半平太（锦户亮 饰）被逼自尽后竟然穿越到了现代，在经历了一连串宛如灾难一般的意外后，半平太遇见了善良的老人佐伯真人（森本里奥 饰）。佐伯经营着一间补习班，他不仅收留了无处可去的半平太，还任命他成为了补习班的临时老师。 佐伯的孙女晴香（比嘉爱未 饰）对于半平太的真实身份十分怀疑，充满了戒备。之后，半平太遇见了在他之前穿越过来的坂本龙马（神木隆之介 饰），两人联手寻找回到过去的方法。随着时间的推移，半平太和佐伯一家人之间产生了深深的羁绊，半平太利用着战场上的经验，解决了身边发生的一个又一个难题，获得了孩子们的喜爱与信任。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
