Diagnosis Murder

Dr. Mark Sloan has a knack for getting into trouble, negotiating the twists and turns of mysteries and solving crimes with the help of his son, Steve, a homicide detective.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cast:Dick Van Dyke , Barry Van Dyke , Victoria Rowell , Charlie Schlatter , Michael Tucci , Scott Baio , Delores Hall , Kevin McNally , Shane Van Dyke , Anne Lockhart , Charmin Lee , Kim Little , Joanna Cassidy , Susan Gibney , Lynda Robertson , Harry Lennix , Carey Van Dyke , Lee Newman

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Miracle Cure

Fri, Oct 29, 1993

Father Morrissey hits an extortionist in a hit-and-run, but a girl picks up the extortion evidence. When he is taken to the hospital, Morrissey fakes sickness to get near him. Dr. Mark Sloane finds the priest's behavior suspicious.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Amnesia

Fri, Nov 5, 1993

Security is high at the hospital because of Chairman Basset, a high profile patient whose life has been threatened by the mob. A female assassin feigns amnesia from an accident to get near Basset, and she kills a nurse who recognizes her.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Murder at the Telethon

Fri, Nov 12, 1993

A comedian who was hosting a telethon for the hospital is murdered, so Sloan investigates.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Inheritance of Death

Fri, Nov 19, 1993

A millionaire dies after declaring his intention to leave his money to the hospital - and Sloan suspects the man's offspring.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The 13 Million Dollar Man

Fri, Dec 3, 1993

Before dying of a gunshot wound, a long-time patient gives Mark a winning lottery ticket, asking him to do some good with it. Several people step forward to claim the lottery winnings, which makes each of them a suspect in the murder.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Vanishing Act: Part 1

Fri, Dec 10, 1993

Steve is framed for the murder of an internal-affairs officer.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Vanishing Act: Part 2

Fri, Dec 17, 1993

Sloan and Jack use connections to the underworld to figure out who set up Steve for murder.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Shanda's Song

Fri, Jan 7, 1994

Rock vamp with a prima donna complex Shanda faints on stage when she receives a cut-up picture of herself in a box of roses. Her manager brings her, an almost identically looking back-up singer Claire and drummer Cinnamon to Community General for a check-up, but nothing wrong is found. Shanda tells Dr. Mark Sloan she has had a stalker for months, but the police can't do anything without any physical threat. After a truck tries to run them over the next minute, her fan Dr. Jack Stewart finds no actual fractures. Steve is incredulous, given Shanda's publicity stunt record, but Mark takes her to his home; Steve goes into her hospital bed, where 'nurse' Dolores practices her torturous injection technique on the healthy hunk's behind. Mark concentrates on the dynamics of the musical staff, Jack regrets sorely taking Amanda along looking into roadie Parick, who gets murdered.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Restless Remains

Fri, Jan 14, 1994

Dr. Sloan witnesses the suspicious death of a financial con man. However, the body disappears, with only his personal diary remaining. Mark must prove that he is dead, while his wife and associates claim that he is just away on business.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Murder with Mirrors

Fri, Jan 21, 1994

Sloan works to clear a friend in the murder of a magician.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Flashdance with Death

Fri, Jan 28, 1994

While dancing a routine with Mark, dance studio owner Roland Spear dies when a prop cane short circuits his pacemaker. Mark and Steve research who had opportunity to sabotage the cane, with Roland's partner Sammy the leading suspect.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Reunion with Murder

Fri, Feb 4, 1994

One of Amanda's college friends was planning to publish an embarrassing tell-all book about their college days, which someone in the group was willing to kill to prevent its publication.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Lily

Fri, Mar 4, 1994

Jack's old friend, Sandy, is a high priced call girl. Sandy intends to retire by blackmailing three wealthy clients, and she left evidence with Lily. When Sandy is found murdered, Mark and Jack race to find Lily before the murderer.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Guardian Angel

Fri, Apr 1, 1994

The mayor's wife leaves an extravaganza with a fake migraine, engineering a scheme to kill her husband and frame a crackpot. The next day Mark questions her story after he treats a bum who was injured in a hit-and-run near the incident.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Nirvana

Fri, Apr 8, 1994

Con man Chet Brooks borrows Jack's car and dies in a suspicious accident. Mark spends a weekend at the Nirvana spa where Chet last worked to determine who might have wanted to kill him, while Jack investigates Chet's seedy past.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Broadcast Blues

Fri, Apr 15, 1994

Convict Paul Dunbar takes a hostage and demands to talk to anchorman Jordan Sanders. Before the interview can take place, Sanders is assassinated and Dunbar killed. Mark uses Dunbar's last words to investigate who might have killed them.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Shaker

Fri, Apr 29, 1994

On the eve of his daughter's wedding, Martin Garfield is killed when an earthquake severely damages his home and an armoire falls on him. Mark and Steve find the body and deduce that he had been killed before the earthquake.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Plague

Fri, May 6, 1994

While Steve is staking out hit man Bruno, Mark sees him collapse, and quarantines him for the plague - but while the obnoxious virologist says it's from the rodents aboard his cargo ship, it's Mark who smells a rat. After some digging he finds 3 of the crime family's ladies who had a reason to rub Bruno out (tampering with his asthma medication) - so was it (wo)man or beast who killed Bruno?

