Episode 7: A Driverless Car and Lots of Shirtless Tony Holiday

TONIGHT ON MURDER, SHE WROTE, it's Jessica versus... the brake pedal! A driverless car creates mayhem at a Cabot Cove picnic, and it takes the combined forces of Sherrif Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley), Captain Ethan Cragg (Claude Akins), and mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to figure it out. When the car sends one man into the hospital, another to the morgue, and our heroine careening towards a cliff, the suspect is naturally the town's eccentric gadgeteer, Van Johnson (Hollywood pretty boy and famously closeted icon, with just the darkest eyelash line).We also meet his handsome son (Tony Holiday), the imminent daughter-in-law (Leslie Andler), and the delightful age-appropriate ladyfriend (underrated legend June Allyson in a series of fabulous chunky jewelry). Which of them had the motive, the opportunity, and the know-how to make this mechanical menace?!We'll find out together on this winding road that brings us memorable scenes of Jessica playing arcade games, an unexpected cacophony of dogs, thrilling gas station receipt epiphanies, and baseball players with the lowest of self-protection instincts. It's HIT, RUN AND HOMICIDE!