Episode
Murphy Brown: The Humboldt Doldt
Overview
An ungrateful Miller wins the Humboldt Award for a story that the entire FYI staff works on in a pinch for him on Front and Center. The staff waits anxiously for Murphy's retaliation.
Details
- Series
- Murphy Brown
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1995-11-20
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Humboldt Doldt is Episode 10 in Season 8 of Murphy Brown. It aired on 1995-11-20. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 9: The Ten Percent Solution
Murphy fires her agent and then the rivalry begins when she signs with Jim's agent and gets everything she wants. Jim's jealously builds and is revealed during an airing of the McLaughlin Group.
Episode 11: Dick and Dottie
Lansing wants Murphy to apologize publicly about a comment she made about a popular talk-show host. She tries, but things only get worse.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Bad Company
Andrew comes down to Murphy with a story idea, for a profile of a business mogul. She rejects the idea. Frank takes the idea but doesn't do anything with it. Andrew provides the dirt & Murphy and Frank do a big expose at the same time that this mogul buys the network.
Episode 12: All in the Family
Corky and Miles decide to make their marriage official by having a real ceremony. The trouble begins when Nana Silverberg meets the Sherwood's and their differences of opinion are expressed after Corky finally tells her family about the fact they are already married.
Episode 7: The Feminine Critique
A truck crashes through the studio window, so the team accompanies Murphy back to her alma mater where she is receiving an honorary doctorate. However, the students in the women's studies program she helped establish think she is out of touch with women in the '90s.
Episode 13: If You're Going to Talk the Talk
Murphy is the reluctant winner of an interview with a celebrity who's never given one. Just as she gets into doing the whole ""fluff"" piece, a real news story breaks out. The network decides they want to continue with the ""fluff"" but will Murphy sacrifice her journalistic integrity?
Episode 6: Miller's Crossing
Murphy fears that she is losing her touch when she loses an important interview to Miller Redfield; however, his touch is a little different.
Episode 14: My Fair Miller
Lansing asks Jim to turn Miller into a real newsman. The rest of FYI is shocked to find out that Jim is responsible for the change in Miller. Jim is shocked to find out that a similar thing was done for him many years ago.
Episode 5: Sex or Death
Sex (consummation of his marriage to Corky) or death (from Murphy) is on the line for Miles when he gives a pivotal political story to each of them, then must take it back. He waffles and assigns the story to both of them.
Episode 15: Old Flames
Murphy misses a social event and tries to pull an all-nighter to work on her latest story. Peter drops by unexpectedly (he's only in town for 24 hours). Murphy wants to keep working on her story; instead she falls asleep. She begins dreaming that she's on trial for all her relationship sins, and begins facing all her previous suitors in court.
Episode 4: Murphy's Law
Murphy's appearance in traffic court and her need to not get special treatment, because of her celebrity status, gets her a fine and 40 hours of community service. The judge demands that she reappear in court when it is reported that didn't serve her time by getting special treatment, the network hires a high-power ""defense team.""
Episode 16: Up in Smoke
Stuart Best is now a tobacco lobbyist but he has a change of heart when he decides that smoking really stinks. He gives FYI the memos and etc. that will expose the tobacco industry. He becomes a little nervous and meets with the network lawyers where a little detail reveals they could all be sued. Murphy contemplates her future in journalism, but Jim makes the move.