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We're Off to Kill the Wizard: Directed by Walter Grauman. With Angela Lansbury, Christine Belford, James Coco, Kim Darby. Jessica gets mixed up with a nasty scheme involving a theme park creator whilst visiting relatives.
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- Walter Grauman
- 1984-12-09
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We're Off to Kill the Wizard is the eighth episode of the first season of Murder, She Wrote.
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In a case of art imitating life, a disagreeable amusement park owner is found murdered after hiring Jessica to design the House of Horror.
•Angela Lansbury as Jessica FletcherGuest Stars
•Real life siblings, Joaquin Phoenix and Summer Phoenix, play Jessica's great-nephew and great-niece.
•When Richard Sanders's character tries to escape from the airport, actor John Mahoney can be seen in the background watching him run past.
•Jessica Fletcher is shown autographing one of her books titled Dirge for a Dead Dachshund.
•The title references the phrase "We're off to see the Wizard", a line from a song from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
•When Arnold Megrim (Richard Sanders) walks into Phillip Carlson's (Kristoffer Tabori) office to tell him that Jessica Fletcher is there, you can see the shadow of a boom mike in the upper left-hand corner of the screen as Megrim enters during the wide shot.
•The check Jessica gives to Laurie Bascomb is in an envelope. When she takes the check out of the envelope, Laurie hugs Bert Donovan then holds the check upside down but visible. The check is blank.
•When Horatio's head hits the statue in the re-enactment, the base of the stature gives way as if made of foam rubber.
•If Laurie had held the check upside down, the flap she opened of the envelope, would be down, was it, when you saw her open it to see the check when Jessica was departing, when Jessica was departing, you clearly see the flap not being on the bottom of the envelope.
We're Off to Kill the Wizard Aired Dec 9, 1984 Drama Mystery & Thriller Reviews Murder ends a tycoon's (James Coco) plan to have Jessica design a house of horrors for one of his...
- Walter Grauman
- September 30, 1984
- Angela Lansbury
When Jessica visits her Kansas relatives, police detective Lieutenant Bert Donovan's family, she is invited by theme park magnate Horatio Baldwin and firmly turns down his project for another one based on horror elements from her mystery books. Shortly after Horatio is found dead in his self-locked office, apparently suicide, but actually got a ...
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Drama. Mystery. Directed By: Walter Grauman. Written By: Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson, William Link, Gerald K. Siegel, Robert Van Scoyk. Murder, She Wrote. S1 • Episode 7. We're Off to Kill the Wizard. Air Date: Dec 9, 1984. User Score Available after 4 ratings. tbd. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Season Episodes.
