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Tuesday\u2019s episode of Murder in a Small Town <\/em>(Fox, 8\/7c) will feature Malcom-Jamal Warner\u2019s final on-screen performance, which series creator Ian Weir tells TVLine is nothing short of \u201cmagical.\u201d<\/p>\n The Cosby Show<\/em>\u00a0alum, who was 54 when he\u00a0died while swimming<\/a>\u00a0off the coast of Costa Rica during a family vacation in July, filmed a guest appearance for\u00a0Season 2 of the Fox drama before his passing.<\/p>\n More from TVLine<\/strong><\/p>\n In Episode 3, Warner plays Richard Buscombe, a\u00a0protective father who becomes a lead suspect in a\u00a0murder\u00a0investigation when his ex-wife is killed just after returning to town. Still heartbroken years after the split, Richard wears his anger and pain on his sleeve, but his only goal in life is to keep his daughter safe.<\/p>\n Weir says working with Warner was \u201cabsolutely lovely,\u201d and describes him as an actor \u201cwho totally left his ego at the door and just went to work in a wonderfully collaborative way.\u201d He adds that having Warner on set was \u201creally quite magical\u201d for many of the cast and crew who \u201cfelt they\u2019d grown up with him because of The Cosby Show<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was thrilled, of course, when he agreed to do the role,\u201d Weir continues. \u201cI hadn\u2019t quite let myself dare hope that someone of his stature would take this particular role, just because it wasn\u2019t conceived as one of those big flashy guest star roles.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, Weir describes the character as requiring \u201cquiet, intense integrity,\u201d which he says the \u201cextraordinary\u201d Warner delivered: \u201cHe became the emotional heart of the episode in quite a magical way.\u201d<\/p>\n Press PLAY on the clip above to watch a sneak peek of Warner\u2019s time in Gibsons, then hit the comments with your thoughts. <\/strong><\/p>\n Best of TVLine<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for TVLine’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday\u2019s episode of Murder in a Small Town (Fox, 8\/7c) will feature Malcom-Jamal Warner\u2019s final on-screen performance, which series creator Ian Weir tells TVLine is nothing short of \u201cmagical.\u201d The Cosby Show\u00a0alum, who was 54 when he\u00a0died while swimming\u00a0off the coast of Costa Rica during a family vacation in July, filmed a guest appearance for\u00a0Season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2073062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[335542,388724,388725,361527,339311,388726,371918,319150],"class_list":["post-2073061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-guest-appearance","tag-ian-weir","tag-malcom-jamal","tag-murder-in-a-small-town","tag-murder-investigation","tag-richard-buscombe","tag-the-cosby-show","tag-tvline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Murder-in-a-Small-Town-Boss-Previews-Malcolm-Jamal-Warners-\u2018Magical.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073063,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073061\/revisions\/2073063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}