Summary[]
Jessica searches for Seth when he suddenly disappears and fresh bloodstains in his office indicate foul play.
Starring[]
Regular cast[]
- Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
Recurring cast[]
- Ron Masak as Sheriff Mort Metzger
- William Windom as Dr. Seth Hazlitt
- Louis Herthum as Deputy Andy Broom
Guest stars[]
- Katherine Cannon as Marion Taylor
- Ann Hearn as Connie Anderson
- Paul Mantee as Leo David Fender/Ronald Olson/Jack Landis
- Ben Masters as Evan Rafferty/Stanley Barton
- Ethan Embry as Jimmy Taylor
- Kim Johnston Ulrich as Julia Harris
- Jay Underwood as Will Rafferty
- Steve Nevil as Neal Kraus
- Tim Mclaughlin as Dave Archer
- Tony Fasce as Dan Castino
- Bob Harks as Fisherman (uncredited)
- Bob Pepper as Fisherman (uncredited)
Trivia[]
- One of the folders seen in Dr. Seth Hazlett's patient files was headed "D. Sharpless". Don Sharpless was the sound mixer for this and many other episodes in this series.
- In Murder, She Wrote: The Trouble with Seth (1994), Kim Johnston Ulrich & Ben Masters play adversaries and years later they play a married couple on the soap opera, Passions (1999).
- Paul Mantee plays a character 'Leo Fender'. Leo Fender was the name of the man who founded Fender Guitars and made the first mass-produced solid body electric guitars.
- When Will was cooking dinner for Julia Harris, Will had brought up that his mother's maiden name was Cardozo, when Julia had seen the B. initial, she muttered under her breath that it stood for Barton. Which was the name of the alias that was given to Evan, indicating Evan being Julia's stepfather, given the bank robbers had shot her father, So Will was somewhat on a date with his half-sister, her mother's married name being Barton & the C. Initial being the maiden name of Will's mom.