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Sister Michael Wants You

Fri, May 13, 1994

A cameraman doing work at a convent is killed trying to protect a videotape. The videotape is never recovered, and strangers start showing up in search of the tape. Mark poses as a priest to help locate the tape and identify the killer.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Many Happy Returns

Fri, Sep 16, 1994

When accountant Ernie Pitt abandons Mark on his IRS audit, Mark goes to confront him. Mark is found leaning over Ernie's dead body and is accused of his murder, which means he has to answer to an IRS agent and a homicide detective.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ A Very Fatal Funeral

Fri, Sep 23, 1994

The chairman of the Malone Foundation accuses his board members (including Norman Briggs) of embezzling, and then falls dead from poisoning. As the board members are investigated, they are killed off one by one.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Woman Trouble

Fri, Sep 30, 1994

After a public confrontation, Robert Stanton's wife and mistress conspire to kill him and dispose of his body. When Robert fails to show for a medical appointment, Mark convinces Steve to investigate their complicated relationship.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Busy Body

Fri, Oct 7, 1994

While giving a tour to the hospital accreditation committee, Mark finds a murdered body and tries to keep the committee from seeing it. Solving the murder is problematic, as the body keeps disappearing and all of the suspects have alibis.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ My Four Husbands

Fri, Oct 14, 1994

Sexy TV star Pamela Dorn sneaks out of the hospital to confront her latest ex-husband, but she finds him murdered. A female reporter gets video of Pamela at the scene of the murder, but Mark believes another ex-husband is the culprit.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Murder Most Vial

Fri, Oct 21, 1994

Executive William Bissell is murdered through an overdose while in therapy at the hospital. Bissell had several suspects with motives, including his wife, his mistress, his heir apparent, and the surgeon whom he was suing for malpractice.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ You Can Call Me Johnson

Fri, Oct 28, 1994

Jack asks Mark to operate on his godfather, mob boss Alfredo Bartolo, alias Mr. Johnson. Al dies in the recovery room, apparently from sabotaged sutures. His son Vinnie blames Mark and threatens revenge.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Georgia on My Mind

Fri, Nov 4, 1994

Mark overhears a dying private investigator say, "Tell Georgia - Jerry Mathers". His secretary Georgia can't decipher the message, and she joins Steve and Jack to look for the murderous culprit in the Walter and Harry Ice Cream Company.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Last Laugh: Part 1

Fri, Nov 11, 1994

The wife of Sloan's colleague is framed for her husband's murder.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Last Laugh: Part 2

Fri, Nov 18, 1994

After a court exonerates Bonnie Valin for her husband's murder, Mark learns that her alibi is fabricated. Mark strives to get her convicted without incurring double jeopardy. Meanwhile, Jack helps Amanda recover her swindled fortune.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Death by Extermination

Fri, Dec 2, 1994

Mark's obnoxious sister Dora moves in with him while her new house is fumigated. When her Realtor's dead body is found in the house, Mark is frantic to solve the murder so Dora can move into her new house.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Standing Eight Count

Fri, Dec 9, 1994

Boxer Tommy Bracket is found dead after knocking out champion Mercury Jones and refusing a rematch. Evidence points to Mercury as the killer, but Mark finds that his wife, a corrupt promoter, and a bankrupt gym owner also have motives.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Bela Lugosi Blues

Fri, Jan 6, 1995

Jack is honored as one of L.A.'s most eligible bachelors, but the honorees are being killed one after the other with vampire-like symptoms. Mark must solve the string of murders before Jack becomes the next victim.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The New Healers

Fri, Jan 13, 1995

A television show is being filmed at the hospital and Mark keeps interrupting the filming due to their inaccuracies. When the lead actor is murdered, Mark investigates everyone as the actor was unpopular among the cast.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Call Me Incontestable

Fri, Jan 20, 1995

When a good friend apparently commits suicide, Mark investigates a series of suicides associated with the Perfect Couple dating service. To aid in the investigation, Jack joins the dating service as an eligible bachelor.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ A Blast from the Past

Fri, Feb 3, 1995

Paroled murderer Eddie Gault takes a low-paying job at Community General to get close to Mark and plot his revenge against Steve for putting him in prison. Steve tries to stop Eddie and gets in trouble for harassing him without evidence.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Playing for Keeps

Fri, Feb 10, 1995

Sloan investigates the death of a women's volleyball player who was being stalked.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Sea No Evil

Fri, Feb 24, 1995

A woman is swimming in the ocean. Two lifeguards are on duty, but one is sleeping. When the woman is found dead by drowning, the sleeping lifeguard is accused. His aunt, IRS Agent Gretchen McCord, helps Mark with the investigation.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ How to Murder Your Lawyer

Fri, Feb 24, 1995

Steve is taking a course from a shy lawyer, Arnold Baskin, who is almost run over right after class. Agnes, a paralegal at his firm is also taking the class and picks him up off the ground.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Naked Babes

