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Scene of the Crime

Crime

Suspense anthology series hosted by Orson Welles who asks the audience to solve the crime presented in the first part of each episode. The second part is a separate horror or thriller story with a twist.

Apr 14, 19851 seasons4 episodesEndedEN

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Orson Welles

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Alan Thicke

Craig Spears

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Seasons

Season 1

4 episodes

Premiered Apr 14, 1985

Episodes

1–4 of 4

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Ep 1

An Education in Murder/The Memory Game

Apr 14, 1985

60m

Orson Welles hosts two murder mysteries. In "Education In Murder," a blackmailing coed is slain. In "Memory Lane," a timid man plots the death of his shrewish wife. The second episode of an imaginative mystery series, where viewers are invited to solve crimes. Orson Welles introduces two stories, one involving a blackmailing coed who is murdered in her sorority house, and another in which a meek man takes refuge in a bar when his plans to murder his nagging wife fall through.

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Ep 2

Murder on the Rocks/A Very Practical Joke

Apr 21, 1985

60m

Implicated in a model's murder: a jealous rival, an angry husband, and two competing agents. And the joke’s on a practical joker, Jack Morton (Jeff Altman), when his wife Cloris (Kay Lenz) and friends turn the tables on him. Orson Welles is the host.

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Ep 3

Dead Wrong/Murder on the Half Shell

Apr 28, 1985

60m

A fitness queen is murdered after selling her famous health spa; and a young woman becomes a murder target after she stumbles into a reclusive billionaire while vacationing on a tropical island.

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Ep 4

Medium is the Murder/A Vote for Murder

May 26, 1985

60m

A newly elected Senator is murdered at his victory party; and a young wife's plot to convince her middle-aged husband that he is going crazy falls through when her boyfriend double-crosses her. Hosted by Orson Welles.