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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Joseph Zito
Produced by
Frank Mancuso Jr.
Screenplay by
Barney Cohen
Story by
Bruce Hidemi Sakow
Based on
Characters
by Victor Miller
Martin Kitrosser
Ron Kurz
Carol Watson
Starring
Kimberly Beck
Peter Barton
Corey Feldman
E. Erich Anderson
Crispin Glover
Alan Hayes
Barbara Howard
Lawrence Monoson
Joan Freeman
Judie Aronson
Camilla More
Carey More
Music by
Harry Manfredini
Cinematography
João Fernandes
Edited by
Joel Goodman
Daniel Loewenthal
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
April 13, 1984 (1984-04-13)
Running time
91 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2.6 million[1]
Box office
$32.0 million (US)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. and starring Corey Feldman, Ted White, Kimberly Beck, and Crispin Glover. It is the fourth installment in the Friday the 13th film series. Picking up immediately after the events of Friday the 13th Part III, the story follows a presumed-dead Jason Voorhees brought to the morgue, where he spontaneously revives and escapes. He then returns to Crystal Lake to continue his killing spree, targeting a family and a group of neighboring teenagers; it is the first film to feature the character of Tommy Jarvis.
Much like Friday the 13th Part III, the film was originally supposed to be the final installment in the series. Mancuso Jr. wanted to conclude the series as he felt nobody respected him for his assisting work on Friday the 13th regardless of how much the films earned at the box office, as well as wanting to work on other projects. Paramount Pictures also supported the decision, as they were aware of the declining popularity of slasher films at the time of its release. As a result, the film was marketed as "The Final Chapter" to ensure it as such. Make-up artist Tom Savini, who worked on the first film, returned for the sequel as he wanted to help kill off Jason, who he helped create.
The film was originally scheduled to be released in October 1984, but Paramount pushed the date up to April 13, 1984. Upon its theatrical release, the film earned approximately $11 million on its opening weekend and grossed $32 million in the United States on a budget of $2.6 million, making it the fourth most attendance of any film in the Friday the 13th series with approximately $9,815,700 tickets sold. Although the film received generally negative reviews, it is considered by many to be the best film in the franchise.[2] Despite it originally set to be the final film, the success of the film prompted another sequel, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, a year later.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Writing
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
4 Music
5 Release
6 Reception
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
The night after the events at Higgins Haven, police clean up the grounds and Jason Voorhees's body, believed to be dead, is taken to the morgue. At the hospital, Jason spontaneously revives and escapes from the cold storage, murdering the coroner Axel with a hacksaw and gutting Nurse Morgan with a scalpel. The following day, a group of teenagers drive to Crystal Lake for the weekend. The group consists of Paul, his girlfriend Sam, virgin Sara, her boyfriend Doug, socially awkward Jimmy, and jokester Ted. On the way, the group comes across Pamela Voorhees's tombstone and a hitchhiker, who is soon killed by Jason.
The teens arrive and meet neighbors Trish Jarvis, her twelve-year-old brother Tommy, their mother, and the family dog Gordon. While going for a walk the next day, the teens meet twin sisters Tina and Terri, and go skinny dipping with them. Trish and Tommy happen upon the scene, and Trish is invited to a party to take place that night. Afterwards, when their car breaks down, Trish and Tommy are helped out by a young man named Rob. They take him to their house, where Tommy shows Rob several monster masks he made himself before Rob leaves to go camping.
Later that night, the teens begin the party. A jealous Sam sees Tina flirting with Paul and leaves. She goes out to the lake where Jason impales her from under a raft. When Paul goes out to look for her, he is stabbed in the groin with a harpoon gun. Terri tries to leave the party early, but before she can get on her bike Jason stabs her with a spear. After sleeping with Tina, Jimmy goes downstairs to get a bottle of wine. Jason pins his hand with a corkscrew before striking him in the face with a meat cleaver. Tina looks out a window upstairs when she is grabbed by Jason and thrown to her death, crashing on the car. While a stoned Ted watches vintage stag films with a film projector, he is stabbed in the head with a kitchen knife from the other side of the projector screen. Jason then goes upstairs where Doug and Sara finish making love in the shower. After Sara leaves, Jason kills Doug by crushing his head against the shower tile. When Sara screams upon finding Doug's body, she tries to escape only for Jason to drive a double-bit axe through the front door, killing her.
