
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Air Date: 1986-09-15
Becker begins the day dealing with some irate clients and finds himself at the wrong end of a gun; Melman discovers a...
Air Date: 1986-10-03
Kuzak pursues a very attractive deputy district attorney, Grace Van Owen, even though she's engaged to marry the man ...
Air Date: 1986-10-10
Sifuentes is outraged when he learns that the motive behind an invitation to dinner at the Brackman house was to enli...
Air Date: 1986-10-17
McKenzie's disappointment in the greedy law school students whose class he addresses leads him to offer a clerkship t...
Air Date: 1986-10-24
Kuzak fights for his terminally ill client's right to be cryogenically preserved after death; Becker whets his appeti...
Air Date: 1986-10-31
Van Owen faces hairy jokes from her colleagues and the anger of her ex-fiance after bailing out on her wedding; Kuzak...
Air Date: 1986-11-07
Kuzak slyly sticks Sifuentes with a dog of a case, but it's Sifuentes who's sitting pretty after he discovers the tee...
Air Date: 1986-11-14
Van Owen's ex-fiance gets his revenge by humiliating her during a campaign appearance, thus sabotaging her race for t...
Air Date: 1986-11-21
Becker, Markowitz and Kelsey bicker over who will inherit Chaney's office; Van Owen prosecutes a man charged with the...
Air Date: 1986-12-04
Kuzak gets nightmares over handling an appeal for a man sentenced to death; Van Owen helps Gilliam get a reprieve for...
Air Date: 1986-12-11
An increasingly unstable Hershberg asks Kuzak to take over the case of a woman who shot a police officer; Rogoff reas...
Air Date: 1986-12-18
La Rosa digs up the ammunition Kelsey needs to succeed in representing an inventor in a contract dispute over patent...
Air Date: 1987-01-08
Overburdened with Hershberg's caseload, and haunted with guilt over his death, Kuzak snaps at his colleagues, pays a ...
Air Date: 1987-01-15
McKenzie gets Kuzak sprung from jail; after Brackman's wife discovers his infidelity and serves him with divorce pape...
Air Date: 1987-01-22
The partners consider whether they should merge with a large New York firm; Kuzak and Van Owen bemoan the scheduling ...
Air Date: 1987-02-05
Van Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after con...
Air Date: 1987-02-12
When a pharmaceutical firm employs a jury consulting firm to assist him in a product liability suit, Kuzak becomes en...
Air Date: 1987-02-19
Becker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty...
Air Date: 1987-02-26
Sifuentes tries to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat by responding to the advances made by an attractive juror...
Air Date: 1987-03-26
Kuzak faces a tough opponent in civil court when he represents a college student suing for damages after being raped;...
Air Date: 1987-04-02
Markowitz and Kuzak join forces to help a fisherman when the IRS confiscates his boat in a tax dispute; Sifuentes con...
Air Date: 1987-04-09
Becker represents the wife of a children's television show host who sues her husband for divorce after catching him i...