This second episode of Murder She Wrote introduced us to Jessica Fletcher's beloved Maine fishing village Cabot Cove. We also first see Tom Bosley who had that down home Maine accent down to the max as local sheriff Amos Tupper.
Claude Akins makes the first of a few appearances as fishing boat captain Ethan Cragg and he brings news to Jessica Fletcher of a yacht in distress during a hurricane and he was going on a rescue mission.
The next day Howard Duff shows up at the Fletcher home and says he's a drifter but he proves handy around the house so he fixes things and gets breakfast from Angela Lansbury. When that yacht pulls in with four sisters and some spouses on board Duff leaves abruptly. Later he's found on the beach with two bullets in him and one of Frank Fletcher's pipes. Proving most emphatically he was not on the yacht when he met his demise.
That unexpected fact screws up somebody's murder scheme. Sheriff Tupper and Jessica Fletcher form an alliance to solve this case. Not as easy an alliance as it would later become.
The series was off to an interesting start.
Claude Akins makes the first of a few appearances as fishing boat captain Ethan Cragg and he brings news to Jessica Fletcher of a yacht in distress during a hurricane and he was going on a rescue mission.
The next day Howard Duff shows up at the Fletcher home and says he's a drifter but he proves handy around the house so he fixes things and gets breakfast from Angela Lansbury. When that yacht pulls in with four sisters and some spouses on board Duff leaves abruptly. Later he's found on the beach with two bullets in him and one of Frank Fletcher's pipes. Proving most emphatically he was not on the yacht when he met his demise.
That unexpected fact screws up somebody's murder scheme. Sheriff Tupper and Jessica Fletcher form an alliance to solve this case. Not as easy an alliance as it would later become.
The series was off to an interesting start.