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L.A. Law: Season 1

22 episodes Premiered Sep 15, 1986 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Pilot

Sep 15, 1986 · 120 min

Becker begins the day dealing with some irate clients and finds himself at the wrong end of a gun; Melman discovers a dead partner; Kuzak finds a creative way to see that justice i

S1·E2

Those Lips, That Eye

Oct 3, 1986

Kuzak pursues a very attractive deputy district attorney, Grace Van Owen, even though she's engaged to marry the man managing her campaign for a seat on the bench; Perkins is beate

S1·E3

The House of the Rising Flan

Oct 10, 1986

Sifuentes is outraged when he learns that the motive behind an invitation to dinner at the Brackman house was to enlist his aid in perpetrating an immigration fraud; Kuzak continue

S1·E4

The Princess and the Wiener King

Oct 17, 1986

McKenzie's disappointment in the greedy law school students whose class he addresses leads him to offer a clerkship to a student who appears to be more socially responsible; in def

S1·E5

Simian Chanted Evening

Oct 24, 1986

Kuzak fights for his terminally ill client's right to be cryogenically preserved after death; Becker whets his appetite for entertainment law when he brokers an extremely favorable

S1·E6

Slum Enchanted Evening

Oct 31, 1986

Van Owen faces hairy jokes from her colleagues and the anger of her ex-fiance after bailing out on her wedding; Kuzak represents a television news anchor suing for sex discriminati

S1·E7

Raiders of the Lost Bark

Nov 7, 1986 · 48 min

Kuzak slyly sticks Sifuentes with a dog of a case, but it's Sifuentes who's sitting pretty after he discovers the teeth in the matter, and pulls out an unexpected win; Abby rebuffs

S1·E8

Gibbon Take

Nov 14, 1986

Van Owen's ex-fiance gets his revenge by humiliating her during a campaign appearance, thus sabotaging her race for the bench; when Kelsey shakes a trust's money tree to benefit th

S1·E9

The Venus Butterfly

Nov 21, 1986

Becker, Markowitz and Kelsey bicker over who will inherit Chaney's office; Van Owen prosecutes a man charged with the mercy killing of his terminally ill lover; to Kelsey's undyin

S1·E10

Fry Me to the Moon

Dec 4, 1986

Kuzak gets nightmares over handling an appeal for a man sentenced to death; Van Owen helps Gilliam get a reprieve for Appleton; Melman comforts Becker when his parents try to put h

S1·E11

El Sid

Dec 11, 1986

An increasingly unstable Hershberg asks Kuzak to take over the case of a woman who shot a police officer; Rogoff reassigns Van Owen to night court as punishment for helping Appleto

S1·E12

Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer

Dec 18, 1986

La Rosa digs up the ammunition Kelsey needs to succeed in representing an inventor in a contract dispute over patent royalties; Kuzak is horrified as he witnesses a severely depre

S1·E13

Prince Kuzak in a Can

Jan 8, 1987

Overburdened with Hershberg's caseload, and haunted with guilt over his death, Kuzak snaps at his colleagues, pays a heavy price for the way he handles a manslaughter case, and rui

S1·E14

The Douglas Fur Ball

Jan 15, 1987 · 48 min

McKenzie gets Kuzak sprung from jail; after Brackman's wife discovers his infidelity and serves him with divorce papers, he begs her to take him back when he discovers that she's r

S1·E15

December Bribe

Jan 22, 1987

The partners consider whether they should merge with a large New York firm; Kuzak and Van Owen bemoan the scheduling difficulties that keep them apart; McKenzie negotiates a sweeth

S1·E16

Beef Jerky

Feb 5, 1987

Van Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after confronting her with her husband's infidelity despite her protests

S1·E17

Becker on the Rox

Feb 12, 1987 · 48 min

When a pharmaceutical firm employs a jury consulting firm to assist him in a product liability suit, Kuzak becomes engaged in a contest of style over substance until he enlists Sif

S1·E18

Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover

Feb 19, 1987

Becker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty until he discovers that their relationship will never be anyth

S1·E19

The Grace of Wrath

Feb 26, 1987

Sifuentes tries to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat by responding to the advances made by an attractive juror after his elderly pot smoker client is found guilty, but soon

S1·E20

Sparky Brackman, R.I.P.

Mar 26, 1987

Kuzak faces a tough opponent in civil court when he represents a college student suing for damages after being raped; the ongoing conflict between Brackman and his litigious neighb

S1·E21

Oy Vey! Wilderness!

Apr 2, 1987

Markowitz and Kuzak join forces to help a fisherman when the IRS confiscates his boat in a tax dispute; Sifuentes convinces Feldman to drop criminal assault charges against Brackma

S1·E22

Pigmalion

Apr 9, 1987

Becker represents the wife of a children's television show host who sues her husband for divorce after catching him in bed with an unlikely partner; Brackman and Kerris finally set