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"A Virtual Murder" is the fifth episode of the tenth season of Murder, She Wrote and its 203rd episode overall. It aired on October 31, 1993.

Summary[]

Jessica happens on a computerized clue to a murder while writing a mystery story for a friend's interactive video game company.

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Trivia[]

  • Final acting role of Shawn Phelan. He suffered a traumatic brain injury in an automobile collision on March 29th, 1994 at age 19 and was left comatose before dying at age 23 on September 27th, 1998.
  • Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey said in a Wired interview that this episode inspired him to work on his virtual reality device.
  • The exterior of Hastings Rock in the game is remarkably similar to the castle in Murder, She Wrote: The Wind Around the Tower (1992).
  • The building and exterior used for the software company, Marathon Images, is the same building and exterior used as the location of the Bio-Dome in Bio-Dome (1996).

Goofs[]

The 2nd time Jessica is playing the game she sees two battle axes hanging on a wall and asks that they be changed to sabers. Even though a tech says the axes are now changed to sabers, what actually appears are scimitars, which have a more pronounced curve to their blades than do sabers.

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