Fri, Mar 31, 1995

Amanda discovers a black-market baby ring in a maternity home while searching for a friend who gave birth to quadruplets.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Death in the Daytime

Fri, Apr 28, 1995

Sloan investigates a series of potentially deadly mishaps plaguing the cast of The Young and the Restless.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ My Baby Is Out of This World

Fri, May 5, 1995

Sloan probes the death of a rock star whose wife believes her spouse was murdered by an alien.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ An Innocent Murder

Fri, Dec 8, 1995

A young lady murders her rich father (Arthur York) (Arthur Taxier) but makes look like a suicide, but Sloan manages to find holes in her story.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Witness to Murder

Fri, Dec 15, 1995

Sloan tries to help a girl who witnessed her father's murder and is afraid to tell anyone.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ All American Murder

Fri, Dec 22, 1995

The results of an autopsy on a deceased newcomer to the beach bring a surprising twist to the person's death.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Murder in the Courthouse

Fri, Dec 29, 1995

Mark serves jury duty on a case in which a notorious hit man is found innocent - only to be killed by a bomb that the prosecutor planted for revenge.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Murder on the Run: Part 1

Fri, Jan 5, 1996

A man falsely convicted of killing his wife takes Mark hostage in order to prove his innocence. (A train transporting prisoners derails, sending him to the hospital--partly inspired by The Fugitive (1993 film).)

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Murder on the Run: Part 2

Fri, Jan 12, 1996

Sloan becomes convinced that George Karn (Jeff Allin) is innocent, so he sets out to find the man who killed Karn's wife.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Love Is Murder

Fri, Jan 19, 1996

While Norman tries to strong-arm Mark and Jessie into attending a fund raiser, Steve deals with his new girlfriend, who just might be responsible for a series of cop killings.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Misdiagnosis Murder

Fri, Jan 26, 1996

Jesse encounters a man in the parking garage who's in cardiac arrest. After he runs off for help, he returns to find a different man, and no one will believe Jesse's story. Meanwhile, Norman has to work with an attractive donor.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Pressure to Murder

Fri, Feb 9, 1996

Sloan investigates the death of a medical intern who was Amanda's cousin. The key is ABADCAD in more ways than one.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Living on the Streets Can Be Murder

Fri, Feb 16, 1996

Someone is murdering homeless people and harvesting their organs for transplants.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Murder Murder

Fri, Feb 23, 1996

Sloan faces double trouble while investigating the murder of an old friend, the main suspects being the victim's wife and her identical twin.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Murder in the Dark

Fri, Mar 8, 1996

A drunk surgeon is accused of murdering a doctor who had a wild life at night.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ 35 Millimeter Murder

Fri, Mar 29, 1996

A picture taken by a paparazzo provides a clue in a kidnapping and murder case, while Amanda goes into labor.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Murder Trade

Fri, Apr 5, 1996

Community General is at odds as money-minded Marsha McArthur threatens to cut costs by cutting short the careers of older MD's, starting with Dr. Sloane. When she ends up dead, Dr. Sloane is the prime suspect.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Mind Over Murder

Fri, Apr 12, 1996

A psychic from an infomercial claims she saw a future murder being committed.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Murder by the Book

Fri, Apr 19, 1996

Call girls and the co-author of their racy book are being threatened with murder, while Amanda discovers she was never legally married.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ FMurder

Fri, Apr 26, 1996

Sloan suspects a TV homemaker (Vicki Lawrence) of plotting a shock-jock's (Morton Downey Jr.)'s electrocution.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Left-Handed Murder

Fri, May 3, 1996

The remains of Sloan's friend are found in a shark, which is made all the more suspicious when it's discovered the victim had three wives.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Murder by Friendly Fire

Thu, Sep 19, 1996

A friend of Steve's winds up dead in a friendly-fire incident involving a veteran cop, but the shooting may have been planned all along.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Murder Can Be Contagious

Thu, Sep 26, 1996

Sloan and Jesse make contact with a patient who died from a genetically altered strain of smallpox.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Murder on Thin Ice

Thu, Oct 3, 1996

After faking an attack on herself just to win endorsements, a skater kills her accomplice and frames her rival.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ X Marks the Murder: Part 1

Thu, Oct 10, 1996

A string of murders occurs with the same killer signature. One of the victims supposedly called Mark, but it is after she was known to be dead. The case becomes personal when the killer starts calling Mark.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ X Marks the Murder: Part 2

Thu, Oct 10, 1996

Mark gets involved in the string of murders when the killer starts calling Mark. It gets more personal when the killer attacks Amanda. She manages to escape. Mark and Steve get closer to finding the killer.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ A Model Murder

Thu, Oct 17, 1996

Sloan and Steve probe the murder of a private eye in the not-so-pretty world of modeling.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Murder Can Be Murder

Thu, Oct 24, 1996

A surgeon kills a man on the operating table for insurance money. Foul play is expected as the identity of the man becomes questionable. Mark reluctantly helps Steve with the investigation since the surgeon is a good friend of his.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ An Explosive Murder

Thu, Oct 31, 1996

A terrorist bombing leads to an undercover investigation involving an ambitious cop.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Murder by the Busload

