Diagnosis: Murder (season 1)

Diagnosis: Murder's first season originally aired Fridays at 8:00-9:00 pm (EST).[1][2] The season was released on DVD by Paramount Home Video. It included the 1991 pilot "It Never Entered My Mind" from the fourth season of Jake and the Fatman.

Diagnosis: Murder
Season 1
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes19
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseOctober 29, 1993 (1993-10-29) 
May 13, 1994 (1994-05-13)
Season chronology

Cast

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
11"Miracle Cure"Michael LangeJames KramerOctober 29, 1993 (1993-10-29)14.60

Dr. Mark Sloan investigates a hit-and-run death that may involve a priest's confessional.

Guest Stars: Robert Guillaume, and Sylvia Sidney.
22"Amnesia"Michael LangeStory by: Joyce Burditt and David Hoffman & Leslie Daryl Zerg
Teleplay by: Joyce Burditt
November 5, 1993 (1993-11-05)12.70
A patient claims to be an amnesiac, but Sloan's probing of her past leads to a mob boss and the possibility that she's plotting to murder a hospitalized senator.
33"Murder at the Telethon"Anson WilliamsVance DeGeneresNovember 12, 1993 (1993-11-12)12.50

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

Guest Stars: Dom DeLuise, Dick Martin, Granville Vandusen, Steven Anderson, Dick Van Patten, and Joyce Van Patten.
44"Inheritance of Death"Frank ThackeryGerry ConwayNovember 19, 1993 (1993-11-19)12.40

A millionaire dies after declaring his intention to leave his money to the hospital - and Sloan suspects the man's offspring.
Note: In addition to Sloan, Dick Van Dyke plays the millionaire Johnathan Nash and his Sons Julian Nash and J. Edison Nash and his Daughter Judith Nash.

Guest Star: Michael Champion
55"The 13 Million Dollar Man"Anson WilliamsGordon T. DawsonDecember 3, 1993 (1993-12-03)12.50

When a dying man gives him a lottery ticket worth millions, Sloan must fight his way through competing claims in order to give the money to charity.

Guest Star: Ken Kercheval
66"Vanishing Act: Part 1"Christian I. Nyby IIBruce Franklin SingerDecember 10, 1993 (1993-12-10)11.20

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

Guest Star: Richard Gant, Dennis Lipscomb, John Beck, and Boyd Kestner.
77"Vanishing Act: Part 2"Christian I. Nyby IIBruce Franklin SingerDecember 17, 1993 (1993-12-17)11.10

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

Guest Stars: Richard Gant, Boyd Kestner, John Beck, and Don Gordon
88"Shanda's Song"Neema BarnetteCraig VolkJanuary 7, 1994 (1994-01-07)14.80
Sloan hunts for the stalker of a female pop star.
99"The Restless Remains"Christian I. Nyby IIStory by: John Hill
Teleplay by: Robert Schlitt
January 14, 1994 (1994-01-14)16.20

The body of an infomercial financial guru disappears without a trace.

Guest Stars: Ned Romero
1010"Murder with Mirrors"Anson WilliamsGerry ConwayJanuary 21, 1994 (1994-01-21)16.80

Sloan works to clear a friend in the murder of a magician. Special Guest Star: Emma Samms

Guest Stars: Ray Buktenica, Jack Laufer, and Mitchell Whitfield.
1111"Flashdance with Death"Christian I. Nyby IIGerry ConwayJanuary 28, 1994 (1994-01-28)17.20

Sloan uses a few leads to find out who's responsible for the death of a dance studio's unfavorable co-owner.

Guest Stars: Paula Marshall, and Kristoff St. John. Watch for a dancer called Shannon, played by Elizabeth Berkley, star of Showgirls.
1212"Reunion with Murder"Anson WilliamsRobin MaddenFebruary 4, 1994 (1994-02-04)16.30

Amanda is suspected of murdering an old college roommate who had written a tell-all book about her sorority sisters.

Note: The dog that Amanda adopts she names "Yoda".
1313"Lily"Frank ThackeryGerry ConwayMarch 4, 1994 (1994-03-04)16.60

When a call girl who was blackmailing some of her clients ends up dead, Mark sorts through her clients to find out who killed her.

Guest Star: Gerald Mcraney
1414"Guardian Angel"Christian I. Nyby IIBruce Franklin SingerApril 1, 1994 (1994-04-01)13.30

After the mayor is murdered, Sloan investigates the peculiar behavior of the politician's widow.

Guest Star: James McEachin, who plays the police Lt. Frank Daniels in six episodes of Matlock (TV series) and Lt. Ed Brock in the Perry Mason TV movies). (He plays a derelict in this episode.)
1515"Nirvana"Christian I. Nyby IIPeter DunneApril 8, 1994 (1994-04-08)13.60
Sloan follows a few leads to a spa in his investigation of a con man's murder.
1616"Broadcast Blues"Christian I. Nyby IIJames KramerApril 15, 1994 (1994-04-15)15.30
A convict that Sloan examines takes everyone at the hospital hostage - and two deaths occur during the situation.
1717"Shaker"Alan MyersonGerry ConwayApril 29, 1994 (1994-04-29)13.60

Sloan suspects foul play after a friend dies in an earthquake.

Guest Star: Allan Miller
1818"The Plague"Peter EllisGerry ConwayMay 6, 1994 (1994-05-06)13.90

Sloan comes to suspect that someone could have deliberately exposed a hit man to bubonic plague.

Guest Stars: Julie Sommars (Julie March in the TV Series Matlock), and David Froman (Lieutenant Bob Brooks in Matlock).
1919"Sister Michael Wants You"Leo PennJoyce BurdittMay 13, 1994 (1994-05-13)13.70

Sloan goes undercover as a priest to help a nun catch a murderer in her convent.

Guest Stars: Delta Burke.

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