Summary[]
Jessica must unravel the reason behind the murder of a popular florist.
Starring[]
Regular cast[]
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
Guest stars[]
- Sandahl Bergman as Sgt. Daisy Kenny
- Robert Firth as Davey Wells
- Penny Fuller as Frances Hunt
- John Gabriel as Dr. Johnny Windhurst
- Richard Herd as Arnett Cobb
- Sally Kellerman as Junie Cobb
- Denise Miller as Betty O'Hara
- Taylor Nichols as George Erwin
- Gregory Sierra as Lieutenant Gabriel Caceras
- Gary Beach as Billy Kyle
- Marji Martin as Aggie Colbert
- Mort Sertner as Stan Hendricks
- Elmarie Wendel as Nurse Receptionist
- Jim Bockelman as Officer (as James C. Bockelman)
- Carnetta Jones as Receptionist
Trivia[]
- The title is a spoof of The Petrified Forest.
- Yet another script by Donald Ross in which he named several of the characters after famous jazz musicians. Billy Kyle was a piano player with Louis Armstrong's band in the 1950s. Johnny Windhurst was a British-born Dixieland trumpeter in the 1950s. Frances Hunt was a band singer with Benny Goodman in the 1930s. Arnett Cobb was a rhythm-and-blues saxophonist in the 1940s who replaced Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton's band. Junie Cobb - used as the name of his wife in the show - was a male multi-instrumentalist who played with King Oliver in the 1920s. George "Pee Wee" Erwin played trumpet with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey in the 1930s. Police lieutenant Gabriel Caceres is named after Ernie Caceres, a Dixieland baritone saxophonist in New York in the late 1940s. Davey Wells' last name comes from Count Basie trombonist Dickie Wells, and Stan Hendricks' last name comes from jazz singer and songwriter Jon Hendricks.
Goofs[]
As Frances Hunt is drinking her glass of champagne, the level goes up and down each shot.