Murder, She Wrote

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 30, 1984
Season #: 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
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  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Bill Carter
    Feb 1, 2022
    50
    For awhile the whodunit is mildly diverting, but it quickly goes off in unsatisfying directions. [28 Sep 1984, p.10B]
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  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Harriet Van Horne
    Feb 1, 2022
    42
    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]
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Feb 1, 2022
    40
    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.
  5. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Steve Sonsky
    Feb 1, 2022
    40
    A stylish fraud, but a fraud nonetheless. [29 Sep 1984, p.7D]
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