Total Seasons :5Total Episodes : 101
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.
A civil-rights issue hinges on the casting choice for a version of "Annie"; a child-custody battle turns ugly; an adultery case involves Crane.
Air Date : 2004-10-03
An ex-lover haunts Shore, who secures the woman's release from a psychiatric hospital where she was confined after trying to kill him. Elsewhere, Crane fights an opposing counsel's sanction charges.
Air Date : 2004-10-10
A client of Crane, Poole & Schmidt want to build a shopping mall on an area where salmon are spawning and Denny’s son is the environmental lawyer defending the area. Alan and Lori take a sexual harassment case and learn that Christine, whom he recently helped get released from a mental institution and who he now fears is stalking him, is opposing counsel. Sally has her first trial case where she defends a man who is accused of stealing a wallet.
Air Date : 2004-10-17
A cop killing centers on a haughty defendant, reluctantly represented by Lori and zealously by a firm veteran, who has been a patient in a mental facility. Meanwhile, Shore plays hardball with a witness in a shoplifting case involving a kleptomaniac CEO.
Air Date : 2004-10-24
Seniors take on a drug firm in a class-action case handled by the grandstanding Crane. Also: revenge motives are raised in a murder trial; and medical ethics are at issue in a civil suit.
Air Date : 2004-10-31
Shore's dream lover from college, now wed to a slick mayoral candidate, hires Shore to block his opponent's provocative TV-ad campaign. Meanwhile, a power struggle embroils Crane.
Air Date : 2004-11-07
A showcase for the wily, agitating Alan Shore, who badgers a dotty judge; romances Tara, whom he surreptitiously helps in a thorny criminal case; and backs Crane, who's been arrested for solicitation.
Air Date : 2004-11-21
Alan help a department store Santa sue to get his job back after he is terminated for being a transvestite. Brad bets Alan that he won't win. A therapist seeks Lori's help when one of his patients fantasizes about killing his ex-wife.
Air Date : 2004-11-28
Alan and Denny defend a drug company that is being sued by a woman who states they provided false reasoning when they took her off of an experimental pill that was a possible cure for her sickness. Alan and Denny discover a shocking secret that could make or break their case and because of that, they become at odds with each other on how to proceed. Lori discovers that Tara's new information for their case would win it for them, but the way she retrieved it could cost them their case and their careers. Lori learns a secret about Brad.
Air Date : 2004-12-12
Lori and Brad defend a woman who is accused of murdering her husband and his mistress while they were in bed together. Alan's life is endangered when he helps a woman whose ex-husband plans to kidnap their children.
Air Date : 2004-12-19
A Sudanese native wants to sue the U.S. government for the lack of action taken against the mayhem happening in his country and Paul looks to Lori to take the case. Founding partner Shirley Schmidt arrives with a mission to bring order to the firm. While making herself known, she has to deal with Denny who does not wanting her there, help with Lori's extremely high profile case, and learns that she has to keep her eye on Alan. Alan ends up defending a man who killed his mother in a fit of rage but by accident.
Air Date : 2005-01-09
Lori, along with Denny and Shirley, defends a school superintendent who fired two science teachers because they refused to teach creationism and is now being sued by them. Alan learns his assistant has expressed concern about their work relationship. While dealing with that issue, Alan discovers that his client Bernard Ferrion, who killed his mother, needs legal help again. One of the members of the firm is fired and learns that a close associate is not too keen on lending a supportive hand.
Air Date : 2005-01-16
Brad becomes attracted to his client who being sued for having a relationship with her boss merely for financial purposes. To make matters more difficult, Brad convinces himself that she is lying about her being a lesbian. Alan is asked to second chair on Denny's trial case where a doctor is being sued for prescribing a drug that has not been FDA approved. While working on that, Denny is on a personal mission to prove that he is a competent attorney. Meanwhile, the staff tries to deal with Alan's out-spoken new assistant, Catherine Piper.
