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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- Seasons
- 10
- Episodes aired
- 247
- Latest aired
- S10E21
- Total runtime
- 4d 23h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 November 1988 – May 1989 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1989 – May 1990 27 episodes
- Season 3 September 1990 – May 1991 26 episodes
- Season 4 September 1991 – May 1992 26 episodes
- Season 5 September 1992 – May 1993 25 episodes
- Season 6 September 1993 – May 1994 25 episodes
- Season 7 September 1994 – May 1995 26 episodes
- Season 8 September 1995 – May 1996 24 episodes
- Season 9 September 1996 – May 1997 24 episodes
- Season 10 October 1997 – May 1998 22 episodes
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S02E01 The Brothers Silverberg
September 18 · 24min find the promo
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Miles becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his confident older brother, Josh, visits Washington and immediately develops a mutual attraction with Murphy. His efforts to interfere in their relationship quickly become intrusive.
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S02E02 Anchors Away
September 25 · 24min find the promo
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The network sends Jim on a temporary assignment in Libya, allowing executives to audition handsome young reporter Miller Redfield as his possible replacement. Murphy and the rest of the FYI staff unite to undermine the network’s plan.
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S02E03 The Memo that Got Away
October 2 · 24min find the promo
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A teenage computer hacker obtains a private memorandum in which Murphy candidly evaluates her colleagues. When he threatens to publish it in his school newspaper, Murphy attempts to recover the document before the FYI staff discovers what she wrote about them.
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S02E04 TV or Not TV
October 16 · 24min find the promo
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A television network develops a sitcom inspired by FYI and sends glamorous actress Julia St. Martin to study Murphy for the leading role. Although the staff initially resents the project, everyone soon becomes eager to influence how they will be portrayed.
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S02E05 Miles' Big Adventure
October 23 · 30min find the promo
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While on vacation, Miles' return flight is delayed by an Air Force pilot who has hijacked an F15-Eagle loaded with nuclear warheads.
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S02E06 Buddies Schmuddies
October 30 · 30min find the promo
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Frank and Murphy compete for the same story, but their intense competition puts the story in jeopardy. Phil, to improve his business at night, tries adding live entertainment to the bar.
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S02E07 Whose Garbage is it Anyway?
November 6 · 30min find the promo
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Jerry Gold bets the staff that they can't be environmentally responsible for a two week period, if they lose Murphy must appear on his show.
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S02E08 And the Whiner Is...
November 13 · 30min find the promo
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Murphy & Frank lose the Humboldt Award to Corky. Then to ride the PR wave, the network brass decide to give next week's lead story to the award winner.
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S02E09 Roasted
November 20 · 30min find the promo
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The staff plans a surprise roast for Jim on his 25th anniversary at the network, he tells Murphy before the event that he ""couldn't handle a chance meeting with anyone I know.""
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S02E10 Brown Like Me (1)
November 27 · 30min find the promo
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Murphy is set to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, so the rest of the staff convince her that at least one of her estranged parents should attend. She concedes and invites her father, but the sparks fly when her father arrives with his new young wife and child and later her mother shows up.
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S02E11 Brown Like Me (2)
November 27 · 30min find the promo
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The sparks and the barbs fly back and forth; however, eventually the Browns call a truce. To quote Murphy: ""Interesting family, kind of like a Fellini version of the Waltons.""
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S02E12 The Strike
December 11 · 30min find the promo
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To start a significant dialog, Murphy decides she will break the technicians' strike by bringing both sides together for cake and conversation.
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S02E13 Here's to You Mrs. Kinsella
December 18 · 30min find the promo
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While Murphy is throwing a birthday party for Gene Kinsella, Miles recognizes a woman he had a one-night stand with at a broadcaster's convention, Mrs. Kinsella. However, Kinsella thinks that his wife is having an affair with Frank.
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S02E14 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
January 1 · 30min find the promo
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Corky is having a New Year's Eve party, and Murphy wants to avoid it. Everyone challenges her to be able enjoy the occasion without the her old vice. Sober, Murphy can still bring life to a dull party.
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S02E15 Subpoena Envy
January 8 · 30min find the promo
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Murphy is subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury, but instead of divulging her source she goes to jail. Prison is not what she hoped for or expected, but then neither is the duration of her stay.
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S02E16 I Want My FYI
January 29 · 24min find the promo
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Miles asks the staff to be mentors for a group of young reporters who will be doing a pilot for FYI For Kids; Murphy over helps her protégé.
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S02E17 Frankly Speaking
February 5 · 30min find the promo
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Frank meets the woman of his dreams, a woman he dates more than once. However, she is a psychologist and analyzes every little thing Frank does, something that drives him crazier than he already is.
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S02E18 The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting
February 12 · 30min find the promo
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Murphy's journalism mentor from her high school days has retired, to combat inactivity he comes to Washington to open a journalism school using her name.
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S02E19 Bad Girls
February 19 · 30min find the promo
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It's February and sweeps month, so Miles gets Murphy and Corky to pose as hookers to break open an oil company scandal.
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S02E20 Heart of Gold
February 26 · 30min find the promo
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When Murphy learns things about Jerry Gold that no one else is privy to, she looks at him in a different light. They begin to have an affair that shocks everyone at FYI.
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S02E21 On the Road Again
March 5 · 30min find the promo
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On a publicity jaunt, Murphy and Jim find themselves snowbound in Kansas. While killing time in the bar Murphy challenges Jim's ability to flirt, something Jim may later regret.
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S02E22 But First a Word From Our Sponsor
March 19 · 30min find the promo
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A worried viewer urges advertisers to boycott FYI for an upcoming piece Murphy has on sex education. Murphy flies out to keep the one sponsor they have for the controversial show.
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S02E23 Frank's Appendectomy
April 9 · 30min find the promo
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A series of outrageous practical jokes, which start with a visit from ""Deep Throat,"" get out of hand.
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S02E24 Fax or Fiction
April 30 · 30min find the promo
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When a secret admirer sends a fax to Miles, Murphy takes it as a challenge to answer for him and then winds up starting a correspondence.
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S02E25 The Bitch's Back
May 7 · 30min find the promo
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Miles orders the staff to take a stress reduction class. After reluctantly showing up for it, Murphy slips a disc however that doesn't stop her from working on a hot story.
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S02E26 Going to the Chapel (1)
May 14 · 30min find the promo
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When a ""geek"" from her high school days comes to Washington, Corky's mother & his mother arrange to have them get together. They meet, fall in love, and within two weeks announce their plans to get married. Corky runs out into the night with Eldin, when she thinks that maybe she hasn't really experienced life.
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S02E27 Going to the Chapel (2)
May 21 · 30min find the promo
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Upon returning, Corky decides to go ahead with the wedding, but the event is marred by even more last minute indecision, and then Murphy brings out the ""soul.""