Boston Legal
Boston Legal
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Boston Legal

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the courtroom.

7.9 / 10
2004
5 seasons
101 episodes
ComedyDrama

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.

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Seasons

  • Head Cases

    1.Head Cases

    7.8
    03-10-200443m

    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.

  • Still Crazy After All These Years

    2.Still Crazy After All These Years

    7.8
    10-10-200443m

    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...

  • Catch and Release

    3.Catch and Release

    8.0
    17-10-200443m

    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...

  • Change of Course

    4.Change of Course

    7.0
    24-10-200443m

    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 h...

  • An Eye for an Eye

    5.An Eye for an Eye

    9.0
    31-10-200443m

    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 civi...

  • Truth Be Told

    6.Truth Be Told

    8.0
    07-11-200442m

    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.

  • Questionable Characters

    7.Questionable Characters

    8.8
    21-11-200442m

    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 arrest...

  • Loose Lips

    8.Loose Lips

    8.2
    28-11-200441m

    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...

  • A Greater Good

    9.A Greater Good

    7.3
    12-12-200443m

    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...

  • Hired Guns

    10.Hired Guns

    7.7
    19-12-200441m

    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-husb...

  • Schmidt Happens

    11.Schmidt Happens

    7.7
    09-01-200541m

    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 partne...

  • From Whence We Came

    12.From Whence We Came

    7.7
    16-01-200543m

    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 lea...

  • It Girls and Beyond

    13.It Girls and Beyond

    7.7
    23-01-200542m

    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 th...

  • Til We Meat Again

    14.Til We Meat Again

    7.7
    13-02-200542m

    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 s...

  • Tortured Souls

    15.Tortured Souls

    8.8
    20-02-200542m

    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 Ch...

  • Let Sales Ring

    16.Let Sales Ring

    7.8
    13-03-200542m

    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....

  • Death Be Not Proud

    17.Death Be Not Proud

    8.7
    20-03-200543m

    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 repr...

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