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Diagnosis Murder

Dr. Mark Sloan is a doctor at Community General Hospital, and he is a consultant for the police department. His son Steve Sloan is a detective for the department. He and his father, along with emergency room resident Dr. Jesse Travis and Dr. Amanda Bentley, who is the pathologist at the hospital help to solve some very strange murder cases in Diagnosis Murder.

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Dick Van Dyke
Dr. Mark Sloan
Barry Van Dyke
Steve Sloan
Victoria Rowell
Amanda Bentley-Livingston

Season 8 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Death by Design

Thu, Oct 12, 200045 mins

Kendra Masterson commits a series of elaborately planned crimes, using her lover Jake Myers as muscle. She later kills Myers, whose corpse she ships to Egypt in a sarcophagus crate. She then frames another lover, millionaire Roger Andrews, for the murder of his wife, Lana. Before Andrews's arrest, Masterson scams half a million dollars out of him to care for her nonexistent "insane brother". The Sloanes must figure out all of this as well as investigating a staged fatal car accident which Masterson orchestrated in order to switch identities with a psychiatric patient named Beverly Scott.

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Awards

  • 1996 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Music Composition for a Series - nominated
  • 1996 - Young Artist Award - Best Performance by an Actress Under Ten - Television - nominated
  • 1996 - Image Award - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - nominated
  • 2000 - Image Award - Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series - nominated

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