Trish and Tommy return from town and discover the power outage. While looking for their mother, who had been killed by Jason earlier, Trish goes to find Rob for help. It is revealed that Rob is actually the brother of Jason's victim Sandra. Rob further explains to her that Jason is still alive and he came to Crystal Lake to get revenge for the murder of his sister.
Worried for Tommy's safety, Trish and Rob return to the house. They then go next door to investigate and discover the teens' bodies. Gordon flees, and Rob is killed by Jason in the basement as Trish runs home, taking Rob's machete with her. She and Tommy barricade the house, but Jason breaks in and chases them into Tommy's room. Trish lures Jason out of the house and escapes, then returns home and is devastated to learn that Tommy is still there. She senses Jason behind her and tries to fight him off with the machete but is overpowered. Tommy, having disguised himself to look like Jason as a child, distracts him long enough for Trish to hit him with the machete, but she merely whacks off his mask. As Trish stands horrified at Jason's deformed face, Tommy takes the machete and strikes it in the side of his skull, causing him to collapse to the floor and split his head upon impact. When Tommy notices that Jason's fingers are slightly moving, he continues to hack at his body screaming, "Die! Die!" while Trish repeatedly yells out his name.
At the hospital, Trish is visited by Tommy. He rushes in, embraces her, and gives a disturbed look while staring ahead.
Cast[edit]
Kimberly Beck as Trish Jarvis
E. Erich Anderson as Rob Dier
Corey Feldman as Tommy Jarvis
Barbara Howard as Sara
Joan Freeman as Mrs. Jarvis
Peter Barton as Doug
Crispin Glover as Jimmy
Judie Aronson as Samantha
Camilla More as Tina
Lawrence Monoson as Ted
Alan Hayes as Paul
Carey More as Terri
Bruce Mahler as Axel
Lisa Freeman as Nurse Robbie Morgan
Bonnie Hellman as Hitchhiker
Ted White as Jason Voorhees (uncredited)
Production[edit]
When Friday the 13th Part III was released, it was initially supposed to end the series as a trilogy, however there was no moniker to indicate it as such. In 1983, there were rumors that Paramount Pictures billed the fourth film as "The Final Chapter" as a result of them feeling embarrassed by their association with the series. Despite how Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel claimed this in their review of the film on At the Movies, Paramount Pictures was aware that the slasher genre had been declining in interest. However, the idea came from producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. (the son of Paramount CEO Frank Mancuso, Sr.) as he began to resent the series due to how he felt nobody respected him for working on Friday the 13th Part 2 as an production assistant and Part III as producer, regardless of how much money the films earned. As a result of this and him wanting to work on different projects, he wanted to conclude the series by killing off Jason.[3]
Writing[edit]
The filmmakers wanted Joseph Zito, who had previously worked on The Prowler, to direct and write the screenplay for the film. He initially claimed that he wasn't a writer, but he later accepted it when the contract offered him double payment for directing and writing. Zito secretly used the extra salary to hire Barney Cohen to write the script. Their process entailed Zito taking one-hour phone calls every night with Phil Scuderi to discuss the film's screenplay and story. He then met Cohen in a New York apartment to use the ideas Scuderi had offered, which then they would turn into script pages sent that day to Scuderi in Boston to be discussed again over the phone. Cohen remained credited for writing the film, but Zito and Cohen eventually got into trouble with the Writer's Guild of America as a result.[3]
Previous Friday the 13th films generally favored young women being the final girl. However, this is the first film in the series to not only have two survivors instead of one, but one of them being a child. The filmmakers believed this aspect has never been done before in a slasher film, as well as them wanting to create characters that the audience don't want to see harmed or killed. By including the Jarvis family (a divorced mother, a teenage daughter, and a pre-teen son) opposite the usual cast of teenagers, they could generate more drama and resonant tragedy such the implication of Mrs. Jarvis killed outside by Jason, and thus remaining debatable how intentional the parallels are between Jason and Tommy. Tommy's interest in make-up effects served as an homage to Tom Savini.[3]
Casting[edit]
Camilla More initially auditioned for the Samantha, but when the filmmakers discovered she had a twin sister they were instead offered the roles of Tina and Terri. They were swayed by the twins idea that Carry only needed to read one line.[3]
Amy Steel, who starred as heroine Ginny Field in Friday the 13th Part 2, co-starred with Peter Barton on the sitcom The Powers of Matthew Star. Barton was offered the role of Doug when the sitcom was cancelled, but he was initially reluctant as he wanted no part in any horror film, especially after he disliked working on Hell Night. However, because Steel was involved in Part 2, she talked him into doing the film.[3]
Make-up artist Tom Savini, who had not returned for Part 2 and Part III, agreed to work on the film to help kill off Jason, who he helped create in the original film.
