The Practice
Another Day
TV Flash files “Another Day” as hour 28 of 167 in the TV Flash guide — The Practice (1997–2004) on ABC, season 2, episode 22, aired 1998-03-09, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 28 of 167 in the The Practice guide, hour 22 of 28 in season 2. It aired 1998-03-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “In Deep” (S02E21). Next is “Checkmate” (S02E23).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Bobby is called on to defend Joey Heric on murder charges once again. Lindsay goes up against her former professor, Anderson Pearson, when she represents a client who's addicted to cigarettes. Lindsay sues Pearson himself when she suspects his firm of burying damaging information. Ellenor defends Cruikshank against anti-tourism charges, earning her several trips to jail when she vehemently disagrees with the judge's decidedly biased position.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Another Day sit in the The Practice guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 28 of 167 — hour 22 of 28 in season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did The Practice S02E22 air?
Another Day aired 1998-03-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it the same show as Ally McBeal?
Same Kelley Boston-legal universe, opposite temperature. The Practice is the bruise; Ally is the jukebox. Crossovers exist.
In the series
Why this series still plays
David E. Kelley’s Boston firm prefers a bruise to a closing argument. Lawyers win ugly, lose ethically, and still have to face the morning. The Practice made network prestige out of fluorescent offices and moral hangovers — the grimy sibling of Ally McBeal, and the one that actually hurts.
So about the grimy sibling. David E. Kelley's Boston firm prefers a bruise to a closing argument: lawyers win ugly, lose ethically, and still have to face the morning. ABC, 1997–2004. Fluorescent offices, moral hangovers, network prestige that actually hurts. Dylan McDermott, Camryn Manheim, Steve Harris, Lara Flynn Boyle, Michael Badalucco, Kelli Williams. Shared-universe crossovers with Ally McBeal — the watercooler never stopped filing the gossip. (I said spoiler-free. The ethics are the spoiler.) Multiple…
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- Camryn Manheim as Ellenor Frutt
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- Michael Badalucco as Jimmy Berluti
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- Kelli Williams as Lindsay Dole
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