Thu, Nov 7, 1996

Sloan discovers a murder victim amongst the trauma patients from a bus accident.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ A Candidate for Murder

Thu, Nov 14, 1996

The drug-addicted daughter of a senator is killed during an argument, but a senior aide tries to make it look like an overdose.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ The ABC's of Murder

Thu, Nov 21, 1996

Sloan helps a lawyer probe a drive-by shooting at a high school which left a popular teacher dead. But her stubborn insistence that a Korean teen is responsible makes finding the real killer a challenge.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Murder in the Family

Thu, Dec 12, 1996

Sloan's daughter escapes the wrath of her abusive trucker husband who ends up dead.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ In Defense of Murder

Thu, Jan 9, 1997

The head pediatric nurse turns out to be an ex-prostitute whose former madam is murdered after declaring her intentions to publish a tell-all book. The suspect nurse is defended by the lawyer and murderer Darren Worthy (David Dukes).

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ A History of Murder

Thu, Jan 16, 1997

Sloan looks for clues to solve the decades-old murder of his mentor.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Murder Two: Part 1

Thu, Jan 30, 1997

Sloan enlists his friend Ben Matlock (Andy Griffith) to defend Jesse, who's accused of murdering a resident.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Murder Two: Part 2

Thu, Feb 6, 1997

With Jesse falsely accused of murdering Eric Spindler, Ben Matlock (Andy Griffith) gathers all the evidence to find the real killer.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Hard-Boiled Murder

Thu, Feb 13, 1997

Sloan assists Joe Mannix (Mike Connors) with an unsolved murder case from 1973.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Murder, Country Style

Thu, Feb 20, 1997

The prime suspects in the murder of a country star are a driven TV producer and her timid songwriter daughter.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Delusions of Murder

Thu, Feb 27, 1997

A psychiatrist hypnotizes his female patients in order to rape them without their knowledge. His wife finds out of what he's doing; he then uses hypnosis to get a patient to murder his wife.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ A Passion for Murder

Thu, Apr 3, 1997

A sexy, but sinister, pharmaceutical rep has every intention of winning Sloan's heart.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Blood Brothers Murder

Thu, Apr 10, 1997

A gang member does not want his sister to date Shane and a fight breaks out. Shane and his brother Terry are friends with Mark. When the gang member is found dead, Terry and Shane turn to Mark to prove their innocence.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Physician, Murder Thyself

Thu, Apr 24, 1997

A surgeon drops dead while operating on another doctor.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ Murder in the Air

Thu, Apr 24, 1997

The pilot of an airliner escorting Sloan and Amanda to a medical conference in Europe is killed.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ The Merry Widow Murder

Thu, May 1, 1997

A wealthy woman, Claire Whitfield (Brynn Thayer) and her lover cook up an elaborate plot to bump off her husband, Elliott (Wayne Tippit).

25Season 4

S4.E25 ∙ Comedy Is Murder

Thu, May 8, 1997

A washed up comedian stumbles in his attempts to murder his more successful partner, whose wife ends up dead in the pool. But evidence soon suggests he might not be responsible.

26Season 4

S4.E26 ∙ The Murder of Mark Sloan

Thu, May 8, 1997

A mad bomber whom Sloan helped put away breaks out of prison bent on revenge.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Murder Blues

Thu, Sep 18, 1997

The investigation of a councilman's wife's murder uncovers a possible conspiracy within the police.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Open and Shut

Thu, Sep 25, 1997

A judge's son, David, also a judge, has been having an affair with Allison Porter, the daughter of a media mogul, since she was 13. On her 18th birthday she announces to David that she is going public.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Malibu Fire

Thu, Oct 2, 1997

While investigating the death of an ecologist who had a long list of enemies, Sloan's house is threatened by a fire spreading through Malibu.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Deadly Games

Thu, Oct 9, 1997

A wealthy blue blood is stabbed as part of a plot concocted by her chief security guard.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Slam Dunk Dead

Thu, Oct 16, 1997

Jesse faces being fired and losing his State license because he is blamed for the death of a professional basketball star who took a lethal mixture of medications.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Looks Can Kill

Thu, Oct 23, 1997

A seemingly healthy model, Julia Brush (Signy Coleman), drops dead, and her condition may be related to plastic surgery. The clinic that did her work is investigated.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Fatal Impact: Part 1

Thu, Oct 30, 1997

Sloan and Amanda participate in the investigation of an airliner's deadly crash.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Fatal Impact: Part 2

Thu, Oct 30, 1997

Special Agent Ron Wagner declares he's taking over the investigation of the plane-crash and its hijack and smuggled Russian nuclear fuel rods for the FBI.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Must Kill TV

Thu, Nov 6, 1997

A TV executive's death from a second heart attack leads Sloan to uncover the fact that her nitroglycerin tablets had been replaced by sugar pills.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Discards

Thu, Nov 13, 1997

Jesse gets involved in a deadly web of international intrigue when he discovers his father is a secret agent being hunted, and it's soon discovered that an old case may hold the clues to catching the culprit.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ A Mime Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Thu, Nov 20, 1997

