Like Family: Murpy Brown Show and (+) all Characters Fanlisting

W E L C O M E

Welcome to "Like Family", fanlisting for all characters of and the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown!

This listing is currently owned by me, Missy, and is a part of TFL.org.

S T A T S

Last Updated: December 17th, 2008
Last Added: This listing is on an update hiatus from December 17th, 2008 to February 17th, 2009 (EXACTLY TWO MONTHS). All memberships recieved up to the afternoon of the 17th of December have been processed. ALL MEMBERSHIPS AND UPDATE REQUESTS SUBMITTED AFTER THIS DATE WILL BE ADDED TO THE LISTING BY FEBRUARY 20TH, 2009 AT THE LATEST.
Member Count: Show: 44 Characters: 5
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A B O U T

SHOW: Murphy Brown was a sitcom which ran on CBS from the mid-80's to the mid-90's. It starred Candice Bergan as tough-talking anchorwoman Murphy Brown, host of the newsmagazine FYI. Surrounded by a wacky cast of collegues, Murphy was an unrepenetant crank and never hesitated to be truthful.

When the show began, Murphy was a recovering alcoholic who, in the show's first episode, was returning to FYI for the first time since a stay at the Betty Ford Center. Her colleagues at FYI included stuffy anchor Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough), reporter Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto), who hated the toupée he had to wear for the show, and the scatterbrained Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford), a former Miss America. Sherwood was actually first runner-up until the winner was forced to resign (Sherwood remarked in the first episode, "She told everyone she loved animals but who knew to take her literally?"). New to the staff was producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), who, at 25 and fresh from work in public television, was perfect for utter torture from Murphy.

The FYI team also frequently socialized at Phil's, a bar across the street from their studio in Washington. Phil, the bar owner, was played by Pat Corley.

Brown was unmarried, but had a home life as well: she had hired Eldin Bernecky (Robert Pastorelli) to repaint her house, but he had so many grand ideas that he was with the show for six seasons.

In the show's 1991–1992 season, Murphy became pregnant and had a child, and after 6 months, she decided to name the baby Avery, after her mother.

Shaud left the series in 1996, and was replaced by Lily Tomlin as producer Kay Carter-Shepley for the show's final seasons. Kay proved that she had just as little experience as Miles Silverberg when he started with the show; the only experience Kay had in television was producing a daytime game show.

For a few seasons, Corky Sherwood was known as "Corky Sherwood Forrest" after marrying a writer named Will Forrest in the show's 1989-1990 season. They eventually divorced. Corky later married Miles Silverberg.

The network regularly sent Murphy incompetent secretaries, with a different secretary in almost every episode. On one occasion, her secretary was a crash test dummy. On another occasion, it was Carol (Marcia Wallace) from The Bob Newhart Show, who proved really good at the job but quit when Bob Hartley (Bob Newhart) showed up and begged her to come back to his office. In the show's final season, the secretaries were played by celebrities, including Bette Midler, Don Rickles, Rosie O'Donnell, Sally Field, Laura Kightlinger, Cecily Adams and Julie Brown. Over the course of the series, 93 different secretaries appeared in all.

When Murphy became a mother in season four she went through nannies the same way she went through secretaries.

Jay Thomas appeared in several episodes as tabloid talk show host Jerry Gold, who became a friend of Murphy's, and an occasional love interest, despite their significantly different journalistic values.

Colleen Dewhurst appeared in a number of episodes as Murphy's mother, Avery Brown. Dewhurst won several Emmy Awards for her appearances. When Dewhurst died in 1991, the writers chose to have her character die as well, and Murphy, who was pregnant at the time, named her son Avery in her mother's memory the following season.

Darren McGavin appeared in several episodes as Murphy's father and earned an Emmy nomination in 1990 for his performance as Bill Brown.

Scott Bakula appeared as reporter (and occasional love interest for Murphy) Peter Hunt.

Jane Leeves appeared in a number of episodes as Miles' girlfriend Audrey. Her appearances ended when she joined the cast of Frasier.

Robin Thomas appeared as Jake, Murphy's ex-husband. Murphy and Jake had another brief relationship, and Jake was the father of her child.

Garry Marshall appeared as network president Stan Lansing.

Jean Stapleton appeared a few times, playing Miles' grandmother, Nana Silverberg.

Rose Marie appeared as Frank Fontana's mother.

Murphy Brown's syndication rights are currently owned by Nick at Night/TV Land. She show is scheduled to move to TV Land this June, where it will air at 3AM EST. -wikipedia.com

R U L E S

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