1988
TV-PG
30m

Summary The personal and professional misadventures of an opinionated but beloved woman working as a television journalist. View more details

1988
TV-PG
30m

Murphy Brown

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Candice Bergen Faith Ford Joe Regalbuto Charles Kimbrough

All cast & crew

6.9

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Nov 13, 1988

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook Official Instagram

Language : English

Filming locations : Queens, New York, USA

Production companies : Warner Bros. Television Shukovsky English Entertainment Bend in the Road Productions

Summary The personal and professional misadventures of an opinionated but beloved woman working as a television journalist. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Nov 13, 1988

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook Official Instagram

Language : English

Filming locations : Queens, New York, USA

Production companies : Warner Bros. Television Shukovsky English Entertainment Bend in the Road Productions

Photos

Candice Bergen, Morgan Fairchild, and Joe Regalbuto in Murphy Brown (1988)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Nov 13, 1988

Respect

After spending months at the Betty Ford Center, TV reporter Murphy Brown tries to re-enter her life. The task is complicated by the addition to her show of a former Miss America as co-reporter, and a new Executive Producer who's half her age.

Episode 2 • Nov 20, 1988

Devil with a Blue Dress On

Murphy's animosity towards Corky grows when she's forced to take her on to help with an important story.

Episode 3 • Nov 27, 1988

Nowhere to Run

Miles becomes the target of death threats when the show investigates the dealings of a mob boss.

Episode 4 • Dec 04, 1988

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Murphy struggles to maintain her professionalism when her next interview is a man she was married to twenty years before.

Episode 5 • Dec 10, 1988

Murphy's Pony

Two days before Christmas, three children show up at FYI with a note from their mother. She says she cannot take care of them anymore, and thinks Murphy would make a good mother - much to Murphy's irritation.

Episode 6 • Dec 11, 1988

Baby Love

A friend of Murphy's is having a baby, and Murphy starts to wonder if something is missing in her life, leading her to consider her options.

Episode 7 • Dec 18, 1988

Set Me Free

Murphy's having a rotten day, complicated by a gunman who interrupts the show and demands they read his statement on the air and it gets capped off by the painter she hired to do her kitchen sticking around to finish "extending myself." During this whole ordeal, she is craving cigarettes and a drink, and definitely a soft number 2 pencil.

Episode 8 • Jan 01, 1989

And So He Goes

The man that Murphy has been in a prank war for decades with dies suddenly, and asks that she eulogize him.

Episode 9 • Jan 08, 1989

I Would Have Danced All Night

Murphy can't understand why she isn't invited to the Inaugural Ball, and can't get anyone to take her.

Episode 10 • Jan 15, 1989

Kyle

Murphy's story gets an innocent inmate released. Everyone feels sorry for him, so they give him a job as Murphy's secretary.

Episode 11 • Jan 22, 1989

Off the Job Experience

When Murphy behaves rudely to a belligerent Army colonel in a live interview, Miles takes the decision to suspend her from work, which drives her up a wall and threatens their working relationship.

Episode 12 • Feb 12, 1989

Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

Frank & Murphy fix each others blind dates, while Miles has to deal with his break up with Jackie and Jim wonders what to do with an attractive lady that wants him. We learn more than what we would have wanted to for Phil's marriage life.

Episode 13 • Feb 19, 1989

Soul Man

When Murphy is denied access into the last gentlemen's only club in Washington, she is determined to join. That makes her relationship with Jim uptight, and stirs a war between the sexes in the office.

Episode 14 • Feb 26, 1989

It's How You Play the Game

When the FYI show goes lower onto the ratings - the network suggests to its journalists to make the news more pleasant and easy to the public. Though the FYI team wouldn't like to be less professional - they struggle with the reality of having to face a tough decision and compromise for the sakes of Frank's touching story for the homeless being seen by a larger sum of people.

Episode 15 • Mar 05, 1989

Mama Said

Murphy's mom whom she was never close to comes for a visit. And she spends all the time fawning after Murphy which has Murphy perplexed.

Episode 16 • Mar 12, 1989

Moscow on the Potomac

The FYI show accepts a guest from the USSR - the newswoman Vladia.

Episode 17 • Mar 19, 1989

My Dinner with Einstein

Murphy is excited to meet "the modern Einstein" Victor Rudman. She tries to challenge herself on a date with him, since "You can't judge a book by its cover", but discovers that geniuses can also be unpleasant people.

Episode 18 • Apr 09, 1989

Funnies Girl

Murphy makes a joking remark, but her lurid comment is aired on live TV. She is faced with the consequences the next day as cartoonist Pat O'Shea starts a comic strip named "The Adventures of Mouthy Brown".

Episode 19 • Apr 30, 1989

The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown

Murphy is not her usual driven self after a guilty judge drops dead during a live broadcast.

Episode 20 • May 07, 1989

The Summer of '77

Miles needs a story for FYI and Corky suggests covering Phil's 70th anniversary. The celebration causes flashbacks to 1977 when Frank and Murphy auditioned for the show with Murphy's primary competition being Linda Ellerbee.

Episode 21 • May 14, 1989

The Bickners

Murphy is involved in a fender bender with a seemingly sweet old couple who bring her home made cookies. She changes her opinion when they sue her for $1.5 million dollars. Frank's fear of the dentist causes him to accidentally break Jim's coffee cup which turns out to be a big deal.

Episode 22 • May 21, 1989

The Morning Show

Murphy and Corky are asked to fill in on a morning show. They quickly discover that Corky is perfect for the time and format, while Murphy berates a children's author and turns a cooking segment into a disaster.

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