Filming[edit]
Filming commenced in October 1983 to January 1984 in Topanga Canyon and Newhall, California, 6 weeks over-schedule. It was originally set to be released in October 1984, but Frank Mancuso, Sr. pushed the release date to April 13, leaving them 6 weeks to complete post-production. The only time Paramount helped with the film's production, they rented a house in Malibu for the filmmakers to stay and conduct editing sessions, with food brought to them by the studio.[3]
The film had a troubled production on set. As a result of the director's poor treatment and the film's budget, many of the actors had to perform uncomfortable or dangerous stunts for the movie. Judie Aronson was required to remain submerged in a highly freezing lake, in which she later developed hypothermia because of it, and Peter Barton was genuinely slammed against the shower wall when Jason attacks him. Ted White, who portrays Jason Voorhees, defended several of the actors by requesting Barton to have a crash pad, and threatening to quit when Zito refused to remove Aronson from the cold lake in-between takes. White and Zito maintained a hostile relationship on set, resulting in White demanding his name to be removed from the credits. According to White, Corey Feldman maintained a bratty attitude on set as a result from Zito's treatment. When filming the scene of Tommy hacking at Jason's body, which were two sandbags he was striking at, Feldman pretended the sandbags were Zito.
According to the book Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, actress Kimberly Beck stated that she does not like the horror genre. In addition to this, she felt that the film was more of a C-movie rather than a B-movie. During filming, Kimberly Beck experienced strange encounters, including a man watching her while she ran in the park and receiving odd phone calls at all hours. This stopped when production was finished.[3]
Actress Bonnie Hellman's agents told her about taking the role of the hitchhiker in the film. They told her she would not want to do it as they were no lines said for the character, but she accepted the role anyway.[3]
Music[edit]
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Soundtrack album by Harry Manfredini
Released
January 13, 2012 (La-La Land)
Genre
Film score
Length
52:20
Label
Gramavision, La-La Land
The film's music was composed by Harry Manfredini, who composed the scores to all of the series' previous installments. On January 13, 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Manfredini's scores from the first six entries of the film series. The release was sold out in less than 24 hours of availability.[4]
The song "Love Is a Lie" by Lion is featured in the film, but not on the soundtrack.
Release[edit]
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter opened on Friday, April 13, 1984, on 1,594 screens to weekend box office gross of $11,183,148; this was the sixth-highest of the year. The film would ultimately take in a total of $32,980,880 at the U.S. box office. It placed at number 26 on the list of the top-grossing films of 1984.[5]
Reception[edit]
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Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 25% of 24 film critics have given the film a positive review; the rating average is 4.2 out of 10.[6] The film received what The Week characterized as "scathing reviews", especially from film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, with the latter considering the film "an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash". Scott Meslow summarized Roger Ebert's criticism as calling it "a cynical retread" of the earlier films. Meslow instead says that the film attempts to kill off the series while focusing more on characterization than gore.[7] In a series retrospective, Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly ranked it the best Friday the 13th film, complimenting both its narrative and kills.[8]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)". The Numbers. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
Jump up ^ http://collider.com/friday-the-13th-movies-ranked-worst-to-best/#the-final-chapter
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "13 Things You May Not Know About Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (#2)". We Minored In Film. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
Jump up ^ "La-La Land Records: Friday the 13th". La-La Land Records. Archived from the original on 2012-01-15. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
Jump up ^ "Friday the 13th: Final Chapter". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
Jump up ^ "Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
Jump up ^ Meslow, Scott (2015-11-13). "The brilliance and lies of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter". The Week. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
Jump up ^ Anderson, Kyle (2014-04-25). "'Friday the 13th': We rank the movies to prep for the TV show". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
External links[edit]
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter on IMDb
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter at AllMovie
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter at Rotten Tomatoes
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter at Box Office Mojo
Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site
Film page at Fridaythe13thfilms.com
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Murder, She Wrote
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Murder, She Wrote
Genre
Crime drama
Detective fiction
Created by
Peter S. Fischer
Richard Levinson[1]
William Link
Starring
Angela Lansbury
William Windom
Tom Bosley
Ron Masak
Theme music composer
John Addison
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
12
No. of episodes
264 (+ 4 TV movies)
(List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Angela Lansbury (1992–96)[2]
Peter S. Fischer
Richard Levinson
William Link
David Moessinger
Running time
48 minutes
(excluding commercials)
Production company(s)
Universal Television
Corymore Productions
(1992–96)
Distributor
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network
CBS[3]
Picture format
35 mm film
Original Broadcast:
4:3 480i (SDTV)
Remastered:
4:3 1080i (HDTV)
Original release
September 30, 1984 (1984-09-30) – May 19, 1996 (1996-05-19)
Chronology
Related shows
Magnum, P.I.
