Episode guide
Pushing Daisies
22 episodes · 2 seasons · 2007–2009 · ABC
Season
Season 1
9 episodes
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S01E01 Pie-lette Ned uses his unique powers to bring his childhood crush, Chuck, back to life and solve her murder. But he is also forced to keep his distance from her, because if he touches her, she will be dead forever.
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S01E02 Dummy The team investigates an unusual car manufacturer after a murder victim claims that he was killed by a crash test dummy.
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S01E03 The Fun in Funeral Emerson asks Ned to bring the funeral director he killed back to life, knowing that it will expose the secret about why Chuck is still alive. Olive also learns about Ned and Chuck's secret while delivering a pie to Chuck's aunts.
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S01E04 Pigeon Emerson, Ned and Chuck are on a case of stolen jewelry goods, and solving a murder/suicide case, as well as finding out about a missing prisoner.
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S01E05 Girth In this Halloween episode, Emerson and Olive track down a "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.
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S01E06 Bitches When a dog breeder is poisoned to death, suspicion falls upon his four wives as well as a businessman who was planning to market his new breed of dog.
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S01E07 Smell of Success A woman dies in a scratch-and-sniff book explosion. Was the scientist who wrote the book the target of the explosion, or was this part of an intentional publicity stunt gone horribly wrong?
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S01E08 Bitter Sweets The owners of a new candy store hope to put The Pie Hole out of business. And when one of the store's owners turns up dead, Ned is wrongfully charged with murder.
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S01E09 Corpsicle Ned tries to make amends with Chuck after his confession, and Emerson finds a corpse in ice.
Season
Season 2
13 episodes
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S02E01 Bzzzzzzzzz! The gang tries to solve a murder of a woman who works for a company that makes beauty products from honey.
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S02E02 Circus Circus The Pie Maker and his friends solve a mystery in the most unlikeliest of places: the circus.
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S02E03 Bad Habits Ned, Chuck, and Emerson go to Olive's nunnery to solve a murder. However, Olive is nervous that she will reveal to Chuck the secret identity of her real mother.
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S02E04 Frescorts Emerson's mom comes to town just in time to help the team investigate the murder of an employee at a professional friendship service business. Chuck and Olive move in together after Olive comes back, but how long will it last?
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S02E05 Dim Sum Lose Some While the gang investigates a murder at the Dim Sum restaurant below Emerson's office, a woman from Emerson's past reenters his life. Meanwhile, Olive and Chuck discover that Ned has twin stepbrothers.
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S02E06 Oh Oh Oh...It's Magic The team investigates the disappearance of the magician who took Ned's two half-brothers under his wing. Dwight Dixon comes to Lily and Vivian searching for a pocketwatch, and Chuck tries to get Lily to confess that she's her mother.
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S02E07 Robbing Hood The detectives connect the death of a millionaire to a modern day Robin Hood, while also trying to figure out what Dwight is really up to.
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S02E08 Comfort Food Chuck doesn't tell Ned that she kept her father alive after Ned brought him back, and Dwight Dixon dies because of it. Meanwhile, Ned and Olive are left to solve the murder of one of the contestants at a bake-off.
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S02E09 The Legend of Merle McQuoddy Emerson and Olive investigate the murder of an infamous lighthouse keeper's wife, while Chuck's father schemes to keep Ned and Chuck separated forever.
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S02E10 The Norwegians While Ned and Chuck try to locate the whereabouts of Chuck's father, Vivian hires a crack team of Norwegian investigators to help find Dwight Dixon.
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S02E11 Window Dressed to Kill Ned refuses to help Chuck and Emerson solve the murder of a department store window display artist, and is forced to pose as Olive's fiancé when Olive's childhood "kidnappers" arrive after they escape from prison.
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S02E12 Water and Power The death of the man who runs the local dam puts Emerson on a trail that leads back to his ex, and perhaps his long-lost daughter.
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S02E13 Kerplunk One-half of Vivian and Lily's old rival synchronized swimming team is eaten by a shark during a show, which provides Vivian and Lily with an opportunity to revive their career.