7.7/1090 votes#1 - Death By Design
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2000
Mark's office decorator is murdered.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Mark Egan
- 7.4/1088 votes
#2 - 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
- 6.8/1098 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.7/1085 votes
#4 - 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
- 8.0/1098 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.6/1098 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.9/1095 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.0/1086 votes
#8 - 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
- 6.8/1085 votes
#9 - 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
- 7.2/1078 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.8/1083 votes
#11 - 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
- 8.1/10100 votes
#12 - 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
- 8.0/1086 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.0/1078 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.0/1080 votes
#15 - 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
- 8.1/1092 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.2/1085 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.2/1080 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.4/1084 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.7/1076 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.6/1081 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.3/10141 votes
#22 - 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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Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Death By Design" is the best rated episode of "Diagnosis: Murder" season 8. It scored 7.7/10 based on 90 votes. Directed by Christopher Hibler and written by Mark Egan, it aired on 10/12/2000. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Blind Man's Bluff".