The Law & Harry McGraw
Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.[4][5] The series aired for 12 seasons with 264 episodes from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network. It was followed by four TV films and an unsuccessful spin-off series, which was produced in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw.[6] It is one of the most successful and longest-running television shows in history, averaging close to 26 million viewers per week in its prime, and was a staple of the CBS Sunday night lineup for a decade.[7] In syndication, the series is still highly successful throughout the world.
Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards for her work on Murder, She Wrote. She holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations and wins for Best Actress in a television drama series and the most Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Murder, She Wrote, with those nominations netting her four Golden Globe awards. The series received three nominations but no wins in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys. It was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same category six times and won twice.
After the series finished in 1996, four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003. In 2009, a point-and-click video game was released for the PC platform,[8] followed in 2012 by a sequel.[9] A spin-off book series, written by Donald Bain, continues publication at present.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Origin
1.2 Premise
1.3 Ending
2 Cast
2.1 Regular cast
2.2 Recurring cast
2.3 Guest stars
3 Episodes
3.1 Crossover with Magnum, P.I.
4 Awards and nominations
5 U.S. television ratings
6 Abandoned reboot
7 International syndication
8 Merchandise
9 Multimedia
10 References
11 External links
History[edit]
Origin[edit]
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Series producers Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link thought Lansbury would be perfect for the part of Jessica Fletcher but did not think that she would be interested in a television series. Earlier, she had acted in two film adaptations of Agatha Christie's mystery novels: as Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile and as the famous sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd (1980). When the latter film did poorly—despite an all star cast including Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, and Tony Curtis—the offer for Lansbury to reprise Miss Marple in three more films never materialized.[10]
When she made it known she would be available if the right project came along, the trio of creators sent her the script and almost immediately, Lansbury felt she could do something with the role of Jessica Fletcher. With Murder, She Wrote debuting on Sunday, September 30, 1984, the producers were able to parlay their "mystery writer/amateur detective" premise into a 12-year hit for CBS. It also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4:50 from Paddington.
Premise[edit]
The show revolves around the day-to-day life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless, widowed, retired English teacher who becomes a successful mystery writer. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a small coastal community in Maine, and maintains her links with all of her old friends, never letting her success go to her head. Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were filmed in Mendocino, California. The fictional "Cabot Cove" name for the series' coastal town was derived from the name of an actual bay harbor inlet in Kennebunkport, Maine, located near the town's center, on the road where motels and lobster shack dives are located.
The show mostly starts with a preview of the episode's events, with Jessica stating: "Tonight On Murder, She Wrote..." Jessica invariably proves more perceptive than the official investigators of a case, who are almost always willing to arrest the most likely suspect. By carefully piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she always manages to trap the real murderer. Murder occurred with such regularity in her vicinity that the term "Cabot Cove syndrome" was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Indeed, if Cabot Cove existed in real life, it would top the FBI's national crime statistics in numerous categories, with some analysis suggesting that the homicide rate in Cabot Cove exceeds even that of the real-life murder capital of the world.[11] Fan theories have even arisen that Jessica herself is murdering these people since there is no better explanation for the sheer number of murders she encounters throughout the long run of the series besides her involvement in all of them.[12]
Jessica's relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place. Both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases. However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, until her accurate deductions convince them to listen to her. Some are happy to have her assistance from the start, often because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many police departments across the U.S., as well as with a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard. At the start of season eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology.
