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The Best Episodes of Diagnosis: Murder Season 8

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Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 12 - Sins Of The Father (1)
    8.4/10(117 votes)

    S8:E12

    A young woman is assassinated while Dr. Mark Sloan is examining her, setting off an investigation that plunges Mark into dark memories of his own childhood.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Joel Steiger

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  2. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 13 - Sins Of The Father (2)
    8.3/10(99 votes)

    S8:E13

    Mark must find out why his dad left him as a child.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Joel Steiger

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  3. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 5 - The Patient Detective
    8.1/10(115 votes)

    S8:E5

    Steve nearly dies in a car accident and think a murder happens. No one believes him.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Stephen A. Miller

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  4. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 7 - Hot House
    8.1/10(111 votes)

    S8:E7

    An abusive man who, along with four other people, was a contestant on a reality show is murdered while living in a house that is monitored 24 hours a day. After the killing, Mark enters the house as the man's replacement to see if he can uncover what happened.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  5. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 16 - Being of Sound Mind
    8.1/10(108 votes)

    S8:E16

    Dr. Sloan tries to save Jesse and Amanda from a murderer who is out to kill them in order to obtain a multi-million dollar inheritance.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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  6. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 1 - Death By Design
    7.9/10(109 votes)

    S8:E1

    Mark's office decorator is murdered.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Mark Egan

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  7. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 11 - Less Than Zero
    7.9/10(95 votes)

    S8:E11

    An actress with an eating disorder dies from an apparent heart attack. Mark believes her nutritionist murdered her.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Cathryn Michon

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  8. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 20 - Deja Vous - Deadly Mirage (1)
    7.9/10(90 votes)

    S8:E20

    While deeply disturbed that his son, Lt. Steve Sloan, is falling in love with a woman who is a dead ringer for his murdered former girlfriend, Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  9. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 21 - On the Beach - Deadly Mirage (2)
    7.9/10(97 votes)

    S8:E21

    While deeply disturbed that his son, Lt. Steve Sloan, is falling in love with a woman who is a dead ringer for his murdered former girlfriend, Dr. Mark Sloan begins watching his neighbors through binoculars and becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

    Director:Donald L. Gold
    Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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  10. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 4 - By Reason of Insanity
    7.8/10(100 votes)

    S8:E4

    Dr. Mark Sloan tries to save one of his former students, a schizophrenic, from a murder charge, but is challenged by the man's seemingly incoherent babbling.

    Director:Sandy Smolan
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  11. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 2 - Blind Man's Bluff
    7.6/10(110 votes)

    S8:E2

    Young woman is in a car accident and goes blind, Mark must figure out who committed the murder.

    Director:Frank Thackery
    Writer:Joel Steiger

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  12. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 6 - The Cradle Will Rock
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    S8:E6

    A nurse's husband is murdered and a teen who works at the hospital and who also had a torrid love affair with the nurse is the prime suspect, but Mark isn't convinced that the young man is the killer.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Joel Steiger

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  13. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 19 - No Good Deed
    7.5/10(95 votes)

    S8:E19

    Dr. Sloan investigates a controversial attorney who confesses to murder while near death but recants after he recovers.

    Director:Sandy Smolan
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  14. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 10 - Playing God
    7.4/10(92 votes)

    S8:E10

    Dr. Mark Sloan seeks the murderer who killed a med student, drained his blood, and stored him in the Community General morgue.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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  15. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 8 - All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Die
    7.3/10(103 votes)

    S8:E8

    Mark goes after a man who killed a groom on his wedding day.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  16. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 14 - You Bet Your Life
    7.3/10(89 votes)

    S8:E14

    Dr. Mark Sloan investigates the apparent suicide of a gifted heart surgeon who was also a compulsive gambler.

    Director:Nancy Malone
    Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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  17. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 17 - Dance Of Danger
    7.3/10(98 votes)

    S8:E17

    A Tabloid-news paper reporter gets caught up in a murder investigation when one of her sources is stabbed to death on a dance floor.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writers:Barry Van Dyke, Jeff Glasser

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  18. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 18 - The Red's Shoes
    7.3/10(94 votes)

    S8:E18

    Dr. Sloan tries to help Amanda when she becomes involved in an incident involving the Chinese government.

    Director:Frank Thackery
    Writers:Victoria Rowell, Fred Fontana

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  19. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 22 - The Blair Nurse Project
    7.3/10(158 votes)

    S8:E22

    When a filmmaker begins using Community General Hospital as the location for an eerie documentary, Dr. Sloan discovers it may be haunted.

    Director:Barry Van Dyke
    Writers:Barry Van Dyke, Carey van Dyke

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  20. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 15 - Bachelor Fathers
    7.1/10(94 votes)

    S8:E15

    Dr. Mark Sloan tries to solve the murder of a young woman whose twin sister claims that Dr. Jesse Travis fathered her infant son.

    Director:James Nasella
    Writer:Steve Brown

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  21. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 3 - Sleight-of-Hand
    7.0/10(112 votes)

    S8:E3

    A body found on the beach turns out to be Jim, the hospital janitor, but when his twin brother Jeff shows up to identify the body, Mark and Steve become suspicious.

    Director:Nancy Malone
    Writer:Mark Solomon

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  22. Diagnosis: Murder Season 8 Episode 9 - Confession
    6.9/10(100 votes)

    S8:E9

    Dr. Mark Sloan, Lt. Steve Sloan and Dr. Amanda Bentley become involved when a priest is accused of murdering an old friend.

    Director:Donald L. Gold
    Writers:Steve Brown, Chris Abbott

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Sins Of The Father (1)" is the best rated episode of "Diagnosis: Murder" season 8. It scored 8.4/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Victor Lobl and written by Joel Steiger, it aired on 2/2/2001. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Sins Of The Father (2)".