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Critic Reviews
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The star of the show, Angela Lansbury, keeps you tuned in no matter what happens to the plot. It's a joy to watch an intelligent actress go through her paces. [28 Sep 1984, p.C26]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
What a pleasant surprise - a new series boasting a star who actually shines and a script that really sparkles. Indeed, if the quality of the pilot episode manages to hold up, Murder, She Wrote (CBS and CBC) could be the televised find of the season. [01 Oct 1984]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Murder, She Wrote looks like the most intriguing, if lighthearted, adult show of the new CBS entries. [17 Sep 1984, p.3E]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Like any good mystery, though, Murder She Wrote has the ups and downs and twists and turns of a roller-coaster, and it's a ride you'd probably enjoy. [22 Sep 1984, p.7]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The dialogue starts out somewhat forced and awkward. But once Lansbury and guest stars Arthur Hill, Ned Beatty and Brian Keith get on track, they make superbly amiable companions for a Sunday evening. [29 Sep 1984, p.13]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The best thing about the two-hour premiere of "Murder, She Wrote" is Angela Lansbury. She is all mischief and devilment, huggably wise, possessed of an agile mind and a sweet nature as a mystery writer/amateur detective who is always one amiable step ahead of the police. [29 Sep 1984, p.12]
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Murder, She Wrote isn't up to Columbo class yet. But the show does display enough wit and style to make it a top-notch entertainment alternative to the noisy head-banging and mayhem on Knight Rider and Hardcastle & McCormick. [30 Sep 1984]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Although it could have been wrapped up in 90 minutes without hurting the plot, and despite Lansbury's characterization getting a mite precious at times, the premiere is colorful, stylish entertainment, pleasantly free of acrobatic automobiles and chock full of semi-campy cameos by the likes of Keith, Ned Beatty, Arthur Hill and Anne Francis. [28 Sep 1984, p.E]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Murder She Wrote is quality, even if it needs more vinegar and less honey. [28 Sep 1984, p.71]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Lansbury does her best with her characterization of Jessica and it is conceivable that her series, which should inherit a substantial audience from 60 Minutes, which precedes it on CBS, may emerge as one of the new hits of the fall season. [30 Sep 1984, p.62]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Angela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher may not captivate like Peter Falk's Columbo, but she'll do quite nicely until something better comes along. [28 Sep 1984, p.2B]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
For awhile the whodunit is mildly diverting, but it quickly goes off in unsatisfying directions. [28 Sep 1984, p.10B]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
With her lovely, mobile face and gift for comedy, Lansbury would be an asset to any drama. But this preposterous mystery tale defeats her. [28 Sep 1984, p.52]
Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Though fashioned by Richard Levinson and William Link, the "Columbo" team, this agreeably old-fashioned crime show, while happily free of squealy car chases, is unfortunately cuted up mercilessly. Lansbury must have taken night courses in adorability; instead of being saucy and sassy, she's a polyester Pollyanna.
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Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
A stylish fraud, but a fraud nonetheless. [29 Sep 1984, p.7D]
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