Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

* Murder She Wrote-A Very Good Year For Murder ( 1988 )

Kabir also played roles on Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P. I., Hunter, Knight Rider and Highlander: The Series amongst others.

* Murder She Wrote ( February 1998 ) ( TV series ) ... Vikram Singh

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder, She Wrote, he offered Straczynski a job as co-producer.

* Murder, She Wrote-Co-Producer ; wrote 7 episodes

He wrote an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America award, and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he produced.

Aaron laments that Tamora has now outdone him in evil ; " She has out-done me in my own Art –/ Out-done me in Murder – Kille'd her own Child ./ Give it me – I ’ le eat it.

She then returned to television as a guest-star in the mystery series Murder, She Wrote, scoring favorable reviews.

The channel shows the German premiere of 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights, as well a wide variety of old and recent American drama and comedy, including Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Monk, Third Watch, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, ER, The King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Caroline in the City, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and Falling Skies.

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Both films were made by the same writer-director team behind the popular Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple film, Murder She Said.

In 1987, Burton played Dave Robinson, a journalist ( sports writer ), in the third season of Murder, She Wrote, episode 16 " Death Takes a Dive " starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.

Since M * A * S * H, Farrell has guest starred in Murder, She Wrote ; Justice League ; Matlock ; Mannix ; Desperate Housewives ; and many others.

She also starred in three series of the comedy show Murder Most Horrid.

* Murder, She Wrote as Sara ( 1 episode, 1994 )

Christopher has appeared on various series, including Murder, She Wrote.

Rogers then guest-starred five times on CBS's Murder, She Wrote.

He also had guest roles on such shows as Murder, She Wrote, Murphy Brown, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Caroline in the City.

That year he also guested on Murder, She Wrote as " Lafayette Duquesne ".

However, the TV series Murder, She Wrote has had the largest impact on the community.

Murder, She Wrote was set in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine.

While scenes for Murder, She Wrote were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store.

Murder, She Wrote also brought in more money to the town due to increased tourism — by some estimates, around $ 2, 000, 000.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

Bixby made his last acting appearance in 1992, guest starring on an episode of Diagnosis: Murder.

An episode of CSI: Miami, " Murder in a Flash " centers on a flash mob which is a very similar idea, albeit produced by standard transportation.

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

He was a guest actor on an episode of TV's Wonder Woman and played a cross-dressing villain in an episode of Laverne & Shirley (" Murder on the Moose Jaw Express ").

That year he also made an appearance in the popular ITC show Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) in the fifth episode of the series " That's How Murder Snowballs " as Abel, a framed performer in a major London theatre.

For example, two years before Captain Kangaroo, it served as the wrap-up music for an episode of the radio program Rocky Fortune called " Murder Among the Statues ".

After the series ended, his penchant for hot dogs was explained in the 1997 episode " Murder Two " of Joyce Burditt's Diagnosis: Murder.

Van Dyke later hired Griffith to reprise his Matlock role in a 1997 episode of his own CBS series Diagnosis: Murder, which completed a connection between Matlock and Diagnosis: Murder ( Jake and the Fatman, which was a spinoff of Matlock but aired on CBS instead of NBC, was the connecting series as Diagnosis: Murder was spun off from that ).

* " The Plague " ( Diagnosis Murder Episode ), a 1994 episode of Diagnosis Murder

The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XX contains several scenes from the film as well as other Hitchcock films in its first segment, Dial ' M ' for Murder or Press '#' to Return to Main Menu.

The episode The Fifth Stair of the TV series 77 Sunset Strip recreated Dial M for Murder with Richard Long portraying Tony Wendice.

* Season 8 of Family Guy includes an episode " Dial Meg for Murder "

They introduced " Puppet Man " as guests in the It Takes a Thief episode " To Sing a Song of Murder " in 1970.

In 1998, this episode (" Murder at Tea-Time ") was repeated to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Blue Peter, as part of a section entitled " Spoof Peter ", which also featured ( among others ) the Python skit " How to Do It ".

* Appeared in Diagnosis Murder episode Drill for Death (# 5. 15 ) along with several other actors from the movie and TV versions of M * A * S * H.

He appeared with Jamie Farr and Loretta Swit in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder and Lois & Clark.