10. Murphy Brown
On The Air For: 11 seasons
Est. Star’s Salary: $250,000/episode (Candice Bergen)*
Running for a whopping eleven seasons, Murphy Brown was a unique sitcom starring Candice Bergen as an investigative journalist and television news anchor. The show dealt with rather tricky topics, addressing the main character’s alcoholism from episode one.
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As the lead of the incredibly successful show, Candice Bergen brought home $250,000 per episode by the end of the show’s eleven-season run, which made her one of the highest paid people on television, man or woman, when the final seasons aired in the late ‘90s.