公元941年,吴越国王钱元瓘离世,新主少年继位,吴越王室陷入内外交困。五年后,王弟钱弘俶自请随使臣北上汴梁朝贺正旦,然而汴梁的局面竟是契丹兵临城下,天子石重贵称臣契丹,宰相冯道在风雨飘摇中权衡各方。此行,钱弘俶经历了北方家国破碎、人伦失序的惨淡,在危难中与郭荣和赵匡胤结下深厚的情谊。回到吴越国,钱弘俶一改往日自由散漫的个性,在朝廷大展拳脚,内除奸臣、外打豪强,又于政权动乱之时扛起国主的重任。另一方面,北方的赵匡胤,继承了郭荣未竟的事业,建立北宋政权,兴兵南下。最终,在北宋统一的大势和天下黎庶的福祉面前,赵匡胤、钱弘俶摒弃兵戈,于太平兴国三年(公元978年)完成了“纳土归宋”和平统一的历史创举。
弗兰克(伯努瓦·马吉梅尔饰)和他的老朋友们喜欢一起在周末打猎,但某个星期天,他们遇到另一群猎人,这群人毫无理由地开始攻击他们。当他们一行中的一人中枪时,弗兰克的朋友们反击,将一名袭击者击倒。他们勉强逃脱后,四人决定将这件事隐瞒下来。弗兰克试图回归正常生活,与妻子克里斯特尔(梅拉尼·罗兰饰)一起生活,但接下来的几天,他开始感到自己和朋友们似乎被人监视,甚至更糟——那些猎人似乎正在追踪他们,决心复仇。
As Murder, She Wrote saunters through its sixth (of an eventual 12) season, star Angela Lansbury maintains her eternally buoyant and inquisitive air as Jessica Fletcher, professional writer and amateur sleuth. Though Jessica continued to investigate murders in her home town of Cabot Cove and elsewhere (in the worlds of high finance, opera, and voodoo, among other settings), this season began the practice of guest detective episodes, introduced by Jessica as either a story she wrote or a tale told by a friend, but starring a variety of quirky investigators: An ex-football player (Ken Howard, The White Shadow) paired with a clever poodle; a television crime-show producer who solved crime in real life (Diana Canova, Soap); a stout Irish detective (longtime character actor Pat Hingle); an abrasive homicide cop (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point); as well as recurring Murder, She Wrote characters like former jewel thief Dennis Stanton (Keith Michell) and British secret agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou). The producers were obviously hoping to use Murder, She Wrote's popularity to spin-off new series, but nothing from this season took off and viewer resistance soon brought the practice to an end. Executives must have been surprised to discover that, though murder mysteries are plot-driven, this show's success depends heavily on the undeniable charm of star Lansbury. Still, these one-off episodes are of a consistent quality with Lansbury's, and viewers open to variety will enjoy them just as much. The rest of the season features the usual astonishing array of guests, including movie stars old (Donald O'Connor, Singin' in the Rain) and recent (Elliott Gould, The Long Goodbye), television stalwarts (Shirley Jones, The Partridge Family; Jerry Stiller, The King of Queens; Doris Roberts, Everyone Loves Raymond; Kevin Tighe, Battlestar Galactica; and Gavin McLeod, The Love Boat), and D-list celebrities to die for (Dack Rambo, Morgan Brittany, Susan Anton, and more).