The Practice: Season 4

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Season Details & Credits

ABC | Season Premiere Date: September 26, 1999

Starring: Marla Sokoloff, Dylan McDermott, Michael Badalucco

Summary: David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning legal drama, The Practice, had eight amazing seasons, with promising, provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the writer's trademark humor.

Set in Boston, The Practice centers on a firm of passionate attorneys to whom every case is important and every client worth a fight to the end. LegalDavid E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning legal drama, The Practice, had eight amazing seasons, with promising, provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the writer's trademark humor.

Set in Boston, The Practice centers on a firm of passionate attorneys to whom every case is important and every client worth a fight to the end. Legal maneuvering is the firm's modus operandi, and they have it down to a science, making even the most questionable arguments convincing. And while they can't - and don't - win every trial, the pursuit of justice remains the priority until the final verdict is announced … and sometimes afterwards. Pursuing justice, however, often confronts them with serious ethical and moral issues of conscience. The end of last season saw Bobby Donnell quitting the firm and leaving Eugene Young (Steve Harris) in charge. In the final season, we find Eugene not only tackling his new role as head of the firm, but also the new dynamic with co-workers Ellenor Frutt (Camryn Manheim), a single mom known for her fervent commitment to clients and for refusing to take "no" for an answer; Jimmy Berluti (Michael Badalucco), a hard-working "good guy" with a winning record and unparalleled loyalty to the firm; and a budding relationship with Jamie Stringer (Jessica Capshaw), a young associate recently out of law school. In addition to returning cast members Manheim, Harris, Badalucco and Capshaw, in the final season, Kelley injected the series with intriguing new characters, including acclaimed film actor James Spader, who will play Alan Shore, a complicated and ethically challenged lawyer, and Rhona Mitra, who will play Tara Wilson, a confident paralegal in her third year of law school who is also the firm's new tough-as-nails assistant.

The multiple Emmy Award-winning drama has also earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series, a Peabody Award, a Viewers for Quality Television Award, an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award and, most recently, a coveted Humanitas Award.

Spin-offs: Boston Legal
Other related shows (within the same "universe"): Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Gideon's Crossing

Awards and Nominations

1998 Emmy Awards

• Nominated Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (David E. Kelley for Betrayal) • Won Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (John Larroquette for playing "Joey Heric" in Betrayal)

• Won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Camryn Manheim)

• Won Outstanding Drama Series1999
Golden Globe Awards

• Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture (Camryn Manheim) (Tied with Faye Dunaway for "Gia") • Won Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama (Dylan McDermott)

• Won Best TV-Series - Drama"The Practice" has received the award for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series every full-length season.

• John Larroquette as "Joey Heric" (Season 2)

• Edward Herrmann as "Atty. Anderson Pearson" (Season 3)

• James Whitmore as "Raymond Oz" (Season 4)

• Michael Emerson as "William Hinks" (Season 5)

• Charles Dutton as "Leonard Marshall" (Season 6)

• Sharon Stone as "Sheila Carlisle" (Season 8)

• William Shatner as "Denny Crane" (Season 8)

Broadcast History
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First telecast: March 4, 1997 Last telecast: May 16, 2004 Show type: Drama Number of episodes: 168
Newtork: ABC
(Simulcast in HDTV for the 2000-2001 season through the 2003-2004 season)
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Spinoff: Boston Legal… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

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Season 4 Episodes

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S4:E22. Life Sentence
Air Date: May 21, 2000
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S4:E21. The Honorable Man
Air Date: May 14, 2000
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S4:E20. Liberty Bells (2)
Air Date: May 7, 2000

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Ken Tucker

Jun 12, 2013

The Practice remains engrossing because it focuses on the theme that has most interested its creator since he quit being a lawyer to begin writing L.A. Law episodes: ethics. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 8

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- Season 8 Overview
  Air Date: September 28, 2003
Season 7

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- Season 7 Overview
  Air Date: September 29, 2002
Season 6

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- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: September 23, 2001
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: October 8, 2000
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 26, 1999
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  S4:E22. Life Sentence
  Air Date: May 21, 2000
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  S4:E21. The Honorable Man
  Air Date: May 14, 2000
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  S4:E20. Liberty Bells (2)
  Air Date: May 7, 2000
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  S4:E19. Till Death Do Us Part (1)
  Air Date: April 30, 2000
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  S4:E18. Death Penalties
  Air Date: April 9, 2000
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  S4:E17. Black Widows
  Air Date: April 2, 2000
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  S4:E16. Settling
  Air Date: March 12, 2000
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  S4:E15. Race Ipsa Loquitor
  Air Date: February 20, 2000
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  S4:E14. Checkmates
  Air Date: February 13, 2000
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  S4:E13. Hammerhead Sharks (2)
  Air Date: February 6, 2000
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  S4:E12. New Evidence (1)
  Air Date: January 30, 2000
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  S4:E11. Blowing Smoke
  Air Date: January 9, 2000
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  S4:E10. Day in Court
  Air Date: December 12, 1999
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  S4:E9. Bay of Pigs
  Air Date: November 28, 1999
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  S4:E8. Committed
  Air Date: November 21, 1999
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  S4:E7. Victimless Crimes
  Air Date: November 14, 1999
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  S4:E6. Marooned
  Air Date: November 7, 1999
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  S4:E5. Oz (2)
  Air Date: October 24, 1999
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  S4:E4. Legacy (1)
  Air Date: October 17, 1999
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  S4:E3. Loser's Keepers
  Air Date: October 10, 1999
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  S4:E2. Boston Confidential
  Air Date: October 3, 1999
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  S4:E1. Free Dental
  Air Date: September 26, 1999
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 27, 1998
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 20, 1997
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 4, 1997