This episode has we viewers visiting the Cabot Cove home of JB Fletcher and
having Angela Lansbury tell us the tale of a story she's working on.
It begins with three students Shaun Cassidy law student, Dinah Manoff who we
never learn what her major is and Paul Clemens who is a music major. At a nice
piano lounge bar Clemens hears a theme he submitted to his professor George
Grizzard being played as a preview for a new Broadway score.
Clemens confronts Grizzard who blithely dismisses him. But of course Grizzard is the kind who would pull all kinds of dirt on people including wife Karen
Grassle. But it's Clemens who gets caught by campus security in Grizzard's
office with a dead Grizzard.
Law student Cassidy goes to work and such other folks as Broadway producer
Herb Edelman, colleague Rene Auberjonois, and lyricist Jennifer Holmes are
all suspect and their are others.
The solution, all a question of timing and geography.
This episode really looks like a pilot for another series with Shaun Cassidy who
already had credits as a TV sleuth in the Hardy Boys a decade earlier. Too bad
it wasn't picked up.