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Boston Legal
Boston Legal is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American comedy television series that began airing on ABC on October 3rd, 2004. The show is a spin-off of the long-running legal drama The Practice. The series, like its predecessor, was created by David E. Kelley. It follows attorney Alan Shore (a character introduced during the last season of The Practice, played by James Spader) to his new law firm, Crane, Poole & Schmidt. It also stars veteran television actors Candice Bergen and William Shatner. Season 3 began on September 19th, 2006.
Before the show's premiere, it had a working title of Fleet Street, an allusion to the real street in Boston where the fictitious Crane, Poole & Schmidt had its offices. The working title was later modified to The Practice: Fleet Street, but this title was dropped in favor of Boston Legal before the show premiered.
Most of the final episodes of The Practice were focused on introducing the new characters from Crane, Poole & Schmidt in preparation for Boston Legal's launch. Thus, the story of Boston Legal can be said to begin with the episode of The Practice in which Eugene Young and Jimmy Berluti of Young, Frutt & Berluti decided to fire Alan Shore without consulting Ellenor Frutt, beginning a story arc of several episodes. They give Alan a severance package of only fifteen thousand dollars, even though Alan has brought in over six million dollars of revenue to the firm. Tara Wilson gets fired for her loyalty to Alan, and Alan goes to Crane, Poole & Schmidt to represent himself in the matter, thinking he has a claim under Massachusetts law to take over Young, Frutt & Berluti. Denny Crane, Senior and Founding Partner of Crane, Poole & Schmidt, takes an interest in the case and even argues at the trial, cross-examining Young. The jury awards Alan the millions of dollars of revenue he brought in to Young, Frutt & Berluti but does not order the firm to rehire him, so Denny hires Alan at his firm. After Young is appointed a judge, his first case (in the final episode of The Practice) happens to be with Alan for the defense, making Young wonder if Alan judge-shopped (this opens the door for Steve Harris to guest-star on Boston Legal as a judge).
Even with all this preparation, the official premiere episode for Boston Legal does introduce new characters, such as partner Paul Lewiston (Rene Auberjonois, in a role different from his tenure as a hapless judge on The Practice), and has an interesting cameo by Al Sharpton as himself.
In the second season premiere, Anthony Heald reprised his role as a California judge, Judge Cooper, on The Practice (it is rare for an actor in David E. Kelley's shows to repeat a guest role from an earlier show as the same character, but not uncommon for David E. Kelley star to appear in another Kelley show as a different character). Heald was part of the ensemble cast in another show created by David E. Kelley, Boston Public.
Boston Legal Episodes
Boston Legal Season 1
1. 1- 1 1F01 3 Oct 04 Head Cases
2. 1- 2 1F03 10 Oct 04 Still Crazy After All These Years
3. 1- 3 1F05 17 Oct 04 Catch and Release
4. 1- 4 1F04 24 Oct 04 Change of Course
5. 1- 5 1F06 31 Oct 04 An Eye for an Eye
6. 1- 6 1F07 7 Nov 04 Truth Be Told
7. 1- 7 1F08 21 Nov 04 Questionable Characters
8. 1- 8 1F09 28 Nov 04 Loose Lips
9. 1- 9 1F10 12 Dec 04 A Greater Good
10. 1-10 1F11 19 Dec 04 Hired Guns
11. 1-11 1F12 9 Jan 05 Schmidt Happens
12. 1-12 1F13 16 Jan 05 From Whence We Came
13. 1-13 1F02 23 Jan 05 It Girls and Beyond
14. 1-14 1F14 13 Feb 05 Til We Meat Again
15. 1-15 1F15 20 Feb 05 Tortured Souls
16. 1-16 1F16 13 Mar 05 Let Sales Ring
17. 1-17 1F17 20 Mar 05 Death Be Not Proud
Boston Legal Season 2
18. 2- 1 1F19 27 Sep 05 The Black Widow
19. 2- 2 1F20 4 Oct 05 Schadenfreude
20. 2- 3 1F21 11 Oct 05 Finding Nimmo
21. 2- 4 2F01 18 Oct 05 A Whiff and a Prayer
22. 2- 5 2F02 25 Oct 05 Men to Boys
23. 2- 6 2F03 1 Nov 05 Witches of Mass Destruction
24. 2- 7 2F04 8 Nov 05 Truly, Madly, Deeply
25. 2- 8 2F05 15 Nov 05 The Ass Fat Jungle
26. 2- 9 2F06 6 Dec 05 Gone
27. 2-10 2F07 13 Dec 05 Legal Deficits
28. 2-11 2F08 10 Jan 06 The Cancer Man Can
29. 2-12 2F09 17 Jan 06 Helping Hands
30. 2-13 2F10 24 Jan 06 Too Much Information
31. 2-14 2F11 7 Feb 06 Breast in Show
32. 2-15 2F12 14 Feb 06 Smile
33. 2-16 2F13 21 Feb 06 Live Big
34. 2-17 2F14 28 Feb 06 ...There's Fire!
35. 2-18 2F15 7 Mar 06 Shock and Owww!
36. 2-19 2F16 14 Mar 06 Stick It
37. 2-20 2F17 21 Mar 06 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
38. 2-21 2F18 28 Mar 06 Word Salad Days
39. 2-22 2F19 18 Apr 06 Ivan the Incorrigible
40. 2-23 1F18 25 Apr 06 Race Ipsa
41. 2-24 2F20 2 May 06 Deep End of the Poole
42. 2-25 2F21 9 May 06 Squid Pro Quo
43. 2-26 2F22 16 May 06 Spring Fever
44. 2-27 2F23 16 May 06 BL: Los Angeles
Boston Legal Season 3
45. 3- 1 3F01 19 Sep 06 Can't We All Get a Lung?
46. 3- 2 3F04 26 Sep 06 New Kids on the Block
47. 3- 3 3F02 3 Oct 06 Desperately Seeking Shirley
48. 3- 4 3F03 10 Oct 06 Fine Young Cannibal
49. 3- 5 3F05 17 Oct 06 Whose God Is It Anyway?
50. 3- 6 3F06 24 Oct 06 The Verdict
51. 3- 7 3F07 31 Oct 06 Trick or Treat
52. 3- 8 3F08 26 Nov 06 Lincoln
53. 3- 9 3F09 28 Nov 06 On the Ledge
54. 3-10 3F10 5 Dec 06 The Nutcrackers
55. 3-11 3F11 9 Jan 07 Angel of Death
56. 3-12 3F12 16 Jan 07 Nuts
57. 3-13 3F13 30 Jan 07 Dumping Bella
58. 3-14 3F14 6 Feb 07 Selling Sickness
59. 3-15 3F15 13 Feb 07 Fat Burner
60. 3-16 3F16 20 Feb 07 The Good Lawyer
61. 3-17 3F17 27 Mar 07 The Bride Wore Blood
62. 3-18 3F18 3 Apr 07 Son of the Defender
63. 3-19 3F19 10 Apr 07 Brotherly Love
64. 3-20 3F20 17 Apr 07 Guise N' Dolls
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