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  • Sep 17, 1995
  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1995
The Client

Summary A riveting dramatic series based on John Grisham's novel of the same name, as well as the feature film starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. JoBeth Williams and John Heard starred as their television counterparts (Sarandon reportedly offered Miss Williams name as her personal choice to resume the role of Reggie Love). The televisi...

  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1995
  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1995
The Client
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 17, 1995
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary A riveting dramatic series based on John Grisham's novel of the same name, as well as the feature film starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. JoBeth Williams and John Heard starred as their television counterparts (Sarandon reportedly offered Miss Williams name as her personal choice to resume the role of Reggie Love). The televisi...

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Episode 0 • Sep 17, 1995 • 1 h 31 m
Pilot
Reggie Love, a family-law attorney, helps a young murder witness running from the killer.
Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1995
A Perfect World
Reggie defends an unpopular 15-year-old girl accused of killing a teenage boy who she claims was in love with her.
Episode 2 • Sep 26, 1995 • 47 m
Them That Has...
Reggie's client is an unwed, pregnant 15-year-old who wants to keep her baby despite the pressure of her mother and a powerful adoption agency to give up the baby.
Episode 3 • Oct 10, 1995
The Peach Orchard
Momma Love's friend Verna needs Reggie's help when she and her fiancé are harassed by his daughter who wants to end their relationship.
Episode 4 • Oct 17, 1995 • 46 m
Drive, He Said
After failing a third time to convict mobster Waldo Gaines, Roy seeks help from Reggie and one of her n more unreliable clients.
Episode 5 • Oct 24, 1995 • 57 m
The Burning of Atlanta
Reggie agrees to represent a black student arrested for setting on fire the school's state flag which is also the Confederate flag, after being harassed by racist white students.
Episode 6 • Oct 31, 1995
Dear Harris
Neil McDonough plays a mentally retarded man and the prime suspect for the murder of a senator's daughter. Reggie suspects the victim's husband may be responsible.
Episode 7 • Nov 7, 1995
The Prodigal Father
Reggie goes in search of the father of a 4-year-old who is in need of a bone-marrow transport. He is a former client who deserted his family while they were in the witness protection program.
Episode 8 • Nov 14, 1995
Child's Play
After witnessing his father commit a double murder 8-year-old Waldo Gaines is institutionalized and his mother refuses to seek custody.
Episode 9 • Nov 21, 1995
Happily Ever After
Reggie's estranged daughter arrives while she is working on a bitter divorce case that takes a murderous turn.
Episode 10 • Dec 19, 1995
The Way Things Never Were
Reggie agrees to help the biological mother of an 11 year old boy expose the truth about her son's foster parents after he is rushed to the hospital yet again.
Episode 11 • Jan 9, 1996
Sympathy for the Devil
An eight year old must testify in the double-murder trial of his mobster father but Reggie feels he is not mentally stable to get through the ordeal.
Episode 12 • Jan 11, 1996
Motherless Child
During a gang-related drive-by shooting Reggie's friend is killed. The victim's son then joins a rival gang seeking retribution.
Episode 13 • Jan 16, 1996
Private Lives
Episode 14 • Jan 30, 1996
Winning
Reggie sees the unpleasant side of the Olympic trials after witnessing an overbearing coach's treatment of her friend's daughter.
Episode 15 • Feb 6, 1996
The Morning After
Joan Van Ark plays Reggie's former rehab nurse who is also a recovering alcoholic. When she falls of the wagon Reggie comes to her aid but contemplates walking away when the situation takes a turn for the worse.
Episode 16 • Mar 19, 1996 • 1 h
Damn Yankees
A young man who believes he's a Confederate soldier and kills a man becomes Reggie's client and she must prove that he belongs in a psychiatric hospital and not prison.
Episode 17 • Mar 26, 1996 • 1 h
The High Ground
James Cromwell guests as a police officer charged with murder for shooting an intruder who turns out to be the unwelcome beau of his pregnant teenage daughter.
Episode 18 • Apr 2, 1996 • 1 h
Past Imperfect
A man from Reggie's past, when she was drinking, who knew her as "Rachel" learns her true identity and begins to stalk her.
Episode 19 • Apr 9, 1996 • 1 h
The Good Samaritan
A member of Reggie Love's church group volunteers is arrested for a murder that occurred 30 years ago.
Episode 20 • Apr 16, 1996 • 1 h
Money Talks

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
50
27% Positive
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53% Mixed
8 Reviews
20% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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53% Mixed
8 Reviews
20% Negative
3 Reviews

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70
May 29, 2014
The pilot is plodding at times, the result of a few too many heart-to-heart discussions among the characters. Still, Williams, Holliday and Heard create such fresh, memorable characters that it's impossible to get bored. [16 Sept 1995, p.E7]
By Barry Garron
63
May 29, 2014
This is hardly a plot to test Hercule Poirot's little gray cells. It is a fairly typical movie-of-the-week type action-lawyer show, and Reggie's a nice change as the strong-woman-hero character. 16 Sept 1995]
By Ann Hodges
60
May 29, 2014
A first-rate movie thriller has been turned into a second-rate TV show, but upper-second-rate, not lower. And among this season's new entries, with one or two exceptions, second-rate is about as good as things get. [16 Sept 1995, p.D01]
By Tom Shales
50
May 29, 2014
Williams, though, in both Sunday's telemovie and the subsequent Tuesday-night regular episode time-slot at 8, is too reserved and colorless. [15 Sept 1995, p.127]
By David Bianculli
50
May 29, 2014
The original pilot was a mess, confusing and annoyingly full of holes, but an extremely well-cast mess with a lot of potential. [17 Sept 1995, p.6C]
By Gail Pennington
37
May 29, 2014
Say what literary critics will about John Grisham's best sellers, they're not dull. And dull is about the best you can say of the series derived from John Grisham's The Client. [15 Sept 1995, p.3D]
By Matt Roush
20
May 29, 2014
As TV's gold-hearted Reggie, the capable JoBeth Williams is undermined by a script with plot holes wide enough to drive the Atlanta Braves and their families through. The plodding, convoluted, unnavigable story has her resourceful 11-year-old client -- the court has made her his legal guardian -- gaining possession of $1 million in stolen loot, putting both of them in conflict with some murderous types.
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