Plot Summary

Dick Van Dyke returns as Criminology Professor John Maxwell. From the DVD: "From Dean Hargrove, the legendary producer of television's greatest crime and mystery series including Matlock, Perry Mason, diagnosis murder, and Colombo, comes to cases for criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell played by Dick Van Dyke. With his steel trap of a crime solving mind and partnered with private detective Mike Bryant, played by Barry van Dyck, from TVs Airwolf, murder is today's lesson and there will be a pop quiz. Murder 101: If Wishes were Horses (2006) 88 min. Professor Maxwell is called upon to help when a prize resources kidnapped. But the case turns deadly when a member of the family that owns the horse dies in a subsequent fire. What the case yields is a family embroiled in jealousy and greed."