Murder in the Afternoon - S2-E3
Visible crew/equipment: When Jessica and the Lt. leave for the police station, filming lights, equipment, and a crew member are reflected in the windows.
Murder in the Afternoon - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Jessica is in the Lt.'s car, he scolds her, signalling with his index finger, which swaps to an extended hand an instant cut later, which is suddenly lowered yet an instant cut later. The way he holds the car keys also changes.
Murder in the Afternoon - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: The doctor steps in and calms down the actor while placing his hand on his shoulder. A shot later, his arm is lowered.
Visible crew/equipment: When Trish picks up Jessica at the train station and her car leaves, filming equipment and crew members are reflected in the windows.
Visible crew/equipment: When Henry and Jessica are reading the resignation letter, state lights are reflected on their glasses.
Revealing mistake: When Emma hits a man using the flower pot, Angela Lansbury's stand-in is a much younger stunt double.
Revealing mistake: When the first scene at Emma's hideaway was shown, obviously the two characters Emma and Jessica were filmed seperately on the couch and then the film was put together (as both are played by Angela Lansbury). However Jessica did a lot of moving while she was talking, so Emma was looking straight across at where she had been, despite her bending down while she talked.
Audio problem: When singing "Goodbye little yellow bird" Emma blows a kiss to Oliver offstage, but she is still singing the song when she is blowing the kiss. Although it's possible she was pretending as it was part of the act, her voice wasn't even muffled by her hand.
Continuity mistake: When Emma was almost hit by a car she jumped up onto the edge of the wall and then back down onto the floor. When she landed she was facing the theatre door, but when Oliver came of the door and the shot changed, she was facing away from the wall. This happened in the transition from stunt person to Angela.
Revealing mistake: Kat pumps her shotgun several times with no shells coming out.
Plot hole: When Beverly is killed the killer shuts off the main power switch which would have turned all the lights off in the house, not just those in the bathroom. (01:31:00)
Revealing mistake: When Jessica visits the basement, there's plenty of light everywhere. She then turns off the light, but there's still plenty of light. However, when Adam Frobisher shows up half a second later, the whole place is now in darkness to allow for all the mystery and the intrigue.
Visible crew/equipment: When Harry and Amos analyse the bathroom, the edge of the set wall is visible on the right side of the screen.
One Good Bid Deserves a Murder - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: The first time Jessica is shown asking for her room number, she asks for room 812. Later in the episode she asks for room 810.
Chosen answer: This is the very reason my brother and I used to jokingly call the show, "Murder, She Caused." It's amazing she was ever on anyone's guest list for a party, given the likelihood someone would end up deceased. As to your question, most of the time, Jessica Fletcher would have had an air-tight alibi, as she was in a room full of people, or her whereabouts were accounted for when a murder occurred elsewhere. It also seems to me that there were episodes where she, purely with respect to opportunity, could have been a suspect. I believe she even acknowledged that as a logical possibility from time to time, even though she knew, of course, she was not the killer. However, the investigation would obviously rule out the possibility of her involvement, eventually.
Michael Albert