Some programmes appeared to allegorise contemporaneous events. For example, the Season 5 (1988-89) Episode (No. 102) "From Russia With Blood" could represent the Soviet Union's beginnings on introducing Glasnost and Perestroika.[13]
Ending[edit]
Angela Lansbury in September 1989
By August 1988, when Lansbury expressed weariness of her commitment, the series was expected to end in May 1989. Nevertheless, she continued in the role, with a few changes made. For the next two seasons, Lansbury reduced her appearances in several episodes, only appearing at the beginning and the end, to introduce stories starring several friends of Jessica, like PI Harry McGraw, reformed thief Dennis Stanton or MI5 agent Michael Hagarty. The "experiment" ended in 1991.[14]
By the end of the 1994–95 season, Murder, She Wrote's 11th season, CBS moved the network's then-longest-running weekly series to Thursday nights at 8 p.m. This put the series in direct competition with the first hour of NBC's Must See TV lineup, which had been drawing the highest ratings of the week for any network for years. Despite protests of many of the show's fans (who believed CBS was intentionally setting the show up to fail in its new timeslot), CBS refused to budge on the new timeslot. Murder, She Wrote plummeted from eighth to 58th in the yearly ratings; the series lost nearly 6 million viewers as the audience was not willing to follow it to Thursday, which left CBS with little choice but to end Murder, She Wrote after 12 seasons in August 1996.
To soften the blow, the network agreed to air the final four episodes in its original Sunday night timeslot, as well as commission four Murder, She Wrote movies over the next few years: the first was South by Southwest (1997), with three more following as A Story to Die For (2000), The Last Free Man (2001), and The Celtic Riddle (2003).[15]
Lansbury stated in May 2011 that she would like to make a comeback appearance as Jessica Fletcher.[16]
However, in a 2015 interview, Lansbury quashed the idea of reprising the much beloved character stating, "I think it would be a downer. In some way, we’d have to show her as a much older woman, and I think it’s better to maintain that picture we have in our mind’s eye of her as a vigorous person. I’m still pretty vigorous, especially in the garden … but if I wanted to transform myself back into the woman I looked like then, it would be ridiculous. And I can't do that."[17] She then expressed interest in revisiting the character again in 2017.[18]
Cast[edit]
Regular cast[edit]
Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher (1984–1996; 264 episodes), a retired English teacher who, after being widowed in her early fifties, becomes a very successful mystery writer.
William Windom as Dr. Seth Hazlitt (1985–1996; 49 episodes), the local doctor of Cabot Cove and one of Jessica's best friends and most intrepid supporters. There is a hint that Dr. Hazlitt may want to be more than a platonic friend but this possibility was never explored. In the season one finale, Windom portrayed Sam Breen, a lawyer who jointly murdered the victim in that episode.
Tom Bosley as Sheriff Amos Tupper (1984–1988; 19 episodes), Cabot Cove's sheriff at the start of the series. Tupper later retires and goes to live with his sister.
Ron Masak as Sheriff Mort Metzger (1988–1996; 38 episodes), a former NYPD officer who takes Tupper's place as sheriff in the mistaken belief that he would be living in a more peaceful place. His unseen wife, Adele, a former Marine capable of prodigious acts of strength, teaches self-defense classes. In an earlier episode, Masak portrayed a different character, a store owner in trouble with the IRS, trying to get out of trouble by selling his business. He also portrayed a police officer investigating the murder of an author in another season one episode.
Louis Herthum as Deputy Andy Broom (1991–1996, 25 episodes)
Recurring cast[edit]
Michael Horton as Grady Fletcher (1984–1995; 12 episodes), Jessica's not-so-lucky favorite nephew, who (through no fault of his own) always seems to get in trouble with the law. After many romantic disasters, he gets married later in the series. In real life, Horton is married to actress Debbie Zipp, who played Grady's eventual wife, Donna Mayberry, in several episodes. (The two were married before working together on Murder, She Wrote.)
Jerry Orbach as Harry McGraw (1985–1991; 6 episodes), an old-school private investigator who becomes friends with Jessica. Orbach was popular enough to garner his own, short-lived spin-off series in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw.
Len Cariou as Michael Hagarty (1985–1992; 7 episodes), a British MI5 agent who would appear when Jessica least expected him to drag her into a dangerous case. Cariou had previously starred with Lansbury on Broadway in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the titular character.
Richard Paul as Sam Booth (1986–1991; 7 episodes), the genial, ineffectual mayor of Cabot Cove whose main campaign promise is that he will do nothing, and that's exactly why the people of Cabot Cove vote for him.
Julie Adams as Eve Simpson (1987–1993; 10 episodes), the Cabot Cove realtor with a great love for men, both single and married, and for gossiping.
Ruth Roman as Loretta Speigel (1987–1989; 3 episodes), Cabot Cove's lovelorn hairdresser, also an inveterate gossip.
