Murder She Wrote should have had two-parters, this episode definitely should've been one - Gorgeous costumes, camera work, lighting and sets - good character work and actors - but rushed and unfinished.
It was an amazing time in television that gave us so many wonderful shows with just the right mix of drama and light heartedness, and with such high production values, but if only they could've known how lacking that sort of thing would be today, they'd have valued it more, given episodes like this one more time, given the story and the characters more time to breathe and develop, and given the audience more time to bathe in the gorgeousness of this episode.