It's a Dog's Life

It's a Dog's Life is the fifth episode of the first season of Murder, She Wrote.

Summary[]

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Man's best friend gets a bad rap when a fox hunter dies in a riding accident and the authorities try to blame the heir to his estate - his beloved pooch.

Starring[]

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher

Guest Stars[]


Roger Miller as Sheriff Lynn Redgrave as Abby Benton Freestone Dan O'Herlihy as Denton Langley Forrest Tucker as Tom Cassidy Jared Martin as Spencer Langley	Lenore Kasdorf as Trish Langley Cathryn Damon as Morgana Cramer Dean Jones as Marcus Boswell Gregory Walcott as Isaiah Potts Cherie Currie as Echo Cramer Byron Cherry as Deputy Will Roxie

Co-Starring[]

James Hampton as Vet
Sandy Ward as Barnes
Robert Cornthwaite as Coroner
Donna Anderson Marshall as Miss Sampson
Greg Norberg as Gary
Bernard McDonald as Master of the Hunt
Brian Mozur as Anthony

Trivia[]

Dan O'Herlihy and Robert Cornthwaite had previously appeared with Angela Lansbury in the 1955 film The Purple Mask.

Goofs[]

In the first party scene, spike marks can be seen on the floor as Jessica and Denton walk across the room.
After Jessica and a deputy look for a bicycle clip on the side of the road, the scene switches to where Jessica is on a horse and Echo rides up on her horse in front of the barn, you clearly see the complete head and upper torso of a man in a red shirt lying on the ground directly in front of Jessica Fletcher's horse.
After Teddy was drugged and bit someone the lawyer tells them that they are positive that Teddy wasn't rabid. The only two ways to proof something like that is a ten day quarantine or by a post-mortem (after death) examination of brain tissue. Neither of these two things happened.
After Denton's fall, Jessica jumps off her horse and turns towards the camera; it is clearly a stand-in and not Angela Lansbury.

External Links[]

It's a Dog's Life at the Internet Movie Database