Boston Legal

Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore, formerly of Young, Frutt & Berluti, settles in at a wealthy and powerful firm focusing on civil cases. With some help from his friend and mentor, veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take, often using less than honest methods. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and possibly senile) Denny Crane. Though his questionable conduct might make him a few enemies along the way, Alan's not one to be underestimated, nor will he let trivial things like honesty or integrity get in the way of winning a case.

Cast

• James Spader
• Julie Bowen
• Mark Valley
• Rene Auberjonois
• John Larroquette
• Christian Clemenson
• William Shatner
• Candice Bergen
• Tara Summers
• Saffron Burrows
• Gary Anthony Williams
• Taraji P. Henson
• Monica Potter
• Rhona Mitra
• Craig Bierko
• Justin Mentell
• Cynthia Harmon

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Head Cases
  Denny Crane: Don't waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there....
• Episode 2: Still Crazy After All These Years
  Alan Shore: Speaking as an enormously unlikable person, I find it difficult to maintain grudges agai...
• Episode 3: Catch and Release
  After he helped her to get out of a psychiatric clinic, Alan now has to face his ex-girlfriend Chris...
• Episode 4: Change of Course
  Edwin Poole is heard saying that he considers the fictional lawyer, Perry Mason, as his hero. In one...
• Episode 5: An Eye for an Eye
  Alan Shore: One last proposal. And it's entirely possible I'm kidding, by the way, depending upon yo...
• Episode 6: Truth Be Told
  Alan represents the husband, who is running for mayor, of his old crush Samantha, when a false rumor...
• Episode 7: Questionable Characters
  Alan Shore: I'm giving notice. I believe two weeks is standard. Now step aside, Paul, before I push ...
• Episode 8: Loose Lips
  Per the title, from World War II warning posters about spies and secret information: "Loose Lips Sin...
• Episode 9: A Greater Good
  Paul Lewiston: Let me make this simple for you, Mister Shore.::Alan Shore: Please, call me Alan, I f...
• Episode 10: Hired Guns
  Lori Colson: Your Honor, if we wanted to argue Insanity, we simply could have plead it.::Judge Phill...
• Episode 11: Schmidt Happens
  Denny Crane: Crane comes before Schmidt.::Shirley Schmidt: You are referring of course to when we we...
• Episode 12: From Whence We Came
  Nora Jacobs: This is very awkward. I'm not even sure you're the right person to come to, but you're ...
• Episode 13: It Girls and Beyond
  Brad is attracted his lesbian client who is sued for having a relationship with her boss merely for ...
• Episode 14: 'Til We Meat Again
  Denny Crane: We're carnivores. When the pilgrims landed, first thing they did was eat a few Indians....
• Episode 15: Tortured Souls
  Catherine Piper: All I'm saying is, if you killed two people... there couldn't be a better time to t...
• Episode 16: Let Sales Ring
  'Chi McBride' (qv) appears in his role as Steven Harper, the same character that he played in _"Bost...
• Episode 17: Death Be Not Proud
  Lori Colson: If a man tries to nail everything that moved he would be called...::Denny Crane: [walks...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: The Black Widow
  Kelly Nolan, who is defended by Alan and Brad, is on trial for killing her much older rich husband. ...
• Episode 2: Schadenfreude
  While Kelly Nolan's trial continues, Sara and Garrett help Denise to settle on her divorce. Malcolm ...
• Episode 3: Finding Nimmo
  Catherine Piper: Is it possible to request the Robert Blake jury?...
• Episode 4: A Whiff and a Prayer
  Denny Crane: When God strips you of your talent, he should at least have the decency to strip away t...
• Episode 5: Men to Boys
  Denise has problems, when she has to try a case she neglected for three years, in which an auto-inju...
• Episode 6: Witches of Mass Destruction
  Denny Crane: [dressed as a flamingo] Most of the Cranes in my family were flamingos....
• Episode 7: Truly, Madly, Deeply
  Judge Harvey Cooper: You can stop trying to get yourself off the case, counsel. That isn't going to ...
• Episode 8: The Ass Fat Jungle
  Denise defends the top Boston plastic surgeon, who is sued for injecting fat from his butt into his ...
• Episode 9: Gone
  USA...
• Episode 10: Legal Deficits
  Father Michael Ryan: And suddenly he's swinging the axe. I put my hand out and he chopped it. He cut...
• Episode 11: The Cancer Man Can
  Alan Shore: Jerry... you know I have tremendous affection for my own intelligence, and even I think ...
