The Best Episodes Written By Diane English

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Fake News

   S1:E19/27/2018

   Back in the game after a brief retirement, and faced with a world of 24-hour cable, social media, “fake news” and a vastly different political climate, Murphy is determined to draw the line between good television and honest reporting, proving that the world needs Murphy Brown now more than ever.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Respect

   S1:E111/14/1988

   Murphy returns to FYI after ""drying out"" at the Betty Ford clinic. The show has undergone some changes while she was gone, including the addition of a beauty queen to the anchor desk and a new young executive producer. In her first week back she isn't sure whether she still has her edge.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Signed, Sealed, Delivered

   S1:E412/5/1988

   Miles schedules Murphy to interview her radical ex-husband. Murphy & Jake's feelings for one another begin to ruin the chance of a professional interview.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Murphy's Pony

   S1:E512/11/1988

   During the Christmas holidays, a mother abandons her children to the care of Murphy Brown. Murphy goes all out to help them out.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Set Me Free

   S1:E712/19/1988

   Murphy's having a rotten day, complicated by a gunman who interrupts the show and demands they read his statement on the air and it gets capped off by the painter she hired to do her kitchen sticking around to finish ""extending myself.""

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - Mama Said

   S1:E153/6/1989

   Murphy's overbearing mother comes to visit for an unspecified length of time.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - The Summer of '77

   S1:E205/8/1989

   Eldin meets Corky for the first time and becomes infatuated with her. Phil reflects on the first time he met Murphy, when she first came to Washington to audition against Linda Ellerbee & Frank Fontana for FYI.

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