Jessica investigates when an artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.Jessica investigates when an artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.Jessica investigates when an artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.
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Daryl Wood
- Martha Sommers
- (as Daryl Lynn Wood)
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Did you know
- TriviaPer the title, Simon Says is a children's game for three or more players where one is "it" and tells the others what to do when asked with a phrase beginning with "Simon says".
- GoofsWhile at the dinner party Jessica was invited to. The guests are seated at the table and Irene (Tess Harper) enters with tray of food and places it down on the table in front of Simon (Foster Brooks). Then the camera switches to one of the male guest and back to a wider angle. You then see Irene placing the tray down for the second time in front of Simon.
- Quotes
Sheriff Amos Tupper: But what am I gonna do about the fact that Irene Rutledge has no legal claim to Tommy?
Jessica Fletcher: Amos, if I were you, I would develop amnesia.
Sheriff Amos Tupper: Mmm, save a lot of paperwork, too.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
Featured review
Apparently there's another famous person from Cabot Cove...or at least there was!
With a tiny Maine town like Cabot Cove, you'd think that the only world famous person who lives there would be Jessica Fletcher. Well, that would be wrong! Apparently, a famous painter, Simon Thane (Foster Brooks), lives there and the story begins with his throwing a small dinner party for some guests...including Jessica. Not surprisingly, some time after the party broke up, Thane is murdered...and is fond with a knife plunged into his chest!
As usual, the police arrest the wrong person, though with the evidence they have, Sheriff Tupper is surprisingly competent and should have made the arrest. But the woman is a single mother with a boy...and the Sheriff and Jessica take care of the boy while his mother's in jail. And, as you'd expect, Jessica decides to investigate the case.
This is a decent episode. Sure, it has a typical declaration by the REAL killer that they did it based on very little evidence (a weakness of many episodes), but it's involving, interesting and worth seeing. It's also interesting to see Brooks play a non-comedic role...and one where he isn't drunk even once!
As usual, the police arrest the wrong person, though with the evidence they have, Sheriff Tupper is surprisingly competent and should have made the arrest. But the woman is a single mother with a boy...and the Sheriff and Jessica take care of the boy while his mother's in jail. And, as you'd expect, Jessica decides to investigate the case.
This is a decent episode. Sure, it has a typical declaration by the REAL killer that they did it based on very little evidence (a weakness of many episodes), but it's involving, interesting and worth seeing. It's also interesting to see Brooks play a non-comedic role...and one where he isn't drunk even once!
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- planktonrules
- Nov 8, 2022
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