Air Date : 2005-01-23
While out with Tara, Alan ends up causing a bar room brawl and as a result, becomes arrested for conspiracy to commit assault and battery. Shirley and Denny represent a man whose steakhouse is being put out of business because the public wants to ban red meat for fear of Mad Cow disease.
Air Date : 2005-02-13
Shirley asks Alan Shore to use his odious lawyering to help her defend a police officer accused of torture. Donny Crane returns and is the opposing counsel in Denny's case, with Chelina Hall as second chair, where a woman wants to sue her former boyfriend for saying no to her at the alter. For Denny, this is an easy case, for Donny this is to settle a score with Denny for letting him believe for 25 years that he was his father. Meanwhile, Bernard Ferrion is befriended by Catherine and Alan finds variance with that.
Air Date : 2005-02-20
Milton Bombay is asking the courts to allow him to be frozen until another century so he can continue his legacy of being a great lawyer and needs Denny and Shirley to defend him. Alan and Chelina defends a high school student who accuses his teacher of censorship when he blocks out a news station on the school's televisions.
Air Date : 2005-03-13
Chelina asks Alan to assist her in Texas because her former client is getting executed but may be innocent of the crime. An old friend of Denny and Shirley asks them for legal representation when she charged with having sexual encounters for a fee. Lori files a complaint about Denny with Shirley and Paul and they seriously consider doing something about it; especially when they suspect he performed an unethical act on his recent case.
Air Date : 2005-03-20
(Alan Shore)
(Denny Crane)
(Shirley Schmidt)
(Brad Chase)
(Tara Wilson)
(Lori Colson)
(Sally Heep)
(Paul Lewiston)
(Catherine Piper)
(Judge Paul Resnick)
(Chelina Hall)
(Nora Jacobs)
(Judge Clark Brown)
(Bernard Ferrion)
(Reverend Al Sharpton)
(Judge Dale Wallace)
(A.D.A. William Preston)
(Edwin Poole)
(Secretary)
(Judge Peter Harding)
(Attorney Braxton Mason)
(Judge James Billmeyer)
(Donny Crane)
(Helen Poole)
(Jerry Austin (uncredited))
(Christine Pauley)
(Mark Shrum)
(Stuart Milch)
(Judge Franzetti)
(Patty)
(Matthew Calder)
(Beautiful Woman (uncredited))
(Detective Wayne Farley)
(Martha Silver)
(Michael Shea)
(Byron Kaneb)
(Roberta Turner)
(Tracey Green)
(Miriam Watson)
(Court Clerk)
(Atty. Smith (uncredited))
(Mrs. Ferrion)
(Dr. Bender)
(Sarah Berman)
(Wendy Moore)
(Jack Fleming)
(Mayor George Bostwick)
(A.D.A. Howard Zale)
(Martin Jeffries)
(Jason Binder)
(Sylvia Donato)
(Carrie)
(Roberta Sloane)
(Mike)
(Frannie Huber)
(Steven Harper)
(Dr. Allen Konigsberg)
(Susan May)
(Stephanie Rogers)
(Dr. Gill)
(Dr. Amanda Gerard)
(A.D.A. John Shubert)
(Ramone Valasquez)
(A.D.A. Mark Wills)
(Attorney Elizabeth Tyler)
(Doyle Chernack)
(Samantha Fleming)
(Attorney Paul Phillips)
(Dr. Kodash)
(Judge Leslie Bishop)
(Dr. Leonard Raskin)
(Judge William Howe)
(Judge Blake Winters)
(Helen Binder)
(Judge Rita Sharpley)
(Judge Wilcox)
(Milton Bombay)
(Dominick Ryan)
(Daniel Ralston)
(Melissa Stevens (uncredited))
(Reporter)
(Sharon Brant)
(Sylvie While)
(A.A.G. Doug Beecham)
(D.A. Casey Mathias)
(Joe)
(Court Officer)
(Ernie Dell)
(Troi Ran (uncredited))
(Judge Isabel Hernandez)
(Beah Toomy)
(A.D.A. John Lennox)
(Atty. Tompkins)
(Judge Mitchell)