* Tex ( t )- Mex, a new book from the University of Texas Press, features an article on Orson Welles and Touch of Evil entitled: ' Hallucinations of Miscegenation and Murder: Dancing along the Mestiza / o Borders of Proto-Chicana / o Cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil.

Category: Murder in Texas

In 1988, Taylor starred opposite Barbara Eden in the made for television movie, The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick, and guest starred on series including Diagnosis: Murder, Walker: Texas Ranger, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and L. A. Law.

* Shattered: The True Story of a Mother's Love, a Husband's Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Texas Murder, Kathryn Casey ( 2010 )

In the mid 1990s, he appeared in several episodes of Murder, She Wrote and Walker, Texas Ranger.

His lengthy television filmography includes guest roles on Bonanza, Kung Fu, Ironside, S. W. A. T., The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, The Incredible Hulk, CHiPs, Mrs. Columbo, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, Moonlighting, L. A. Law, Matlock, Law & Order, Walker, Texas Ranger, Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, Without a Trace, and The Practice.

His appearances on American television include such series as Murder, She Wrote, Walker, Texas Ranger, and, more recently, Stargate Atlantis and Numb3rs.

He had a recurring role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and guest-starred on such shows as Diagnosis: Murder, Touched by an Angel, JAG and Walker, Texas Ranger.

* Murder Perch to Museum: A History of the Texas School Book Depository

* The Simple Art of Murder — full essay at The University of Texas ' American Literature website

The original Murder Junkies was a Texas band formed independently of Allin which performed as his backing band for several live dates in the late 1980s.

** Murder in Texas

Starting with a minor role on Forever Fernwood in 1977, Penny has appeared in numerous TV movies and has made many guest appearances on television shows including Touched by an Angel, T. J. Hooker, Vega $, Matt Houston, Lou Grant, CHiPs, Flamingo Road, The Sopranos, Diagnosis: Murder, Walker, Texas Ranger, 7th Heaven, Tucker's Witch, Boomtown and CSI.

She also had guest appearances on TV shows, including Murder, She Wrote, Beverly Hills, 90210, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Growing Pains.

After the end of the show he only had smaller roles in shows such as Renegade ( TV series ), Murder One ( TV series ) ( 1995 ), Walker, Texas Ranger ( 1996 ), Charmed ( 1999 ), Cold Case ( TV series ) in 2009.

She has also appeared in the original television movies From the Earth to the Moon ( 1998 ) and Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder ( 1997 ).

It is now organized by Texas Students Against the Death Penalty and co-sponsored by TMN, Campus Progress at the Center for American Progress, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and Murder Victims ' Families for Human Rights.

He has appeared on such television programs such as NCIS, General Hospital, Scrubs, Deadwood, Cold Case, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills, 90210, Diagnosis: Murder, ER, Crossing Jordan, Walker, Texas Ranger, Babylon 5, Murder, She Wrote, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Doogie Howser, M. D.

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

He won an Edgar Award for A Talent for Murder ( 1981 ), a play he co-wrote with Jerome Chodorov.

Clarke was also a novelist and writer of non-fiction, and was not above presenting his fictions as fact-notably the 1981 book Murder at Buckingham Palace, which purports to tell the story of a hushed-up murder in the Royal residence in 1935.

This line-up completed the recording of Magic, Murder And The Weather in 1981, but Devoto quit in May of the same year months before its release of the album with the remaining members deciding to disband.

Since appearing in the widely-popular Sound of Music, Plummer has appeared in a vast number of notable films, including Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ), The Night of the Generals ( cameo as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ) ( 1967 ), Oedipus the King ( 1968 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1969 ), Battle of Britain ( 1970 ), Waterloo ( 1970 ), The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ), The Silent Partner ( 1978 ), International Velvet ( 1978 ), Murder by Decree ( 1979 ), Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), Eyewitness ( 1981 ), Dragnet ( 1987 ), Shadow Dancing ( 1988 ), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), Malcolm X ( 1992 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The New World ( 2005 ), and The Lake House ( 2006 ).

