The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
- Episode aired Dec 18, 1988
- TV-PG
- 47m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
469
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Jessica is summoned to California where a recently-recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.Jessica is summoned to California where a recently-recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.Jessica is summoned to California where a recently-recovered Air Force plane could pin a decades-old murder on her dead husband Frank.
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Leonard Federico
- Pilot
- (uncredited)
Bob Minor
- 2nd Mugger
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe vintage "Dixie Damsel", one of the few "Air Fortresses" still in mechanical order for flight, was flown into Burbank from where the airplane is berthed in Idaho State.
- GoofsThe Dixie Damsel supposedly went down at the time of the Korean War, in the Kuskokwim Mountains of Alaska. The crew had bailed out and the plane somehow landed itself without being destroyed. The plane was found in reasonably good condition that it could be flown to the Air Force base where the episode takes place. It is not explained how that happened.
- Quotes
Lee Goddard: We have to be back her at 0830 in the morning, which is 'militarese' for... too confounded early.
- Crazy creditsDale Robertson, who was a featured guest in back-to-back episodes The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel (1988) and Prediction: Murder (1989), is not credited in either show. The following explanation is given in the book "The Unofficial Murder She Wrote Casebook" by James Robert Parish: Dale Robertson...was one of the few MSW performers to question the show's policy of listing the guest stars in the credits in alphabetical order. According to then executive producer and co-creator Peter S. Fischer, "This arrangement didn't sit well with Dale Robertson, who allowed as how he would just as soon have no billing...This was okay with us. He did two shows, we didn't break our top fee and he didn't get billing. That was his choice and I never knew why."
- ConnectionsReferences The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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Good cast for a ridiculous story
Angela Lansbury's late husband Frank Fletcher becomes the target of a criminal investigation by the Air Force. Back in the day he and his crew bailed
out of a jet that crash landed in the snow. The plane was recovered and intact,
so intact it was actually flown to California at the behest of Richard Roundtree
an Air Force JAG officer. His investigation is criminal because the body of one
of the men who was missing was found with a bullet in his back.
A number of the survivors of the crew are gathered together who include Dale Robertson, Martin Milner, Clifton James and a general who had a jeep on this cargo transport plane Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
The writers came up short here. The premise is preposterous, but Angela Lansbury gathered a good cast for a ridiculous story.
A number of the survivors of the crew are gathered together who include Dale Robertson, Martin Milner, Clifton James and a general who had a jeep on this cargo transport plane Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
The writers came up short here. The premise is preposterous, but Angela Lansbury gathered a good cast for a ridiculous story.
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