A Virtual Murder

Episode aired Oct 31, 1993
TV-PG
47m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

407

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Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Crime Drama Mystery

Jessica travels to Silicon Valley to test a VR game she wrote for a video game company. After someone in the company gets killed, Jessica identifies the culprit, with help from a teenage pro... Read allJessica travels to Silicon Valley to test a VR game she wrote for a video game company. After someone in the company gets killed, Jessica identifies the culprit, with help from a teenage programmer.Jessica travels to Silicon Valley to test a VR game she wrote for a video game company. After someone in the company gets killed, Jessica identifies the culprit, with help from a teenage programmer.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

407

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Mystery

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Did you know

Trivia
Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey said in a Wired interview that this episode inspired him to work on his virtual reality device.

Goofs
The 2nd time Jessica is playing the game she sees two battle axes hanging on a wall and asks that they be changed to sabers. Even though a tech says the axes are now changed to sabers, what actually appears are scimitars, which have a more pronounced curve to their blades than do sabers.

Quotes
[first lines]
Jessica Fletcher: Thank goodness it's nonstop from Boston.
Dr. Seth Hazlitt: To Silicon Valley, huh? Now, let me get this straight. You made up an arcade game, is that it? What is it? One of those mind-numbing, blast-the-enemy space ships gizmos? Or, perhaps it's the one where one little face goes running around eating up all the other little faces.
Jessica Fletcher: Oh, of course not. Stop it. This is very fresh. It's a whole new technology and they call it virtual reality.