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The Guardian

7.0 / 10

2001

3 seasons

67 episodes

Drama

Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to be squeezed into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions and board meetings. Reluctantly, he's now The Guardian - a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances.

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Cast

Simon Baker

Dabney Coleman

Alan Rosenberg

Raphael Sbarge

Wendy Moniz

Charles Malik Whitfield

Denise Dowse

Kathleen Chalfant

Dorothea Harahan

AJ Michalka

Courtney Stevens

Erica Leerhsen

Seasons

1.Pilot
5.0
25-09-2001
Nick Fallin, a high-powered, high-priced attorney living the good life is brought down to earth when he has to pay the price for his indulgent lifestyle. Busted for drugs, he must...
2.Reunion
6.0
02-10-2001
Nick brings a lawsuit again the pharmaceutical company, Bendaprine, on behalf of Hunter Reed and his mother's estate for 10 million dollars. But, when Alvin Masterson gets wind of...
3.Paternity
7.0
09-10-2001
Nick is given the case of a wheelchair-bound boy who is about to be placed in a group home while his mother does time for prostitution. The boy, Lawrence, wants to live with his st...
4.Lolita?
6.0
16-10-2001
Nick is taken off of the Hunter Reed case and assigned a case about a fifteen-year-old girl, April Santos, who claims to have been raped by her stepfather, a cop. Nick arranges for...
5.The Men from the Boys
7.0
23-10-2001
Nick encounters problems with his 16-year-old gay gay client, who had been arrested for solicitation, when trying to place the boy with a gay couple rather than in a shelter.
6.Indian Summer
8.0
30-10-2001
Nick is duped into representing a young woman who lied to him after they spent the night together. After Nick picks up a young woman named Dina at The Incline, they go back to his...
7.Feeding Frenzy
7.0
06-11-2001
Now that CLS has expanded its circle of operation to include all people needing legal aid, not just minors, Nick is given a case surrounding a retarded man, Malcolm Dempsy, who wan...
8.Heart
8.0
20-11-2001
Nick Fallin finds himself the advocate for a 12-year-old girl, Lesley, who needs to be adopted by foster parents immediately in order to receive a heart transplant. Laurie Solt, a...
9.The Funnies
27-11-2001
Alvin asks Nick to help Barbara after her teenage son is arrested for drug possession. After Barbara's son, Russell, is arrested for drug possession, the charge changes to mansla...
10.Loyalties
11-12-2001
Nick defends an Arab American man who appears to be the victim of a hate crime. Wendy Moniz ("Nash Bridges") and James B. Sikking ("Brooklyn South") guest star. Nick gets a new b...
11.Home
18-12-2001
Nick, now working at another law firm, is reinstated as the guardian of young Hunter Reed, his first case. Polly Draper ("thirtysomething") guest stars Both Nick and his child...
12.Causality
08-01-2002
13.Privilege
22-01-2002
After a rough turn of events at Kirk & McGee, Nick is back at Fallin & Assoc. just as Burton is looking into the case of Susan Newberg, deceased daughter of longtime client and fam...
14.Family
05-02-2002
Nick's Aunt Liz visits Burton & Nick and tells them she is dying.
15.In Loco Parentis
26-02-2002
Nick thinks a woman he helped get her kids, may still use drugs.
16.Solidarity
05-03-2002
A case that Nick took at Legal Services creates a conflict of interest, James tries to help his nephew.
17.The Divide
12-03-2002
Nick tries to help 2 brothers get adopted, the foster parents want the "gifted" brother. Jake tries to save his dad from losing his house to a loan shark.
18.Mothers of the Disappeared
26-03-2002
When a mother of a missing child shows up in Nick Fallin's office at Legal Services, he finds himself in the middle of an emotional struggle for closure and justice. Prior to the d...
19.Lawyers, Guns and Money
09-04-2002
Trouble gets very deep for Dale (Nick's Parole officer asks for help from Nick. Later LuLu's husband to be is arested. Nick can't tell LuLu. Burton wonders if his son will be on t...
20.Shelter
07-05-2002
Nick and LuLu find teenagers in her house, after they hear a girl screaming giving birth. They want to keep the baby and soon end up in foster care.
21.Chinese Wall
14-05-2002
Burtton turns his law firm over to Sen. Nathan Calldwell, he gets ready to be a federal Judge.
22.The Beginning
21-05-2002
In The Season Finale Burton and Lulu tells Nick damaging information but that deals with a wanted killer. Dr. Reed asks to be his son's (Hunter)Trustee but their future could be in...

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