L.A. Law (1986)
The professionals who will take you into the jungles of American justice
Overview
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.
Created by: Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: Pilot
Sep 15, 1986
Becker 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 crea...
Episode 2: Those Lips, That Eye
Oct 03, 1986
Kuzak pursues a very attractive deputy district attorney, Grace Van Owen, even though she's engaged to marry the man managing her campaign for a ...
Episode 3: The House of the Rising Flan
Oct 10, 1986
Sifuentes 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 imm...
Episode 4: The Princess and the Wiener King
Oct 17, 1986
McKenzie's disappointment in the greedy law school students whose class he addresses leads him to offer a clerkship to a student who appears to b...
Episode 5: Simian Chanted Evening
Oct 24, 1986
Kuzak fights for his terminally ill client's right to be cryogenically preserved after death; Becker whets his appetite for entertainment law whe...
Episode 6: Slum Enchanted Evening
Oct 31, 1986
Van 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 anc...
Episode 7: Raiders of the Lost Bark
Nov 07, 1986
Kuzak 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 p...
Episode 8: Gibbon Take
Nov 14, 1986
Van Owen's ex-fiance gets his revenge by humiliating her during a campaign appearance, thus sabotaging her race for the bench; when Kelsey shakes...
Episode 9: The Venus Butterfly
Nov 21, 1986
Becker, Markowitz and Kelsey bicker over who will inherit Chaney's office; Van Owen prosecutes a man charged with the mercy killing of his termin...
Episode 10: Fry Me to the Moon
Dec 04, 1986
Kuzak gets nightmares over handling an appeal for a man sentenced to death; Van Owen helps Gilliam get a reprieve for Appleton; Melman comforts Becker...
Episode 11: El Sid
Dec 11, 1986
An 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 ...
Episode 12: Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer
Dec 18, 1986
La Rosa digs up the ammunition Kelsey needs to succeed in representing an inventor in a contract dispute over patent royalties; Kuzak is horrified as...
Episode 13: Prince Kuzak in a Can
Jan 08, 1987
Overburdened with Hershberg's caseload, and haunted with guilt over his death, Kuzak snaps at his colleagues, pays a heavy price for the way he h...
Episode 14: The Douglas Fur Ball
Jan 15, 1987
McKenzie gets Kuzak sprung from jail; after Brackman's wife discovers his infidelity and serves him with divorce papers, he begs her to take him ...
Episode 15: December Bribe
Jan 22, 1987
The partners consider whether they should merge with a large New York firm; Kuzak and Van Owen bemoan the scheduling difficulties that keep them apart...
Episode 16: Beef Jerky
Feb 05, 1987
Van Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after confronting her with her husband...
Episode 17: Becker on the Rox
Feb 12, 1987
When 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 ...
Episode 18: Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover
Feb 19, 1987
Becker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty until he discovers that the...
Episode 19: The Grace of Wrath
Feb 26, 1987
Sifuentes 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 cli...
Episode 20: Sparky Brackman, R.I.P.
Mar 26, 1987
Kuzak faces a tough opponent in civil court when he represents a college student suing for damages after being raped; the ongoing conflict between Bra...
Episode 21: Oy Vey! Wilderness!
Apr 02, 1987
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 a...
Episode 22: Pigmalion
Apr 09, 1987
Becker represents the wife of a children's television show host who sues her husband for divorce after catching him in bed with an unlikely partn...
Cast
Corbin Bernsen
Arnie Becker
Jill Eikenberry
Ann Kelsey
Alan Rachins
Douglas Brackman
Michael Tucker
Stuart Markowitz
Richard Dysart
Leland McKenzie
Blair Underwood
Jonathan Rollins
Larry Drake
Benny Stulwicz
John Spencer
Tommy Mullaney
A Martinez
Daniel Morales
Alexandra Powers
Jane Halliday
Debi Mazar
Denise Iannello
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