![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||
|
Surely, one facet of the guest cast for this silly old nonsense, that should have been mentioned in the article, is that in each episode, there would be at least one person (Kathryn Grayson, Van Johnson, Roddy McDowall etc.) whom most viewers would have assumed to be dead, or retired. "Veterans", to put it politely. Also, the episodes set in England and Ireland wre atrocious, full of cliches. The British ones were all cardboard sets and Dick Van Dyke accents, while the Irish ones (and those involving Len Cariou as a spy) proved, yet again, that the American idea of an Irish accent is to talk as they usually do except for ending every other sentence with "sure now". Dolmance ( talk) 18:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Also, town police chiefs in Maine are not called "sheriffs". A sheriff is a politician; the chief elected executive of a county. He's a manager and politician and wears a suit and tie to work, not a badge. Western-style cowboy hats are not typically attire for local police in Maine. Even the Maine stereotypes are phony, and I don't think there was ever anything resembling a Maine accent. When a local accent was portrayed fictionally, it was always a cartoon caricature of an accent. The southern California writers, directors, and producers new no more about Maine than they did about Britain or Ireland. 66.19.201.149 ( talk) 01:24, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Removed cfdnotice, cfd has completed. -- Kbdank71 16:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
In the Origin section, it says MSW is the longest, while in Episodes, it claims "for several years the longest-running". To muddy things even further, according to List of longest running TV shows by category, that accolade goes to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which had 4 more episodes, but in fewer years (1955-62) and before MSW. Can somebody clear up this mystery? Jessica? Clarityfiend 16:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
What is being used as criteria for regular/recurring cast? All but one of the actors listed under 'regular cast' was actually recurring -- only Angela Lansbury was on contract the entire twelve years. William Windom, Ron Masak, etc ... they were guest stars (recurring) only. Mostly curious. D'Amico 07:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
No references, I note, to influences on the series. I assume the following are true, but have no references to back my thoughts up.
Can anyone confirm whether these are true, and insert these points, with suitable references? — Paul G ( talk) 11:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Like I wrote some time ago in the German Wikipedia, the length of the episodes is not fitting. On TV the duration of an episode is only about 45 minutes. Furthermore, the duration of the DV version of every season at amazon's is also about 45*episodes. Someone with more background knowledge than me corrected this mistake in the German Wiki. I don't know, if I haven't made any logical mistakes, so I don't want to edit the articel (maybe there where cuts etc). But it would be fine, if someone with more background infos could do. (Why the hell this mistake, if it is one, is also in the ImDB?!) -- 82.218.61.23 ( talk) 19:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I recently heard that many episodes of the series are available for download in various Internet sites. Does anybody happen to know any of them? - Anonymous, 2 August 2008
Were the opening credits the same throughout the series? ISTR at some point she switched from a typewriter to a computer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
{{ FreeContentMeta}}, which is used in the {{ MSWWiki}} template, is under discussion. Please see template talk:FreeContentMeta#Inline or floating to participate in this discussion. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I made an adjustment to the translation of "Murder She Wrote" into Italian. "In giallo" doesn't mean "in yellow" so I made a correction. -- KeithatET ( talk) 02:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
At E3 2009 Legacy Interactive announced a Murder, She Wrote game for PC. Titled Murder, She Wrote: Murder By the Garden Gate [1] Pat ( talk) 19:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Since the editor who deleted the table didn't bother to answer why he deleted it, I can only assume that there wasn't a reason except for him not liking the table. Therefore I reinserted it. -- Six words ( talk) 12:25, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Just watched one of the later episodes and Jessica Fletcher did not appear to be in it (although I was not paying total attention). Was she written out of the last series or were some based on stories she wrote rather than crimes she solved? Stutley ( talk) 15:14, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
This paragraph needs rewriting at the start, 131.111.184.95 ( talk) 12:56, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello please note the following: wherever she goes, within a few hours there is a murder. AND in most cases, there had been strong evidence of her being the murderer, until she proved otherwise. It seems quite obvious to me that she is the murderer, a serial killer (more than 500 murders!), and that she had some manipulating (hypnotic?) technique in order to push someone else to plead guilty at each time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.112.159.201 ( talk) 12:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Majinsnake ( talk) 22:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
There were other actresses who were considered for the role of Jessica Fletcher. Angela Lansbury was not the first. I think Doris Roberts was one of the actresses because she did not want to commit to a TV series. Later on, she starred in Everybody loves raymond.
