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  • 1988
  • ABC
Murphy's Law (1988)

Summary Daedalus Patrick Murphy (George Segal) is a big city insurance investigator with a history of alcoholism, bankruptcy and unstable relationships. And he's the good guy in this series. His roommate is Kimiko Fannuchi (Maggie Han), a gorgeous Eurasian model -- or pinup girl, depending on who's talking to. Kimi would like to be a top model...

Created By: Lee David Zlotoff

  • 1988
  • ABC
  • 1988
  • ABC

Murphy's Law (1988)

Season 1 Premiere: Nov 2, 1988
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Daedalus Patrick Murphy (George Segal) is a big city insurance investigator with a history of alcoholism, bankruptcy and unstable relationships. And he's the good guy in this series. His roommate is Kimiko Fannuchi (Maggie Han), a gorgeous Eurasian model -- or pinup girl, depending on who's talking to. Kimi would like to be a top model...

Created By: Lee David Zlotoff

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
28
13% Positive
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13% Mixed
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75% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
28
13% Positive
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13% Mixed
1 Review
75% Negative
6 Reviews

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Aug 12, 2014
Philip Marlowe meets Moonlighting—with a passing nod to The Odd Couple—In this delightfully inventive new detective show.
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Aug 7, 2014
It's a harmless, standard-issue - cheesy - detective (actually, insurance investigator) series in the vein of Rockford Files-like unwilling heroes. [2 Nov 1988]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
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Aug 7, 2014
Segal has a certain bombastic charm as he quaffs and quips his way through the part of Daedelus, the phoniest Irishman to hit the small screen since the last Irish Spring commercial. Han, who made her TV debut in the miniseries Space, is a good foil for Segal. She can act a little, which is all that's called for. [2 Nov 1988]
By Greg Dawson FULL REVIEW
25
Aug 7, 2014
Segal's nasal, hard-bitten delivery is dreadful here, and his relationship with the beautiful Maggie Han is preposterous. [2 Nov 1988]
By Ed Siegel FULL REVIEW
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Aug 7, 2014
A strong candidate for worst new series of the season. [2 Nov 1988]
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Aug 7, 2014
The opening story... is thin and uncompelling. ... This is one of those series in which plot is relatively unimportant, however. What is important is the Murphy/Fannuchi relationship, which is only partially platonic, but fully unbelievable. If the relationship doesn't work, the series doesn't work. The relationship doesn't work.
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW
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Aug 7, 2014
A series so monumentally meaningless, so pathetically puerile, so irredeemably ridiculous that, within my limited professional context, it prompts the Biggest Question of them all: Why is there television? [2 Nov 1988]
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Production Company:
  • Braun Entertainment Group
  • Michael Gleason Productions
  • New World Television
Initial Release Date: Nov 2, 1988
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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