8.7/101,360 votes#1 - Pie-lette
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2007
Ned works in a pie store and seems to lead a perfectly normal life. This, however, is far from the truth. Ned can, through the touch of his hand, wake people from the dead. He decides to use this ability of his to solve crimes, but this appears to be much more difficult than it sounds, when he gives life to his childhood crush, and decides to let keep living.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Bryan Fuller
8.0/101,035 votes#2 - Dummy
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2007
Ned, Emerson and Chuck visit the morgue to inspect the body of a victim of a car accident, a 45 year old man who specialized in automobile safety. The police is offering a reward to anyone who can find the killer and Emerson wants answers to be able to get the reward.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Peter Ocko
8.1/10922 votes#3 - The Fun in Funeral
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2007
Chuck holds true to the threat she made in the pilot by baking anti-depressants into her aunt's food, in the form of Ned's pies. Olive delivers one to them and stumbles onto Chuck's secret. Now that she has dirt on Chuck - that her aunts think she's dead - will Olive use it against her to get Ned?
Director: Paul A. Edwards
Writer: Bryan Fuller
8.2/10881 votes#4 - Pigeon
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2007
Emerson, Ned and Chuck are hired to prove that a pilot was murdered, rather than committing suicide, but soon become involved in a case of stolen jewelry and an escaped prisoner.
Director: Adam Kane
Writer: Rina Mimoun
8.1/10829 votes#5 - Girth
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/2007
In this Halloween episode, Emerson and Olive track down "the ghost" who's been killing the jockeys at the old race arena where Olive used to race as a former jockey herself. With help from Ned and Chuck, they try to solve the big mystery.
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Writer: Kath Lingenfelter
8.0/10813 votes#6 - Bitches
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2007
Ned, Chuck, Emerson and Olive tackle a murder mystery involving a man who was murdered over a dog and claims to have been killed by his wife. Problem is, he's a polygamist with four wives.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Dara Resnik, Chad Gomez Creasey
8.1/10786 votes#7 - Smell of Success
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2007
Ned, Emerson, and Chuck's next case involves an olfactory assistant who was killed when her scratch-'n'-sniff book combusted.
Director: Lawrence Trilling
Writer: Scott Nimerfro
8.4/10767 votes#8 - Bitter Sweets
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/2007
Emerson, Ned and Chuck investigate the death of Tony DiNapoli, who appears to have been strangled by a woman. Meanwhile, business at the Pie Hole plummets when a new candy store opens in town. Alfredo Aldarisio returns and continues to pursue an oblivious Olive who, herself, still pines for affection from the Pie Maker.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Abby Gewanter
8.4/10769 votes#9 - Corpsicle
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/2007
Chuck learns the most shocking secret of her life and refuses to forgive Ned. In order to take the Pie Maker's mind off of Chuck, Emerson gets him to solve the mystery of a man killing life insurance agents and hiding them in snow banks. Oscar Vibenius returns to investigate why Chuck has an unique smell. Meanwhile, the aunts' antidepressant-laced pies begin to show some hallucinogenic effects.
Director: Brian Dannelly
Writer: Lisa Joy
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A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and...
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & FantasyCrime
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pie-lette" is the best rated episode of "Pushing Daisies" season 1. It scored 8.7/10 based on 1360 votes. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Bryan Fuller, it aired on 10/3/2007. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Dummy".