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Comedy's Back In The News.
Overview
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
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Season 1
22 episodes • 1988Avg: 6.9Golden Era
Season 1
22 episodes • 1988Avg: 6.9Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Respect | Nov 14, 1988 | 7.7 |
| 2 | Devil With a Blue Dress On | Nov 21, 1988 | 7.5 |
| 3 | Nowhere to Run | Nov 28, 1988 | 6.5 |
| 4 | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Dec 5, 1988 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Murphy's Pony | Dec 11, 1988 | 7.0 |
| 6 | Baby Love | Dec 12, 1988 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Set Me Free | Dec 19, 1988 | 7.0 |
| 8 | And So He Goes | Jan 2, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 9 | I Would Have Danced All Night | Jan 9, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 10 | Kyle | Jan 16, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 11 | Off the Job Experience | Jan 23, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 12 | Why Do Fools Fall in Love? | Feb 13, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 13 | Soul Man | Feb 20, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 14 | It's How You Play the Game | Feb 27, 1989 | 4.0 |
| 15 | Mama Said | Mar 6, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 16 | Moscow on the Potomac | Mar 13, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 17 | My Dinner with Einstein | Mar 20, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 18 | Funnies Girl | Apr 10, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 19 | The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown | May 1, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 20 | The Summer of '77 | May 8, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 21 | The Bickners | May 15, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 22 | The Morning Show | May 22, 1989 | 7.0 |
Season 2
27 episodes • 1989Avg: 6.8Golden Era
Season 2
27 episodes • 1989Avg: 6.8Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Brothers Silverberg | Sep 18, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Anchors Away | Sep 25, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 3 | The Memo that Got Away | Oct 2, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 4 | TV or Not TV | Oct 16, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 5 | Miles' Big Adventure | Oct 23, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 6 | Buddies Schmuddies | Oct 30, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Whose Garbage is it Anyway? | Nov 6, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 8 | And the Whiner Is... | Nov 13, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 9 | Roasted | Nov 20, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 10 | Brown Like Me (1) | Nov 27, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 11 | Brown Like Me (2) | Nov 27, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 12 | The Strike | Dec 11, 1989 | 7.0 |
| 13 | Here's to You Mrs. Kinsella | Dec 18, 1989 | 4.0 |
| 14 | What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? | Jan 1, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 15 | Subpoena Envy | Jan 8, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 16 | I Want My FYI | Jan 29, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 17 | Frankly Speaking | Feb 5, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 18 | The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting | Feb 12, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 19 | Bad Girls | Feb 19, 1990 | 4.0 |
| 20 | Heart of Gold | Feb 26, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 21 | On the Road Again | Mar 5, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 22 | But First a Word From Our Sponsor | Mar 19, 1990 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Frank's Appendectomy | Apr 9, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 24 | Fax or Fiction | Apr 30, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 25 | The Bitch's Back | May 7, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 26 | Going to the Chapel (1) | May 14, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 27 | Going to the Chapel (2) | May 21, 1990 | 7.0 |
Season 3
26 episodes • 1990Avg: 7.6Golden Era
Season 3
26 episodes • 1990Avg: 7.6Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 390th Broadcast | Sep 17, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Brown and Blue | Sep 24, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 3 | Loco Hero | Oct 1, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 4 | Strike Two | Oct 15, 1990 | 7.0 |
| 5 | The Gold Rush | Oct 22, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 6 | Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery | Nov 5, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 7 | The Last Laugh | Nov 12, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 8 | Rootless People | Nov 19, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 9 | The Bummer of 42 | Nov 26, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 10 | Trouble in Sherwood-Forrest | Dec 10, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 11 | Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way | Dec 17, 1990 | 8.0 |
| 12 | Retreat | Jan 7, 1991 | 7.0 |
| 13 | Eldin Imitates Life | Jan 14, 1991 | 8.0 |
| 14 | Contractions | Jan 21, 1991 | 8.0 |
| 15 | Hoarse Play | Feb 4, 1991 | 7.0 |
| 16 | The Novel | Feb 11, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Terror on the 17th Floor | Feb 18, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 18 | On Another Plane (1) | Feb 25, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 19 | On Another Plane (2) | Feb 25, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Driving Miss Crazy | Mar 4, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Everytime it Rains... You Get Wet | Mar 18, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Corky's Place | Apr 8, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Small | Apr 29, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 24 | The Usual Suspects | May 6, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Q & A on FYI | May 13, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Uh-Oh (1) | May 20, 1991 | 0.0 |
Season 4
26 episodes • 1991Avg: 1.0
Season 4
26 episodes • 1991Avg: 1.0