Keith Michell as Dennis Stanton (1988–1993; 9 episodes), a suave English former jewel thief turned insurance claims investigator, who always solves his cases using unusual methods, and often sends a copy of the story to Jessica afterwards. Stanton's assistant, Rhoda, who appeared in most or all of the Stanton-related episodes, was played by Hallie Todd. Many of the episodes starring Michell do not involve Jessica, and usually begin with her introducing the story to the audience invoking the fourth wall.
Wayne Rogers as Charlie Garrett (1993–1995; 5 episodes), a disreputable private investigator who usually gets into trouble and needs Jessica's help.
Claude Akins as Ethan Cragg (1984; 4 episodes), Jessica's fisherman friend.
Herb Edelman as Artie Gelber (1984-1995, 10 episodes), a NYPD Lieutenant and Jessica's friend.
Guest stars[edit]
Main article: List of Murder, She Wrote guest stars
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Murder, She Wrote episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 22 September 30, 1984 (1984-09-30) April 21, 1985 (1985-04-21)
2 22 September 29, 1985 (1985-09-29) May 18, 1986 (1986-05-18)
3 22 September 28, 1986 (1986-09-28) May 10, 1987 (1987-05-10)
4 22 September 20, 1987 (1987-09-20) May 8, 1988 (1988-05-08)
5 22 October 23, 1988 (1988-10-23) May 21, 1989 (1989-05-21)
6 22 September 24, 1989 (1989-09-24) May 20, 1990 (1990-05-20)
7 22 September 16, 1990 (1990-09-16) May 12, 1991 (1991-05-12)
8 22 September 15, 1991 (1991-09-15) May 17, 1992 (1992-05-17)
9 22 September 20, 1992 (1992-09-20) May 16, 1993 (1993-05-16)
10 21 September 12, 1993 (1993-09-12) May 22, 1994 (1994-05-22)
11 21 September 25, 1994 (1994-09-25) May 14, 1995 (1995-05-14)
12 24 September 21, 1995 (1995-09-21) May 19, 1996 (1996-05-19)
Movies 4 November 2, 1997 (1997-11-02) May 9, 2003 (2003-05-09)
Crossover with Magnum, P.I.[edit]
See also: Magnum, P.I. § Crossovers
The episode of Magnum, P.I. entitled "Magnum on Ice" concludes a crossover that begins on the earlier Magnum, P.I. episode "Novel Connection". In the episode's plot, Jessica comes to Hawaii to investigate an attempt to murder Robin Masters' guests, then tries to clear Magnum when he's accused of killing the hitman.[citation needed]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Over its twelve-year run Murder, She Wrote received numerous award nominations. Lansbury herself holds the record for the most Emmy nominations for outstanding lead actress in a drama series with twelve, one for each season. She never won, which is also a record. Mary Dodson, the art director for 102 of the series' 264 episodes, received three Emmy nominations for her work on Murder, She Wrote.[19]
Group
Award
Year(s)
Result
Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Angela Lansbury) 1985–96 Nominated
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (John Addison) 1985[20] Won
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Bruce Babcock) 1993, 1995 Nominated
Outstanding Costume Design for a Series (Alfred E. Lehman) 1986[20] Won
Golden Globe Awards Best TV Series – Drama 1985, 1986 Won
Best TV Series – Drama 1987–90 Nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series – Drama (Angela Lansbury) 1985, 1987, 1990 & 1992 Won
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series – Drama (Angela Lansbury) 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993 & 1995 Nominated
Edgar Awards Best Episode of a TV Series ("Deadly Lady") 1985 Won
Best Episode of a TV Series ("The Dead File") 1993 Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series – Drama (Angela Lansbury) 1995 Nominated
U.S. television ratings[edit]
Murder, She Wrote maintained extremely high ratings finishing in the top 15 of shows for eleven of its 12 seasons (eight of which it was in the top 10), even well into its late seasons. By its 11th season, Murder, She Wrote was still averaging 25 million viewers per week. However, at the beginning of its 12th season in 1995, CBS moved the show from its extremely popular Sunday night time slot to Thursday night forcing it to compete with NBC's Must See TV line up, and as a result the ratings plummeted. The show rated as the following:
