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COLLECTION · Series · 2007

Pushing Daisies

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

Source: TMDB
* 7.9 (465)CrimeDramaFantasyScience FictionUnited States
Creators
Bryan Fuller
Countries
United States
Studios
ABC · Living Dead Guy Productions · Jinks/Cohen Company
Runtime
42 min/ep
Age rating
TV-PG
Release
03/10/2007
Score
7.9 / 10 (465)

Awards and nominations

  • Won 7 Primetime Emmys.
  • 35 wins & 81 nominations total.
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
9 episodes · 2007
Pie-lette
Episode 1. Pie-lette
2007-10-03 · 42 min

Ned works in a pie store and seems to lead a perfectly normal life. This, however, is far from the truth. Ned can, through the touch of his hand, wake people from the dead. He decides to use this ability of his to solve crimes, but this…

Dummy
Episode 2. Dummy
2007-10-10 · 42 min

Ned, Emerson and Chuck visit the morgue to inspect the body of a victim of a car accident, a 45 year old man who specialized in automobile safety. The police is offering a reward to anyone who can find the killer and Emerson wants answers…

The Fun in Funeral
Episode 3. The Fun in Funeral
2007-10-17 · 43 min

Chuck holds true to the threat she made in the pilot by baking anti-depressants into her aunt's food, in the form of Ned's pies. Olive delivers one to them and stumbles onto Chuck's secret. Now that she has dirt on Chuck - that her aunts…

Pigeon
Episode 4. Pigeon
2007-10-24 · 42 min

Emerson, Ned and Chuck are hired to prove that a pilot was murdered, rather than committing suicide, but soon become involved in a case of stolen jewelry and an escaped prisoner.

Girth
Episode 5. Girth
2007-10-31 · 43 min

In this Halloween episode, Emerson and Olive track down "the ghost" who's been killing the jockeys at the old race arena where Olive used to race as a former jockey herself. With help from Ned and Chuck, they try to solve the big mystery.

Bitches
Episode 6. Bitches
2007-11-14 · 42 min

Ned, Chuck, Emerson and Olive tackle a murder mystery involving a man who was murdered over a dog and claims to have been killed by his wife. Problem is, he's a polygamist with four wives.

Smell of Success
Episode 7. Smell of Success
2007-11-21 · 44 min

Ned, Emerson, and Chuck's next case involves an olfactory assistant who was killed when her scratch-'n'-sniff book combusted.

Bitter Sweets
Episode 8. Bitter Sweets
2007-11-28 · 43 min

Emerson, Ned and Chuck investigate the death of Tony DiNapoli, who appears to have been strangled by a woman. Meanwhile, business at the Pie Hole plummets when a new candy store opens in town. Alfredo Aldarisio returns and continues to…

Corpsicle
Episode 9. Corpsicle
2007-12-12 · 43 min

Chuck learns the most shocking secret of her life and refuses to forgive Ned. In order to take the Pie Maker's mind off of Chuck, Emerson gets him to solve the mystery of a man killing life insurance agents and hiding them in snow banks.…

Season 2
Season 2
13 episodes · 2008
Bzzzzzzzzz!
Episode 1. Bzzzzzzzzz!
2008-10-01 · 44 min

Emerson is hired by Dusty Fitz, whose wife Kentucky died in a tragic bee-related incident. She was involved with another man who Dusty claims she was preparing to leave, and Dusty suspects murder. Meanwhile, Lily helps Olive move to a…

Circus, Circus
Episode 2. Circus, Circus
2008-10-08 · 44 min

Georgeann Heaps hires Emerson to find her missing daughter, and the trail leads to a circus. Meanwhile Ned and Chuck try to deal with the change in their relationship, and Olive considers staying longer at the nunnery.

Bad Habits
Episode 3. Bad Habits
2008-10-15 · 44 min

Olive calls on the Pie Maker and Emerson to solve a suspicious suicide of a fellow nun that she believes is murder. Meanwhile, Chuck considers what to do in the present with her new lease on life.

Frescorts
Episode 4. Frescorts
2008-10-22 · 44 min

A sexy new client hires Emerson to solve the murder of her best friend Joe. Emerson and the gang discover that Joe had a lot of best friends... and they all had a reason to kill Joe.

Dim Sum Lose Some
Episode 5. Dim Sum Lose Some
2008-10-29 · 43 min

The wife of a murdered chef, Bao Di, hires Emerson to investigate the death of her husband. They soon discover that Bao was heavily in debt, and wagered his daughter Mei's hand in marriage to cover his markers.

Oh Oh Oh… It's Magic
Episode 6. Oh Oh Oh… It's Magic
2008-11-19 · 44 min

Ned agrees to help a famed magician whose animal assistants are being killed off; Dwight Dixon tries to cozy up to Lily and Vivian, but Lily is suspicious of his motives.

Robbing Hood
Episode 7. Robbing Hood
2008-11-26 · 42 min

A lawyer for the late Gustav Hoffer suspects his client's death was not part of a robbery gone wrong as was reported, but rather murder. He hires Emerson Cod and Ned to find out who killed Hoffer.

Comfort Food
Episode 8. Comfort Food
2008-12-03 · 43 min

Ned brings back to life Colonel Likken, who was mysteriously deep fried to death. His world-famous original recipe has gone missing and Likken asks Ned, Emerson, and Chuck to find who stole it.

The Legend of Merle McQuoddy
Episode 9. The Legend of Merle McQuoddy
2008-12-10 · 44 min

Chuck and Ned deal with the shocking return of someone from their past; Emerson and Olive investigate the death of a lighthouse keeper.

The Norwegians
Episode 10. The Norwegians
2008-12-17 · 42 min

After Emerson turns down Vivian's request to look into Dwight Dixon's sudden disappearance, she turns to another P.I. team led by Magnus Olsdatter, Emerson's bitter rival.

Window Dressed to Kill
Episode 11. Window Dressed to Kill
2009-05-30 · 44 min

Erin Embry, window dresser extraordinaire for Dicker’s department store, is killed and Chuck manages to get the Pie Hole gang on the case. Erin’s fans think it was her window-dressing partner, Coco Juniper, who did the deed. Apparently…

Water & Power
Episode 12. Water & Power
2009-06-06 · 44 min

Lila Robinson, a beautiful grifter from Emerson’s past resurfaces, revealing a painful secret that Emerson has kept hidden all these years. Now on the lam for murder, Lila promises Emerson a quid pro quo if he clears her name.

Kerplunk
Episode 13. Kerplunk
2009-06-13 · 44 min

The past becomes the present when one half of the Darling Mermaid Darlings’ arch rivals, the Aquadolls, is killed. In order to find the murderer, the Darling Mermaid Darlings must come out of retirement with Ned as their manager and Olive…

Cast by season
Lee Pace
Lee Pace
Ned
Anna Friel
Anna Friel
Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles
Chi McBride
Chi McBride
Emerson Cod
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth
Olive Snook
Swoosie Kurtz
Swoosie Kurtz
Lily Charles
Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene
Vivian Charles
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Field Cate
Young Ned
Jim Dale
Jim Dale
Narrator (voice)
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