Edith Bunker as Jessica Fletcher? It’s inconceivable to consider anybody else however Angela Lansbury because the star of Homicide, She Wrote. For over 250 episodes, Lansbury introduced pleasure each Sunday evening because the retired teacher-turned-mystery author fixing precise murders in her residence of Cabot Cove.
However in a stranger-than-fiction twist worthy of the present, the function virtually went to another person: Jean Stapleton, who starred reverse Carroll O’Connor‘s Archie Bunker on All In The Household. Stapleton performed Archie’s devoted, long-suffering spouse, Edith.