THE TROUBLE WITH SETH

'"The Trouble with Seth"' is the eighteenth episode in the tenth season of ''Murder, She Wrote''. It first aired March 27 1994 on CBS. Guest stars include William Windom as Seth Hazlitt.

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Synopsis

In Boston, 1974 a security guard is shot when trying to stop three robbers getting away, the very next moment the police arrest them. Present (1990s), schoolboy Jimmy Taylor who works as part-time busboy overhears a man who did 20 years of jail demand Julia Harris to get paid for not having her friend Stanley put away for life. Sheriff Mort Metzger got many reports on a prowler, but all descriptions are contradictory. Dr. Seth Hazlitt remarks local computer store owner Evan Rafferty is particularly grumpy, perhaps because he doesn't want his son Will to start a boating business and thus refuses to cosign; Evan tells Julia Harris his property is not for sale, whatever her company bids; she suggests to Will, who also told her about his dad's past, a Boston bank which might co-finance his project, he gratefully invites her for dinner. Shortly after he examined the mysterious ex-con, Seth is missing, his office ransacked, and there is a blood stain, his type. Based on a robot-photo of the presumed prowler, the sheriff finds the man, our ex-con, was using various false names; Jessica Fletcher believes Jimmy lied not to recognize him; the fingerprints in Seth's office belong to Leo David Fender. A male body is spotted in the woods- it's Leo's; Seth is around all-right, he just made a distant medical house-call, and recognizes Leo as a recent patient. After a talk with Jimmy, who realizes Evan was the only one in town who went all the way to Boston to hear a symphony orchestra, Evan decides to move in a hurry, saying to his fiancée, Jimmy's mother Marion Taylor, his past has caught up with him. From Leo's police file Jessica notices the names of his accomplices and starts figuring out some links just in time...

Cast

★ Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher

★ William Windom as Dr. Seth Hazlitt

★ Ron Masak as Sheriff Mort Metzger

★ Ben Masters as Evan Rafferty

★ Kim Johnston Ulrich as Julia Harris

★ Jay Underwood as Will Rafferty

★ Ann Hearn as Connie Anderson

★ Katherine Cannon as Marion Taylor

★ Ethan Embry as Jimmy Taylor

★ Paul Mantee as Leo Fender

★ Steve Nevil as Neal Kraus

★ Tim McLaughlin as Dave Archer

★ Anthony Fasce as Dan Castino

External links

★ ''The Trouble with Seth'' at the Internet Movie Database

★ ''The Trouble with Seth'' at TV.com