Death Stalks the Big Top (Part 1)


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Episodes: "Death Stalks the Big Top (Part 1)" "Death Stalks the Big Top (Part 2)" "Unfinished Business" "One White Rose for Death" "Corned Beef & Carnage" "Dead Man's Gold" "Deadline for Murder" "Magnum on Ice (Part 2)" "Obituary for a Dead Anchor" "Stage Struck" "Night of the Headless Horseman" "The Corpse Flew First Class" "Crossed Up" "Murder in a Minor Key" "The Bottom Line Is Murder" "Death Takes a Dive" "Simon Says, Color Me Dead" "No Laughing Murder" "No Accounting for Murder" "The Cemetery Vote" "The Days Dwindle Down" "Murder, She Spoke"
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Production Information[edit | edit source]

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Aired: September 28th, 1986
Teleplay by: Paul Savage Story by: Peter S. Fischer
Directed By: Seymour Robbie
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Created By: Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levison & William Link
Executive Producers: Peter S. Fischer
Producer: Robert F. O'Neill

Summary[edit | edit source]

Jessica's niece, Carol Bannister, gets a letter from her grandfather who is believed to be dead , Jessica tracks down her brother in law to a circus where she gets involved in a series of accidents that lead to murder.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

First two-part episode.

A pre-Friends Courtney Cox appears as Jessica's niece Carol.

Victim(s): Hank Sutter & Harry Kingman

Killer: Preston Bartholomew

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma from being struck with a baseball bat; strangulation.

Motive: Caught him cutting the chain of the circus elephant to sabotage it, on Kingman's orders; refused to pay him and threatened to go to the police after learning he'd murdered Sutter.

Goofs[edit | edit source]

When Carl is putting on his clown makeup, a close-up shows most of his right cheek covered in clown white. In the next shot, his cheek is clean and he starts applying make-up to it again.