10 Facts About Murphy Brown

Murphy Brown is a recovering alcoholic who, in the show's first episode, returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center.

Murphy Brown was unmarried, but had a home life as well: she hired a laid-back, New Age philosophy-dispensing house painter named Eldin Bernecky to repaint her house.

Murphy Brown had so many grand ideas that he was in her employ for six seasons.

Some twenty years later, Murphy Brown has been retired from broadcast journalism for a few years but constantly receives offers to return to the air.

Murphy Brown's brings along her former FYI colleagues including Frank and Corky to co-host the program and Miles to produce it.

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The most prominent was when Murphy Brown was asked to guest star as herself in the pilot of a sitcom entitled Kelly Green, about a female investigative journalist.

Life imitated art when, after a less-than stellar performance, Murphy was berated by television journalist Connie Chung for crossing the line and compromising her credibility.

Where Murphy Brown had terrorized the younger Miles, the Machiavellian Kay often emerged victorious in her dealings with Murphy Brown.

Murphy Brown was worth highlighting in a vice-presidential speech "not because it represented the state of television and the culture in general" but because Murphy's choice of single motherhood departed from it.

Murphy Brown was unsuccessful when it was introduced in off-network syndication in the 1990s, in part because of high music rights fees and that the topical references in the show quickly had become dated.