At its height, 'Murder, She Wrote' was drawing 23 million viewers a week on CBS. Curious to hear his thoughts about why the show connected with audiences, Nina_Metz called its showrunner to discuss its success and how television has evolved since.
as an old comedy duo who’d had a falling out, like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. And the idea was, the son of one is about to marry the daughter of the other, and the two guys have been at loggerheads for years. So my pitch on it was: Martin and Lewis meets “Romeo and Juliet.”It was one of the rare times where I wrote the thing for a particular actor, in this case Buddy Hackett.
Q: Telling a succinct story in 40-minutes probably has its own challenges. You have so little time to establish these new characters. . No gore, no violence. And we had three motives: Money, sex or power. We didn’t have to get into forensics, and we never did serial killers. Serial killer stories or kidnapping stories are always the same; they’re about the good guys trying to get into the heads of a crazy person and that doesn’t interest me.
By the way, Let me tell you something about the songs in one of my episodes called “Broadway Malady.” Several years earlier, when I was just starting in the business, I had lunch with some writers and they said, ‘Whenever you have an episode and you have an opportunity to write song lyrics — like, if the characters go into a nightclub and a song is playing — do it, because you’ll get royalties.
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