家庭幸福、爱情甜蜜的明珠刚领证、怀孕，丈夫建奇就因见义勇为去世。明珠在众说纷纭中自己拿定主意，决定生下孩子，却遇见来寻亲的亲生父母一家。明珠在心有戚戚的亲情中走出伤痛，但公公意外猝死暴露了婆家的资不抵债。明珠挺身而出，厘清债务、承包单位，把家人们拧成一股绳，重新昂扬生活。
肉身之眼晦暗不明，见近不见远，见前不见后，见明不见暗，看到的并非确凿无误存在。外表看起来丝毫没有任何存在感的夏冬青（刘智扬饰），有一个不为人知的秘密，他可以看到另一个世界的众生。自幼在孤儿院长大的他大学刚刚毕业，正准备考研，此时他正四处求职打工。在此期间，冬青被444号便利店录取。据说这家便利店半夜12点后会闹鬼，原来这里正是两个不同纬度空间上的连接点。在冥界担任公务员的赵吏（于毅饰）直接管理着便利店，他自称“灵魂摆渡人”，每天迎来送往，指引鬼魂们去往应该去的世界。冬青和性格直爽的女孩王小亚（肖茵饰）则成为一个个灵异事件的见证者。
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.
