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"Snow White, Blood Red" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of Murder, She Wrote and its 92nd episode overall. It aired on November 13, 1988.
Summary[]
Jessica must solve a series of brutal murders while snowed in at a ski lodge.
Starring[]
Regular cast[]
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
Guest stars[]
- Ronnie Claire Edwards as Sylvia McMasters
- Eric Allan Kramer as Gunnar Tilstrom
- John Laughlin as Mike Lowery
- Barry Newman as Lt. Ed McMasters
- Tony O'Dell as Larry McIvor
- Cyril O'Reilly as Johnny Dowd
- Jamie Rose as Annie Lowery
- Emma Samms as Pamela Leeds
- Bo Svenson as Karl Anderson
- George Wyner as Dr. Lewis
Trivia[]
- Someone wrote that the actor who played McMasters character (a man who claimed to be a police officer) in Snow White, Blood Red was the same actor who played Jessica's eccentric author friend in the episode titled, Mourning Among the Wisterias. That was incorrect.
- It was Barry Nelson who appeared in Mourning Among the Wisterias. In that episode, Nelson played the author of a number of dark, Southern-themed plays. He had invited Jessica to visit his home where he lived with his young nephew and his nephew's wife. At the beginning, he was reading his latest play to her. She felt it was way too dark. He then told Jessica he believed he was dying. Noticing his symptoms, Jessica began to suspect he was being poisoned.
- It was Barry Newman who played McMasters in Snow White, Blood Red, not Barry Nelson. (Newman played in at least two other episodes. In one he was a wealthy man who was love with a young tennis player and was heartbroken when he learned she was involved with another player's possessive and controlling father. In yet another episode Newman's character was the single father of an adult daughter. He had been a cop for a number of years. He had been pressured into "hanging up his gun" and teaching a college class in criminology when his investigation of a girl's murder got too close to a prominent politician's family. With the help of two of his class members, he uncovered the truth behind the girl's death.)
- This episode has the highest number of murder victims so far, with three.
- Second episode where the killer is posing as a cop to take out someone on the orders of an unseen benefactor; the first was "Murder at the Oasis".
- Miss Leeds played by Emma Samms, played Holly Scorpio in General Hospital, Lila Quartermaine, played by Anna Lee was in a movie entitled Bedlam, that Miss Leeds had brought up to Jessica after McMasters killed Gunner.
Goofs[]
- When Jessica was showing McMasters that the killer was left handed, she wrapped her right arm around his neck, when she released her hold of McMasters, she used her right hand to show the stabbing to the left arm, a left handed killer, would use his left arm to stab on the victim's right arm, not left, for when she released McMasters of her grip on him to show that the stabbing was of the left arm, not the right.
- When Johnny Dowd was attacked. His injury was on his left arm, a left-handed killer would have inflicted the wound on Johnny's right arm & yet, his injury is on his left.
Home media releases[]
| Item | Region | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Fifth Season | Region 1 | January 30, 2007 |
| Murder, She Wrote: Season 5 | Region 2 | July 23, 2007 |
| Murder, She Wrote: The Complete 5th Season | Region 4 | November 21, 2007 |
| Murder, She Wrote: Seasons 1 - 5 | Region 2 | October 22, 2007 |
External links[]
"Snow White, Blood Red" at the Internet Movie Database