有95年歷史的奇乐百货公司面临同业竞争的威胁,正想竭力打出一条生路之际,老闆柴多泰突告病逝。因长子柴家齐﹝蔡枫华饰﹞在外国留学未返,遂由年青有为的留美学生段星寒﹝任达华饰﹞接手管理,将百货公司大事改革,强调「作风新、字号老」,并力邀蒋仰男出任掌管公司命脉的採购部主管。另一方面,售货员侯舒容获蒋仰男﹝欧阳佩珊饰﹞赏识,悉心栽培,大有成为蒋仰男将来接班人之势。在私人感情方面,蒋仰男及侯舒容﹝郑裕玲饰﹞同时爱上了段星寒,因此二人关系越趋恶劣,而段星寒则从中独享渔人之利。 原来段星寒背后有个不可告人的故事,接手百货公司亦是另有企图,当他财色兼收欲一走了事之际,身份被揭发,并牵涉入一宗谋杀案之中。究竟段星寒是甚么身份?他与蒋仰男及侯舒容之感情又如何了断呢?
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.