Daphne Cl

S2·E5 Core

Sing a Song of Murder

Oct 27, 1985 · 45 min

When cousin Emma's life is threatened, she plays dead and Jessica is summoned to London as the heir to the estate.

S2·E6 Mytharc

Reflections of the Mind

Nov 3, 1985 · 45 min

Jessica decides to pay a visit to her long-time friend Francesca, only to learn that Francesca, who is now married to a much younger man, is convinced that she is being haunted by

S2·E7 Core

A Lady in the Lake

Nov 10, 1985 · 45 min

While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

S2·E8 Mytharc

Dead Heat

Nov 24, 1985 · 45 min

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse. Then the horse's owner is murdered after a dispute.

S2·E9 Core

Jessica Behind Bars

Dec 1, 1985 · 45 min

Doing public service, Jessica becomes a hostage in a prison riot caused by anger in the handling of the doctor's murder.

S2·E10 Core

Sticks and Stones

Dec 15, 1985 · 45 min

When a woman is electrocuted in her bathroom, Amos chuckles that even Jessica can't make a murder out of it. Michael Dugby: Parker Stevenson. Harry Pierce: John Astin. Frederich Ho

S2·E11 Core

Murder Digs Deep

Dec 29, 1985 · 45 min

An archaeological dig at the site of Coronado's City of Gold does not please everyone and a new corpse is dug up.

S2·E12 Mytharc

Murder by Appointment Only

Jan 5, 1986 · 45 min

One of Jessica's former students is murdered and she takes a personal interest in the investigation.

S2·E13 Core

Trial by Error

Jan 12, 1986 · 45 min

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

S2·E14 Core

Keep the Home Fries Burning

Jan 19, 1986 · 45 min

Jessica, Seth and Amos try out a new tourist-oriented restaurant, and murder interrupts their meal.

S2·E15 Core

Powder Keg

Feb 9, 1986 · 45 min

After their car breaks down after dinner with the governor, Jessica and her friend Ames Caufield find themselves in a small southern town just in time for local bad boy Ed Bonner t

S2·E16 Core

Murder in the Electric Cathedral

Feb 16, 1986 · 45 min

Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist.

S2·E17 Core

One Good Bid Deserves a Murder

Feb 23, 1986 · 45 min

A red hot diary of a sex symbol is to be auctioned and some of the bidders are ready to shed blood.

S2·E18 Mytharc

If A Body Meet A Body

Mar 9, 1986 · 45 min

Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.

S2·E19 Core

Christopher Bundy -- Died On Sunday

Mar 30, 1986 · 45 min

Jessica and Grady head to the home of publisher Christopher Bundy, whose publishing company owns the rights to Jessica's first short story. Jessica is quite upset, as Bundy's magaz

S2·E20 Core

Menace, Anyone?

Apr 6, 1986 · 45 min

Who was the intended victim when a tennis star is blown up in his girl friend's car?

S2·E21 Mytharc

The Perfect Foil

Apr 13, 1986 · 45 min

Jessica is tossed into a Mardi Gras party in New Orleans where the host ends up dead, and her cousin Cal is accused of the crime. While attempting to clear Cal's name and reputatio

S2·E22 Mytharc

If the Frame Fits

May 18, 1986 · 45 min

After Julia Marcus Granger is found murdered during what seems to have been an apparent art theft, suspicion turns to her husband Donald, who, as a result, also ends up being suspe

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