5.8/10104 votesLoading...#1 - Blood Ties
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1999
Absurdly bland episode lacks the usual Goldberg/Rabkin sizzle. Two female vice-officers uncover four corrupt female homicide cops who murder felons to harvest their organs for those more deserving.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg
- 6.5/1098 votesLoading...
#2 - My Baby is Out of this World
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/1995
The death of a popular musician raises suspicious questions. The musicians' pregnant wife, who claims to be carrying an alien's child, complicates matters.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Richard Collins
- 6.5/1095 votesLoading...
#3 - Down and Dirty Dead
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1997
A motorcycle stunt driver has a fatal accident while filming an action video. Steve investigates.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Barry Van Dyke
- 6.5/10109 votesLoading...
#4 - Write, She Murdered
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1998
When a best-selling mystery author comes down with writer's block, she commits a murder herself in the hopes of stimulating her creative juices. The delusional author has help from her fictional heroine, Danielle Slade.
Director: Frank Thackery
Writer: Jacquelyn Blain
- 6.6/10124 votesLoading...
#5 - The Bela Lugosi Blues
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1995
Mark has some unorthodox theories when several dead bodies are found drained of blood with puncture marks on their neck.
Director: Lee Philips
Writer: Michael Gleason
- 6.6/1093 votesLoading...
#6 - Blood Brothers Murder
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1997
A beach boy involved with a gang member's sister is suspected of murdering him. Mark investigates.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Barry Van Dyke, Jeff Glasser
- 6.7/10151 votesLoading...
#7 - Inheritance of Death
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1993
Mark's cousin, Jonathan Nash, bequeaths his million-dollar fortune to Community General Hospital. His three dastardly children are the main suspects after Nash dies suspiciously... before he has a chance to alter his will.
Director: Frank Thackery
Writer: Gerry Conway
- 6.7/1079 votesLoading...
#8 - Too Many Cooks
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/2000
Mark investigates when a philandering chef is murdered during a televised charity cook-off.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Joyce Burditt
- 6.8/10137 votesLoading...
#9 - Amnesia
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1993
Security is increased at the hospital when Senator Robert Bassett undergoes an operation. Drs. Sloan and Stewart are preoccupied when a beautiful young amnesia patient is brought in. Unbeknownst to them, their beautiful young patient is a professional killer.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Joyce Burditt
- 6.8/1089 votesLoading...
#10 - Playing for Keeps
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1995
Dr. Sloan investigates the murder of an antagonistic pro volleyball player. Steve searches for an alleged stalker while Amanda and Jack keep an eye on her teammates, none of whom are particularly upset over her death.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: Gerry Conway
- 6.8/10105 votesLoading...
#11 - An Explosive Murder
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1996
A young undercover detective investigates a militia-type organization to solve a terrorist bombing witnessed by Mark. She has to decide whether to risk blowing her cover and warn Dr. Sloan of an attempt on his life or finish her assignment.
Director: Steve Miner
Writer: Dean Hargrove
- 6.8/1091 votesLoading...
#12 - Baby Boom
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1998
A madman charges into a Lamaze class with a bomb, claiming that a fertility doctor was cheating him. Everything is complicated further when said doctor turns up dead.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Jacquelyn Blain
- 6.8/1074 votesLoading...
#13 - Jake's Women
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/2000
Mark is stunned to learn that his late friend Jake was married to two women. Steve juggles the investigation of Jake's murder and a blossoming relationship.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: Mark Solomon
- 6.8/1098 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 6.8/1085 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 6.9/10144 votesLoading...
#16 - Murder at the Telethon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1993
When an abrasive, washed-up comic is found dead at a Community General benefit telethon, suspicion is cast on everyone from his son to his former writers.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Vance DeGeneres
- 6.9/10116 votesLoading...
#17 - Shanda's Song
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/1994
Dr. Sloan treats a famous singer,then takes her into his home as a homicidal closes in.
Director: Neema Barnette
Writer: Craig Volk
- 6.9/1088 votesLoading...
#18 - Standing Eight Count
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1994
The newly crowned boxing champion is found murdered shortly after the bout. Jack and Amanda investigate the deceased's former trainer, his opponent, and his opponent's manager to find a way through a web of lies and deceit.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Travis Fine
- 6.9/1095 votesLoading...
#19 - The ABC's of Murder
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1996
An ADA sets out on a vendetta against an Asian youth, against both Mark and Steve's advice, after a drive-by shooting at a high school leaves one teacher dead.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Steve Hattman
- 7.0/10155 votesLoading...
#20 - Murder by Remote
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/2000
A devious home security programmer plots to murder the children of everyone involved in the accidental death of his son.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Terry Curtis Fox
- 7.0/1082 votesLoading...
#21 - Teacher's Pet
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/2000
A young med student is suspected of killing her abusive husband after her story of murderous burglars proves false.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Joel Steiger
- 7.0/1086 votesLoading...
#22 - 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
- 7.0/1078 votesLoading...
#23 - 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 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 7.1/1075 votesLoading...
#25 - Promises to Keep
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/23/1998
The Matthews family is reunited after years apart. Here, Ryan and Tess Matthews come to LA to help Kate when she's in trouble with a con man.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
The Worst Episodes of Diagnosis: Murder
Every episode of Diagnosis: Murder ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Diagnosis: Murder!
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Blood Ties" is the worst rated episode of "Diagnosis: Murder". It scored 5.8/10 based on 104 votes. Directed by Bruce Seth Green and written by William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg, it aired on 5/6/1999. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "My Baby is Out of this World".