Did Jessica Fletcher ever take a lover?

There were men she had a special goodbye w/ where it was implied they had something going on but it wasn't the right time or wrong distance. What I didn't know is that there is Jessica/Seth fan fiction. Some people are totally into that. I am not. She had a flirtation w/ Leslie Nielson in an episode I watched the other day. They would've been cute.

I think she had a fling with Michael the British spy.

Didn't she flirt with Kirk Cameron?

I believe the code phrase on the show was a "nephew" who was visiting. She had roughly 27 nephews during the course of the show's run.

Oh, sorry, you meant the character Jessica Fletcher. I was just thinking about Angela Lansbury, the person.

Sometimes I would get moist down there.

I always wondered about her & Seth Hazlitt.

R1 You shouldn't even know that info, let alone share that it with other people.

I liked the chemistry she had with Dale Robertson. He played a war buddy of Frank's. I always thought he should have been recurring.

She was too busy murdering people to take a lover. Really, who just *coincidentally* shows up to over a 100 murders?

Lansbury didn't want Jessica burdened with a love interest, since her feeling was that it was Frank, and that's it. In the early seasons, when she had no formal power, they would trot out potential love interests (most notably Claude Akins in season 1 for a few episodes, who disappears without a trace). Once she had production power, the love interests would only be brought in for specific dramatic purpose (Dale Robertson, for instance, does make a play for her, and she gets to play out the nuances of thinking about it before letting him down easily).

She also clearly let Len Cariou, as Michael Haggerty, play an infatuation with Jessica that she partially reciprocated, but his character, a rogue spy, would never be domesticated to be made a regular character, so it fit the canon of the show. The fact that she and Cariou adored each shines through.

"take a lover" sounds so illicit in a 1970s TV kind of way. You know, people in their early 40s who would invite you over to their rustic shag carpeted den then go up to the bar and offer you a scotch on the rocks.

Didn't she HAVE a relationship - albeit a pretty twisted one - with the Laurence Harvey character, who played her son? You know, in that episode that had Sinatra in it?

Oh, wait. I'm thinking of "The Manchurian Candidate," aren't I?

Never mind.

Gross. That's almost as bad as imagining Hillary having sex.

Agreed. The thought of explorer Sir Edmund Hillary having sex gives ME the heebie-jeebies, too . . .

Wasn't there an episode where some young gigolo who serves as a "companion" for older women and their pocketbooks basically tries to pull the moves on her (subtly)? Like, he doesn't end up being the killer, but at the end of the episode she gives him a stern talking to about how she knew he was trying to get up all in her business.

No, she had the Jeff Stryker realistic dildo that kept her fulfilled and so she had no sexual frustration interfearing with her cases. She later traded it in for the Chad Hunt dildo which was ever better for her.

I just finished watching all 12 seasons. She had a flrtation withan old sea friend she knew many years earlier and a guy who was doing something illegal, but she really liked, was discovered and had to go to jail. But other than that she just seems to know more rich people, entrepreneurial, artistically talented, daredevils, intellectuals, foreigners, family members, teenagers, young adults, international leaders than anyone you have ever known, so it's not like she needs a man for attention or socialztion.

I know an actress who was on MSW about a zillion times (okay - maybe a dozen). She played a variety of roles on the show. Over the past 30 years she's been in a lot of movies and tv shows in supporting roles.

She says that Angela Lansbury is, hands down, the loveliest actress/star she ever had the pleasure of working with, a class act.

She had the best sexual chemistry with Michael, the rogue Irish spy. You can tell she and Len Cariou adored each other.

I fucked her lights out. She likes it doggy-style.

The fifth season finale, the two-parter with Jean Simmons as Eudora McVeigh, was also designed as a possible series finale. It really seems like she and Seth are about to hook-up, but it never comes up again.

Would you date someone who attracts dead bodies like flies and has a knack for catching potentily vengeful murderers?

Everybody she encounters ends up dead. Would you date her?

JB don't need the touch of no man

She never actually got any until she landed the role of Mrs. Potts, and was seduced by Lumiere.

R24 LMAO! I think that just turned me into a menopausal tub masturbator.

She always had the best chemistry with that rogue Michael Haggarty. Dennis Staunton wasn't masculine enough for her.

Here's the only appearance of her husband, Frank. He appeared very briefly in a newsreel at the start of the Dixie Damsel episode.

As written by above posters, I have always read that Angela Lansbury played Jessica like her dead husband Frank was her one and only true love. She had flirtations with many characters. Perhaps the strongest was with Leslie Nielsen, who was a rival of Franks' for Jessica's affections when they were all young. They played it like they still had the old attraction to each other. Also Seth Hazlitt played by William Windom. Those two flirted for years. But I can believe they kept it platonic. My father died when my mother was still in her 50s. She struck up a friendship with a male neighbor and they've formed a bond that isn't sexual, at least according to her, and my sister-in-law, to whom my mother would have confided if there had been anything there.

I always liked her flirtations with Dennis Stanton (Keith Mitchell) and Michael Hegarty (Len Cariou). Bonus points for Dennis Stanton, whose secretary was played by the actress who played Blanche's ho-bag niece Lucy on Golden Girls! Jessica had so many men she flirted with. I remember William Conrad played a Russian army officer with whom Jessica enjoyed a flirtation. She did not, however, have a flirtation with the Andrew Stevens character in Lovers and Other Killers. Stevens played a gigolo who put on an innocent act. He tried many times to get Jessica in the sack, but she brushed him off every time. I always loved that episode. At the end, Stevens shows up and says he's warm for J.B. Fletcher's form. After she blows him off yet again, they freeze frame on his face and there is a seriously angry, ominous look on his face. The character never appeared again. Too bad. I always thought he had something to do with the murders in that episode, although the show exonerates him of them all.

^rival of Frank's

R28 excellent post! Did you know "Lovers and Other Killers" was the first episode filmed after the pilot? It was deemed too dark to be the opener and so they opted for a Cabot Cove episode instead "Deadly Lady".

The actor in "Lovers" was very attractive and I agree that he looked very menacing at the end. It is also the only episode I can think of that ends on someone other than Jessica.

She also had a 2 episode arc with an old war friend of Frank's who supports her through the Dixie Damsel business then flies her to his home in Texas. I think he tried to get her into a relationship but she rebuffed him. It's also the only time that two episodes directly follow each other (that isn't a 2-parter)

R30, no I did not know Lovers and Other Killers was the first episode filmed after the pilot. That would have been a bit of a shocker. They waited to show it as the 5th episode of the season.

The two-episode arc you're referring to co-starred actor Dale Robertson, who has been mentioned by above posters. Dynasty fans may remember him as Walter Lankershim, who was only in the first season. Season 2 added Joan Collins and they wanted to go more for glamor, so wildcatter Walter got canned. Dale Robertson was another good flirtation for Jessica.

In DEADLY Lady the old man dies before Jessica has a chance to nail him.

My mom had the first season on DVD.

I recall her flirting with a guy (maybe he spent the night?).

Jess and Seth loved each other, but it was a cozy, companionable kind of love.

Jess and Michael Haggerty, on the other hand, knocked boots on the regular.

Imagine if it wasn't Jessica who was barren all those years, but Frank. She could have ended up a late life mother to Michael Harrerty's bastard lovechild!

Now John Walton is flirting with her hard. Apparently he regrets letting her go when they were in college together.

It's strongly implied she and Eve Simpson share a liking for the same brand of vibrator.