judybenton
Murphy Brown is one of my all time favorite situation comedies. Candice Bergen is a comedic genius, and I wish I could see more of her. The rest of the cast did a great job, too.The series tackled real problems with insight and humor such as an unmarried mature woman becoming pregnant, alcoholism, and cancer, to name a few.The summer of 2000, I was battling breast cancer, chemo, nausea, and hair loss when reruns of Murphy's breast cancer experience were shown. It was so true to life but yet so funny. It helped me tremendously! Laughter is indeed the best medicine. These episodes should be shown during chemo treatments.I implore whoever is in charge of such things to please market DVDs of the entire Murphy Brown series. It should not be allowed to slide into oblivion.
stir_it_up
My favorite sitcom ever.The writing was incredibly smart and equally as humorous. To this day, I believe Murphy Brown was a show ahead of its time. It wasn't afraid to tackle any issue(or President) that came to pass during the show's 10-year run.I adored every character on the show. Each actor clearly embraced their character and made him/her their own. Candice Bergen deserved every Emmy she won for playing "Murphy Brown", who was without a doubt the best character on television.I loved watching Season 1 uncut on DVD. Bring on Season 2!
BlackJack_B
Candice Bergen's "Murphy Brown" is one of the best sit-coms ever made, but it also had it's share of controversy during its 10 years at CBS. Bergen played the title character, who I felt was a step-up from Maude Findlay's character, complete with the deep voice. She's an anchorwoman for FYI News (a CBS affiliate) in New York. With the outstanding performances of Grant Shaud as hyperactive studio boss Miles Silverberg, Faith Ford as perky Paige Davis-like Corky Sherwood, and the hilariously wooden Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough), this show had some endearing characters.Of course, the show is remembered for being the site of some controversy. Everyone remembers the war of criticism between Bergen and then U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle when the VP criticized Bergen's character becoming a single mother through insemination. Also, one of the greatest episodes of all sitcoms was when Murphy Brown used an episode to take a nasty swipe at CBS for the poor efforts it had made since 1985 to wrest the Nielsen crown away from NBC. Since that time, CBS had been getting its head kicked in repeatedly by Brandon Tartikoff's Peacock network. Murphy's FYI was to announce the fall line-up and she wasn't pleased with the effort "CBS" was making. One of the shows to come was going to have a chimpanzee as its star. Who couldn't forget the ending credits with Bergen announcing to all the affiliates about when the show with the chimp was going to be (including non-CBS city Montreal, Quebec). Ironically, a year or two later, CBS turned it around and won the Nielsen ratings. The episode with Candice's husband. the late Louis Malle is another great one as well.I was more of an off-and-on fan of this show, but when this show was on, Murphy Brown was as good as any sitcom around.
jprice-4
"Murphy Brown" is the CBS longest running sitcom from 1988-1998 with Candice Bergen as a journalist who recovers from the Betty Ford Clinic and she worked at "FYI" with Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough) who is the main anchor of "FYI" with Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto) who always wear a toupee on his head in the early episodes of the show ashe stopped wearing a toupee in the later episodes, Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford) who is a beautiful young woman who joins Murphy,Jim,and Frank. Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) is a excecitive producer of "FYI" who was later replaced by Kay Carter-Shepley (Lily Tomlin) with Phil the bartender (Pat Corley) Eldin the painter (Robert Pastorelli).I saw some of the episodes on the CBS network run, Syndication reruns, and curently airing on Lifetime.A great SITCOM.I give it *****.