* Asesinato en el Comité Central ( Murder in the Central Committee ) 1981

U. S. TV stations produced series such as 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 – 1963 ); The Streets of San Francisco ( 1972 – 1977 ), starring Karl Malden and a young Michael Douglas ; Kojak ( 1973 – 1978 ), with Telly Savalas playing the lollipop-addicted police lieutenant ; Switch ( 1975 – 1978 ), with Eddie Albert playing the retired bunco cop to Robert Wagner's role as a former con man ; Charlie's Angels ( 1976 – 1981 ); Murder, She Wrote ( starting in 1984 ), about the adventures of Cabot Cove-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury.

His 1981 film The Simple-Minded Murder was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.

This was followed by two short story collections: Murder and Magic ( 1979 ), and Lord Darcy Investigates ( 1981 ), containing stories that had appeared in Analog, Fantastic and other magazines.

* George Cole played Smiley in BBC Radio versions of both Call for the Dead ( 1978 ) and A Murder of Quality ( 1981 ).

Weld has also appeared in a number of television movies, including a remake of the much-filmed tearjerker Madame X ( 1981 ), Circle of Violence ( 1986 ), Reflections of Murder ( 1974 ) ( an American remake of the French film Les Diaboliques ), and A Question of Guilt, in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children.

Afterwards, Peters appeared in the 1981 television film Peter and Paul, produced by her husband, and guest starred in Murder, She Wrote in 1988, which was her final acting performance.

* Murder Goes Mumming ( 1981 )

* Hart to Hart: Hart-Shaped Murder ( 1981 ) ( TV )

It was later gathered together with Murder and Magic ( 1979 ) and Lord Darcy Investigates ( 1981 ) into the omnibus collection Lord Darcy ( 1983, expanded 2002 ).

He directed Anton Diffring and the legendary Klaus Kinski in giallos later in the decade, and then pretty much retired from filmmaking in 1972, inexplicably emerging from his retirement in 1981 ( at age 72 ) to direct one last slasher film (" Murder Obsession ").

* Murder Obsession ( 1981 ) ( Italian: Follia Omicida ) aka Murder Syndrome, aka The Wailing ( as Robert Hampton )

* " Double Murder ", Alfred Hitchcock ’ s Mystery Magazine, January 1981.

Her other numerous television appearances included: The Vise ( 1958 ), Hawaiian Eye ( 1959 ), Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: Murder in Gratitude ( 1959 ), Danger Man ( 1961 & 1964 ), Second Time Around ( six episodes, 1974 ), The Good Life ( 1977 ), Kidnapped ( mini-series, 1978 ), and Into The Labyrinth ( 1981 ).

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

* Ian Holm, Murder by the Book, 1986 ( TV )

* Alfred Molina, Murder on the Orient Express, 2001 ( TV )

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.

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 ( 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 ).

After the success of Mogambo, Kelly starred in a TV play The Way of an Eagle, with Jean-Pierre Aumont before being cast in the film adaptation of Frederick Knott's Broadway hit Dial M for Murder.

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

* " Murder at Tea Time "-with French as Bunty Bresslaw, presenter of children's TV show Write Away.

* 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.

The second TV movie was Murder in Mississippi ( 1990 ), in which Andrew Goodman was portrayed by the actor Josh Charles.

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

* " Murder in Coweta County " TV Movie ( 1983 ) Based on the same titled book by Margaret Anne Barnes that chronicles actual events around 1948.

* Gene Reynolds in the 1956 Omnibus TV series episode, " The Fine Art of Murder "

* White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd ( TV 1991 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Robert Davi

* Murder with Mirrors ( 1985, TV film )

The case served as inspiration for numerous works, including Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son, Tom Kalin's 1992 film Swoon, Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ( and an American shot-for-shot remake in 2008 ); Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers ( 2002 ); Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story ; and various TV episodes ( including on Law & Order SVU ).

* A Murder Is Announced ( 1985, TV film )

* 1967 Dial M for Murder ( TV )

Murder, She Wrote might never have come about had producers Richard Levinson and William Link succeeded with their TV series Ellery Queen.

* Murder in Black and White ( 1990 ) ( TV )