Mendocino, California was used as a filming location to represent Cabot Cove, Maine, the fictional town featured in the TV series Murder, She Wrote.
264 episodes of the crime drama were made between 1984 and 1996, of which nine were filmed in Mendocino, and exterior shots taken in the area were used in other episodes.
The exterior of Blair House, a Victorian bed and breakfast inn on the corner of Ford and Little Lake Street in Mendocino, featured as the home of Jessica Fletcher, the program’s central character played by Angela Lansbury.