Pushing Daisies
Season 1
9 listed hours · 2007–2009 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
A pie-maker wakes the dead with a touch he can never use on the woman he loves. Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies is candy-colored noir — storybook frames, Kristin Chenoweth in the margins, tragedy under the frosting — canceled too sweet, still the sugar rush to chase.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Pushing Daisies (2007–2009) on ABC as the first listed season of 2 — 9 listed hours, 2007-10-03–2007-12-12 from “Pie-lette” (S01E01) to “Corpsicle” (S01E09). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Pie-lette
Pie-lette is the dessert-pilot: a pie-maker's forbidden touch, candy-colored noir, Kristin Chenoweth in the margins, tragedy under the frosting.
- S01E06 Bitches
Bitches is the blunt mid-one title inside a pastel world — Fuller's noir joke, the candy still wrapping a detective engine.
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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.
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