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uh-Oh (2) | Sep 16, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Uh-Oh (3) | Sep 16, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 3 | I'm As Much of a Man as I Ever Was | Sep 23, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Male Call | Sep 30, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Square Triangle | Oct 7, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Full Circle | Oct 14, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Smiths Go to Washington | Oct 28, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 8 | It Came From College | Nov 4, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Queen of Soul | Nov 11, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Inside Murphy Brown | Nov 18, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Mission Control | Nov 25, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Be it Ever So Humboldt | Dec 9, 1991 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Love is Blonde | Dec 16, 1991 | 1.0 |
| 14 | Anchor Rancor | Jan 6, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon | Jan 13, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Lovesick | Jan 20, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Heartfelt | Feb 3, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Send in the Clowns | Feb 24, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Murphy Buys the Farm | Mar 2, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are | Mar 4, 1992 | 1.0 |
| 21 | Rage Before Beauty | Mar 16, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Phil's Not So Silent Partner | Mar 23, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 23 | He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go | Apr 27, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 24 | On the Rocks | May 4, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 25 | A Chance of Showers | May 11, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Birth 101 | May 18, 1992 | 0.0 |
Season 5
25 episodes • 1992
Season 5
25 episodes • 1992
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato (1) | Sep 21, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 2 | You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato (2) | Sep 21, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Life After Birth | Sep 28, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Black, White & Brown | Oct 5, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 5 | I Never Sang for My Husband | Oct 12, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Night of Living News | Oct 26, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 7 | A Year to Remember | Nov 2, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Midnight Plane to Paris | Nov 9, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much | Nov 16, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Winners Take All | Nov 23, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Till Death or Next Thursday Do We Part | Dec 7, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 12 | I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas | Dec 14, 1992 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Games Mother Play | Jan 4, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The British Invasion | Jan 11, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Back to the Ball | Jan 18, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The Intern | Feb 1, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Trickster, We Hardly Knew Ye | Feb 8, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The World According to Avery | Feb 15, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Bump in the Night | Feb 21, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 20 | To Market, to Market | Mar 1, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Two For the Road | Mar 15, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Murphy and the Amazing Leaping Man | Mar 22, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 23 | The Egg & I | May 3, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Ship of Phil's | May 10, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 25 | One | May 17, 1993 | 0.0 |
Season 6
25 episodes • 1993
Season 6
25 episodes • 1993
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The More Things Change | Sep 20, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Angst For the Memories | Sep 27, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Black and White and Read All Over | Oct 4, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Political Correctness | Oct 11, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Young & the Rest of Us | Oct 18, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Ticket to Writhe | Oct 25, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 7 | I Don't Know You From Madam | Nov 1, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 8 | All the Life That's Fit to Print | Nov 8, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Bah Humboldt | Nov 15, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Reaper Madness | Nov 22, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 11 | It's Not Easy Being Brown | Nov 29, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 12 | To Have and Have Not | Dec 6, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Socks and the Single Woman | Dec 13, 1993 | 0.0 |
| 14 | A Piece of the Auction | Jan 3, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Thrill of the Hunt | Jan 10, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The Deal of the Art | Jan 17, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 17 | The Anchorman | Jan 24, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Fjord Eyes Only | Jan 31, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Crime Story | Feb 28, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 20 | The Fifth Anchor | Mar 7, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Anything But Cured | Mar 14, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The Tip of the Silverburg | Mar 28, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 23 | It's Just Like Riding a Bike | May 2, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 24 | My Movie With Louis | May 9, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 25 | The More Things Stay the Same | May 16, 1994 | 0.0 |
Season 7
26 episodes • 1994Avg: 1.0
Season 7
26 episodes • 1994Avg: 1.0
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown vs. the Board of Education | Sep 19, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? | Sep 26, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Loose Affiliations | Oct 3, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Be Careful What You Wish For | Oct 10, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Burger, She Wrote | Oct 17, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Humboldt IV: Judgment Day | Oct 24, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Frank Cuts Loose | Oct 31, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Reporters Make Strange Bedfellows | Nov 7, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Prelude to a Kiss | Nov 14, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Bye Bye Bernecky | Nov 21, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Secret Life of Jim Dial | Nov 28, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Brown in Toyland | Dec 12, 1994 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Best and Not-So-Brightest | Jan 2, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Rumble in the Alley | Jan 9, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Requiem For a Crew Guy | Jan 16, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 16 | I Want My MTV-Jay | Jan 23, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Specific Overtures | Feb 6, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 18 | A Rat's Tale | Feb 13, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 19 | It's Miller Time | Feb 20, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 20 | McGovern: Unclothed | Feb 27, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 21 | The Good Nephew | Mar 13, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 22 | FYI of the Hurricane | Mar 20, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Model Relationships | May 8, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Make Room For Daddy | May 15, 1995 | 1.0 |
