Sparks
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Sparks

9.0 / 10
1996
2 seasons
40 episodes
Comedy

Sparks is an American sitcom

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  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    26-08-199630m

    What happens when a bright and beautiful female attorney joins an inner-city Los Angeles law firm run by a ready-to-retire patriarch and his two bickering sons? Sparks! Two polar-o...

  • Ep 2

    2.Palimony

    02-09-199630m

    The Sparks try to defend a client who is being sued for palimony by his former live-in mate of 12 years. Their case begins to fall apart when Maxey has one of his ""bright ideas""...

  • Ep 3

    3.How Papa Got His Groove Back

    09-09-199630m

    After learning that another one of his old classmates from school has passed away, Alonzo goes into a deep slump. The gang decides that he needs a woman in his life to make him fe...

  • Ep 4

    4.A Day in the Life

    16-09-199630m
  • Ep 5

    5.Sid, Lies and Videotape

    23-09-199630m

    Maxey faces jail unless he can find his prison-bound client.

  • Ep 6

    6.Penal Envy

    30-09-199630m

    Wilma gets a doozy of a malpractice case after griping about her workload.

  • Ep 7

    7.No Sweat

    14-10-199630m

    The firm represents a sweet but sweaty man accused of robbery.

  • Ep 8

    8.Pillow Talk

    04-11-199630m

    When a beautiful paralegal walks into the office looking for a job, Maxey is immediately smitten. He asks her out, and they begin a very close personal relationship. But before l...

  • Ep 9

    9.One on One

    05-11-199630m

    Maxey is challenged to a quick game of basketball by the judge who dislikes Maxey as a lawyer, and who Maxey wants to get on his good side. During the heated game, the judge keels...

  • Ep 10

    10.Good for the Gander

    11-11-199630m

    Maxey gets his comeuppance after he tries to play up to a judge who's gay during a case involving a burglary suspect, and Alonzo takes on the case of a rapper with a contract dispu...

  • Ep 11

    11.Porky's Revenge

    18-11-199630m

    Alonzo's enthusiasm for his Federal Court case is quashed when he learns that his courtroom opponent is a law-school professor who once humiliated him.

  • Ep 12

    12.Maxey Gets the Bird

    25-11-199630m

    Maxey is caught in a sting operation trying to solicit clients in front of a hospital emergency room, and must appear before a review board. But the surprise is on him when he fin...

  • Ep 13

    13.It's the Gospel

    13-01-199730m

    Maxey thinks he's hit the big time when a large corporation hires him as counsel on an inner-city development project. But he soon realizes that he's been duped into evicting a com...

  • Ep 14

    14.I Spy

    20-01-199730m

    Maxey recruits Darice and private eye Floyd Pitts to entrap the cheating husband of his client, but the plan backfires when the man reveals his true feelings about his wife---on au...

  • Ep 15

    15.Won't You Be My Neighbor

    03-02-199730m

    Greg gets rid of his roommate and moves into his own apartment. Alonzo praises him for going out on his own, ends up selling his house and moves in across the hall. Alonzo becomes...

  • Ep 16

    16.Love Conquers All

    10-02-199730m

    Maxey represents an old friend of Alonzo's who has written a very successful advice book about old-fashioned, honest love, Love Conquers All. Wilma comes to work still dressed in t...

  • Ep 17

    17.Self Defense

    17-02-199730m

    Maxey is sent to jail for refusing to produce privileged documents in court. One of his cellmates is a former client seeking revenge from the lawyer who lost his case - Maxey!! He...

  • Ep 18

    18.Hoop Schemes

    24-02-199730m

    Actress and singer Nell Carter guest stars as the mother of a high school basketball whiz who may be headed straight for the NBA. Maxey uses his masculine wiles on the mother in ho...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Great Indoors

    28-04-199730m

    The Sparks are accused of being slumlords after Maxey accepts the deed to an apartment complex---sight unseen---as payment from a client. Meanwhile, Wilma's left in charge of the o...

  • Ep 20

    20.Love in a Cop

    05-05-199730m

    Wilma tries to help La Marr win back his ex, and Maxey takes a case against a fertility-clinic doctor who's impregnating patients with his own sperm.

  • Ep 21

    21.Too Hot Not to Cool Down

    12-05-199730m

    Maxey's intimate relationship with the beautiful opposing counsel affects his legal objectivity, as well as his behavior in the courtroom handling the divorce of an old pal; Floyd...

  • Ep 22

    22.A Day in the Life II

    19-05-199730m

    Just as Maxey and his girlfriend Deidre are about to leave town for a getaway, Alonzo gives him a dog of a case involving a family friend who has 36 chihuahuas and a court order te...

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