宇文峰（郑少秋 饰）出身武当，勤学苦练，身手了得，学成下山后，宇文峰受到了当时最大的兵器工厂唐门的赏识，门主更是将女儿唐碧（汪明荃 饰）许配他。哪知道唐门突遭不幸，被诬陷勾结外族，落得满门抄斩的下场，而宇文峰则被打入大牢，即将问斩。太监张诚（陈鸿烈 饰）欣赏宇文峰的身手为人，以替他卖命作为条件，救下了宇文峰。 那边厢，唐碧死里逃生，之后成为了京城第一大镖局的女当家，丈夫死后，唐碧接管了镖局，并且最终凭借她的智慧和能力获得了周围人的认可。宇文峰加入了锦衣卫，受张诚胁迫，干尽了伤天害理之事，一次偶然中，宇文峰和唐碧重逢了，一段旷世情缘再度拉开帷幕。
长今（李英爱 饰）出生在一个贱民家庭，他的父亲徐天寿原来当年曾是内禁卫军官，奉命赐予废太后允氏毒药，随后允氏的儿子燕山君登基继位，天寿为了保全自身，辞官而去。天寿在途中救了长今母亲，两人结为连理，隐姓埋名。岂料皇上燕山君如今欲为母报仇，下令追捕所有当年参与杀死允太后的人，长今母亲逃难路上不幸丧命，临终前嘱咐长今进宫。失去了父母的小长今幸得宫中熟手姜德久一家收留，并在他的安排下进入了宫中御厨房做工，开始了她漫长的宫中历程。 韩尚宫（梁美京 饰）非常照顾聪明好学的小长今，然而崔尚宫却因为与韩尚宫的不和而对长今处处刁难，每次在崔尚宫的设局陷害下，长今都以自己的蕙质兰心和坚持不懈一一化解，然而她母亲的身世秘密却逐渐浮出水面，还有更大的困难挡在长今的面前。
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.