In this comedy, Rachel York stars as an attractive in-your-face polymath who finds a murdered mime in her bed.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Down and Dirty Dead

Thu, Dec 11, 1997

A motorcross daredevil's fatal crash during the filming of a stunt turns out to be sabotage, and the list of suspects and motives quickly rise.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Retribution: Part 1

Thu, Jan 8, 1998

Sloan blames a crime lord for Steve getting hurt in a shoot-out, only to be accused of slaying the mobster. Sloan is also sentenced to death and gets to see whats it like on the other side.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Retribution: Part 2

Thu, Jan 15, 1998

Sloan comes face to face with an old enemy on death row who may have set him up, whilst Steve and A.D.A. Ellison team up to prove Sloan's innocence.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Drill for Death

Thu, Jan 22, 1998

During an emergency drill at the hospital the nursing administrator and an artist patient are murdered.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Rain of Terror

Thu, Jan 29, 1998

Sloan and Amanda are dinner guests on a rainy night of murder and intrigue that involves a mother and daughter.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Baby Boom

Thu, Feb 5, 1998

A man holds a child-birth class hostage, along with Amanda, claiming that one of the expectant women used his sperm without permission.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ Talked to Death

Thu, Feb 26, 1998

A pair of talk-show hosts pull a ratings stunt that ends with one murdering the other. But Sloan quickly discovers someone may have set them up and discovers the cutthroat business of daytime talk shows gives him quite a few suspects.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ An Education in Murder

Thu, Mar 5, 1998

A social butterfly plots multiple deaths at a prep school.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ Murder at the Finish Line

Thu, Mar 26, 1998

Sloan's investigation of a speedway crash that killed a stock-car racer takes a bizarre turn when the autopsy reveals he was dead before the crash even happened, leading him to believe the crash was a cover up.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ First Do No Harm

Thu, Apr 16, 1998

A young patient dies in the ER due to red-tape delays involving an HMO, leading Sloan to question managed care.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ Promises to Keep

Thu, Apr 23, 1998

Security guard Ryan Matthews (Gary Graham) shows up to identify the body of his murdered ex-wife, but it's not her. Little does the hospital know that Matthews is being blackmailed by a con artist who is holding her hostage.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ Food Fight

Thu, Apr 30, 1998

Jesse volunteers to elect the caterer for the annual Benefactor's Ball when a murder is committed. Little does he know just how cutthroat it can get.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ Obsession: Part 1

Thu, May 7, 1998

Sloan believes that a serial bomber he helped condemn to death is guilty, even when there's another one after his execution.

25Season 5

S5.E25 ∙ Obsession: Part 2

Thu, May 14, 1998

After being fired from his job, Mark, Jesse, Amanda,Wagner and Steve go on an unauthorized investigation into the bombings in L.A.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Resurrection: Part 1

Thu, Sep 24, 1998

After 4 months pass, the hospital starts to reopen, and Steve announces that Caitlin has started robbing banks to raise money for R.O.A.R.: Revolutionary Order for Armed Rebellion.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Resurrection: Part 2

Thu, Sep 24, 1998

Steve and Jesse ask Mark for a loan to buy Barbecue Bob's. Caitlin and R.O.A.R. break Carter Sweeney out of prison, and the Sweenies kidnap Mark from his home.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Till Death Do Us Part

Thu, Oct 1, 1998

With help from the groom, a bride plots the murder of her father, planning to frame her stepmother for the crime.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Wrong Number

Thu, Oct 8, 1998

Sloan is tipped off to an abduction when a kidnapper dials the doctor's number by mistake.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ Blood Will Out

Thu, Oct 15, 1998

A supposedly dead man escapes from the pathology lab and terrorizes Community General.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ Alienated

Thu, Oct 29, 1998

Jesse is apparently abducted by aliens.

7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ Write, She Murdered

Thu, Nov 5, 1998

A mystery novelist murders her agent, hoping the investigation will inspire her next book.

8Season 6

S6.E8 ∙ Rear Windows '98

Thu, Nov 12, 1998

After Amanda reports seeing a murder on the Internet, a hacker messes up all her online transactions. Three hacker friends of Jesse fight back, using The Weasel. Hence ensues the battle of the hackers.

9Season 6

S6.E9 ∙ The Last Resort

Thu, Nov 19, 1998

Steve joins his troubled partner, Reggie Ackroyd in a rehab facility for stressed-out cops. Reggie seems delusional and keeps blaming a murderer he caught for abducting his wife and daughter, and Steve encourages him.

10Season 6

S6.E10 ∙ Murder x 4

Thu, Dec 3, 1998

Three apparently senseless murders; the killers are caught but for various reasons don't talk. The police and doctors look for a common thread and find it.

11Season 6

S6.E11 ∙ Dead in the Water

Thu, Dec 17, 1998

Jesse and Susan get stuck in a small coastal town with car trouble, on their way to Carmel for a romantic getaway. Susan spots her fiance, Greg (Laurence Lau), who supposedly died 5 years ago.

12Season 6

S6.E12 ∙ Trapped in Paradise

Thu, Jan 7, 1999

Steve goes undercover to investigate a series of murders at an exclusive gated community. He is "helped" by a tabloid reporter posing as his wife. Several of the live residents are listed as dead by fingerprint records?