Television ratings
Season
Episodes
Time slot (ET)
Season premiere
Season finale
Rank
Rating
1
1984–85 22 Sunday at 8:00 pm (Episodes 1, 3-23)
Sunday at 9:00 pm (Episode 2) September 30, 1984 April 21, 1985 #8[21] 20.1
2
1985–86 22 Sunday at 8:00 pm September 29, 1985 May 18, 1986 #3[22] 25.3
3
1986–87 22 September 28, 1986 May 10, 1987 #4[23] 25.4
4
1987–88 22 September 20, 1987 May 8, 1988 #9[24] 20.2
5
1988–89 22 October 23, 1988 May 21, 1989 #8[25] 19.9
6
1989–90 22 September 24, 1989 May 20, 1990 #13[26] 17.7
7
1990–91 22 September 16, 1990 May 12, 1991 #12[27] 16.4
8
1991–92 22 September 15, 1991 May 17, 1992 #8[28] 16.9
9
1992–93 22 September 20, 1992 May 16, 1993 #5[29] 17.7
10
1993–94 21 September 12, 1993 May 22, 1994 #11[30] 16.0
11
1994–95 21 September 25, 1994 May 14, 1995 #8[31] 15.6
12
1995–96 24 Thursday at 8:00 pm (Episodes 1-12, 14-17, 19-20)
Sunday at 8:00 pm (Episodes 13, 18, 21-24) September 21, 1995 May 19, 1996 #58[32] 9.50
Abandoned reboot[edit]
Deadline Hollywood reported in October 2013 that NBC was planning a reboot of the series, starring Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer as a "hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel."[33]
Lansbury commented that she was not a fan of using the title, saying "I think it's a mistake to call it 'Murder, She Wrote,' because 'Murder, She Wrote' will always be about Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person." Early on it was decided by producers that Spencer's character would not be named Jessica Fletcher, for only Lansbury could play Jessica Fletcher.[34] It was announced on January 21, 2014, that the reboot would not be going forward.[35]
International syndication[edit]
Since its original run on CBS, Murder, She Wrote has been syndicated in many countries around the world.
Country
Channel(s)
Title
Literal translation
Language
Argentina - Reportera del crimen Crime Reporter Spanish dubbed
Australia Nine Network,
Network Ten,
TV1,
GO!,
GEM,
111 Greats,
FOX Classics,
ABC,
13th Street Murder, She Wrote English
Austria ORF,
Puls 4 Mord ist ihr Hobby Murder Is Her Hobby German dubbed
Belgium: Flanders VTM,
VIJFtv Murder, She Wrote English,
Dutch subtitles
Belgium: Wallonia La Une Arabesque French dubbed
Brazil Universal Channel Assassinato por Escrito Written Murder Portuguese dubbed
Bulgaria Fox Crime,
Diema,
AXN,
AXN White Убийство по сценарий Murder by Script Bulgarian dubbed, Bulgarian subtitles
Canada Vision TV Murder, She Wrote English
Canada: Quebec TQS Elle écrit au meurtre She Writes "Murder!"[36] French dubbed
Chile Canal 13 Reportera del crimen Crime Reporter Spanish dubbed
Croatia HRT Ubojstvo, napisala je Murder, She Wrote English,
Croatian subtitles
Czech Republic Nova,
Prima To je vražda, napsala That Is Murder, She Wrote Czech dubbed
Denmark DR 1,
DR 2,
TV 3 Hun så et mord She Saw a Murder English,
Danish subtitles
Estonia TV3 Mõrv sai teoks Murder Became True English,
Estonian subtitles
Fiji FBC TV Murder She Wrote English
Finland YLE TV1,
MTV3 Sarja, Kolmoskanava,
TV5 Murhasta tuli totta Murder Became True English,
Finnish subtitles
France La Cinq,
TF1,
TV Breizh, TMC Arabesque Arabesque French dubbed
Germany ARD,
RTL,
Super RTL,
Sat.1 Gold,
TNT Serie,
kabel eins,
WDR,
Einsfestival,
rbb Immer, wenn sie Krimis schrieb;
Mord ist ihr Hobby Whenever She Wrote Crime Novels;
Murder is Her Hobby German dubbed, original English version
Greece Star Channel Η συγγραφέας ντετέκτιβ The Detective Writer English,
Greek subtitles
Hungary Viasat 3 Gyilkos sorok Murderous Lines Hungarian dubbed
India Star Plus Murder, She Wrote English
Ireland RTÉ One Murder, She Wrote English
Israel HOT
Israel 10 רצח במשיכת קולמוס Murder With a Stroke of Pen English,
Hebrew subtitles
Italy Rai Uno,
Fox Crime,
Rai Due
Rete 4 La signora in giallo The Lady in Yellow[37] Italian dubbed
Japan NHK,
