Episode

Murphy Brown: It's How You Play the Game

Name: Murphy Brown: It's How You Play the Game
Released: 1989-02-27
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, Charles Kimbrough, Pat Corley

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Overview

To get the public to see Frank's piece on the homeless, the FYI team competes with Jerry Gold's show on its level, with surprising results.

Details

Series: Murphy Brown
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 14
Air date: 1989-02-27
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

It's How You Play the Game is Episode 14 in Season 1 of Murphy Brown. It aired on 1989-02-27. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 15: Mama Said 1989-03-06 | 30 min Murphy's overbearing mother comes to visit for an unspecified length of time.

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Episode 12: Why Do Fools Fall in Love? 1989-02-13 | 30 min Cupid strikes the staff when Murphy reluctantly fixes Frank up on the condition he finds someone for her. Murphy's latest secretary has a crush on Jim.

Episode 16: Moscow on the Potomac 1989-03-13 | 30 min Murphy prepares for a joint broadcast with the Soviet news equivalent of Murphy Brown.

Episode 11: Off the Job Experience 1989-01-23 | 30 min Miles suspends Murphy for her handling of an interview. So she leaves the office for two weeks and becomes miserable.

Episode 17: My Dinner with Einstein 1989-03-20 | 30 min Murphy dates a physicist to prove looks aren't everything, but he proves to be a party guy.

Episode 10: Kyle 1989-01-16 | 30 min Murphy's story wins freedom for an innocent man; when the rest of the team realizes he has a problem adjusting with the outside world, Miles offers him a job as Murphy's secretary.

Episode 18: Funnies Girl 1989-04-10 | 30 min An on-camera slip of the tongue, makes Murphy the butt of a cartoonist's joke in ""The Adventures of Mouthy Brown,"" then the rest of the staff falls victim.

Episode 9: I Would Have Danced All Night 1989-01-09 | 30 min Murphy is perplexed and angry when everyone on the staff is invited to the inaugural ball of President-elect Bush. Was it something she reported? Miles debates about asking a taller woman to the ball.

Episode 19: The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown 1989-05-01 | 30 min While Murphy is grilling him on the show, a judge dies of a heart attack. This causes Murphy to lose her edge, so she attends a group therapy session.

Episode 8: And So He Goes 1989-01-02 | 30 min Murphy's long time nemesis asks for her to deliver the eulogy at his funeral, and Murphy sees it as her chance to have the last laugh or so she thinks.

Episode 20: The Summer of '77 1989-05-08 | 30 min 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.