Murphy Brown: Season 04 (1991)

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What TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) suspected at the end of season three of her eponymously titled sitcom has turned out to be true: Murphy is pregnant. Thus, season four of Murphy Brown begins with our heroine figuring out that her ex-husband, Jake (Robin Thomas), with whom she had a one-night "reunion," is the father, and also worrying if her condition will allow her to continue appearing on the Washington-based newsmagazine "FYI." As if this isn't enough to keep Murphy awake nights, she must also cope with the death of her mother (a plot twist necessitated when the actress who played Avery Brown, Colleen Dewhurst, herself passed away). In other episodes, future Frasier co-star Jane Leeves appears as Audrey Cohen, the first of Murphy's many secretaries who actually keeps her job for more than a single episode; an interview with Aretha Franklin may prove to be disastrous thanks to a confused limo driver; "FYI"'s investigative reporter Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto) finally wins a coveted local TV award, whereupon his head swells to ten times its normal size; Murphy's co-worker Corky (Faith Ford), realizing that her marriage is in tatters, drifts into a relationship with anchorman Miller Redfield (Christopher Rich), the only person in Washington more vacuous than she; Murphy tries to get around her lifetime ban from covering the White House; and Kate Mulgrew, still a few years away from Star Trek: Voyager, plays Murphy's temporary replacement, who like our heroine turns out to have a not-so-little problem with booze. The season concludes with the celebrated, Emmy-winning episode in which Murphy goes into labor -- a segment that would famously incur the outrage of a certain American vice president. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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• 1992 - Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Outstanding Comedy Series

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