Jessica must unravel the reason behind the murder of a popular florist.Jessica must unravel the reason behind the murder of a popular florist.Jessica must unravel the reason behind the murder of a popular florist.
Jim Bockelman
- Officer
- (as James C. Bockelman)
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- TriviaYet another script by Donald Ross in which he named several of the characters after famous jazz musicians. Billy Kyle was a piano player with Louis Armstrong's band in the 1950's. Johnny Windhurst was a British-born Dixieland trumpeter in the 1950's. Frances Hunt was a band singer with Benny Goodman in the 1930's. Arnett Cobb was a rhythm-and-blues saxophonist in the 1940's who replaced Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton's band. Junie Cobb - used as the name of his wife in the show - was a male multi-instrumentalist who played with King Oliver in the 1920's. George "Pee Wee" Erwin played trumpet with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey in the 1930's. Police lieutenant Gabriel Caceres is named after Ernie Caceres, a Dixieland baritone saxophonist in New York in the late 1940's. Davey Wells' last name comes from Count Basie trombonist Dickie Wells, and Stan Hendricks' last name comes from jazz singer and songwriter Jon Hendricks.
- Quotes
Nurse Receptionist: A regular Doctor Pygmalion. He works his way through all the new nurses in the building and most of his lady patients, too, if they qualify. Which means if they've got a pulse.
- ConnectionsReferences The Petrified Forest (1936)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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Ending raises the score by two points in my book
Sally Kellerman, Richard Herd (George Costanza's Yankee boss on Seinfeld), and Gergory Sierra (returning as a cop to this series, still best known for his regular role on Barney Miller) highlight the guest stars in this episode.
Jessica is visiting her, I believe, 1,953rd "dear" friend, this time in Hollywood, where she is the main person putting out a scandal sheet, with problems being that a rival paper keeps matching her papers' "exclusives." Of course there is a dinner party, where Jessica gets to meet all the usual suspects as we viewers try to figure out who's going to be killed?
From there we move on to what seems like a rather typical show of this type, chasing false clues, trying to figure out if it the murder had something to do with romance, or a financial problem, or something else. What other reviewers have hinted at, without giving away anything important, is that there is a real surprise at the end.
Sometimes part of the plot makes me lower my score because it makes no sense at all. In this case, if I had paused my DVR 5 minutes before it ended and thought about it, I would have said, "There's nothing bad about this episode, but nothing extra good either-a 7." But the ending makes me up it to a 9. Once you see it, you may not agree, but I hope you'll understand why I thought this such a great ending.
Jessica is visiting her, I believe, 1,953rd "dear" friend, this time in Hollywood, where she is the main person putting out a scandal sheet, with problems being that a rival paper keeps matching her papers' "exclusives." Of course there is a dinner party, where Jessica gets to meet all the usual suspects as we viewers try to figure out who's going to be killed?
From there we move on to what seems like a rather typical show of this type, chasing false clues, trying to figure out if it the murder had something to do with romance, or a financial problem, or something else. What other reviewers have hinted at, without giving away anything important, is that there is a real surprise at the end.
Sometimes part of the plot makes me lower my score because it makes no sense at all. In this case, if I had paused my DVR 5 minutes before it ended and thought about it, I would have said, "There's nothing bad about this episode, but nothing extra good either-a 7." But the ending makes me up it to a 9. Once you see it, you may not agree, but I hope you'll understand why I thought this such a great ending.
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