Majinsnake ( talk) 22:57, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
The overview says "a total of 264 episodes" but the "no. of episodes" field says 265. Which is correct? 202.168.33.73 ( talk) 10:48, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
I come to wikipedia to be spoiled so i dont watch inapropriate stuff, not get something that sounds like the movies/tv show promotional ads . If i dont know what its about i wont let my family watch it. At some point “murder she wrotes” wili article gave away the murderer, then a cabal of antispoiling people decided to take that information away because in their opinion spoilers are blasphemy. Id like to talk about this there are ways of warning people a spoiler is coming without depriving people of the info they are seeking. 98.236.39.75 ( talk) 00:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||
|
Surely, one facet of the guest cast for this silly old nonsense, that should have been mentioned in the article, is that in each episode, there would be at least one person (Kathryn Grayson, Van Johnson, Roddy McDowall etc.) whom most viewers would have assumed to be dead, or retired. "Veterans", to put it politely. Also, the episodes set in England and Ireland wre atrocious, full of cliches. The British ones were all cardboard sets and Dick Van Dyke accents, while the Irish ones (and those involving Len Cariou as a spy) proved, yet again, that the American idea of an Irish accent is to talk as they usually do except for ending every other sentence with "sure now". Dolmance ( talk) 18:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Also, town police chiefs in Maine are not called "sheriffs". A sheriff is a politician; the chief elected executive of a county. He's a manager and politician and wears a suit and tie to work, not a badge. Western-style cowboy hats are not typically attire for local police in Maine. Even the Maine stereotypes are phony, and I don't think there was ever anything resembling a Maine accent. When a local accent was portrayed fictionally, it was always a cartoon caricature of an accent. The southern California writers, directors, and producers new no more about Maine than they did about Britain or Ireland. 66.19.201.149 ( talk) 01:24, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Removed cfdnotice, cfd has completed. -- Kbdank71 16:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
In the Origin section, it says MSW is the longest, while in Episodes, it claims "for several years the longest-running". To muddy things even further, according to List of longest running TV shows by category, that accolade goes to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which had 4 more episodes, but in fewer years (1955-62) and before MSW. Can somebody clear up this mystery? Jessica? Clarityfiend 16:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
What is being used as criteria for regular/recurring cast? All but one of the actors listed under 'regular cast' was actually recurring -- only Angela Lansbury was on contract the entire twelve years. William Windom, Ron Masak, etc ... they were guest stars (recurring) only. Mostly curious. D'Amico 07:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
No references, I note, to influences on the series. I assume the following are true, but have no references to back my thoughts up.
Can anyone confirm whether these are true, and insert these points, with suitable references? — Paul G ( talk) 11:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Like I wrote some time ago in the German Wikipedia, the length of the episodes is not fitting. On TV the duration of an episode is only about 45 minutes. Furthermore, the duration of the DV version of every season at amazon's is also about 45*episodes. Someone with more background knowledge than me corrected this mistake in the German Wiki. I don't know, if I haven't made any logical mistakes, so I don't want to edit the articel (maybe there where cuts etc). But it would be fine, if someone with more background infos could do. (Why the hell this mistake, if it is one, is also in the ImDB?!) -- 82.218.61.23 ( talk) 19:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I recently heard that many episodes of the series are available for download in various Internet sites. Does anybody happen to know any of them? - Anonymous, 2 August 2008
Were the opening credits the same throughout the series? ISTR at some point she switched from a typewriter to a computer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
{{ FreeContentMeta}}, which is used in the {{ MSWWiki}} template, is under discussion. Please see template talk:FreeContentMeta#Inline or floating to participate in this discussion. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I made an adjustment to the translation of "Murder She Wrote" into Italian. "In giallo" doesn't mean "in yellow" so I made a correction. -- KeithatET ( talk) 02:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
At E3 2009 Legacy Interactive announced a Murder, She Wrote game for PC. Titled Murder, She Wrote: Murder By the Garden Gate [1] Pat ( talk) 19:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Since the editor who deleted the table didn't bother to answer why he deleted it, I can only assume that there wasn't a reason except for him not liking the table. Therefore I reinserted it. -- Six words ( talk) 12:25, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Just watched one of the later episodes and Jessica Fletcher did not appear to be in it (although I was not paying total attention). Was she written out of the last series or were some based on stories she wrote rather than crimes she solved? Stutley ( talk) 15:14, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
This paragraph needs rewriting at the start, 131.111.184.95 ( talk) 12:56, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello please note the following: wherever she goes, within a few hours there is a murder. AND in most cases, there had been strong evidence of her being the murderer, until she proved otherwise. It seems quite obvious to me that she is the murderer, a serial killer (more than 500 murders!), and that she had some manipulating (hypnotic?) technique in order to push someone else to plead guilty at each time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.112.159.201 ( talk) 12:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Majinsnake ( talk) 22:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
There were other actresses who were considered for the role of Jessica Fletcher. Angela Lansbury was not the first. I think Doris Roberts was one of the actresses because she did not want to commit to a TV series. Later on, she starred in Everybody loves raymond.
Majinsnake ( talk) 22:57, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
The overview says "a total of 264 episodes" but the "no. of episodes" field says 265. Which is correct? 202.168.33.73 ( talk) 10:48, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
I come to wikipedia to be spoiled so i dont watch inapropriate stuff, not get something that sounds like the movies/tv show promotional ads . If i dont know what its about i wont let my family watch it. At some point “murder she wrotes” wili article gave away the murderer, then a cabal of antispoiling people decided to take that information away because in their opinion spoilers are blasphemy. Id like to talk about this there are ways of warning people a spoiler is coming without depriving people of the info they are seeking. 98.236.39.75 ( talk) 00:30, 17 February 2023 (UTC)