Murphy Brown (1988)

Name: Murphy Brown
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Charles Kimbrough, Lily Tomlin

Comedy

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.

IMDb rating: 6.9 (11,597 votes)
Seasons: 11
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1988)

7.35 avg 22 episodes 7.8 → 7.5 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Respect	7.8	144
2	Devil with a Blue Dress On	7.9	112
3	Nowhere to Run	7.6	103
4	Signed, Sealed, Delivered	7.4	90
5	Murphy's Pony	7.1	90
6	Baby Love	7.0	81
7	Set Me Free	7.2	84
8	And So He Goes	7.3	81
9	I Would Have Danced All Night	7.5	82
10	Kyle	7.2	84
11	Off the Job Experience	7.1	75
12	Why Do Fools Fall in Love?	7.3	77
13	Soul Man	6.9	74
14	It's How You Play the Game	7.2	76
15	Mama Said	7.5	81
16	Moscow on the Potomac	7.2	69
17	My Dinner with Einstein	7.2	73
18	Funnies Girl	7.5	72
19	The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown	7.5	80
20	The Summer of '77	7.6	76
21	The Bickners	7.1	68
22	The Morning Show	7.5	75

Season 2 (1989)

7.48 avg 27 episodes 7.4 → 7.5 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Brothers Silverberg	7.4	63
2	Anchors Away	7.8	60
3	The Memo That Got Away	7.3	54
4	TV or Not TV	7.6	62
5	Miles' Big Adventure	7.6	56
6	Buddies Schmuddies	7.2	57
7	Whose Garbage Is It Anyway?	7.4	58
8	And the Whiner Is...	7.2	59
9	Roasted	7.5	54
10	Brown Like Me: Part 1	7.6	72
11	Brown Like Me: Part 2	7.8	60
12	The Strike	7.4	54
13	Here's to You, Mrs. Kinsella	7.7	55
14	What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?	7.7	60
15	Subpoena Envy	7.7	64
16	I Want My FYI	7.6	62
17	Frankly Speaking	7.1	51
18	The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting	7.2	50
19	Bad Girls	7.5	59
20	Heart of Gold	7.7	57
21	On the Road Again	7.4	55
22	But First a Word from Our Sponsor	7.4	51
23	Frank's Appendectomy	8.1	65
24	Fax or Fiction	7.3	53
25	The Bitch's Back	6.8	59
26	Goin' to the Chapel: Part 1	7.5	50
27	Goin' to the Chapel: Part 2	7.5	54

Season 3 (1990)

7.50 avg 26 episodes 7.7 → 7.7 29 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The 390th Broadcast	7.7	58
2	Brown and Blue	7.0	131
3	Loco Hero	7.0	54
4	Strike Two	7.4	54
5	The Gold Rush	7.8	52
6	Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery	7.7	60
7	The Last Laugh	7.7	51
8	Rootless People	7.6	53
9	The Bummer of 42	7.9	56
10	Trouble in Sherwood-Forrest	7.9	57
11	Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way	7.8	66
12	Retreat	7.4	55
13	Eldin Imitates Life	7.5	49
14	Contractions	7.7	53
15	Hoarse Play	7.7	59
16	The Novel	7.5	50
17	Terror on the 17th Floor	7.4	50
18	On Another Plane (I)	7.2	57
19	On Another Plane (II)	7.5	51
20	Driving Miss Crazy	7.2	53
21	Everytime It Rains... You Get Wet	7.4	52
22	Corky's Place	7.5	55
23	Small	7.4	54
24	The Usual Suspects	6.9	51
25	Q & A on FYI	7.5	52
26	Uh-Oh: Part 1	7.7	52

Season 4 (1991)

