Murder at the Mardis Gras is a 1978 television film directed by Ken Annakin. It aired as a Wednesday night movie on CBS.
Premise
A Philadelphia waitress, Julie Evans, wins a trip to New Orleans during Mardi Gras where she witnesses a murder. She encounters a series of colourful characters, including a pickpocket, a husband and wife writing team, and the investigating cop.
Cast
Didi Conn as Julie Evans
David Groh
Harry Morgan as the investigating cop
Joyce Van Patten
Bill Daily as Jack Murphy
Wolfman Jack as himself
Gregg Henry
David Wayne as a pickpocket
Barbi Benton as herself
Ron Silver as Larry Cook
Production
Filming took place on location in New Orleans. It starred Didi Conn who had just been in the films Grease and You Light Up My Life. It was the first of a series of TV movies directed by Ken Annakin.
Reception
The Los Angeles Times called it a "deft, pleasing diversion."
The The Tampa Tribune calls it "a potentially entertaining mystery that falls faster than a party-goer on Bourbon Street with sloppy casting and even sloppier script."