13Season 6

S6.E13 ∙ Voices Carry

Thu, Jan 21, 1999

A retiring detective Harry Trumble (Jack Klugman) continues to pursue a murderer known as "The Clown Killer", and will lie, cheat and kill to do it.

14Season 6

S6.E14 ∙ Murder, My Suite

Thu, Jan 28, 1999

A devious woman releases a deadly strain of bacteria on the guests of a luxurious hotel, but what is her motive?

15Season 6

S6.E15 ∙ Murder on the Hour

Thu, Feb 4, 1999

A serial killer murders every hour on the hour at Community General.

16Season 6

S6.E16 ∙ Rescue Me

Thu, Feb 11, 1999

An accident victim develops a fatal attraction to Jesse.

17Season 6

S6.E17 ∙ Down Among the Dead Men

Thu, Feb 18, 1999

A heavily armed criminal seems to have a death wish.

18Season 6

S6.E18 ∙ Never Say Die

Thu, Feb 25, 1999

A juvenile delinquent, Tommy Anders (Shane Van Dyke), is assigned community-service time at a boxing gym, where the death of a young fighter arouses suspicion.

19Season 6

S6.E19 ∙ Trash TV: Part 1

Thu, Apr 29, 1999

An unusual patient in Community general is the "Masked Magician", who reveals magic tricks in highly rated specials on Pox TV, but got wounded by a real arrow because of sabotage.

20Season 6

S6.E20 ∙ Trash TV: Part 2

Thu, Apr 29, 1999

While Kent Beudine presents a cynical show on the horror gripping Hollywood after two TV celebrity murders, Marc is convinced Jesse is on the right track for motive by remarking it all upsets the program line-ups of rivaling networks in terms of the almighty ratings. Producer Jackson Burley is ignored even by his former protégés, and minutes after star Jerry Lane turns down an offer to transfer to West Coast VP Garth Zand's network GBS, the winner on Thursday after the previous crimes, he is run over by a fake parking valet. After Zand invites Marc for a scary gourmet dinner, featuring the potentially fatal Japanse blowfish, his luck changes: he finds himself in Community General and all GBS executives refuse his calls, after Lane exposes him he literally fears for a killer and switches his patient file with his roommate's...

21Season 6

S6.E21 ∙ Blood Ties

Thu, May 6, 1999

A pimp, Milton Wilder (Richard Tanner), is shot in cold blood in an alley by four women who turn out later to be police officers.

22Season 6

S6.E22 ∙ Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of My Life

Thu, May 13, 1999

Mark Sloan attempts to have a new doctor arrested for murder after she helps a pair of terminally ill patients commit suicide.

1Season 7

S7.E1 ∙ The Roast

Thu, Sep 23, 1999

Dr. Mark Sloan is to be the guest of 'honor' as Man of the Year at the Roast, where comedians makes merciless fun of him in the Jokers Club.

2Season 7

S7.E2 ∙ Sleeping Murder

Thu, Sep 30, 1999

When a businessman runs through the streets to shoot an apparent nobody in clear daylight, Steve is puzzled.

3Season 7

S7.E3 ∙ Bringing Up Barbie

Thu, Oct 7, 1999

Now Susan his run off to Oregon with a chiropractor, Jesse suffers babysitting Amanda's rascal CJ. Mark is delighted to meet in BBQ Bob's Chuck Greer, who once saved Steve's life in Vietnam, and accepts minding for a while his daughter Barbara, who also proves a handful. Steve discovers he has been assuming the identity of the wealthy Ralph Eastman, as he ran from a clothes shop chased -both in their underwear- by an unknown man who recognized him. Both Sloanes are surprised to hear she knew her dad wanted her off his hands for several days, not knowing he's offering mobster Tommy Toussaint to repay a fortune he embezzled two years earlier- they find out when the crook kidnaps Mark and Barbie...

4Season 7

S7.E4 ∙ Murder at Midterm

Thu, Oct 14, 1999

When bright med student Quinn Montgomery, whose formerly rich family from Miami was ruined, learns during midterms that his penniless lover Holly Harris is pregnant, which would ruin his wedding plans with heiress Jennifer Warner, he arranges her death with poisoned Chinese takeaway and sets up a stooge. Once Amanda points out the supposed suicide or accident is fake since there's no gelatin in her stomach, so her food had to be spiked, Mark Sloane starts investigating every single detail till he knows enough to set a trap...

5Season 7

S7.E5 ∙ The Flame

Thu, Oct 21, 1999

While Jesse is jogging he sees smoke coming out of a garage, breaks the door but is too late to save Frank Baumgart, the apparent suicide victim.

6Season 7

S7.E6 ∙ The Killer Within

Thu, Oct 28, 1999

Dr. Madison Wesley asks Mark to help Lisa, her great love's daughter, whom she found OD'd, into a prime rehab.

7Season 7

S7.E7 ∙ Gangland: Part 1

Thu, Nov 4, 1999

Gangster 'Mr. G', a perfect Mark Sloan lookalike, is released from jail; his gang has moved business to California, and rented a Malibu beach-house.

