Seasons & episodes
S3 · E22Corky's Place 1991-04-08 · 30 min
Corky gets her own network special, she decides to do it as an interview show with a ""tea party"" theme. Murphy comes on as her first guest and is humiliated when Corky asks her really tough, Murphy Brown type of questions.
S3 · E23Small 1991-04-29 · 30 min
Murphy makes a flip remark that insults short men, especially members of ""The 66 Club."" She shows them their ""short"" sightedness.
S3 · E24The Usual Suspects 1991-05-06 · 30 min
Murphy goes off the deep end when a tabloid prints lies about her, one of which says she is drinking again.
S3 · E25Q & A on FYI 1991-05-13 · 30 min
The FYI staff vies against Yale on a TV quiz show, but at the dress rehearsal, they realize just how much they've forgotten since their school days.
S3 · E26Uh-Oh (1) 1991-05-20 · 30 min
Jake resurfaces with matrimony on his mind, Murphy is caught between him and her ex-lover, Jerry Gold, when he returns unexpectedly. Later Murphy takes a home pregnancy test, the results are positive.
S4 · E1Uh-Oh (2) 1991-09-16 · 30 min
Murphy begins to ponder her fate, tells Frank her suspicions and tries more tests (all positive). Murphy tells Jake the news.
S4 · E2Uh-Oh (3) 1991-09-16 · 30 min
Jake tells Murphy he has decided he isn't ready to settle down, and they both agree they can't do it together. Murphy decides to exercise her right to choose and her choice is motherhood. Even though it's Jake's baby, Jerry knows fatherhood isn't for him. While everyone else freaks out at the news, only Eldin is truly happy for Murphy. Murphy ""Do you think I'll make a good mother."" Eldin ""No, but I will.""
S4 · E3I'm As Much of a Man as I Ever Was 1991-09-23 · 30 min
Gene Kinsella finds out about Murphy's pregnancy and considers the idea of taking her off the air. But Miles convinces him not to. Once that is solved, Murphy must get a quote from the president for her latest story. Frank says the only way to get this quote is jogging with him. Murphy thinks she's up for the job but Frank and Jim don't think so because of her pregnancy. So, Murphy accepts Frank's offer of getting the quote for her. When that doesn't work, Murphy tries to get it herself and ends up running over the president with her bike. Even though Murphy didn't get her quote she's happy, and concludes that her pregnancy will not make her life any more difficult, all she has to do is be a little more creative.
S4 · E4Male Call 1991-09-30 · 30 min
Out to prove the new men's movement is a fraud, Murphy attends a men's-only workshop to get the real story on the new men's movement and Frank, Miles and Jim are participants.
S4 · E5The Square Triangle 1991-10-07 · 30 min
Murphy gets a competent secretary in Miles' girlfriend, Audrey. The pressure of working together causes their break up and Frank becomes the tool Audrey uses to get back at Miles.
S4 · E6Full Circle 1991-10-14 · 30 min
After learning about her mother's death, Murphy doesn't seem to be that upset, which makes the FYI gang think that she's hiding her true feelings. She claims it's because of a letter her mother left to her saying that she must not cry, and if it's allowed she'll make one last visit to Murphy at the end of the night. So, Murphy and the Phil crowd decide to celebrate Avery's spirit. Murphy's father, Bill Brown shows up and suggests that they go home so they can talk about the good times the three of them had together. At Murphy's townhouse, Eldin is grieving Avery's passing and refuses to actually believe it. After he's gone, Murphy and her father decide to open the big trunk Avery left to Murphy containing a photo album, Murphy's indian blanket among other things. After arguing with her father over things from the past, Murphy finds a little box inside of the trunk, with one of Avery's hats, which Murphy tries on, also in that box there's a smaller one wrapped up as a present with a
S4 · E7The Smiths Go to Washington 1991-10-28 · 30 min
It's Nightline vs. FYI when both shows court a small town family that inadvertently taped a senator's romantic rendezvous.
S4 · E8It Came From College 1991-11-04 · 30 min
When Murphy looks after a friend's 18-year-old daughter she begins to learn about what being a mother is all about.
S4 · E9The Queen of Soul 1991-11-11
Murphy's chance to interview the "Queen of Soul" is in jeopardy when her train arrives late and the limo gets detoured and the staff struggles to fill the air time.
S4 · E10Inside Murphy Brown 1991-11-18 · 30 min
Murphy has an appointment with a gynecologist for a test she can't drive to, when no one else is available, Jim must take her. The results of the test are normal with one exception, it's a boy.
S4 · E11Mission Control 1991-11-25 · 30 min
Murphy volunteers the FYI staff to serve Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter.
S4 · E12Be it Ever So Humboldt 1991-12-09 · 30 min
After being nominated every year, for ten years straight, Frank wins the Humboldt Award and it brings out the worst in him.
S4 · E13Love is Blonde 1991-12-16 · 30 min
Feeling neglected by her husband, Corky considers ""moving down the food chain,"" when she becomes involved with Miller Redfield.
S4 · E14Anchor Rancor 1992-01-06 · 30 min
When the existing Sunday news anchor dies, the competition heats up between Jim and Murphy, when the network test both of them for the job.
S4 · E15Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon 1992-01-13 · 30 min
When Corky gets an invitation to a Barbara Bush luncheon, Murphy tries to scam her so she can get back into the White House, a placed she has been banned from.
S4 · E16Lovesick 1992-01-20 · 30 min
Murphy returns from a trip feeling a little ill, turns out she is having pre-term labor pains, common for pregnant women over forty. Jerry Gold offers to move in with Murphy to help her out and they both learn about having a live-in relationship.
S4 · E17Heartfelt 1992-02-03 · 30 min
Miles succumbs to stress when he has heart attack symptoms at his 30th birthday party.
S4 · E18Send in the Clowns 1992-02-24 · 30 min
Following her story on the personal spending habits of government officials, a Senate committee must decide whether to find her in contempt of Congress.
S4 · E19Murphy Buys the Farm 1992-03-02 · 30 min
Murphy gets everyone to reluctantly join her, for an old fashioned weekend at the farm she is considering buying. The neighbors in the area aren't as old fashioned as Murphy would like.