This is the fourth and last "Murder, She Wrote" Movie of the Week that CBS/Leslie Moonves negotiated with Peter Shaw and Dame Angela Lansbury, "Corymore Productions", fulfilling the negotiated settlement cancelling the popular series in 1996. The original Cabot Cove (Mendocino, California series location) never was considered for use as a basis of a story plot in any of the projected four Movie of the Week projects. Peter and Angela wished to close the series occurring in Ireland. During the twelve years of the CBS series, many story plots and scenarios had been set in Ireland. Set in Ireland, second unit filming always was organized to film establishing exterior buildings, landscapes, an automobile driving on country lanes with matching vehicles filmed in conjunction of the movie's local Los Angeles exteriors. This last project gave an excuse for Angela and Peter to film the Ireland inserted establishing shots after filming was completed at Universal Studios. After these exterior Ireland street establishing insert shots were completed, the editors completed and delivered the finished two hour special to CBS. Filmed during 2002, the last "Murder, She Wrote" aired in 2003, after Peter Shaw's death in January 29, 2003. This movie was dedicated as a memorial to Peter Shaw Pullen.
Dame Angela Lansbury and her husband Peter Shaw had a sea-side "cottage" constructed on a bluff on the Southwest coast-side of Ireland during the winter and spring of 1991. During winter Christmas breaks and summer hiatus while filming "Arabesque (1984)," Angela and Peter would vacation in Ireland in their vacation retreat. Upon completion of this final two hour television movie, they spent their last summer together in their summer home retreat. Angela's husband Peter succumbed on January 29, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.
This is the final "Murder, She Wrote" entry featuring Angela Lansbury portraying Jessica Fletcher before her passing in 2022.
Peter Donat's final acting role.