毛小方（林正英饰）和七姊妹堂堂主钟君（苑琼丹饰）之间的矛盾由来已久人尽皆知，然而，钟君的弟弟钟邦（王书麒饰）实则五世奇人，毛小方得知此时后十分想要收他为徒。一次偶然中，毛小方结识了名为杨飞云（徐少强饰）的男子，两人相见恨晚，相谈甚欢，很快便成为了好友。令毛小方没有想到的是，杨飞云人面兽心，他设计陷害毛小方，使得毛小方与钟邦反目成仇。就在毛小方最失落的时候，是钟君一直陪伴在他身旁，两人之间的矛盾和误会烟消云散。杨飞云和僵尸王（李道洪饰）同流合污，企图祸害人间，毛小方决心阻止此事，一场大战即将拉开序幕。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
