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L.A. Law
The high-powered law firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak handles both criminal and civil cases, usually for high fees. However, office politics and romance often distract the legal staffers from matters in the courtroom.
- Created by:
- Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher
- Cast:
- Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- NBC
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 6
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 1.0Something Old, Something Nude
1991-10-10 · 48mFacing financial woes, the firm is forced to share office space with an entertainment lawyer; Van Owen's high-profile client is charged with murdering her abusive husband.
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E02
Episode 2
TV or Not TV
1991-10-17 · 45mVan Owen elicits emotional testimony from Elsa Chandler; the Government's handling of the MIA issue following the Vietnam War comes under fire in a family feud over a presumed-dead Air Force captain.
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E03
Episode 3
Do the Spike Thing
1991-10-31 · 45mBrackman is the unwitting victim in a gay-bashing incident; Kelsey defends a logging-company executive in a case involving a tree-spiking activist; C.J.'s father comes to town on a bender.
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E04
Episode 4
Spleen It to Me, Lucy
1991-11-07 · 46mZoey's case threatens to move a death-row schizophrenic closer to an execution date; a splenectomy patient challenges a doctor's right to profit from her donor cells; Bloom bulldozes Roxanne in a battle over office turf.
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E05
Episode 5
Monkey on My Back Lot
1991-11-14 · 48mA tenant at a housing project where guns have been banned sues for the right to defend himself; a recovering addict faces reproductive restrictions; McKenzie arbitrates a divorce between two animal trainers.
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E06
Episode 6
Badfellas
1991-11-21 · 47mAs new D.A. Ruby Thomas takes office, the firm's reputation is tainted when Frank Kittredge defends a mob boss; Markowitz challenges an exhibition-basketball team's firing of its female opponents.
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E07
Episode 7
Lose the Boss
1991-12-12 · 45mBrackman's former sister-in-law sues to get the school board to pay for her disabled son's private education; Bloom defends an overweight man accused of assaulting a refreshment-stand owner; an overworked Gwen fights Becker's hypocrisy.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 8.0The Nut Before Christmas
1991-12-19 · 47mC.J. takes a personal interest in a case involving a friend, a divorcée whose lesbian affair foments a custody battle for her kids; Brackman can't seem to muster staff enthusiasm for the annual holiday party.
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E09
Episode 9
Guess Who's Coming To Murder?
1992-01-09 · 45mMullaney is pitted against Zoey in his defense of an accused serial killer and rapist; a client's sanity comes into focus during the handling of a movie deal; Bloom finds evidence of McKenzie's indiscretion.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 8.0Back to the Suture
1992-01-16 · 45mA patient paralyzed after surgery sues her physician; Benny petitions for custody of a homeless youth; not everyone is supportive of Brackman's courting Veronica.
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E11
Episode 11
All About Sleaze
1992-01-30 · 47mC.J.'s client accuses the Government of negligence in the rape-murder of his wife; Becker's ego is cut down to size over the airwaves; Mullaney's presence stirs up trouble between Zoey and Rollins.
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E12
Episode 12
I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz
1992-02-13 · 45mMullaney co-chairs a suit by Honduran farmers who claim U.S. pesticides made them sterile; Zoey helps a co-worker confront her repressed memories; Markowitz meets the actress of his childhood dreams.
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E13
Episode 13
Steal It Again, Sam
1992-02-20 · 45mSifuentes visits the firm and finds that his failed relationship with Van Owen demands his attention; Kittredge takes on a legal dispute involving a perfume queen and her protégé.
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E14
Episode 14
Diet, Diet, My Darling
1992-02-27 · 45mFlanagan brings suit against her father; McKenzie arbitrates a dispute between a cookbook author and her student; Rollins' dad comes to him for help.
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E15
Episode 15
Great Balls Afire
1992-03-19 · 45mA Jewish philanthropist halts funding for a medical researcher who is using data from Nazi experiments; the Markowitzes anticipate the worst from a girl claiming to be Stuart's daughter; Becker's fidelity is put to the test by Julie.