• Episode 12: Helping Hands
  When Denny Crane ('William Shatner' (qv)) opens his cell phone to respond to a call from the new wom...
• Episode 13: Too Much Information
  The fourth wall is broken in this episode towards the end when Alan Shore greets Denny Crane at the ...
• Episode 14: Breast in Show
  Alan dates Irma and later finds himself defending her, because she is charged with a sex crime for p...
• Episode 15: Smile
  Denny Crane: I don't fear death - never have. But I do fear being hooked up to a machine ... would y...
• Episode 16: Live Big
  Alan defends a man who is accused of murder for euthanizing his wife, who had Alzheimer's. Meanwhile...
• Episode 17: ...There's Fire!
  Denny Crane: You know, the best part of my marriages has always been the first day.::Alan Shore: Jus...
• Episode 18: Shock and Oww!
  A former lover of Shirley, who took nudes of her, died and his wife, who he was cheating on with Shi...
• Episode 19: Stick It
  [to the jury]::Alan Shore: Last night I went to bed with a book, not nearly as much fun as a 29 year...
• Episode 20: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  Denny Crane: So, you and Shirley. Gives us something in common.::Ivan Tiggs: Hell of a woman!::Denny...
• Episode 21: Word Salad Days
  Alan Shore: [Alan addressing the jury on about water pollution]... What is our biggest fear? The dir...
• Episode 22: Ivan the Incorrigible
  Denny Crane: Alan, you know, one thing you sometimes forget is, no matter how hard your day, no matt...
• Episode 23: Race Ipsa
  Judge Robert Sanders: I think I have enough probable cause, Mister Shoop!::Alan Shore: Actually, you...
• Episode 24: Deep End of the Poole
  Alan Shore: Denny Crane!::Denny Crane: Alan Shore!::Alan Shore: Leaders of men!::Denny Crane: With b...
• Episode 25: Squid Pro Quo
  The episode's title plays on the legal term "quid pro quo", a Latin phrase which translates: "someth...
• Episode 26: Spring Fever
  Denny Crane: Shirley, this is a sweeps episode!...
• Episode 27: BL: Los Angeles
  Shirley Schmidt: Denny! You're back.::Denny Crane: I am? I am. And I'm all here.::Shirley Schmidt: C...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: Can't We All Get a Lung?
  Alan hires a sexual surrogate to help Jerry Espenson overcome his fear of intimacy with women, which...
• Episode 2: New Kids on the Block
  The title refers to the music group 'New Kids on the Block' (qv)....
• Episode 3: Desperately Seeking Shirley
  This episode racked up a total of no fewer than four Star Trek series regulars. In addition to BL re...
• Episode 4: Fine Young Cannibal
  Coho enlists help from all angles in trying to get his client off the murder case. Denny is very ada...
• Episode 5: Whose God Is It Anyway?
  USA...
• Episode 6: The Verdict
  Denny Crane: Wanna pull my string?::Alan Shore: Maybe later.::[Both simultaneously puff their cigars...
• Episode 7: Trick or Treat
  When Denise finds out that Daniel has died, she feels the need to find his body in order to say a pr...
• Episode 8: Lincoln
  Lincoln Meyer chooses Denny to represent him when he's suspected of killing the judge. Jerry enlists...
• Episode 9: On the Ledge
  Paul Lewiston: Denny, have you seen Shirley?::Denny Crane: Naked?...
• Episode 10: The Nutcrackers
  The title refers to The Nutcracker which consists of a two-act ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky fi...
• Episode 11: Angel of Death
  [Shirley Schmidt is sending Alan to New Orleans to help out on a case]::Denny Crane: I just heard! N...
• Episode 12: Nuts
  Denny Crane: I can't fly.::Alan Shore: You're just discovering this?...
• Episode 13: Dumping Bella
  Bella convinces Denny to sue an animal rights group when one of its members dumps paint on her, only...
• Episode 14: Selling Sickness
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• Episode 15: Fat Burner
  The holiday Denny refers to as the reason Bethany is making him go to Temple is actually called T"U ...
• Episode 16: The Good Lawyer
  Alan does double duty in court, defending a woman accused of stealing her father's corpse, on displa...
• Episode 17: The Bride Wore Blood
  SPOILER: Renata Hill, played by 'Megan Mullally' (qv) also goes by the name Sarah Popeil. In _"Will ...
