Diagnosis: Murder (season 5)
| Diagnosis: Murder (season 5) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 25, 1997 – May 14, 1998 |
| Season chronology | |
Diagnosis: Murder's fifth season originally aired Thursdays at 9:00–10:00 pm (EST).
The season was released on DVD in two parts and as a whole by Visual Entertainment, Inc. When the split season was released, the episode of Obsession Part 2 wasn't included. The scene where Mark meets Rob Petrie at the radio station is absent in the single releases but was included in the complete collection set.
The investigation of a councilman's wife's murder uncovers a possible conspiracy within the police.
A judge's son, David, also a judge, has been having an affair with Allison Porter (Marisa Coughlan), the daughter of a media mogul, since she was 13. On her 18th birthday she announces to David that she is going public, saying "I'm an adult now, and you're not married, so there is no need for secrecy", whereupon he drowns her in the bathtub.
Sloan's house is threatened by a fire spreading through Malibu.
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.
Sloan and Amanda participate in the investigation of an airliner's deadly crash.
A TV executive's death from a second heart attack leads Sloan to uncover the fact that her nitroglycerin tablets had been replaced by sugar pills.
Jesse gets involved in a deadly web of international intrigue when he discovers his father is a secret agent.
In this comedy, Rachel York stars as an attractive in-your-face polymath who finds a murdered mime in her bed. She will do anything to solve that murder, including stealing Steve's badge and calling herself Lieutenant Stevie Sloane. In the end, Mark and Steve agree that "She is really something!"
A motorcross daredevil's crash during the filming of a stunt turns out to be sabotage.
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.
Sloan comes face to face with an old enemy on death row who may have set him up.
During an emergency drill at the hospital the nursing administrator and an artist patient are murdered. Halfway through the episode a subway tunnel collapses and they have a real emergency on top of the drill. Lots of activity, suspects, stars and subplots.
Sloan and Amanda are dinner guests on a rainy night of murder and intrigue that involves a mother and daughter.
A man holds a child-birth class hostage, along with Amanda, claiming that one of the expectant women used his sperm without permission.
A pair of talk-show hosts pull a ratings stunt that ends with one murdering the other.
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