Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle

This is the fourth and last "Murder, She Wrote" Movie of the Week that CBS/Leslie Moonves negotiated with Peter Shaw and Dame Angela Lansbury, "Corymore Productions", fulfilling the negotiated settlement cancelling the popular series in 1996. The original Cabot Cove (Mendocino, California series location) never was considered for use as a basis of a story plot in any of the projected four Movie of the Week projects. Peter and Angela wished to close the series occurring in Ireland. During the twelve years of the CBS series, many story plots and scenarios had been set in Ireland. Set in Ireland, second unit filming always was organized to film establishing exterior buildings, landscapes, an automobile driving on country lanes with matching vehicles filmed in conjunction of the movie's local Los Angeles exteriors. This last project gave an excuse for Angela and Peter to film the Ireland inserted establishing shots after filming was completed at Universal Studios. After these exterior Ireland street establishing insert shots were completed, the editors completed and delivered the finished two hour special to CBS. Filmed during 2002, the last "Murder, She Wrote" aired in 2003, after Peter Shaw's death in January 29, 2003. This movie was dedicated as a memorial to Peter Shaw Pullen.

It is correct that Jessica did not arrive at Rose Cottage with a raincoat but the raincoat can clearly be seen on the hook beside the door when she enters the cottage. It is obviously left there by someone else or even belongs to Breeta (who is already at the cottage before Jessica). Jessica merely borrows the raincoat before she departs from the cottage in search of Nora and therefore is not really a revealing mistake.

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Shaw.

Follows Murder, She Wrote (1984)