8Season 7

S7.E8 ∙ Gangland: Part 2

Thu, Nov 4, 1999

Mark is brought in shot, Jesse saves him -while student Alex Smith does his rounds- by removing the bullet, but he has temporary amnesia; no, that's lookalike mobster John 'Mr. G' Gotti: the real doc walks in with Steve, but soon Mr. G knocks him down and takes his place; his daughter finds Mark locked into the closet, but the mobster walks into a trap at his girlfriend's. Steve is just in time to prevent a sniper casing a fatal accident in Ponyland, discovers the daughter is working as administrator on the wellness center project and helps Mark set a trap...

9Season 7

S7.E9 ∙ The Mouth That Roared

Thu, Nov 11, 1999

Radio shock-jock Denise Steiner declares on a TV show 'in jest' she would have to kill her birth mother, who abandoned her after birth, if she ever found her after all of these years.

10Season 7

S7.E10 ∙ The Seven Deadly Sins

Thu, Nov 18, 1999

Mark matches wits with a beautiful jewel thief who is being framed for murder.

11Season 7

S7.E11 ∙ Santa Claude

Thu, Dec 16, 1999

Claude Campbell, the hospital's janitor, is looking forward to play Santa Claus again, but Mark diagnoses him with terminal cancer.

12Season 7

S7.E12 ∙ Man Overboard

Thu, Jan 6, 2000

Mark accepts a friend's invitation for a 'free' cruise splitting the medical duties with Jesse and Amanda. Barely aboard, they must save multimillionaire Robert Brantigan who got a triple dose ampule of insulin.

13Season 7

S7.E13 ∙ Frontier Dad

Thu, Jan 13, 2000

The whole gang, plus Alex Smith and Amanda's rascals, are invited to observe the shooting of an episode of "Frontier Dad", a family series about Wild West hero Dash, starring Carl Simpson.

14Season 7

S7.E14 ∙ Too Many Cooks

Thu, Jan 20, 2000

The three doctor sleuths are celebrity guests in cooking shows on the Cuisine Channel; Amanda even has a passionate relation with a star chef, René Fontineau.

15Season 7

S7.E15 ∙ Jake's Women

Thu, Feb 3, 2000

When Jake Caldwell brings in his wife to the hospital, Mark learns it's Caroline, another woman besides the spouse Gloria he already knows, and Jake is in fact a bigamist.

16Season 7

S7.E16 ∙ Murder by Remote

Thu, Feb 10, 2000

Steve's new house has its security system installed by a shady home security mogul, who claims that his rival has been sabotaging his computer.

17Season 7

S7.E17 ∙ Teacher's Pet

Thu, Feb 17, 2000

Mark and Steve go fishing; when they return they find med student Mickey Hoving, who was house-sitting, murdered, according to his wife Jill who is sitting next to him but unharmed by armed robbers.

18Season 7

S7.E18 ∙ The Unluckiest Bachelor in L.A.

Thu, Feb 24, 2000

Despite his clumsy and willful appearance, his honesty gets Steve picked in a TV dating program by candidate Lily Wilson.

19Season 7

S7.E19 ∙ A Resting Place

Thu, Apr 6, 2000

Steve's retired colleague Dave 'Hawk' Hawkins is murdered while undercover in the resting home Sunny Meadows.

20Season 7

S7.E20 ∙ Murder at BBQ Bob's

Thu, Apr 20, 2000

While US Marines Captain Paul Davis, Lieutenant Richard Martinelli -an MP- and Lieutenant Jean Romanski are eating at BBQ Bob's during Jesse's shift, a fourth, Captain Hank Thomas, bursts in saying "You'll all be sorry" and shoots himself in the head. Steven has barely started his investigation when female NIS agent Warrant Officer Hannah Bernstein bursts in and claims the case for the military, illegally, yet he gentlemanly accepts to collaborate; even after they know he used the wrong hand base commander Colonel Lucien Chandler orders her to close the case as suicide, but she continues helping Steve 'on her own time'. They discover some suspicious things, such as an affair between one Davis, the colonels adjutant, and his wife Susan Chandler, and Mark figures out how everything fits together.

21Season 7

S7.E21 ∙ Two Birds with One Sloan

Thu, Apr 27, 2000

Wheelchair user Saul Singer has a car accident but Mark gets him by ambulance to TV presenter Drew McIntyre's trivia quiz "Through the Roof" where he is breaking the earnings records.

22Season 7

S7.E22 ∙ Swan Song

Thu, May 4, 2000

Self-accompanying singer Danielle Marsh (Helen Reddy) has her own grand piano flown over from New York claiming it's the only thing that calms her grave nerves, and moves in with the Sloans until her concert.

23Season 7

S7.E23 ∙ Out of the Past

Thu, May 11, 2000

When a girl cop is brought in wounded, Jesse patches her up and dates her, but as Amanda finds and brings her out, she sets him up for a staged scary ride.

