Season 1 (2007)
Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, this season consisted of only nine episodes. The episodes aired a day earlier in Canada on CTV before their air dates in the United States.
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
U.S. viewers (million) |
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| 1 | 1 | "Pie-lette" | Barry Sonnenfeld | Bryan Fuller | October 3, 2007 (2007-10-03) | 276027 | 12.83 |
| Ned owns and operates a pie bakery and seems to lead a perfectly normal life. This, however, is far from the truth. Ned can, with the touch of his hand, wake people from the dead. But another touch will kill them again, for good, and if he keeps them alive for more than a minute, someone else in close proximity dies. He decides to use this ability of his to solve crimes, but it grows complicated when he gives life to his childhood crush, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, and decides to let her keep living. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Dummy" | Barry Sonnenfeld | Peter Ocko | October 10, 2007 (2007-10-10) | 3T6501 | 10.07 |
| Emerson gets annoyed with Chuck tailing himself and Ned on their cases, while Ned refuses to share secrets with Chuck. For this instance, Ned revives Bernard Slaybeck, an auto safety specialist who was murdered in a hit-and-run. Before he can explain his death, Chuck breaks in with romantic questions. With the minute almost up, Bernard asks the team to give his last wishes to Jeanine, a young woman who worked with him at Dandy Lion Industries. Soon, a mysterious murder plot involving a crash dummy costume, bodies in the testing room, and a car that runs on dandelion fuel comes to light. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Fun in Funeral" | Paul A. Edwards | Bryan Fuller | October 17, 2007 (2007-10-17) | 3T6502 | 9.75 |
| Ned and Chuck speak to Lawrence Schatz, who they find out died one minute after Ned brought Chuck back to life. Meanwhile, Chuck decides to stay true to her original threat of baking anti-depressants into her aunts' food, in the form of Ned's pies. Olive unwillingly becomes the messenger in Chuck's plan and accidentally stumbles onto a secret about her unrequited lover's love. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Pigeon" | Adam Kane | Rina Mimoun | October 24, 2007 (2007-10-24) | 3T6503 | 9.45 |
| A plane crash into an apartment building leaves the trio with a case—did the pilot commit suicide?—while Chuck finds herself drawn to the man who appears to be the sole survivor (Dash Mihok), much to Ned's distress. Meanwhile, Olive takes a wounded messenger pigeon to the aunts for help. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Girth" | Peter O'Fallon | Katherine Lingenfelter | October 31, 2007 (2007-10-31) | 3T6504 | 8.58 |
| 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. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Bitches" | Allan Kroeker | Chad Gomez Creasey & Dara Resnik Creasey | November 14, 2007 (2007-11-14) | 3T6505 | 8.88 |
| When a deceased man tells Ned that his wife killed him after giving him a cup of coffee, he fails to mention that he is a polygamist, making the case harder than it sounds, with matters only becoming more complicated when Emerson falls for the prime suspect (Christine Adams) and Ned is left contemplating starting a physical relationship with Olive to complement the emotional one he has with Chuck. | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Smell of Success" | Lawrence Trilling | Scott Nimerfro | November 21, 2007 (2007-11-21) | 3T6506 | 7.52 |
| The trio is called on to investigate the case of Anita Gray, loyal assistant to the olfactory scientist and aspiring novelist Napoleon LeNez. Sitting at her desk, Anita was leaning over to use her heightened sense of smell on a scratch-and-sniff book when suddenly, an explosion erupted from the book, completely engulfing her. Additional attempts on Lenez's life and incriminating evidence leads to the suspicion of Oscar Vibenius (Paul Reubens), former lab partner and bitter rival of Lenez. This rivalry leads to the belief that Vibenius is trying to prevent Lenez's book from being published. Elsewhere, Olive attempts to get Lily and Vivian back in the water. And, Vibenius begins an obsession with Chuck. | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Bitter Sweets" | Allan Kroeker | Abby Gewanter | November 28, 2007 (2007-11-28) | 3T6507 | 10.18 |
| Emerson, Ned and Chuck investigate the death of Tony DiNapoli, who appears to have been strangled by a woman. However, when Ned brings Tony back to life to find out who killed him, Tony claims it was Burly Bruce Carter, via the hands of his "girlfriend" who is a RealDoll. Meanwhile, business at the Pie Hole plummets when a new candy store run by Dilly (Molly Shannon) and Billy Balsam (Mike White) opens in town with the situation becoming more complicated when Ned discovers one of the owners dead in a large vat of candy. And Alfredo (Raúl Esparza) continues to pursue an oblivious Olive who, herself, continues to pine after the Pie Maker. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Corpsicle" | Brian Dannelly | Lisa Joy | December 12, 2007 (2007-12-12) | 3T6508 | 6.84 |
| When Chuck disappears after discovering Ned’s connection to her father’s death, Ned finds her with Olive, but she refuses to go back home with him. Meanwhile, Oscar Vibenius continues his attempt to figure out why Chuck smells so different. It’s New Year’s, and Emerson and Ned investigate the death of an adjuster from the Über-Life Life Insurance Agency who was found in a snow bank. Lily suffers from hallucinations after Olive inadvertently overdoses a pie with Chuck's homeopathic mood enhancer. |
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