May 18, 1998 –
The final episode (or so we thought) of Murphy Brown, Never Can Say Goodbye, aired on CBS-TV on this date. (The re-boot of the series ran for about a year.)
One of the running series jokes was Murphy Brown’s inability to get a good secretary or one that could work with her. During the show’s 10-year run, Murphy had a total of 93 secretaries. (During my run as an executive at a multinational entertainment corporation that I am legally barred from mentioning it, I had a total of 17 assistants, including one who brought her puppy to the office and hid it in her desk drawer. She kept telling me that I imagined hearing barking. When I finally found the dog while she was on her lunch break, I brought the dog to HR and had her pick it and her severance check up there.)
The Haus of Dcaligari 