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The Best Episodes of Diagnosis: Murder Season 8

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Every episode of Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Diagnosis: Murder Season 8!

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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  • Sins Of The Father (1)
    8.1/10(100)
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    #1 - Sins Of The Father (1)

    Season 8 Episode 12

    Aired 2/2/2001

    A young woman is assassinated while Dr. Mark Sloan is examining her, setting off an investigation that plunges Mark into dark memories of his own childhood.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Joel Steiger

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  • The Patient Detective
    8.0/10(98)
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    #2 - The Patient Detective

    Season 8 Episode 5

    Aired 11/9/2000

    Steve nearly dies in a car accident and think a murder happens. No one believes him.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Stephen A. Miller

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  • Sins Of The Father (2)
    8.0/10(86)
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    #3 - Sins Of The Father (2)

    Season 8 Episode 13

    Aired 2/9/2001

    Mark must find out why his dad left him as a child.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Joel Steiger

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  • Being of Sound Mind
    8.0/10(93)
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    #4 - Being of Sound Mind

    Season 8 Episode 16

    Aired 3/2/2001

    Dr. Sloan tries to save Jesse and Amanda from a murderer who is out to kill them in order to obtain a multi-million dollar inheritance.

    Director: Christopher Hibler

    Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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  • Hot House
    7.9/10(96)
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    #5 - Hot House

    Season 8 Episode 7

    Aired 11/30/2000

    An abusive man who, along with four other people, was a contestant on a reality show is murdered while living in a house that is monitored 24 hours a day. After the killing, Mark enters the house as the man's replacement to see if he can uncover what happened.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

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  • Less Than Zero
    7.8/10(83)
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    #6 - Less Than Zero

    Season 8 Episode 11

    Aired 1/18/2001

    An actress with an eating disorder dies from an apparent heart attack. Mark believes her nutritionist murdered her.

    Director: Christian I. Nyby II

    Writer: Cathryn Michon

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  • Death By Design
    7.7/10(91)
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    #7 - Death By Design

    Season 8 Episode 1

    Aired 10/12/2000

    Mark's office decorator is murdered.

    Director: Christopher Hibler

    Writer: Mark Egan

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  • By Reason of Insanity
    7.7/10(86)
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    #8 - By Reason of Insanity

    Season 8 Episode 4

    Aired 11/2/2000

    Dr. Mark Sloan tries to save one of his former students, a schizophrenic, from a murder charge, but is challenged by the man's seemingly incoherent babbling.

    Director: Sandy Smolan

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

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  • Deja Vous - Deadly Mirage (1)
    7.7/10(77)
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    #9 - Deja Vous - Deadly Mirage (1)

    Season 8 Episode 20

    Aired 5/4/2001

    While deeply disturbed that his son, Lt. Steve Sloan, is falling in love with a woman who is a dead ringer for his murdered former girlfriend, Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

    Director: Christian I. Nyby II

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

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  • On the Beach - Deadly Mirage (2)
    7.6/10(81)
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    #10 - On the Beach - Deadly Mirage (2)

    Season 8 Episode 21

    Aired 5/4/2001

    While deeply disturbed that his son, Lt. Steve Sloan, is falling in love with a woman who is a dead ringer for his murdered former girlfriend, Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

    Director: Donald L. Gold

    Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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  • The Cradle Will Rock
    7.5/10(100)
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    #11 - The Cradle Will Rock

    Season 8 Episode 6

    Aired 11/16/2000

    A nurse's husband is murdered and a teen who works at the hospital and who also had a torrid love affair with the nurse is the prime suspect, but Mark isn't convinced that the young man is the killer.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Joel Steiger

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  • Blind Man's Bluff
    7.4/10(88)
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    #12 - Blind Man's Bluff

    Season 8 Episode 2

    Aired 10/19/2000

    Young woman is in a car accident and goes blind, Mark must figure out who committed the murder.

    Director: Frank Thackery

    Writer: Joel Steiger

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  • No Good Deed
    7.4/10(84)
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    #13 - No Good Deed

    Season 8 Episode 19

    Aired 4/27/2001

    Dr. Sloan investigates a controversial attorney who confesses to murder while near death but recants after he recovers.

    Director: Sandy Smolan

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

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  • The Blair Nurse Project
    7.3/10(143)
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    #14 - The Blair Nurse Project

    Season 8 Episode 22

    Aired 5/11/2001

    When a filmmaker begins using Community General Hospital as the location for an eerie documentary, Dr. Sloan discovers it may be haunted.

    Director: Barry Van Dyke

    Writer: Barry Van Dyke, Carey van Dyke

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  • Playing God
    7.2/10(78)
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    #15 - Playing God

    Season 8 Episode 10

    Aired 1/11/2001

    Dr. Mark Sloan seeks the murderer who killed a med student, drained his blood, and stored him in the Community General morgue.

    Director: Christian I. Nyby II

    Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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  • Dance Of Danger
    7.2/10(86)
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    #16 - Dance Of Danger

    Season 8 Episode 17

    Aired 3/30/2001

    A Tabloid-news paper reporter gets caught up in a murder investigation when one of her sources is stabbed to death on a dance floor.

    Director: Christian I. Nyby II

    Writer: Barry Van Dyke, Jeff Glasser

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  • The Red's Shoes
    7.2/10(81)
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    #17 - The Red's Shoes

    Season 8 Episode 18

    Aired 4/20/2001

    Dr. Sloan tries to Amanda when she becomes involved in an incident involving the Chinese government.

    Director: Frank Thackery

    Writer: Victoria Rowell, Fred Fontana

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  • All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die
    7.1/10(87)
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    #18 - All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die

    Season 8 Episode 8

    Aired 12/7/2000

    Mark goes after a man who killed a groom on his wedding day.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: Terry Curtis Fox

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  • You Bet Your Life
    7.0/10(78)
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    #19 - You Bet Your Life

    Season 8 Episode 14

    Aired 2/16/2001

    Dr. Mark Sloan investigates the apparent suicide of a gifted heart surgeon who was also a compulsive gambler.

    Director: Nancy Malone

    Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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  • Bachelor Fathers
    7.0/10(80)
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    #20 - Bachelor Fathers

    Season 8 Episode 15

    Aired 2/23/2001

    Dr. Mark Sloan tries to solve the murder of a young woman whose twin sister claims that Dr. Jesse Travis fathered her infant son.

    Director: James Nasella

    Writer: Steve Brown

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  • Sleight-of-Hand
    6.8/10(98)
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    #21 - Sleight-of-Hand

    Season 8 Episode 3

    Aired 10/26/2000

    A body found on the beach turns out to be Jim, the hospital janitor, but when his twin brother Jeff shows up to identify the body, Mark and Steve become suspicious.

    Director: Nancy Malone

    Writer: Mark Solomon

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  • Confession
    6.8/10(85)
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    #22 - Confession

    Season 8 Episode 9

    Aired 1/4/2001

    Dr. Mark Sloan, Lt. Steve Sloan and Dr. Amanda Bentley become involved when a priest is accused of murdering an old friend.

    Director: Donald L. Gold

    Writer: Chris Abbott, Steve Brown

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Sins Of The Father (1)" is the best rated episode of "Diagnosis: Murder" season 8. It scored 8.1/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by Victor Lobl and written by Joel Steiger, it aired on 2/2/2001. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Patient Detective".