Jessica acts unaware of her own cleverness, even when her novels launch her onto the bestseller list and when she solves every crime she encounters. Sometimes reluctant to engage in more crime-solving, she suggests she’s not a great detective, just a writer. Throughout the series, Jessica’s list of real-life solves grows, but she still underplays her abilities. (She figures out the murderer in a play, then leaves before the final act.) Rather than Jessica herself, her nephew, Grady, submits her first manuscript for her, helping to portray her as humble and harmless. In the two-part pilot, “The Murder of Sherlock Holmes,” Jessica starts out not as a bestselling author but as an everyday woman living her life with an extraordinary crime-solving ability.
While Jessica often gives sympathetic or disappointed looks to the week’s cast of suspects, she never becomes upset or afraid in the face of danger.
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Each of these television series offers a unique detective, like Rock Hudson’s police commissioner and his crime-solving wife in “ McMillan & Wife,” Jack Klugman’s stubborn medical examiner in “ Quincy, M.E.,” and the cocky Polish insurance investigator in “ Banacek.” But none of these can beat “Murder, She Wrote” and “Columbo,” a pair of very different yet incredibly delightful murder mysteries.Įveryone knows Dame Angela Lansbury as the bestselling mystery writer Jessica “JB” Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote.” Lansbury’s iconic portrayal gives the heroine an understanding yet detached nature: She laughs and chats with old friends and new acquaintances, even as she objectively observes social cues and deftly solves murders. As I grew up, I discovered Dick Van Dyke’s murder-solving doctor in “ Diagnosis: Murder,” followed by a slew of other ‘70s mystery shows.
While I never watched “ Perry Mason,” I soon happened upon “ Matlock,” which featured Andy Griffith as a down-home but curmudgeonly country lawyer. My love of old television probably began with the three leading ladies of “ Charlie’s Angels” fighting crime the way women just weren’t allowed to do until the 1970s. (Nothing against Agatha Christie.) Among murder mystery shows, two have stood out to me since I first saw them: “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Murder mystery shows are more personal than movies - and more spectacular than reading a good mystery novel. Moody, intricately crafted crimes unfold in softly pixelated 4-to-3 aspect ratios. At least for me, nothing can surpass watching a murder mystery show straight out of the 20th century.
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