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E16
Episode 16
From Here to Paternity
1992-03-26 · 45mThe partners disagree about Van Owen's defending a celebrity baseball player on rape charges; DePalma becomes embroiled in a sting operation on a corrupt judge; Markowitz offers Sarah a job at the firm despite Kelsey's reservations, then tries too hard to win her affections; Roxanne moves out after Rayburn deceives her about Becker's fidelity.
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E17
Episode 17
P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead
1992-04-16 · 45mBecker's shrink drops dead; the Brackmans use Alexander to call one another's bluff; Kelsey fires Ned after he makes a pass at her; McKenzie chastises DePalma for how he participated in the sting operation, but comes to the young attorney's aid when a member of the bench exacts his own punishment for DePalma's role in exposing Kelton; during Susan Bloom's wedding, Alexander and Sam get into trouble, and Gwen and Kittredge get closer; Kelsey is taken into custody when she protests the I.N.S. arrest of Matthew's new nanny; Becker tries to regain Roxanne's trust.
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E18
Episode 18
Love in Bloom
1992-04-23 · 45mA multimillionaire tries to buy his way out of a murder charge; parental concerns compound for the Brackmans and Benny when Alexander and Sam end up in juvenile court; and an INS review interrupts Bloom's marital bliss.
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E19
Episode 19
Silence of the Lambskins
1992-04-30 · 45mMullaney works with a feisty young prosecutor when he takes an out-of-town assignment as the lead prosecutor in the case of a missing woman presumed murdered by her co-worker during a theft from the bank where they both worked; Markowitz represents a condom manufacturer whose flag-emblazoned wares were seized by Customs under federal obscenity laws; Becker's representation of a woman with Alzheimer's whose daughter is vying for conservatorship rights with her mother's much-younger new husband gets torpedoed by Frank Kittredge when he leaks Gwen's pillow talk about the case to the woman's daughter, with whom he's also having an affair; Zoey wonders about the future of their relationship when Jonathan considers whether to accept the offer of a short-term appointment to the city council that could lead to a long-term future in politics.
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E20
Episode 20
Beauty and the Breast
1992-05-07 · 45mFrank is fired for his role in destroying Becker's case; C.J. represents a movie executive who's being sued by an actress for insisting that she get breast implants that later proved faulty; Zoey faces off against a jailhouse lawyer in the trial of a convict accused of murdering another inmate, and unwittingly helps to shape her adversary's future; Sarah comes running to her father when she has an argument with Karen over her new, older boyfriend, leading to fireworks among the women in Markowitz's life; Bloom hides her true feelings about the future of her marriage from her new groom.
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E21
Episode 21
Double Breasted Suit
1992-05-14 · 45mA widower sues a psychic, claiming he was bilked; C.J. grows friendly with the opposing cousel in the breast-implant case.
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E22
Episode 22
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1992-05-21 · 47mJonathan dumps Zoey; the Brackmans decide to reconcile and remarry; Victor Sifuentes returns to reclaim Van Owens' hand; Zoey's decision to advance her career by perjuring herself on the stand has tragic consequences when her testimony tips the scales in the case of a former inmate who sues the federal prison system after he contracts AIDS from a prison rape; Roxanne learns a hard lesson about Becker's selfishness and lack of responsibility when they discover that one of his former lovers is dying from AIDS.
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Corbin Bernsen
Arnie Becker
Jill Eikenberry
Ann Kelsey
Alan Rachins
Douglas Brackman
Michael Tucker
Stuart Markowitz
Blair Underwood
Jonathan Rollins
Larry Drake
Benny Stulwicz
John Spencer
Tommy Mullaney
A Martinez
Daniel Morales
Richard Dysart
Leland McKenzie
Alan Rosenberg
Eli Levinson