A good assortment of Motown tunes were used in the CBS 1988 to 1998 TV series "Murphy Brown." They were also played as background music during the years that this show was on the air.

Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown loved to sing Motown tunes to support a various number of the sitcom episodes and their storylines. This music is clearly Murphy's favorite type music.

Also, Candice Bergen as Murphy wasn't able to win a Grammy Award with her sincere and honest singing. Notwithstanding this fact, key Motown song titles or lyrics used in certain episodes always related to the storylines that followed.

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