L.A. Law 1986
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.
Episodes
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S1·E1 PilotBecker begins the day dealing with some irate clients and finds himself at the wrong end of a gun; Melman discovers a dead partner; Kuzak finds a creative way to see…
S1·E2 Those Lips, That EyeKuzak pursues a very attractive deputy district attorney, Grace Van Owen, even though she's engaged to marry the man managing her campaign for a seat on the bench;…
S1·E3 The House of the Rising FlanSifuentes is outraged when he learns that the motive behind an invitation to dinner at the Brackman house was to enlist his aid in perpetrating an immigration fraud;…
S1·E4 The Princess and the Wiener KingMcKenzie's disappointment in the greedy law school students whose class he addresses leads him to offer a clerkship to a student who appears to be more socially…
S1·E5 Simian Chanted EveningKuzak fights for his terminally ill client's right to be cryogenically preserved after death; Becker whets his appetite for entertainment law when he brokers an…
S1·E6 Slum Enchanted EveningVan Owen faces hairy jokes from her colleagues and the anger of her ex-fiance after bailing out on her wedding; Kuzak represents a television news anchor suing for sex…
S1·E7 Raiders of the Lost BarkKuzak slyly sticks Sifuentes with a dog of a case, but it's Sifuentes who's sitting pretty after he discovers the teeth in the matter, and pulls out an unexpected win;…
S1·E8 Gibbon TakeVan Owen's ex-fiance gets his revenge by humiliating her during a campaign appearance, thus sabotaging her race for the bench; when Kelsey shakes a trust's money tree to…
S1·E9 The Venus ButterflyBecker, Markowitz and Kelsey bicker over who will inherit Chaney's office; Van Owen prosecutes a man charged with the mercy killing of his terminally ill lover; to…
S1·E10 Fry Me to the MoonKuzak gets nightmares over handling an appeal for a man sentenced to death; Van Owen helps Gilliam get a reprieve for Appleton; Melman comforts Becker when his parents…
S1·E11 El SidAn increasingly unstable Hershberg asks Kuzak to take over the case of a woman who shot a police officer; Rogoff reassigns Van Owen to night court as punishment for…
S1·E12 Sidney, the Dead-Nosed ReindeerLa Rosa digs up the ammunition Kelsey needs to succeed in representing an inventor in a contract dispute over patent royalties; Kuzak is horrified as he witnesses a…
S1·E13 Prince Kuzak in a CanOverburdened with Hershberg's caseload, and haunted with guilt over his death, Kuzak snaps at his colleagues, pays a heavy price for the way he handles a manslaughter…
S1·E14 The Douglas Fur BallMcKenzie gets Kuzak sprung from jail; after Brackman's wife discovers his infidelity and serves him with divorce papers, he begs her to take him back when he discovers…
S1·E15 December BribeThe partners consider whether they should merge with a large New York firm; Kuzak and Van Owen bemoan the scheduling difficulties that keep them apart; McKenzie…
S1·E16 Beef JerkyVan Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after confronting her with her husband's infidelity despite…
S1·E17 Becker on the RoxWhen a pharmaceutical firm employs a jury consulting firm to assist him in a product liability suit, Kuzak becomes engaged in a contest of style over substance until he…
S1·E18 Fifty Ways to Floss Your LoverBecker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty until he discovers that their relationship will…
S1·E19 The Grace of WrathSifuentes tries to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat by responding to the advances made by an attractive juror after his elderly pot smoker client is found…
S1·E20 Sparky Brackman, R.I.P.Kuzak faces a tough opponent in civil court when he represents a college student suing for damages after being raped; the ongoing conflict between Brackman and his…
S1·E21 Oy Vey! Wilderness!Markowitz and Kuzak join forces to help a fisherman when the IRS confiscates his boat in a tax dispute; Sifuentes convinces Feldman to drop criminal assault charges…
S1·E22 PigmalionBecker represents the wife of a children's television show host who sues her husband for divorce after catching him in bed with an unlikely partner; Brackman and Kerris…Cast
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Lillian Lehman
Judge Mary Harcourt
K
Keith Mills
Judge Walter Green
L
Lorinne Vozoff
Judge Roberta Harbin
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Stan Kamber
Judge Harlan Shubow
G
Gerald Anthony
Ross Burnett
Crew
- Creator
- Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher
- Producers
- Ellen S. Pressman, Terry Louise Fisher, Judith Parker, Scott Goldstein, Phillip Goldfarb, Michele Gallery, Michael M. Robin, Alice West, John Hill, Elodie Keene, Carol Flint, Alan Brennert, Robert Breech, Don Behrns, John Masius, Gregory Hoblit, Mark Tinker
- Executive Producers
- William M. Finkelstein, Patricia Green, Rick Wallace, David E. Kelley, Steven Bochco
- Production Design
- Michael L. Mayer
Details
- First air date
- Sep 15, 1986
- Last air date
- May 19, 1994
- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes
- 171
- Network
- NBC
- Status
- Ended
- Studios
- 20th Century Fox Television, Steven Bochco Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
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