24Season 7

S7.E24 ∙ Getting Mad, Getting Even

Thu, May 11, 2000

Two weeks later, Brett Hayward murders Dr. Hjortsberg, the plastic surgeon who created his present identity, knowing him as patient Eddie Dagabosian, and as such harbors a grudge against Madison, with whom he moves in, but Steve's LAPD team finds the drugs the killer 'stole' in a nearby dumpster. Meanwhile a 'Dr. anonymous' publishes a sleaze bestseller book version of the Community General sleuths, entitled Big City Hospital, for which half the staff mistakes Jesse, even Amanda. Although everything goes wrong now in Madison's life, she resents Mark for running a check on Brett, which finds little, even suspiciously so. Steve questions in vain the real, clueless Eddie, a fence in prison. Brett cleverly arranges Madison to seem gone mad, but the Sloanes get back to Eddie and work out his past connection with Madison and ...

1Season 8

S8.E1 ∙ Death by Design

Thu, Oct 12, 2000

A friend hired to revamp Mark's office ends up dead, wrapped up in a roll of carpet, and the murderer's trail leads all the way to Egypt.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ Blind Man's Bluff

Thu, Oct 19, 2000

Mark investigates the murder of a young doctor whose wife was blinded in a tragic accident the day before his death.

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ Sleight-of-Hand

Thu, Oct 26, 2000

Mark's magic instructor turns up dead after an apparent surfing accident, but Mark suspects the deceased's twin brother may have been the one with a trick up his sleeve.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ By Reason of Insanity

Thu, Nov 2, 2000

Mark comes to the defense of his schizophrenic former student, who can't explain his alibi after being charged with murder.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ The Patient Detective

Thu, Nov 9, 2000

Dr. Sloan's son Steve nearly dies in a traffic accident then claims to have seen murder take place in his hospital room.

6Season 8

S8.E6 ∙ The Cradle Will Rock

Thu, Nov 16, 2000

Mark discovers that an impassioned love affair between a nurse and a 17-year-old hospital worker may be the motive for murder.

7Season 8

S8.E7 ∙ Hot House

Thu, Nov 30, 2000

To investigate a possible murder, Dr. Sloan goes into a house of roommates who are monitored 24 hours a day by cameras for a national television show.

8Season 8

S8.E8 ∙ All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die

Thu, Dec 7, 2000

Mark gets wrapped up in the world of high fashion and designer drugs while tracking down the person responsible for planting a bomb that killed his friend on his wedding day.

9Season 8

S8.E9 ∙ Confession

Thu, Jan 4, 2001

A priest listens to the confession of a killer, but won't reveal who the killer is due to confidentiality and becomes the prime suspect himself. Mark decides to go undercover to help clear the priest's name.

10Season 8

S8.E10 ∙ Playing God

Thu, Jan 11, 2001

Someone kills a medical student, drains his blood and stores the corpse in the Community General morgue.

11Season 8

S8.E11 ∙ Less Than Zero

Thu, Jan 18, 2001

Dr. Sloan investigates the demise of a television star who may have died because of compulsive dieting.

12Season 8

S8.E12 ∙ Sins of the Father: Part 1

Fri, Feb 2, 2001

The shooting death of a patient opens a doorway to Mark's past that forces him to face the disappearance of his father.

13Season 8

S8.E13 ∙ Sins of the Father: Part 2

Fri, Feb 9, 2001

Mark attempts to discover why his father, a former police detective, vanished more than 50 years earlier, leaving him an his mother to fend for themselves.

14Season 8

S8.E14 ∙ You Bet Your Life

Fri, Feb 16, 2001

When a big-time bookie and a gambling heart surgeon turn up dead, Mark bets that something foul is afoot.

15Season 8

S8.E15 ∙ Bachelor Fathers

Fri, Feb 23, 2001

Mark takes on the extortionists responsible for murdering the twin sister of a young woman who claims Dr. Travis fathered her infant son.

16Season 8

S8.E16 ∙ Being of Sound Mind

Fri, Mar 2, 2001

Jesse and Amanda stand in the way of a killer who's scheming to get their multi-million dollar inheritance.

17Season 8

S8.E17 ∙ Dance of Danger

Fri, Mar 30, 2001

A newspaper reporter goes to Mark for help when she suspects a New Age religion is responsible for the stabbing of her dance partner.

18Season 8

S8.E18 ∙ The Red's Shoes

Fri, Apr 20, 2001

Dr. Sloan tries to help Amanda when she becomes involved in an incident involving the Chinese government.

19Season 8

S8.E19 ∙ No Good Deed

Fri, Apr 27, 2001

Dr. Sloan investigates a controversial attorney who confesses to murder while near death but recants after he recovers.

20Season 8

S8.E20 ∙ Deja Vous

Fri, May 4, 2001

Steve begins dating a woman who looks similar to his murdered ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, Mark watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is murderer.

21Season 8

S8.E21 ∙ On the Beach

Fri, May 4, 2001

Dr. Mark Sloan witnesses what he believes to be a murder while spying on his neighbors.

22Season 8

S8.E22 ∙ The Blair Nurse Project

Fri, May 11, 2001

When a filmmaker begins using Community General Hospital as the location for an eerie documentary, Dr. Sloan discovers it may be haunted.