Show: Murder, She Wrote
Season 8 > Episode 167
Original Air Date: Sunday, January 19th, 1992
Episode Title: Incident in Lot 7
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Anthony Shaw

Plot Summary: The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios. While attending meetings with various film executives, one turns up dead inside the set of the Bates House. It is up to Jessica Fletcher to solve this mystery.

Guest Starts included Jackie Gayle, Henry Gibson, Ron Leibman, Paula Prentiss, Stuart Whitman

Trivia: The Bates Motel was never really seen in any type of wide shot because the exterior set was still dressed for the TV pilot Bates Motel (1987).

Some footage from the Psycho films appeared on the episode including various errie shots of the house, the shower head closeups, the neon sign that originally appeared in Psycho II and a clip featuring Martin Balsam as Arbogast from the original Psycho. In one scene Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) watches the original Psycho on TV in her hotel room and sees the footage of Arbogast.

If anyone has any video clips, please let me know!