MURDER

101

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WHEN A PHILANDERING PROFESSOR DIES OF AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK, DR. JONATHAN MAXWELL SUSPECTS IT’S MURDER

 DICK VAN DYKE RETURNS IN  MURDER 101 ‘COLLEGE CAN BE MURDER,’

A HALLMARK ORIGINAL MYSTERY MOVIE

PREMIERING JANUARY 6

Barry Van Dyke co-stars; Alex Hyde-White, Molly Hagan and

Jamie Rose are among the Guest Stars

Criminology Professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell (Dick Van Dyke) doesn’t believe that Professor Archer Coe died of a heart attack, so he hires Mike Parker to investigate.  Not only does he discover that the professor was not very well liked, but he was having an affair with Danya, one of his students - a fact known to both Danya’s father and  his widow - in Hallmark’s Original Mystery Movie, MURDER 101 “College Can Be Murder,” premiering Saturday, January 6 (9/8c). 

MURDER 101 also stars Barry Van Dyke as Mike Parker.  Guest stars include Alex Hyde-White, Jamie Rose, Molly Hagen, Whip Hubley and Kimberly Quinn.  In addition, two of Dick Van Dyke’s grandchildren, Wes and Taryn appear as students in the movie.

Dr. Jonathan Maxwell is upset by the theft of his bicycle, a beat-up relic that was a gift from his best friend (Mike Parker’s father) when they were kids.  While he searches for it all over campus, the body of another professor, Archer Coe (Alex Hyde-White), is found dead in his office.  At first, everyone believes he died of a heart attack, but Maxwell suspects foul play when he discovers the orange Coe ate was poisoned.

MURDER 101 is an RHI Entertainment Presentation of an Alpine Medien Production in association with Larry Levinson Productions.  Robert Halmi, Jr. and Larry Levinson are executive producers.  Dean Hargrove is executive producer.  Nick Lombardo and Michael Moran are co-executive producers.  John Putch directed from a script by Michael Gleason.

Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming to a national audience of 75 million subscribers.  The top tier program service is distributed through more than 5,300 cable systems and communities as well as direct-to-home satellite services across the country.  Hallmark Channel consistently ranks among the top 10 ad-supported cable networks in Total Day and Prime Time household ratings and is the nation’s leading network in providing family-friendly programming.  Crown Media also operates a second 24-hour linear channel, Hallmark Movie Channel.

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