Murphy Brown (1988)
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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Episode 1 - The More Things Change
Release Date: 1993-09-20An arrogant new colleague threatens everyone on the staff, especially Murphy who's just reduced her role on FYI resulting from the pressures of motherhood. Their relationship hits it off real well just as the show is ready to air.
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Episode 2 - Angst For the Memories
Release Date: 1993-09-27Murphy gets an interview with a reclusive '60s literary idol, but times and people have changed.
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Episode 3 - Black and White and Read All Over
Release Date: 1993-10-04After going to a function with Mitchell, Murphy begins to date him. Is there anything there, or do they just like it when heads turn?
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Episode 4 - Political Correctness
Release Date: 1993-10-11A series of on-air comments made by Peter and Murphy gets the staff forced to attend a seminar on political correctness.
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Episode 5 - The Young & the Rest of Us
Release Date: 1993-10-18The staff gets nervous when Peter whisks away a depressed Corky on her 30th birthday.
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Episode 6 - Ticket to Writhe
Release Date: 1993-10-25Peter and Murphy compete for the Middle East peace story. Miles obtains sideline passes to a Washington football game where he plans to propose to Audrey via the scoreboard, but finds he is so wrapped up with work he didn't even notice that she has left him. Corky thinks the passes are cursed when more bad things occur to anyone in possession of them.
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Episode 7 - I Don't Know You From Madam
Release Date: 1993-11-01Murphy works reluctantly on a story the network brass wants on ""The Beltway Madam,"" a high priced call girl who's just been exposed and is the hottest story in town.
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Episode 8 - All the Life That's Fit to Print
Release Date: 1993-11-08Murphy has nightmares about what her colleagues will say about her when they are interviewed for a biography that she has authorized to be written.
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Episode 9 - Bah Humboldt
Release Date: 1993-11-15Peter, Frank & Murphy are all nominated for the Humboldt Award. While at the ceremony, Murphy can't understand how disinterested Peter is in the award and Frank hears a rumor about a network having to make cutbacks.
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Episode 10 - Reaper Madness
Release Date: 1993-11-22Murphy is obsessed with the need to try to explain death to Avery and bothers everyone for their perspective.
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Episode 11 - It's Not Easy Being Brown
Release Date: 1993-11-29To improve upon her image, Murphy gets a publicist and makes an appearance on a children's puppet show.
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Episode 12 - To Have and Have Not
Release Date: 1993-12-06Miles comes under public scrutiny when he is misquoted in a magazine article that makes him out to be the biggest male chauvinist in Washington, DC.
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Episode 13 - Socks and the Single Woman
Release Date: 1993-12-13Murphy gets invited to the White House by the Clintons. Once she gets back to the office, she finds out she has a furry stowaway.
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Episode 14 - A Piece of the Auction
Release Date: 1994-01-03Murphy gets rude remarks by radio personality, Marty Crane. She gets mad but the gang actually thin the things Marty says about Murphy are funny. They're all now at a charity event at Phill's, while every one of the gang donated something to be auctioned, Murphy decided to donate herself, that means the winner will spend a whole day with her in the office and then go to dinner. Marty Crane is there, and buys Murphy for 10 thousand dollars. Murphy doesn't accept it at first but then agrees, after all I can't be that bad. But it is, Marty shows up at the bullpen with cameras and girls with costumes. At her office, they start talking and Marty says that by the end of the day, she'll start seing him differently. Murphy doens't think so. At the restaurant Murphy doens't seem to want people to see her with Marty, which he notices. They have a honest talk, and Murphy starts to understand his point of view and they make plans to get together again. The next morning while driving to work,
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Episode 15 - The Thrill of the Hunt
Release Date: 1994-01-10An injured Peter returns from Bosnia and eventually they admit missing each other and decide to have a relationship they know will go down in flames.
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Episode 16 - The Deal of the Art
Release Date: 1994-01-17Murphy's report and comments about modern art lead to her appearance on a PBS talk show, defending her views against art critics. Later she takes one of Avery's paintings and puts it on display to show them what they really know about art.
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Episode 17 - The Anchorman
Release Date: 1994-01-24Jim decides to open an English pub called ""The Anchorman"" and it turns out to be a big success as a gay bar.
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Episode 18 - Fjord Eyes Only
Release Date: 1994-01-31The team travels to Lillehammer, and Murphy, who's more interested in getting free stuff, has a ""fluff piece"" interview with a skater, which results in a disaster for Norway.
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Episode 19 - Crime Story
Release Date: 1994-02-28After her car is stolen out of her driveway, Murphy joins the neighborhood watch, but discovers that her neighbors are borderline vigilantes.
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Episode 20 - The Fifth Anchor
Release Date: 1994-03-07FYI's 17th anniversary show is more than complete when an annoying former anchor returns. They plot to get rid of him again until Murphy finds out what he once did for her before the 1st show.
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Episode 21 - Anything But Cured
Release Date: 1994-03-14Frank's psychologist tells him after 18 years of therapy that he's cured and needs to move on and he leans on Murphy for support.
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Episode 22 - The Tip of the Silverburg
Release Date: 1994-03-28When Murphy take Miles shopping for a new suit, he becomes humiliated when she ""sees it"" and then everyone else finds out. Later, everyone else lets out their most embarrassing moment.
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Episode 23 - It's Just Like Riding a Bike
Release Date: 1994-05-02Peter returns to town and he and Murphy pick up right where they left off. Back at her place, Murphy delays the inevitable.
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Episode 24 - My Movie With Louis
Release Date: 1994-05-09Despite the network's policy against it, Murphy decides to play a ""small, but pivotal role"" in director Louis Malle's new film. After getting the script, Murphy goes to the set to get changes made that will protect her ""journalistic integrity.""
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Episode 25 - The More Things Stay the Same
Release Date: 1994-05-16Frank, Jim and Murphy are all up for contract renewals as FYI celebrates the airing of its 500th broadcast and their egos go unchecked.