Death Takes a Curtain Call
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| “Death Takes a Curtain Call” | |
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| Murder, She Wrote episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 8 |
| Guest stars | Tom Bosley Claude Akins |
| Written by | Paul W. Cooper |
| Directed by | Allen Reisner |
| Production no. | 59219 |
| Original airdate | December 16, 1984 |
| Episode chronology | |
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"Death Takes a Curtain Call" is the eighth episode in the first season of Murder, She Wrote. It first aired on December 16, 1984. Tom Bosley and Claude Akins guest star.
[edit] Synopsis
Jessica Fletcher heads to Boston with Leo Peterson, an old friend in Cabot Cove, to attend a special presentation of the Rostov Ballet. When the stars of the ballet are missing during the curtain call, Leo rushes Jessica out of the theatre where she finds that he has helped his grandniece, Natalia Masurov, and her husband Alexander so that the two can defect to the United States like he had done many years earlier. Their plans to announce their defection to the federal authorities fall by the wayside when they are accused of murdering the security guard found dead in their dressing room, and Jessica enlists Ethan's help in hiding the young lovers while the K.G.B. keeps their eye on her and Leo.
[edit] Cast
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
- Tom Bosley as Amos Tupper
- Claude Akins as Ethan Cragg
- George de la Peña as Alexander Masurov
- William Conrad as Major Anatole Karzoff
- Vicki Kriegler as Natalia Masurov
- James Carroll Jordan as Skip Fleming
- Hurd Hatfield as Leo Peterson
- Jessica Nelson as Velma Rodecker
- Anthony De Longis as Serge Berensky
[edit] Quotes
(Jessica asks Irina and Skip to wait in the living room.)
Jessica Fletcher: You wait right here, and I'll go make a phone call. (heads for the kitchen, where she knows the phone is bugged)
Skip Fleming: What's wrong with this phone? (points at the phone in the living room)
Jessica Fletcher: Well, that phone isn't bugged.
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Mr. Nagy: Major, I lost Mrs. Fletcher.
Major Anatole Karzoff: Lost her? In a town the size of a postage stamp?
Universal Television • Corymore Productions
Pilot: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes Episodes: List of episodes
TV Movies: South by Southwest • A Story to Die For • The Last Free Man • The Celtic Riddle
Characters: Jessica Fletcher • Amos Tupper • Mort Metzger • Seth Hazlitt Other: Cabot Cove • List of guest stars