7.65 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 7.9 28 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Uh-Oh: Part 2	8.0	55
2	Uh-Oh: Part 3	8.1	50
3	I'm as Much of a Man as I Ever Was	7.6	43
4	Male Call	7.6	44
5	The Square Triangle	7.6	43
6	Full Circle	7.9	57
7	The Smiths Go to Washington	7.4	42
8	It Came from College	7.3	49
9	The Queen of Soul	8.1	56
10	Inside Murphy Brown	7.4	46
11	Mission Control	7.7	60
12	Be It Ever So Humboldt	7.5	44
13	Love Is Blonde	7.4	45
14	Anchor Rancor	7.6	49
15	Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon	7.7	43
16	Lovesick	7.5	44
17	Heartfelt	7.6	43
18	Send in the Clowns	7.8	57
19	Murphy Buys the Farm	7.5	51
20	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are	7.8	66
21	Rage Before Beauty	7.4	47
22	Phil's Not So Silent Partner	7.4	44
23	He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go	7.8	49
24	On the Rocks	7.6	50
25	A Chance of Showers	7.6	51
26	Birth 101	7.9	61

Season 5 (1992)

7.46 avg 25 episodes 7.9 → 7.9 30 min avg

u-shaped

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: Part 1	7.9	74
2	You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: Part 2	7.7	60
3	Life After Birth	7.2	48
4	Black, White & Brown	7.3	52
5	I Never Sang for My Husband	7.5	54
6	Night of Living News	7.6	49
7	A Year to Remember	7.2	50
8	Midnight Plane to Paris	7.3	44
9	Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much	7.7	48
10	Winners Take All	7.4	45
11	Till Death or Next Thursday Do We Part	7.6	47
12	I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas	7.8	55
13	Games Mother Play	7.3	48
14	The British Invasion	7.6	50
15	Back to the Ball	7.5	47
16	The Intern	7.4	49
17	Trickster, We Hardly Knew Ye	7.2	46
18	The World According to Avery	7.4	49
19	Bump in the Night	7.5	50
20	To Market, to Market	7.5	48
21	Two for the Road	7.4	45
22	Murphy and the Amazing Leaping Man	7.2	47
23	The Egg & I	7.2	50
24	Ship of Phil's	7.3	47
25	One	7.9	65

Season 6 (1993)

7.41 avg 25 episodes 7.5 → 7.4 28 min avg

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The More Things Change	7.5	48
2	Angst for the Memories	8.0	61
3	Black and White and Read All Over	7.2	46
4	Political Correctness	7.1	51
5	The Young & the Rest of Us	7.5	49
6	Ticket to Writhe	7.6	43
7	I Don't Know You from Madam	7.4	43
8	All the Life That's Fit to Print	7.2	47
9	Bah Humboldt	7.1	44
10	Reaper Madness	7.2	44
11	It's Not Easy Being Brown	7.8	48
12	To Have and Have Not	7.0	46
13	Socks And The Single Woman	7.6	50
14	A Piece of the Auction	7.4	47
15	The Thrill of the Hunt	7.5	49
16	The Deal of the Art	7.4	54
17	The Anchorman	7.5	50
18	Fjord Eyes Only	7.5	48
19	Crime Story	7.2	48
20	The Fifth Anchor	7.0	45
21	Anything But Cured	7.6	55
22	The Tip of the Silverberg	7.4	53
23	It's Just Like Riding a Bike	7.6	49
24	My Movie with Louis	7.6	47
25	The More Things Stay the Same	7.4	44

Season 7 (1994)

7.26 avg 26 episodes 7.3 → 6.8 29 min avg

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Brown vs. the Board of Education	7.3	50
2	Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?	7.4	50
3	Loose Affiliations	7.1	44
4	Be Careful What You Wish For	7.3	44
5	Burger, She Wrote	7.4	41
6	Humboldt IV: Judgment Day	7.4	46
7	Frank Cuts Loose	7.0	41
8	Reporters Make Strange Bedfellows	7.5	41
9	Prelude to a Kiss	7.4	45
10	Bye Bye Bernecky	7.2	46
11	The Secret Life of Jim Dial	7.1	41
12	Brown in Toyland	7.1	46
13	The Best and Not-So-Brightest	7.5	69
14	Rumble in the Alley	6.9	45
15	Requiem for a Crew Guy	7.6	51
16	I Want My MTV-Jay	7.4	41
17	Specific Overtures	7.0	40
18	A Rat's Tale	7.2	39
19	It's Miller Time	7.3	38
20	McGovern: Unclothed	6.9	43
21	The Good Nephew	7.8	49
22	FYI of the Hurricane	7.4	46
23	Model Relationships	7.1	39
24	Make Room for Daddy	7.5	42
25	Retrospective: Part 1	7.2	37
26	Retrospective: Part 2	6.8	38

