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  • NBC
  • Sep 15, 1986
  • NBC
  • Sep 15, 1986
L.A. Law

Summary On this critically acclaimed drama about a top Los Angeles law firm, some of the best battles take place outside of the courtroom. In the bedroom, in the courtroom, or at McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak's staff meetings, the firm's ambitious, competitive attorneys confront conflict between their own desires, their obligations as attor...

Created By: Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher

  • NBC
  • Sep 15, 1986
  • NBC
  • Sep 15, 1986
L.A. Law
Season 1
8 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 15, 1986
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary On this critically acclaimed drama about a top Los Angeles law firm, some of the best battles take place outside of the courtroom. In the bedroom, in the courtroom, or at McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak's staff meetings, the firm's ambitious, competitive attorneys confront conflict between their own desires, their obligations as attor...

Created By: Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 15, 1986 • 1 h 37 m
Pilot
Episode 2 • Oct 3, 1986 • 48 m
Those Lips, That Eye
Episode 3 • Oct 10, 1986 • 48 m
The House of the Rising Flan
Episode 4 • Oct 17, 1986 • 48 m
The Princess and the Wiener King
Episode 5 • Oct 24, 1986 • 48 m
Simian Chanted Evening
Episode 6 • Oct 31, 1986 • 48 m
Slum Enchanted Evening
Episode 7 • Nov 7, 1986 • 48 m
Raiders of the Lost Bark
Episode 8 • Nov 14, 1986 • 48 m
Gibbon Take
Episode 9 • Nov 21, 1986 • 48 m
The Venus Butterfly
Episode 10 • Dec 4, 1986 • 48 m
Fry Me to the Moon
Episode 11 • Dec 11, 1986 • 48 m
El Sid
Episode 12 • Dec 18, 1986 • 49 m
Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer
Episode 13 • Jan 8, 1987 • 48 m
Prince Kuzak in a Can
Episode 14 • Jan 15, 1987 • 48 m
The Douglas Fur Ball
Episode 15 • Jan 22, 1987 • 48 m
December Bribe
Episode 16 • Feb 5, 1987 • 49 m
Beef Jerky
Episode 17 • Feb 12, 1987 • 48 m
Becker on the Rox
Episode 18 • Feb 19, 1987 • 49 m
Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover
Episode 19 • Feb 26, 1987 • 48 m
The Grace of Wrath
Episode 20 • Mar 26, 1987 • 48 m
Sparky Brackman R.I.P. ????-1987
Episode 21 • Apr 2, 1987 • 48 m
Oy Vey! Wilderness!
Episode 22 • Apr 9, 1987 • 48 m
Pigmalion
8 Seasons

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
83
71% Positive
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
83
71% Positive
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Apr 29, 2013
So rousingly well done that it seems to come from a different solar system than most contemporary episodic television shows, and yet too many rapturous panegyrics could spoil some of the fun. The two-hour pilot for the series...is so terribly and industriously entertaining that you hate to see the program lumped in with things that are supposedly "good for you." This isn't a John Chancellor commentary. This is living, breathing matter -- clever, thoughtful, ribald and hard-boiled. [15 Sept 1986, p.B1]
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100
Apr 29, 2013
This is L.A. Law, which not only is the best offering of the new television season, but the best pilot for a new show since Hill Street Blues' debut six TV seasons ago. It will, as they say, make you laugh; it will make you cry. It brandishes a superior cast and a wit and style that elevate it immediately into the rarefied Hill Street/St. Elsewhere atmospheres -- shows whose structure of interwoven story lines that dangle from episode to episode it shares. [14 Sept 1986, p.K1]
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100
Apr 29, 2013
Looks like the best new TV series of the fall season, filled with fascinating people, ingenious turns of plot, strong, offbeat drama, an unmistakable air of realism and some delicious bits of black comedy. [15 Sept 1986, p.C-1]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
100
Apr 29, 2013
It's high-pitched, unforgettable, knockout, electrifying TV...There should be a law requiring more series like NBC's new L.A. Law. [15 Sept 1986, p.C1]
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 29, 2013
A sharp, intelligent, splendidly entertaining venture that deftly draws upon a world of callousness and commitment, long hours and short fuses. [15 Sept 1986, p.5]
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60
Jul 2, 2013
The cast is appealing -- particularly Hamlin, Eikenberry and Richard Dysart as the firm's fatherly senior partner -- and Bochco has become TV's most expert juggler of plots and characters. Yet the first episode of L.A. Law is considerably less daring than advertised.
By Richard Zoglin FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 29, 2013
After watching the rest of what is a very promising pilot, we are left with the unpleasant aftertaste of saccharin. A passing miscalulation, or a harbinger of episodes to come? Bring on the series. [15 Sept 1986, p.C14]
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