| 25 | Retrospective (1) | May 22, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Retrospective (2) | May 22, 1995 | 0.0 |
Season 8
24 episodes • 1995Avg: 6.0
Season 8
24 episodes • 1995Avg: 6.0
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Altered States | Sep 18, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Awful Truth | Sep 25, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Fearless Frank | Oct 2, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Murphy's Law | Oct 9, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Sex or Death | Oct 16, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Miller's Crossing | Oct 23, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Feminine Critique | Oct 30, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Bad Company | Nov 6, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Ten Percent Solution | Nov 13, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Humboldt Doldt | Nov 20, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Dick and Dottie | Nov 27, 1995 | 0.0 |
| 12 | All in the Family | Jan 8, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 13 | If You're Going to Talk the Talk | Jan 15, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 14 | My Fair Miller | Jan 22, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Old Flames | Feb 5, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Up in Smoke | Feb 12, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Aftermath | Feb 19, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Trick or Retreat | Feb 26, 1996 | 6.0 |
| 19 | All Singing! All Dancing! All Miserable! | Mar 4, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 20 | The Bus Stops Here | Mar 11, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 21 | When A. Lansing Loves a Woman | Apr 29, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Casa Nova | May 6, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Stepping Out (1) | May 13, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Miles Away (2) | May 20, 1996 | 0.0 |
Season 9
24 episodes • 1996
Season 9
24 episodes • 1996
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Executive Decision | Sep 16, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Power Play | Sep 23, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 3 | A Comedy of Eros | Sep 30, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Son of Dottie | Oct 7, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Office Politics | Oct 14, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Phil's Dead - Long Live Phil's | Oct 21, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 7 | That's the Way the Corky Crumbles | Oct 28, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Defending Your Life | Nov 4, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Underdogs | Nov 11, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Nobody's Perfect | Nov 18, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 11 | A One Night Stan | Nov 25, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Seperation Anxiety | Dec 2, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Montezuma's Retreat | Dec 16, 1996 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Big Thaw | Jan 6, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Who Do You Truss? | Jan 13, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 16 | You Don't Know Jackal | Jan 20, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Blind Date | Feb 3, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Oh, Danny Boy | Feb 10, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Desperate Times | Feb 17, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 20 | And That's the Way it Was? | Feb 25, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 21 | How to Marry a Billionaire | Apr 28, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow | May 5, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Mama Miller | May 12, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 24 | When One Door Closes ... | May 18, 1997 | 0.0 |
Season 10
22 episodes • 1997Avg: 6.0
Season 10
22 episodes • 1997Avg: 6.0
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murphy Redux | Oct 1, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 2 | A Butcher, A Faker a Bummed-Out Promo Maker | Oct 8, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Ectomy, Schmectomy | Oct 15, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Operation: Murphy Brown | Oct 22, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Florence Night-en Corky | Oct 29, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Waiting to Inhale | Nov 5, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Petty Woman | Nov 12, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 8 | From Here to Jerusalem | Nov 19, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Tempus Fugit | Nov 24, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 10 | I Hear a Symphony | Dec 10, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 11 | From the Terrace | Dec 17, 1997 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The Last Temptation of Murphy | Jan 7, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day) | Jan 14, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Wee Small Hours | Jan 21, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Then and Now | Jan 28, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Opus One | Apr 6, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Seems Like Gold Times | Apr 13, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Second Time Around | Apr 20, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 19 | A Man and a Woman | Apr 27, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Dial and Substance | May 4, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Never Can Say Goodbye (1) | May 18, 1998 | 6.0 |
| 22 | Never Can Say Goodbye (2) | May 18, 1998 | 6.0 |
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