7.6/1060 votes#1 - The More Things Change
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1993
An arrogant new colleague threatens everyone on the staff, especially Murphy who's just reduced her role on FYI resulting from the pressures of motherhood. Their relationship hits it off real well just as the show is ready to air.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Steven Peterman, Gary Dontzig
- 7.8/1073 votes
#2 - Angst For the Memories
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1993
Murphy gets an interview with a reclusive '60s literary idol, but times and people have changed.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Rob Bragin
- 7.3/1058 votes
#3 - Black and White and Read All Over
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1993
After going to a function with Mitchell, Murphy begins to date him. Is there anything there, or do they just like it when heads turn?
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1063 votes
#4 - Political Correctness
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1993
A series of on-air comments made by Peter and Murphy gets the staff forced to attend a seminar on political correctness.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Steven Peterman, Gary Dontzig
- 7.6/1060 votes
#5 - The Young & the Rest of Us
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1993
The staff gets nervous when Peter whisks away a depressed Corky on her 30th birthday.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Adam Belanoff
- 7.6/1055 votes
#6 - Ticket to Writhe
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1993
Peter and Murphy compete for the Middle East peace story. Miles obtains sideline passes to a Washington football game where he plans to propose to Audrey via the scoreboard, but finds he is so wrapped up with work he didn't even notice that she has left him. Corky thinks the passes are cursed when more bad things occur to anyone in possession of them.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1055 votes
#7 - I Don't Know You From Madam
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1993
Murphy works reluctantly on a story the network brass wants on ""The Beltway Madam,"" a high priced call girl who's just been exposed and is the hottest story in town.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Adam Belanoff
- 7.2/1059 votes
#8 - All the Life That's Fit to Print
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1993
Murphy has nightmares about what her colleagues will say about her when they are interviewed for a biography that she has authorized to be written.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1056 votes
#9 - Bah Humboldt
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1993
Peter, Frank & Murphy are all nominated for the Humboldt Award. While at the ceremony, Murphy can't understand how disinterested Peter is in the award and Frank hears a rumor about a network having to make cutbacks.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1056 votes
#10 - Reaper Madness
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1993
Murphy is obsessed with the need to try to explain death to Avery and bothers everyone for their perspective.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: Rob Bragin
- 7.8/1060 votes
#11 - It's Not Easy Being Brown
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1993
To improve upon her image, Murphy gets a publicist and makes an appearance on a children's puppet show.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1058 votes
#12 - To Have and Have Not
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1993
Miles comes under public scrutiny when he is misquoted in a magazine article that makes him out to be the biggest male chauvinist in Washington, DC.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1061 votes
#13 - Socks and the Single Woman
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1993
Murphy gets invited to the White House by the Clintons. Once she gets back to the office, she finds out she has a furry stowaway.
Director: Peter Bonerz
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1059 votes
#14 - A Piece of the Auction
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1994
Murphy gets rude remarks by radio personality, Marty Crane. She gets mad but the gang actually thin the things Marty says about Murphy are funny. They're all now at a charity event at Phill's, while every one of the gang donated something to be auctioned, Murphy decided to donate herself, that means the winner will spend a whole day with her in the office and then go to dinner. Marty Crane is there, and buys Murphy for 10 thousand dollars. Murphy doesn't accept it at first but then agrees, after all I can't be that bad. But it is, Marty shows up at the bullpen with cameras and girls with costumes. At her office, they start talking and Marty says that by the end of the day, she'll start seing him differently. Murphy doens't think so. At the restaurant Murphy doens't seem to want people to see her with Marty, which he notices. They have a honest talk, and Murphy starts to understand his point of view and they make plans to get together again. The next morning while driving to work,
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Rob Bragin
- 7.5/1061 votes
#15 - The Thrill of the Hunt
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1994
An injured Peter returns from Bosnia and eventually they admit missing each other and decide to have a relationship they know will go down in flames.
Director: Barnet Kellman
Writer: Adam Belanoff
- 7.4/1066 votes
#16 - The Deal of the Art
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1994
Murphy's report and comments about modern art lead to her appearance on a PBS talk show, defending her views against art critics. Later she takes one of Avery's paintings and puts it on display to show them what they really know about art.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Lisa Albert
- 7.5/1061 votes
#17 - The Anchorman
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1994
Jim decides to open an English pub called ""The Anchorman"" and it turns out to be a big success as a gay bar.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1060 votes
#18 - Fjord Eyes Only
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1994
The team travels to Lillehammer, and Murphy, who's more interested in getting free stuff, has a ""fluff piece"" interview with a skater, which results in a disaster for Norway.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1060 votes
#19 - Crime Story
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1994
After her car is stolen out of her driveway, Murphy joins the neighborhood watch, but discovers that her neighbors are borderline vigilantes.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Rob Bragin
- 7.0/1057 votes
#20 - The Fifth Anchor
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1994
FYI's 17th anniversary show is more than complete when an annoying former anchor returns. They plot to get rid of him again until Murphy finds out what he once did for her before the 1st show.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1066 votes
#21 - Anything But Cured
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1994
Frank's psychologist tells him after 18 years of therapy that he's cured and needs to move on and he leans on Murphy for support.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Russ Woody
- 7.3/1063 votes
#22 - The Tip of the Silverburg
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1994
When Murphy take Miles shopping for a new suit, he becomes humiliated when she ""sees it"" and then everyone else finds out. Later, everyone else lets out their most embarrassing moment.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Rob Bragin
- 7.6/1061 votes
#23 - It's Just Like Riding a Bike
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/2/1994
Peter returns to town and he and Murphy pick up right where they left off. Back at her place, Murphy delays the inevitable.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1059 votes
#24 - My Movie With Louis
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 5/9/1994
Despite the network's policy against it, Murphy decides to play a ""small, but pivotal role"" in director Louis Malle's new film. After getting the script, Murphy goes to the set to get changes made that will protect her ""journalistic integrity.""
Director: John Rich
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1056 votes
#25 - The More Things Stay the Same
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 5/16/1994
Frank, Jim and Murphy are all up for contract renewals as FYI celebrates the airing of its 500th broadcast and their egos go unchecked.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Steven Peterman, Gary Dontzig
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Season 6 Ratings Summary
"The More Things Change" is the best rated episode of "Murphy Brown" season 6. It scored 7.6/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by Peter Bonerz and written by Steven Peterman, Gary Dontzig, it aired on 9/20/1993. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Angst For the Memories".