I agree with everyone who said Sunnydale. Honestly who would live in a town like that with people dropping off left and right?
Murder Capital of the TV World
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They're all metropolitan areas, with populations in the hundreds of thousands or the millions...
...which tends to shoot your murder rate all to hell.
Yes, that is correct.
If New York, a city of about 8 million has 800 murders a year it has a murder rate of 10 per 100,000 - or 1 for every 10,000 people.
If 19 people are murdered in little Sunnydale, with a population of 38,000, the murder rate would be 50 per 100,000 - or 5 for every 10,000 people (if my maths is correct) which would mean that Sunnydale's murder rate would be 5 times that of New York.
If New York, a city of about 8 million has 800 murders a year it has a murder rate of 10 per 100,000 - or 1 for every 10,000 people.
If 19 people are murdered in little Sunnydale, with a population of 38,000, the murder rate would be 50 per 100,000 - or 5 for every 10,000 people (if my maths is correct) which would mean that Sunnydale's murder rate would be 5 times that of New York.
It's certainly up there, though in later seasons the show made efforts to get Jessica involved in murders that took place elsewhere in the country.
Which makes Jessica Fletcher herself bad luck--every time she gets near somebody, they get killed.
Wonder why the police never caught on? 
Just checked. I think Gotham wins. In the last episode Harley brags that she killed half the population of the city with her new found hypnosis powers.
It's certainly up there, though in later seasons the show made efforts to get Jessica involved in murders that took place elsewhere in the country.
Which makes Jessica Fletcher herself bad luck--every time she gets near somebody, they get killed.
I always wonder why did Jessica Fletcher have friends at all. The woman was a complete jinx. If I knew her I'd be running away any time she came anywhere near me.
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As much as I enjoyed the show (even if it did only utilise about 2 percent of Angela Lansbury's quite extraordinary acting talent), I too wondered why the hell anyone ever went anywhere near Jessica. Clearly word didn't get around - even in Cabot Cove.
As much as I enjoyed the show (even if it did only utilise about 2 percent of Angela Lansbury's quite extraordinary acting talent), I too wondered why the hell anyone ever went anywhere near Jessica. Clearly word didn't get around - even in Cabot Cove.
NYC knocks off at least 4 people a week on four different shows. 
^^^ In Midsomer they usually knock of between 1-7 people, in a small country village each week (not the same country village each week, there are several different villages/towns) You have to sit counting each murder on your fingers to make sure you get the tally right.
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If any Midsomer Murders fan is interested I have done a tally of the number of deaths in the first 57 episodes.
Total murders - 155 of which 11 are historical (occuring well before the events of the episode but influencing it)
9 accidental deaths
9 suicides
5 deaths by natural causes (of which two aren't really proven to be natural)
Number of murders per episode
In eight episodes there was only one murder
In 13 episodes there were two murders
In 23 episodes there were 3 murders
in 9 episodes there were 4 murders
in 3 episodes there were 5 murders
and in one episode there were 7 murders (though 3 were historical)
Total murders - 155 of which 11 are historical (occuring well before the events of the episode but influencing it)
9 accidental deaths
9 suicides
5 deaths by natural causes (of which two aren't really proven to be natural)
Number of murders per episode
In eight episodes there was only one murder
In 13 episodes there were two murders
In 23 episodes there were 3 murders
in 9 episodes there were 4 murders
in 3 episodes there were 5 murders
and in one episode there were 7 murders (though 3 were historical)
^Sounds like "Cascade," from The Sentinel. In less than 4 years, there were four or five terrorist attacks, three Mob massacres, three or four professional assassins running around, a serial killer, a serial arsonist, someone spreading contaminated drugs, a gun-running warlord, and numerous cop-killing psychos.
I think, at one point, the younger character says, "You know, for a small city, this place is REALLY dangerous!"
I think, at one point, the younger character says, "You know, for a small city, this place is REALLY dangerous!"
Oh, I think '24' could hold it's own in the murder rate battle despite the large population of Los Angeles. They've killed upwards of 14,000 people (probably more due to later radiation-related deaths) in the span of just six days. Just think what the death toll must be over a year.