Q 01/05

Which actress turned down the role of Jessica Fletcher before Angela Lansbury took it?

A) Jean Stapleton

B) Betty White

C) Dixie Carter

D) Bea Arthur

Answer · why

A) Jean Stapleton

Lansbury made the role hers for twelve seasons and became one of the highest-paid actresses on television.

Q 02/05

Jessica Fletcher lives in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, in which US state?

A) Vermont

B) Massachusetts

C) New Hampshire

D) Maine

Answer · why

D) Maine

Cabot Cove is a fictional fishing village on the coast of Maine; for a town of a few thousand it racks up an improbable murder count over twelve seaso...

Q 03/05

Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were actually filmed in which Northern California coastal town?

A) Carmel

B) Sausalito

C) Bodega Bay

D) Mendocino

Answer · why

D) Mendocino

Mendocino, California stood in for Cabot Cove; the Blair House there served as Jessica's home, its Victorian streets passing for coastal Maine.

Q 04/05

Murder, She Wrote aired on which US network from 1984 to 1996?

A) NBC

B) ABC

C) CBS

D) PBS

Answer · why

C) CBS

CBS kept it on Sundays for eleven years before a fatal move to Thursdays.

Q 05/05

How many episodes of Murder, She Wrote were made?

A) 264

B) 198

C) 236

D) 251

Answer · why

A) 264

264 episodes ran across twelve seasons from 1984 to 1996, making it one of the longest-running detective series in American television.