The first "Murder, She Wrote" Movie of The Week, "South By Southwest", filmed in 1997, after the series had been canceled in April 1996, by Les Moonvies-CBS TV, fulfilled the first of the four contracted MOW's "settlement" with Angela and Peter Shaw's Corymore Productions. Not happy with CBS axing their twelve year MSW popular series, neither were the couple anxious to go into immediate production for another two hour project. Plus each script proposal had to be approved by the network program division. CBS TV forced Corymore to fulfill the second MOW project after a two and a half years hiatus. Assembling the nucleus production team from the canceled series, the crew were presented with the task of prepping the two hour film within an extreme limited prep period of four weeks! Which included scouting locations, casting, costuming, designing, and for construction/painting of stage sets, to be built at Universal Studios. Asking the Production Designer Hub Braden "if it could be done?" His reply, "it just takes a blank check and an unlimited bank account full of money. Just give us a GO!"