以杂志编辑部为舞台，讲述四十岁出头的编辑长相乐（大东骏介 饰），因过于追求自我而被同事疏远，唯一陪伴他的只有爱犬柴犬。走投无路之际，他突发奇想创办“柴犬专门杂志”。然而聚集而来的却是一群怪咖——包括怕狗的编辑石森（饭丰万理江 饰）。在混乱中，狗狗以温柔目光化解隔阂，人与人、人与犬之间也渐渐建立起羁绊，是一部描绘令和时代人际关系与治愈之力的温暖群像剧。
《栗子人》以哥本哈根宁静的郊外为背景，在十月份一个狂风大作的早晨，警察发现了一件恐怖的事情。一名年轻女子在操场被残忍谋杀，并且她的一只手不见了。她的身旁放了一个用栗子做成的小人。雄心勃勃的年轻侦探纳亚·图林（达妮卡·库尔西奇饰）和她的新搭档马克·赫斯（米克尔·福尔斯加德饰）奉命调查这个案子。他们很快就发现了一个关于栗子人的神秘证据，这个证据与一年前失踪并被认定已死亡的一个女孩有关：政治家罗莎·哈通（艾本·多尔纳饰）的女儿。
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.