• Episode 18: Son of the Defender
  Judge Floyd Hurwitz: Step up here, Counsel.::Alan Shore: This is never good when they ask me to step...
• Episode 19: Brotherly Love
  Alan Shore: I have nothing further.::A.D.A. John Lennox: I have nothing, Judge.::Judge Robert Sander...
• Episode 20: Guise 'n Dolls
  USA...
• Episode 21: Tea and Sympathy
  USA...
• Episode 22: Guantanamo by the Bay
  Denny Crane: She's not good for you, Alan. [referring to Judge Gloria Weldon]::Alan Shore: Why not?:...
• Episode 23: Duck and Cover
  Jerry 'Hands' Espenson: I've handled multinational corporate bankruptcies, high-profile murder cases...
• Episode 24: Trial of the Century
  Denny Crane: I once captained my own spaceship!...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: Beauty and the Beast
  John Larroquette is among the new cast members as new partner Carl Stack, who seems to go out of his...
• Episode 2: The Innocent Man
  Denny Crane: I didn't proposition her. I merely asked her to sleep with me....
• Episode 3: The Chicken and the Leg
  In his closing argument regarding sexual intercourse, Alan Shore quotes Cole Porter's song "Let's Do...
• Episode 4: Do Tell
  Denny walks out on a friend after finding out that the friend is a homosexual, then tries to run out...
• Episode 5: Hope and Gory
  USA...
• Episode 6: The Object of My Affection
  USA:6 November 2007...
• Episode 7: Attack of the Xenophobes
  USA:13 November 2007...
• Episode 8: Oral Contracts
  Alan Shore: We're actually sitting in a court room, wasting tax dollars, because my client had gas. ...
• Episode 9: No Brains Left Behind
  Alan chooses to defend a man who lost his business in a flood when the National Guard failed to supp...
• Episode 10: Green Christmas
  USA:18 December 2007...
• Episode 11: Mad About You
  Much to the chagrin of his firm, Denny takes on a first-degree murder case without anyone's help, wh...
• Episode 12: Roe vs Wade: The Musical
  The title refers to the Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade to allow women the right to make a ch...
• Episode 13: Glow in the Dark
  'Scott Bakula' (qv)'s appearance in this show is the first instance where the captains from two diff...
• Episode 14: Rescue Me
  The title comes from the song "Rescue Me" written by Raynard Miner and Carl Smith....
• Episode 15: Tabloid Nation
  Denny Crane: Denny Crane, Reasonable Doubt for a reasonable fee....
• Episode 16: The Mighty Rogues
  Alan Shore: My, uh, best friend has Alzheimer's, in the, uh, very early stages, it hasn't... He is a...
• Episode 17: The Court Supreme
  The title refers to the Supreme Court which is the highest court in the United States and was establ...
• Episode 18: Indecent Proposals
  Wolfgang Blitzkrieg: Wolfgang Blitzkrieg, with the best political news team in television......
• Episode 19: The Gods Must Be Crazy
  LAB:Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA...
• Episode 20: Patriot Acts
  Alan Shore: [Denny and Carl enter the courtroom] You must be joking::A.A.G. Norman Wood: Commonwealt...
• Season 5
• Episode 1: Smoke Signals
  Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios - 1600 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California, USA...
• Episode 2: Guardians and Gatekeepers
  Jerry and Katie lock horns with Melvin Palmer over the rape of their client's daughter. Alan locks h...
• Episode 3: Dances with Wolves
  RAT:1.78 : 1...
• Episode 4: True Love
  LAB:Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA...
• Episode 5: The Bad Seed
  Denny's attempts to stack the deck in his favor over a wager with Alan jeopardizes both their positi...
• Episode 6: Happy Trails
  Alan and Denny take a vacation to a dude ranch, where Alan's reserved demeanor and Denny's footloose...
• Episode 7: Mad Cows
  Alan asks Denny to assist him in a case where their client is being sued by the Department of Agricu...
• Episode 8: Roe
  Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios - 1600 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California, USA...
• Episode 9: Kill, Baby, Kill!
  Alan Shore: People forgo newspapers for the Internet, where instead of relying on credentialed journ...
• Episode 10: Thanksgiving
  Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios - 1600 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California, USA...
• Episode 11: Juiced
  Carl Sack: [Arguing, in court, about television age-ism] You know, the only show unafraid to have it...
• Episode 12: Made in China
  In the 100th episode of the series, on the verge of bankruptcy, the firm is bought by a large Chines...
• Episode 13: Last Call
  Last show of series....