Summary[]
Jessica's friend Holly uses her contacts to help Jessica land a session to tape her first novel The Corpse Danced at Midnight for the blind, but what starts out as a simple recording session ends up turning into a murder investigation when a ruthless music producer is killed.
Starring[]
Regular cast[]
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
Guest stars[]
- Richard Beymer as Rick Lefko
- Edd Byrnes as Freddie Major
- Mary Beth Evans as Julie Knight
- Robert Knepper as Charles George Drexler
- Miles O'Keeffe as Paul Atkins
- Alexia Robinson as Holly Chase
- Michael Tolan as Lt. Alan Terwilliger
- Johnathan Goldsmith as Mitch Randall
- Kevin Hicks as Willi Piper
- Kenny Long as Video Director
- Danny Woodburn as Giorgi Pappavasilopoulos
- Meadow Williams as Michelle
- Lori Hart as "Mirabilis Duo" Member #1
- Jeffrey Steele as "Mirabilis Duo" Member #2
Trivia[]
- This is the second time Jessica is shown recording books for the blind. The first time was in Murder, She Wrote: Murder, She Spoke (1987).
- Richard Paul, who played Cabot Cove Mayor Sam Booth in several episodes, regularly donated his time to recording books for the blind.
- This was the fourth time Richard Beymer has guest-starred. He guest-starred a total of six times.
- The title is a play on word from the movie and musical 'The sound of Music'.
Goofs[]
- Jessica went to a lot of trouble to find the file from the private detective's office, agrees to meet the cop for lunch, leaves the apartment with Holly, but without the file.
- Freddie may have put the notes indicating Charles George Drexler, CGD, into the electronic piano, but, Jessica fails to prove that Drexler was in the room with Major at the time of the murder.