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Monday, February 12, 2024

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Max Baer Jr., Betty Garrett, Earl Holliman, Margaret O’Brien, Lyman Ward, Marie Windsor, and Jane Withers, all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?” (February 10, 1991). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.

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Thursday, July 14, 2022

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Herb Edelman, Margot Kidder, Cynthia Nixon, and David Soul, all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “Threshold of Fear” (February 28, 1993). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television. See also these arrangments.

[Edelman: Stanley Zbornak in The Golden Girls. The other names should be recognizable. When I watch Murder, She Wrote, I watch just long enough to see the familiar cast members on the screen.]

Friday, June 24, 2022

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Edd Byrnes, Farley Granger, and David Groh, all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying” (February 4, 1990). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television. See also these arrangments.

[Byrnes, best known as Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip; Groh, best known as Joe Girard from Rhoda.]

Monday, March 28, 2022

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Paul Burke, Lloyd Nolan, Mackenzie Phillips, Lurene Tuttle, and Robert Walden, all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “Murder in the Afternoon” (October 13, 1985). Familiar faces in new (and semi-startling) arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.

See also this cast. And these.

Thursday, June 3, 2021

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Michael Ansara, Jane Greer, Clifton James, Martin Milner, Richard Roundtree, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel” (December 18, 1988). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.

See also this cast.

Friday, July 3, 2020

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John Amos, Ernest Borgnine, LeVar Burton, Jerry Orbach, Adam West, all in the Murder, She Wrote episode “Death Takes a Dive” (February 22, 1987). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.