Season 3

October 12, 1986

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

October 19, 1986

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

November 2, 1986

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

November 9, 1986

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

November 23, 1986

Jessica offers to help Thomas Magnum, who has been accused of killing a hitman with an unknown target. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S07E09 Novel Connection (I).

November 16, 1986

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.

December 7, 1986

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.

December 14, 1986

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

January 4, 1987

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

January 18, 1987

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

February 1, 1987

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

February 8, 1987

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

February 15, 1987

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

February 22, 1987

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

March 1, 1987

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

March 15, 1987

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

March 22, 1987

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

April 5, 1987

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

April 19, 1987

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.

May 10, 1987

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