Mystery Channel,
LaLa TV,
Chiba TV,
Gunma TV ジェシカおばさんの事件簿
Jessica obasan no jikenbo Auntie Jessica's Case Files Japanese dubbed
Kuwait KTV 2 Murder, She Wrote English,
Arabic subtitles
Latvia LTV
Fox Crime Noziegumam pa pēdām On the Trail of the Crime Latvian dubbed
Lithuania TV3 Džesika Flečer Jessica Fletcher Lithuanian dubbed
Macedonia Fox Crime Убиство, таа напиша Murder, She Wrote Macedonia dubbed
Mexico 4TV (former),
Universal Channel (former),
FX Latin America (current) La reportera del crimen The Crime Reporter Spanish dubbed
Netherlands RTL 8,
NCRV,
13th Street Universal Murder, She Wrote English,
Dutch subtitles
New Zealand TV One,
TV2,
TV3,
Jones Murder, She Wrote English
Norway TV3,
NRK1 Jessica Fletcher Jessica Fletcher English,
Norwegian subtitles
Pakistan Pakistan Television,
PTV1 Murder, She Wrote English
Philippines GMA Network,
RJTV 29 Murder, She Wrote English
Poland 13th Street,
AXN,
AXN Crime Napisała: Morderstwo Murder, She Wrote English,
Polish voice-over translation
Portugal RTP 1,
FOX CRIME Crime, Disse Ela Crime, She Said English,
Portuguese subtitles
Romania Pro Cinema,
TVR 2,
AXN Crime,
AXN White,
AXN Spin Verdict: Crimă Verdict: Murder English,
Romanian subtitles
Russia NTV,
Domashny Она написала убийство Murder, She Wrote Russian dubbed
Serbia FOX Crime Pisac i detektiv A Writer and a Detective English,
Serbian subtitles
Slovakia Markíza To je vražda, napísala Murder, She Wrote Slovak dubbed
Slovenia RTVSLO
Kanal A
FOX Crime
TV3 Slovenia Umor, je napisala Murder, She Wrote Slovene dubbed
South Africa TV1
SABC Encore Murder, She Wrote English
South Korea MBC 제시카의 추리 극장
Jessica-eui Churi Geukjang Jessica's Detective Theatre Korean dubbed
Spain TVE,
Calle 13,
Atresseries Se ha escrito un crimen A Crime Has Been Written Spanish dubbed
Spain: Catalonia TV3 S'ha escrit un crim A Crime Has Been Written Catalan dubbed
Spain: Galicia TVG Escribiuse un crime A Crime Has Been Written Galician dubbed
Sweden TV3,
TV4 Guld Mord och inga visor Murder and No Melodies[38] English,
Swedish subtitles
Turkey TRT 1,
Star TV,
Kanal D
TNT Türkiye Cinayet Dosyası Murder File Turkish dubbed
Ukraine СТБ Вона написала вбивство Murder, She Wrote Ukrainian dubbed
United Kingdom ITV,
ITV3,
ITV4,
Granda Plus,
BBC1,
BBC2,
UKTV Gold,
UKTV Drama
Alibi,
True Entertainment Murder, She Wrote English
United States Hallmark Movie Channel,
TV Land,
Cozi TV Murder, She Wrote English
Uruguay Monte Carlo Televisión Reportera del crimen Crime Reporter Spanish dubbed
Venezuela Televen Reportera del crimen Crime Reporter Spanish dubbed
Merchandise[edit]
In 1985, Warren Company released a Murder, She Wrote board game. In the game, one player takes the hidden role of a killer and the other players try to determine which player is the killer through deduction. The killer is successful if he or she can kill five of the characters on the game-board and escape, while the detective players win by correctly deducing the identity of the killer.
In December 2009, casual game developer and publisher Legacy Interactive, under license with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group (UPDPG), announced the release a PC and Macintosh video game based on the television series. In the game, players help Jessica Fletcher to solve five unusual murders.[39][40] A sequel, Murder She Wrote 2, was launched by Legacy Interactive in November 2012.[41]
Multimedia[edit]
List of novels
Home video releases
Mystery Theatre
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ In Italian, the "yellow genre" expression is equivalent to crime fiction from the 1930s when an Italian publisher, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, published a series of crime fiction books using a yellow cover.
Jump up ^ While "Murder and No Melodies" is the literal translation, the translation is a word play, alluding to the Swedish idiom "Ord och inga visor" ("Words and no melodies"), with the idiomatic meaning "plain speaking" or "hard, honest words".
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