There aren’t many shows as comforting, as compelling, as damnably good-natured as Murder, She Wrote. There has never been, and never will be again, anyone like Jessica Fletcher. Over 12 seasons and 264 episodes of award-winning, critically acclaimed television, a widowed English teacher-turned-crime novelist became one of the greatest fictional sleuths of all time.
Let’s start with the woman at the centre of it all: Angela Lansbury. You may know her as Miss Price from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, or as the singing teapot in Beauty and the Beast. But before Murder, She Wrote rolled around, Lansbury was not a global household name.
