Diagnosis: Murder (season 5)

The investigation of a councilman's wife's murder uncovers a possible conspiracy within the police. Guest Stars: Fred Dryer (plays Police Chief Masters), James Darren, Kent McCord, Angie Dickinson, and Martin Milner.

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. Guest Stars: Carol Huston, James Read, and Robert Stack.

Sloan's house is threatened by a fire spreading through Malibu. Guest Stars: Robert Fuller, Randolph Mantooth, Brian Patrick Clarke, and Richard Gross.

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

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. Guest Stars: Dan Gilvezan (plays Kent Beaudine), Mark Taylor, Pooh Richardson, Malik Sealy, and Brent Barry.

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.

Sloan and Amanda participate in the investigation of an airliner's deadly crash. Guest Stars: Harry J. Lennix (plats F.B.I. Agent Ron Wagner), and Steven Anderson.

A TV executive's death from a second heart attack leads Sloan to uncover the fact that her nitroglycerin tablets had been replaced by sugar pills. Guest stars: Jaleel White, John Aniston, Erik Estrada, Peter Graves (plays himself doing a Pilot of Doctor Danger as Dr. Mark Sloane), Jane Seymour, Fred Willard, Stephen J. Cannell (plays Jackson Burley), Reginald VelJohnson, Doug E. Doug, Tom Gallop (plays Phil Zarkin), and Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Jesse gets involved in a deadly web of international intrigue when he discovers his father is a secret agent. Guest stars: Robert Culp (plays Dane Travis, Jesse's Father), Barbera Bain (played Cinnamon Carter, the same character she played on the Mission Impossible TV Series), Robert Vaughn, Phil Morris, and Patrick Macnee.

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!" Guest Star: Ken Kercheval.

A motorcross daredevil's crash during the filming of a stunt turns out to be sabotage. Guest Stars: Carey Van Dyke, and Shane Van Dyke.

Sloan blames a crime lord for Steve getting hurt in a shoot-out, only to be accused of slaying the mobster. Guest Stars: Susan Gibney (who plays Tanis Archer), Fred Dryer (plays Police Chief Masters), Dennis Lipscomb, Jack Carter, and Connie Blankenship (who plays A.D.A. Sharon Ellison).

Sloan comes face to face with an old enemy on death row who may have set him up. Guest Stars: Susan Gibney, Fred Dryer, Dennis Lipscomb, James Stephens, Neal McDonough, and Robb Skyler.

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. Guest stars: Kim Little[incorrect link] (plays Nurse Susan Hilliard, Jesse's Girlfriend), Sally Kellerman, Elliott Gould, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, and Christopher Norris.

Sloan and Amanda are dinner guests on a rainy night of murder and intrigue that involves a mother and daughter. Guest Stars: John O'Hurley, Phina Oruche, and Adrienne Barbeau.

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

A pair of talk-show hosts pull a ratings stunt that ends with one murdering the other.

Murderers: Larry Duggin, Tom Grant & Lucy Caruso

A social butterfly plots multiple deaths at a prep school. Guest Star: Kim Little (Nurse Susan Hilliard)

Sloan investigates a speedway crash that killed a stock-car racer. Guest Stars: Marina Sirtis (voiced Demona in Disney's Gargoyles) and Tommy Kendall as himself

A young patient dies in the ER due to red-tape delays involving an HMO, leading Sloan to question managed care. Guest Stars: Alan Oppenheimer, Jason Schombing, Richard Fancy (plays Harold Lomax the new Administrator at Community General Hospital), Neil Dickson, Nancy Youngblut (plays Nurse Nancy Rush), and Davenia McFadden (plays Betty Pearson).

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. When the hospital is scammed and Matthews is the sole suspect, Sloan hatches a plan to expose the con man.

Note: This episode concludes a story that begins on Promised Land in "Total Security".

Guest stars: Troy Evans, Gary Graham, and Christopher John Fields.

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. Guest Stars: Kim Little (plays Nurse Susan Hilliard), Pat Morita, David L. Lander, Leslie Easterbrook, Conrad Janis, Erin Moran, and Donny Most.

Sloan believes that a serial bomber he helped condemn to death is guilty, even when there's another one after his execution. Guest stars: Harry J. Lennix (plays F.B.I. Agent Ron Wagner), Orson Bean (plays Lewis Sweeney, the son of Reagen Sweeney, and father of Carter and Catlin Sweeney), Arye Gross (plays Carter Sweeney), Stephanie Niznik (plays Catlin Sweeney), and Dennis Boutsikaris (plays D.A. Neil Burnside).

After being fired from his job, Mark, Jesse, Amanda, and Steve go on an unauthorized investigation into the bombings in L.A. Guest Stars: Harry J. Lennix (plays F.B.I. Agent Ron Wagner), Arye Gross (plays Carter Sweeney), Stephanie Niznik (plays Catlin Sweeney), Jasper Armstrong Marsalis (plays Amanda's child C.J.), and Dennis Boutsikaris (plays D.A. Neil Burnside). Murderer: Carter Sweeney. The first two episodes of the next season, with the same writers, Resurrection Parts I and II, continue these episodes with Carter Sweeney and his sister Catlin. Also, one of the writers, Lee Goldberg has written a book: Diagnosis Murder #8: The Last Word, which is the last book in his series, in which Carter Sweeney appears again, coming up for an appeal.