S3 E1 • Meurtre sous chapiteau (1/2)

Neil, le père de Jessica Fletcher, a disparu depuis dix ans. Pourtant lorsque Carol, sa petite fille, nièce de Jessica, se marie, il lui adresse une statue !

Première diffusion : 28 septembre 1986

S3 E2 • Meurtre sous chapiteau (2/2)

Jessica Fletcher retrouve son père après dix ans d'absence. Il se fait désormais appeler Carl Shumann et est accusé de meurtre. Jessica pense qu'il est innocent mais il s'entête à dire lecontraire...

Première diffusion : 5 octobre 1986

S3 E3 • Mission non accomplie

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

Première diffusion : 12 octobre 1986

S3 E4 • Rose blanche pour un tueur

Attending a concert in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved with two East German defectors and a murder.

Première diffusion : 19 octobre 1986

S3 E5 • Meurtre sans publicité

An adman handling the account of a fast-food chain is murdered and Jessica smells something funny.

Première diffusion : 2 novembre 1986

S3 E6 • L'Or des morts

While diving for sunken treasure near Cabot Cove, a young woman is murdered.

Première diffusion : 9 novembre 1986

S3 E7 • Meurtre à la une

A veteran reporter, who suffered a heart attack, says his best medicine would be the removal of his publisher who has turned a good paper into a yellow rag.

Première diffusion : 16 novembre 1986

S3 E8 • À chacun sa méthode

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target.

Première diffusion : 23 novembre 1986

S3 E9 • Le journaliste a jeté l'ancre

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

Première diffusion : 7 décembre 1986

S3 E10 • Comédie de l’assassin

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

Première diffusion : 14 décembre 1986

S3 E11 • La Nuit du cavalier sans tête

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

Première diffusion : 4 janvier 1987

S3 E12 • Le cadavre voyage en première

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

Première diffusion : 18 janvier 1987

S3 E13 • L'Homme à la voix rauque

The phone wires get crossed during a storm and Jessica can't convince anyone that what she heard was real.

Première diffusion : 1 février 1987

S3 E14 • Meurtre en la mineur

Jessica tells the tale of a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.

Première diffusion : 8 février 1987

S3 E15 • Parlons vrai

A lying TV Consumer advocate is killed. Was it done by one of the clients whose products he maligned?

Première diffusion : 15 février 1987

S3 E16 • Meurtre avant le combat

Jessica inherits a boxer's contract and her old friend; Harry McGraw is accused of murdering its former owner.

Première diffusion : 22 février 1987

S3 E17 • La Couleur de la mort

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

Première diffusion : 1 mars 1987

S3 E18 • À mourir de rire

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

Première diffusion : 15 mars 1987

S3 E19 • Règlements de comptes

Grady Fletcher is in big trouble when his boss, a specialist in tax shelters, is found dead and he is the main suspect.

Première diffusion : 22 mars 1987

S3 E20 • Les Voix d'outre-tombe

First, the reform mayor dies in an ""accident"" and then the mayor's father is murdered after he demands an investigation of the ""accident"".

Première diffusion : 5 avril 1987

S3 E21 • Erreur judiciaire

Thirty years ago, Sam Wilson was sent to prison for murdering his boss, Malcolm Jarvis. After finally being released, Sam goes home to his wife and now-grown son who is expecting his first child with his wife, Terry. At Georgia Jarvis' request, Jessica looks into the crime, and through flashbacks, Sam remembers when Jarvis had offered him $10,000 to make his suicide look like murder. While Jessica believes that Sam is innocent, she doesn't believe it was suicide, and asks Sam's son Rod, a police officer, to lend a hand.

Première diffusion : 19 avril 1987

S3 E22 • Meurtre en seize pistes

During a short black-out in the studio where Jessica is recording a book for the blind, the studio co-owner is murdered.

Première diffusion : 10 mai 1987