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The Practice

Season 1

6 listed hours · 1997–2004 · ABC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Tessa Quinn · Spoiler-Free (Mostly)

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.

TV Flash files Season 1 of The Practice (1997–2004) on ABC as the first listed season of 8 — 6 listed hours, 1997-03-04–1997-04-08 from “Pilot” (S01E01) to “Part VI” (S01E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 Pilot

    The grimy sibling of Ally McBeal opens: fluorescent offices, lawyers winning ugly, prestige as a bruise.

  1. S01E01

    Pilot

    Bobby defends a young girl charged with possession of drugs with intent to distribute, and Lindsay is shocked to find herself facing a former law professor in a case against a big tobacco company.

  2. S01E02

    Part II

    Eugene tries to protect a client whose husband terrorizes her and their son. Meanwhile, Bobby seeks the help of an old friend who's a loan officer in an attempt to keep the firm afloat.

  3. S01E03

    Trial and Error

    Bobby is hired in a civil case involving the murder of a young woman who was strangled by her boyfriend, and Jimmy is worried about losing his job when bank officials start questioning the loan he gave Bobby's firm.

  4. S01E04

    Part IV

    A nervous Lindsay prepares for her first appearance before a jury in a wrongful death case against a tobacco company. Elsewhere, Bobby is stunned by the unexpected results of the Ronald Martin murder trial, involving a grieving father, the man's rabbi and the defendant.

  5. S01E05

    Part V

    Bobby faces a dilemma when a client accused of a crime of passion refuses to plead temporary insanity; Eugene defends a man convicted of armed robbery; and Ellenor grows apprehensive about her blind date.

  6. S01E06

    Part VI

    Gerald Braun goes on trial for murdering his daughter's killer, and Bobby argues the execution was moral. Meanwhile, Eugene defends a 19-year-old accused of statutory rape, and Lindsay represents a bomber who wants to surrender after being a fugitive for 26 years.

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