Cabot Cove Gazette – a Murder, She Wrote podcast

What influence has Murder, She Wrote had on contemporary TV mysteries? In this special episode, we'll talk about what movies, series, and even channels like Hallmark Movies and Mysteries owe our beloved series, and how they don't quite capture its spirit.

The night deputy might be having an affair with one of Loretta's beauty parlor clients...or all of them. Guest host Frank Berman investigates with Bridget.

Guest host Frank Berman joins Bridget to talk about the first ever Jessica-free episode. Bonus Mr. Belvedere!

Guest hosted by YOU! Bridget and fellow LanStans talk about this Macbeth riff set among high-powered executives.

This week, we revisit an episode from January in which we discuss the Murder, She Wrote tie-in novel, A Little Yuletide Murder. Make sure you read the book before listening!

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Five words: Eileen Brennan in a habit. When Jessica goes to a convent, Bridget pretty much just laughs through the whole episode, and TJ takes a trip down school book fair memory lane.

A grim episode in Cabot Cove in which Jessica seems to change character. Plus, TJ is hangry, and we speculate on what happened to Ethan.

We're going to Paris, baby! Jessica investigates a murder at a fashion show, and Bridget and TJ assess which is worse: the outfits or the accents.

While recording an audiobook, Jessica just happens to be around a murder in a recording studio. TJ and Bridget don't think she did it, but they are suspicious of how she decides to announce the solution.

An interesting mashup of an old film noir and a hot take on the jurisprudence system, plus TJ and Bridget's usual hot mess banter.

In small town Idaho, the sheriff turns out not to be the bad guy, there's a magical ring, and TJ introduces the concept of the Cabot Cove diaspora.

Grady once again finds himself in the middle of something illegal, someone's living inside the walls of an office building, Mort isn't Mort, and an Irish guy who's not Michael Hagerty falls for Jessica.

Let's take a trip back in time to the Borscht Belt, where things get out of control when videotapes go on sale. And we discuss the physics of stabbing oneself.

The gayest episode yet! Plus, Jessica's social graces carry Cabot Cove through the death of a painter, a murderous affair, and an economic class divide.

Harry McGraw is back in a hot mess of an episode that is redeemed by Adam West and Levar Burton! Plus, Bridget and TJ's friendship is in jeopardy over TJ's secret interests.

Murderous teddy bears, deepfakes, and feminist lesbians. TJ and Bridget will sort it all out.

TJ and Bridget talk about Lansbury's performance and how the movie fit into her wider career. They also lament they "just don't make 'em like they used to."

In contemplation of the news of Pat Robertson's death, we thought it would be useful to revisit this episode, originally broadcast in November 2022.

A dud of an episode that doesn't feature Jessica as the investigator, but we promise our podcast episode finds ways to be fun anyway.

A bedridden Jessica overhears a murder through a crossed telephone line, and TJ and Bridget are absolutely here for this fun homage to Barbara Stanwyck's "Sorry, Wrong Number."

Her Gloriousness Captain Janeway, aka Kate Mulgrew, aka the Hepburn of her time, might have done a little murder on an airplane...But TJ and Bridget will forgive her, even if Jessica won't.

TJ and Bridget are hot messes in this episode, but the TV episode, based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is perfection.

Jessica's theatrical friend might be the intended victim of murder, and we're on the case to find out which kind of gay man TJ really wants to be.

A profile on JB in Cabot Cove turns deadly. Introducing Sam Booth. No Seth. Amos actually seems to know what he's doing. It's a wild ride.

The second part of our special two-parter on the Murder, She Wrote / Magnum PI crossover. Plus, Bridget finally calls out TJ for some of his more macabre comments...

CW: This episode, like the televised episode, mentions domestic violence.

Part one of our two-parter on the Murder, She Wrote / Magnum PI crossover. This week, we talk shorty shorts and what a terrible investigator Magnum is.

Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee! TJ and Bridget are finally taking on the beloved Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks. We'll talk comparisons to Mary Poppins and what feels different watching now from when we watched as kids, and nobody got turned into a rabbit during the making of this episode.

Jessica does his gal Friday and gets the scoop! We love this back-to-basics episode with an evil newspaper editor and fantastic rapport between Jessica and this week's friend, Haskell.

Leslie Nielsen is back as Jessica's long-lost love, and TJ and Bridget are very divided about this. Also something about a murder....

Victoria and Howard, Jessica's most annoying niece and nephew are back, and a corned beef sandwich is a key clue to murder. TJ and Bridget are having none of this episode's nonsense. 

Jessica runs into her favorite British secret agent while an East German violinist is on the run from TJ and Bridget's favorite soap opera star.

When Seth goes missing over a cold case murder, Jessica heads off to find him and prove his innocence. Meanwhile, Bridget and TJ play Crusty Old Man trivia.

This week we talk about the tie-in novel “A Little Yuletide Murder” and discuss adaptations and Jessica’s character. 

Jessica infiltrates a circus, Bridget and TJ debate Martin Balsam's fame, and the elephants definitely didn't do it.

It's our 50th episode! We're celebrating by taking you behind the microphone to hear what really goes on when we make this podcast. 

Join TJ, Bridget, and Binky for a delightful romp into the world of aristocratic art thieves as we close out season two!

It's Mardi Gras, baby, and Jessica has to unmask a killer while trying to connect with Frank's distant cousin. TJ and Bridget are here to explain it all. 

Multiple personalities, a missing sister back from the dead, and Bryan Cranston as this week's red shirt. This episode is off the rails, but TJ and Bridget will make sense of it for you.

Another country estate full of guests, one of whom must be the murderer. Classic cozy mystery stuff here, but TJ and Bridget will explain how the episode also taps into 1980s anxieties about the rise of video technologies.

Corpse shenanigans ensue in Cabot Cove when the dead guy isn't dead....but who's in the coffin? TJ and Bridget will find out!

Harry McGraw is back! When Jessica encounters a murder at an auction and a fight over a diary that makes no sense, TJ and Bridget are quick to join the occasion and complain about plot holes and celebrate fashion. 

Jessica's old friend was murdered...possibly by a pastor. TJ and Bridget wade into the fraught waters of 1980s prosperity theology and televangelism. Content warning: Brief references to domestic violence.

Jessica is stranded in Alabama while a lynch mob gathers outside the local jail. Run, girl, run! Otherwise entitled, one our least favorite episodes.

There's food poisoning at the new Revolutionary War-themed restaurant, which means Jessica, Seth, and the state health department inspector are busy trying to figure out what happened while Amos imagines he's dying. Plus, TJ and Bridget bicker the definition of "preserves."

Following the news of Angela Lansbury's death, we take a look back over her career to discover how kids born in the Murder, She Wrote age might have understood her stardom.

It's jury duty for Jessica, and TJ and Bridget are on the scene to give you their hot takes on murder trials, a ridiculous guest cast, and which other detective series this episode most emulates. Content advisory: Like the TV episode, this episode discusses domestic violence.

Lipstick, Stan and Kirsten, prostitution, and Grady being dumb - there's a lot to love about this episode. Put your best face on and join TJ and Bridget for the discussion!

In New Mexico, Jessica joins an archaeological dig with Dr. Seth Hazlitt, and Bridget and TJ think the whole episode is kind of a hot mess.