知青方新颜和江海洋是一对情投意合的恋人，两人拥有共同的理想，双双被推荐去上大学。他们因一场误会分手，多年后重聚时，方新颜已经和善良忠厚的周新民结婚，两人放下往事的羁绊，在工作中精诚合作。周新民因病去世，江海洋这才得知当年令人唏嘘的往事。江海洋陪伴方新颜渡过难关，并担负起照顾周家人的责任。许林波是方新颜的同事也是追求者，因为私心走入歧途，不仅给工厂带来困扰，也把自己逼到困境。方新颜和江海洋力挽狂澜，帮助工厂和许林波摆脱困境。许林波幡然悔悟，也重拾对事业的初心。
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.
