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L.A. Law: Season 6

22 episodes Premiered Oct 10, 1991 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on L.A. Law

Season 6 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of L.A. Law Season 5.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 6 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 6: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S6·E1 Mytharc

Something Old, Something Nude

Oct 10, 1991 · 48 min

Facing financial woes, the firm is forced to share office space with an entertainment lawyer; Van Owen's high-profile client is charged with murdering her abusive husband.

S6·E2 Core

TV or Not TV

Oct 17, 1991 · 45 min

Van Owen elicits emotional testimony from Elsa Chandler; the Government's handling of the MIA issue following the Vietnam War comes under fire in a family feud over a presumed-dead

S6·E3 Core

Do the Spike Thing

Oct 31, 1991 · 45 min

Brackman is the unwitting victim in a gay-bashing incident; Kelsey defends a logging-company executive in a case involving a tree-spiking activist; C.J.'s father comes to town on a

S6·E4 Core

Spleen It to Me, Lucy

Nov 7, 1991 · 46 min

Zoey's case threatens to move a death-row schizophrenic closer to an execution date; a splenectomy patient challenges a doctor's right to profit from her donor cells; Bloom bulldoz

S6·E5 Core

Monkey on My Back Lot

Nov 14, 1991 · 48 min

A tenant at a housing project where guns have been banned sues for the right to defend himself; a recovering addict faces reproductive restrictions; McKenzie arbitrates a divorce b

S6·E6 Core

Badfellas

Nov 21, 1991 · 47 min

As new D.A. Ruby Thomas takes office, the firm's reputation is tainted when Frank Kittredge defends a mob boss; Markowitz challenges an exhibition-basketball team's firing of its f

S6·E7 Core

Lose the Boss

Dec 12, 1991 · 45 min

Brackman's former sister-in-law sues to get the school board to pay for her disabled son's private education; Bloom defends an overweight man accused of assaulting a refreshment-st

S6·E8 Core

The Nut Before Christmas

Dec 19, 1991 · 47 min

C.J. takes a personal interest in a case involving a friend, a divorcée whose lesbian affair foments a custody battle for her kids; Brackman can't seem to muster staff enthusiasm f

S6·E9 Core

Guess Who's Coming To Murder?

Jan 9, 1992 · 45 min

Mullaney is pitted against Zoey in his defense of an accused serial killer and rapist; a client's sanity comes into focus during the handling of a movie deal; Bloom finds evidence

S6·E10 Core

Back to the Suture

Jan 16, 1992 · 45 min

A patient paralyzed after surgery sues her physician; Benny petitions for custody of a homeless youth; not everyone is supportive of Brackman's courting Veronica.

S6·E11 Core

All About Sleaze

Jan 30, 1992 · 47 min

C.J.'s client accuses the Government of negligence in the rape-murder of his wife; Becker's ego is cut down to size over the airwaves; Mullaney's presence stirs up trouble between

S6·E12 Core

I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz

Feb 13, 1992 · 45 min

Mullaney co-chairs a suit by Honduran farmers who claim U.S. pesticides made them sterile; Zoey helps a co-worker confront her repressed memories; Markowitz meets the actress of hi

S6·E13 Core

Steal It Again, Sam

Feb 20, 1992 · 45 min

Sifuentes visits the firm and finds that his failed relationship with Van Owen demands his attention; Kittredge takes on a legal dispute involving a perfume queen and her protégé

S6·E14 Core

Diet, Diet, My Darling

Feb 27, 1992 · 45 min

Flanagan brings suit against her father; McKenzie arbitrates a dispute between a cookbook author and her student; Rollins' dad comes to him for help.

S6·E15 Core

Great Balls Afire

Mar 19, 1992 · 45 min

A Jewish philanthropist halts funding for a medical researcher who is using data from Nazi experiments; the Markowitzes anticipate the worst from a girl claiming to be Stuart's dau

S6·E16 Core

From Here to Paternity

Mar 26, 1992 · 45 min

The partners disagree about Van Owen's defending a celebrity baseball player on rape charges; DePalma becomes embroiled in a sting operation on a corrupt judge; Markowitz offers Sa

S6·E17 Core

P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead

Apr 16, 1992 · 45 min

Becker's shrink drops dead; the Brackmans use Alexander to call one another's bluff; Kelsey fires Ned after he makes a pass at her; McKenzie chastises DePalma for how he participa

S6·E18 Core

Love in Bloom

Apr 23, 1992 · 45 min

A multimillionaire tries to buy his way out of a murder charge; parental concerns compound for the Brackmans and Benny when Alexander and Sam end up in juvenile court; and an INS r

S6·E19 Mytharc

Silence of the Lambskins

Apr 30, 1992 · 45 min

Mullaney works with a feisty young prosecutor when he takes an out-of-town assignment as the lead prosecutor in the case of a missing woman presumed murdered by her co-worker durin

S6·E20 Core

Beauty and the Breast

May 7, 1992 · 45 min

Frank is fired for his role in destroying Becker's case; C.J. represents a movie executive who's being sued by an actress for insisting that she get breast implants that later prov

S6·E21 Mytharc

Double Breasted Suit

May 14, 1992 · 45 min

A widower sues a psychic, claiming he was bilked; C.J. grows friendly with the opposing cousel in the breast-implant case.

S6·E22 Mytharc

Say Goodnight, Gracie

May 21, 1992 · 47 min

Jonathan dumps Zoey; the Brackmans decide to reconcile and remarry; Victor Sifuentes returns to reclaim Van Owens' hand; Zoey's decision to advance her career by perjuring herself

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