讲述来自高级餐饮界的年轻的厨师Carmy回到芝加哥经营家族三明治店的故事。
戴东官（欧阳震华 饰）经营着又父亲用毕生精力创建的酒楼，自称拥有“皇帝舌”的戴东官尝尽了天下的美食，用心打理酒楼的生意。一天他遇到了一个声称要为父报仇的小小（陈妙瑛 饰），小小竟然出卖东官使东官不得不逃到了北京。不久小小得知东官是无辜后，主动前往认错，两人冰释前嫌。 东官有一好友勉良（郭晋安 饰）为了考取功名而日夜苦读，幸好有翠花（梁艺龄 饰）周到照顾，当他与翠花成婚后也成功高中，但没想到勉良竟与昔日爱人倩容（张慧仪 饰）旧情复燃，翠花忍气吞声顾全丈夫声明，却被倩容的贪念毁了勉良的前途。 另一方面，东官成为了宫廷的御厨，但却受到了小小师兄的陷害。此时东官的红颜知己心茹（陈松伶 饰）怀有了皇帝（江华 饰）的孩子，害怕太后不愿接受，皇帝逼东官迎娶心茹。早已与小小结成伉俪的东官，面对爱吃醋的老婆小小，不止如何是好。不知情的小小甚至要告至公堂。
主要讲述了了一对母子二十多年来的情感纠葛，儿找母、母寻子的故事，折射出当今社会一些人在金钱和利益的驱动下失去对社会的责任感、家庭的温暖以及亲人的关爱。
悲痛欲绝、渴望找到人生意义的艾吉·威格斯（克莱尔·丹尼斯 饰），意外与曾被控谋杀的奈尔·贾维斯（马修·瑞斯 饰）纠缠不清。但当迷恋逐渐变质，危险也悄然逼近。
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.
