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Boston Legal: Season 1

17 episodes Premiered Oct 3, 2004 Updated Jul 18, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Head Cases

Oct 3, 2004 · 43 min

A civil-rights issue hinges on the casting choice for a version of "Annie"; a child-custody battle turns ugly; an adultery case involves Crane.

S1·E2

Still Crazy After All These Years

Oct 10, 2004 · 43 min

An ex-lover haunts Shore, who secures the woman's release from a psychiatric hospital where she was confined after trying to kill him. Elsewhere, Crane fights an opposing counsel's

S1·E3

Catch and Release

Oct 17, 2004 · 43 min

A client of Crane, Poole & Schmidt want to build a shopping mall on an area where salmon are spawning and Denny's son is the environmental lawyer defending the area. Alan and Lori

S1·E4

Change of Course

Oct 24, 2004 · 43 min

A cop killing centers on a haughty defendant, reluctantly represented by Lori and zealously by a firm veteran, who has been a patient in a mental facility. Meanwhile, Shore plays h

S1·E5

An Eye for an Eye

Oct 31, 2004 · 43 min

Seniors take on a drug firm in a class-action case handled by the grandstanding Crane. Also: revenge motives are raised in a murder trial; and medical ethics are at issue in a civi

S1·E6

Truth Be Told

Nov 7, 2004 · 42 min

Shore's dream lover from college, now wed to a slick mayoral candidate, hires Shore to block his opponent's provocative TV-ad campaign. Meanwhile, a power struggle embroils Crane.

S1·E7

Questionable Characters

Nov 21, 2004 · 42 min

A showcase for the wily, agitating Alan Shore, who badgers a dotty judge; romances Tara, whom he surreptitiously helps in a thorny criminal case; and backs Crane, who's been arrest

S1·E8

Loose Lips

Nov 28, 2004 · 41 min

Alan help a department store Santa sue to get his job back after he is terminated for being a transvestite. Brad bets Alan that he won't win. A therapist seeks Lori's help when one

S1·E9

A Greater Good

Dec 12, 2004 · 43 min

Alan and Denny defend a drug company that is being sued by a woman who states they provided false reasoning when they took her off of an experimental pill that was a possible cure

S1·E10

Hired Guns

Dec 19, 2004 · 41 min

Lori and Brad defend a woman who is accused of murdering her husband and his mistress while they were in bed together. Alan's life is endangered when he helps a woman whose ex-husb

S1·E11

Schmidt Happens

Jan 9, 2005 · 41 min

A Sudanese native wants to sue the U.S. government for the lack of action taken against the mayhem happening in his country and Paul looks to Lori to take the case. Founding partne

S1·E12

From Whence We Came

Jan 16, 2005 · 43 min

Lori, along with Denny and Shirley, defends a school superintendent who fired two science teachers because they refused to teach creationism and is now being sued by them. Alan lea

S1·E13

It Girls and Beyond

Jan 23, 2005 · 42 min

Brad becomes attracted to his client who being sued for having a relationship with her boss merely for financial purposes. To make matters more difficult, Brad convinces himself th

S1·E14

Til We Meat Again

Feb 13, 2005 · 42 min

While out with Tara, Alan ends up causing a bar room brawl and as a result, becomes arrested for conspiracy to commit assault and battery. Shirley and Denny represent a man whose s

S1·E15

Tortured Souls

Feb 20, 2005 · 42 min

Shirley asks Alan Shore to use his odious lawyering to help her defend a police officer accused of torture. Donny Crane returns and is the opposing counsel in Denny's case, with Ch

S1·E16

Let Sales Ring

Mar 13, 2005 · 42 min

Milton Bombay is asking the courts to allow him to be frozen until another century so he can continue his legacy of being a great lawyer and needs Denny and Shirley to defend him.

S1·E17

Death Be Not Proud

Mar 20, 2005 · 43 min

Chelina asks Alan to assist her in Texas because her former client is getting executed but may be innocent of the crime. An old friend of Denny and Shirley asks them for legal repr