Episode 38: Three Cheers for Atropine!

This week, we encourage you to KEEP THE HOME FRIES BURNING as you take a little time to gorge on some good old-fashioned cooking... and leave room for MURDER. Noted "crisis hound" Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) joins Sheriff  Tupper (Tom Bosley), Dr. Seth Hazlitt (William Windom), and no-nonsense health inspector Margo Perry (Anne Francis) to determine the cause of sickness and death at a local eatery one morning, and the suspects are many. Two women traveling together (Sharon Adler and Marcia Ross) visit Cabot Cove's hideous Americana eatery and fall victim to what appears to be mysterious food poisoning alongside some locals with all different arguments and backstories. It may be the work of an ornery cook (Alan Dupree), a rival, bitter restaurateur (William Lucking), or even a friendly and accommodating waitress (Donna Pescow); perhaps it's even a suspicious husband (John McCook) spotted in the kitchen, or a cranky local businessman (Orson Bean) or two (Alan Young).It's a curious course of jams, jellies, popovers, and the botulism that may be the link between them; perhaps we should all beware of old ladies bearing homemade preserves made in their kitchens TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE.