L.A. Law
"The professionals who will take you into the jungles of American justice"
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
Becker begins the day dealing with some irate clients and finds himself at the wrong end of a gun; Melman discovers a de…
E2
Kuzak pursues a very attractive deputy district attorney, Grace Van Owen, even though she's engaged to marry the man man…
E3
Sifuentes is outraged when he learns that the motive behind an invitation to dinner at the Brackman house was to enlist …
E4
McKenzie's disappointment in the greedy law school students whose class he addresses leads him to offer a clerkship to a…
E5
Kuzak fights for his terminally ill client's right to be cryogenically preserved after death; Becker whets his appetite …
E6
Van Owen faces hairy jokes from her colleagues and the anger of her ex-fiance after bailing out on her wedding; Kuzak re…
E7
Kuzak slyly sticks Sifuentes with a dog of a case, but it's Sifuentes who's sitting pretty after he discovers the teeth …
E8
Van Owen's ex-fiance gets his revenge by humiliating her during a campaign appearance, thus sabotaging her race for the …
E9
Becker, Markowitz and Kelsey bicker over who will inherit Chaney's office; Van Owen prosecutes a man charged with the me…
E10
Kuzak gets nightmares over handling an appeal for a man sentenced to death; Van Owen helps Gilliam get a reprieve for Ap…
E11
An increasingly unstable Hershberg asks Kuzak to take over the case of a woman who shot a police officer; Rogoff reassig…
E12
La Rosa digs up the ammunition Kelsey needs to succeed in representing an inventor in a contract dispute over patent ro…
E13
Overburdened with Hershberg's caseload, and haunted with guilt over his death, Kuzak snaps at his colleagues, pays a hea…
E14
McKenzie gets Kuzak sprung from jail; after Brackman's wife discovers his infidelity and serves him with divorce papers,…
E15
The partners consider whether they should merge with a large New York firm; Kuzak and Van Owen bemoan the scheduling dif…
E16
Van Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after confro…
E17
When a pharmaceutical firm employs a jury consulting firm to assist him in a product liability suit, Kuzak becomes engag…
E18
Becker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty un…
E19
Sifuentes tries to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat by responding to the advances made by an attractive juror af…
E20
Kuzak faces a tough opponent in civil court when he represents a college student suing for damages after being raped; th…
E21
Markowitz and Kuzak join forces to help a fisherman when the IRS confiscates his boat in a tax dispute; Sifuentes convin…
E22
Becker represents the wife of a children's television show host who sues her husband for divorce after catching him in b…
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