I enjoyed many of the Murder, She Wrote guest stars, though. If you looked at the program as a retrospective of American film history, who else would have had Hurd Hatfield (The Picture of Dorian Gray) on as an intermitent guest, and had Kathryn Grayson, a goddess when she was in her prime, return to acting to play one of her beauty-shop friends? Look at all of the famously-past-great who happily appeared on the program. I always guessed who done it early on, but it wasn't so much about the mystery, it was about the casting.

When she was absent some weeks, she had such greats as Keith Mitchell (I remember him best for Henry VIII and His Six Wives but I've seen him many other times in things), Jerry Orbach, and others. Like I say, that was a lot of fun but for other reasons than mystery.