Season 8 (1995)

7.18 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.0 29 min avg

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Altered States	7.3	44
2	The Awful Truth	7.3	42
3	Fearless Frank	7.3	38
4	Murphy's Law	7.1	38
5	Sex or Death	7.1	37
6	Miller's Crossing	7.3	38
7	The Feminine Critique	7.0	40
8	Bad Company	7.2	39
9	The Ten Percent Solution	7.1	52
10	The Humboldt Doldt	7.4	38
11	Dick and Dottie	7.6	43
12	All in the Family	7.4	42
13	If You're Going to Talk the Talk	7.2	40
14	My Fair Miller	7.2	41
15	Old Flames	7.1	41
16	Up in Smoke	7.4	41
17	Aftermath	7.1	42
18	Trick or Retreat	6.9	48
19	All Singing! All Dancing! All Miserable!	6.9	39
20	The Bus Stops Here	7.1	39
21	When A. Lansing Loves a Woman	7.6	49
22	Casa Nova	6.8	38
23	Stepping Out	7.0	38
24	Miles Away	7.0	42

Season 9 (1996)

6.76 avg 24 episodes 7.1 → 6.8 29 min avg

Season 9 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Executive Decision	7.1	46
2	Power Play	7.0	40
3	A Comedy of Eros	7.0	44
4	Son of Dottie	6.4	39
5	Office Politics	6.2	38
6	Phil's Dead - Long Live Phil's	6.7	40
7	That's the Way the Corky Crumbles	6.6	37
8	Defending Your Life	6.8	45
9	Underdogs	7.5	54
10	Nobody's Perfect	6.7	36
11	A One Night Stan	6.7	40
12	Separation Anxiety	6.5	36
13	Montezuma's Retreat	6.5	40
14	The Big Thaw	6.0	39
15	Who Do You Truss?	6.5	38
16	You Don't Know Jackal	6.7	37
17	Blind Date	7.1	40
18	Oh, Danny Boy	7.1	38
19	Desperate Times	7.3	43
20	And That's the Way It Was?	7.2	40
21	How to Marry a Billionaire	6.5	37
22	Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow	6.5	38
23	Mama Miller	6.8	40
24	When One Door Closes...	6.8	44

Season 10 (1997)

6.89 avg 22 episodes 6.3 → 6.8 27 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 10 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Murphy Redux	6.3	46
2	A Butcher, a Faker, a Bummed-Out Promo Maker	6.8	42
3	Ectomy, Schmectomy	6.6	41
4	Operation: Murphy Brown	7.3	48
5	Florence Night-en Corky	7.4	44
6	Waiting to Inhale	7.7	54
7	Petty Woman	6.5	44
8	From Here to Jerusalem	7.2	47
9	Tempus Fugit	6.5	40
10	I Hear a Symphony	6.9	42
11	From the Terrace	6.5	41
12	The Last Temptation of Murphy	6.6	42
13	Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day)	7.2	43
14	Wee Small Hours	6.8	46
15	Then and Now	6.8	40
16	Opus One	7.4	47
17	Seems Like Gold Times	6.5	39
18	Second Time Around	6.6	39
19	A Man and a Woman	6.3	51
20	Dial and Substance	7.3	44
21	Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 1	7.6	96
22	Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 2	6.8	77

Season 11 (2018)

6.28 avg 13 episodes 6.4 → 5.9 21 min avg

shape-drift

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fake News	6.4	737
2	I (Don't) Heart Huckabee	6.0	429
3	#MurphyToo	6.0	349
4	Three Shirts to the Wind	6.3	293
5	The Girl Who Cried About Wolf	6.0	255
6	Results May Vary	6.4	264
7	A Lifetime of Achievement	6.6	285
8	The Coma and the Oxford Comma	6.3	235
9	Thanksgiving and Taking	6.1	248
10	Beat the Press	6.3	212
11	The Wheels on the Dog Go Round and Round	6.7	182
12	AWOL	6.6	161
13	Happy New Year	5.9	161

Murphy Brown (1988)

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