Season 1 (1997)

Pilot
8.3

September 8, 1997 • 43m

Ally McBeal, 28, and a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, is harassed on the job by a senior associate. When she confronts the...Read more

Compromising Positions
8.0

September 15, 1997 • 43m

Fish's partner, John Cage faces fines, jail, and public humiliation. To her dismay, Ally is assigned to be a litigator. Fish invit...Read more

The Kiss
8.3

September 22, 1997 • 43m

Ally senses Cheanie is withholding something when he neglects to kiss her goodnight after their first official date. Georgia asks ...Read more

The Affair
8.0

September 29, 1997 • 43m

Ally is asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of her ex-law professor. The widow, Katherine Dawson, invites her to give the eulo...Read more

100 Tears Away
8.0

October 20, 1997 • 43m

Ally is arrested for aggravated assault and attempted shoplifting. Renee bails her out, but word spreads quickly, and Ally is brou...Read more

The Promise
8.0

October 27, 1997 • 43m

Ally has to defend a friend of Whipper brought up on solicitation charges. She is serving as second chair to Cage, whose idiosyncr...Read more

The Attitude
8.7

November 3, 1997 • 43m

Ally represents a Jewish woman who needs her Rabbi to grant her a spiritual release from her marriage to her comatose husband. All...Read more

Drawing The Lines
8.5

November 10, 1997 • 43m

Billy and Georgia are faced with a crisis of confidence in their marriage. Elaine threatens to sue the firm for sexual harassment ...Read more

The Dirty Joke
9.0

November 17, 1997 • 43m

The attorney, Caroline Poop, who represented Elaine in her short lived suit against Fish and Cage regarding the constant gawking d...Read more

Boy To The World
8.3

December 1, 1997 • 43m

Judge Whipper Cone asks Ally to take on a pro-bono case of a young prostitute up on her third solicitation charge. Fish, meanwhile...Read more

Silver Bells
8.0

December 15, 1997 • 43m

Three intelligent, successful and motivated adults approach Judge Whipper Cone about the possibility of getting legal representati...Read more

Cro-Magnon
0.0

January 5, 1998 • 43m

Ally is shocked to discover that her biological clock is ticking, unleashing strange libidinal impulses in her. During a sculpting...Read more

The Blame Game
0.0

January 19, 1998 • 43m

Ally has a chance encounter with Glenn, the well-endowed artists' model, at a local Starbucks, and makes it very clear that she is...Read more

Body Language
0.0

February 2, 1998 • 43m

Ally and Renee are bridesmaids at a friend's wedding. They both bristle at the absurdity of the rituals performed, and swear to ne...Read more

Once In A Lifetime
0.0

February 23, 1998 • 43m

Fish brings in a client, an 80-something world famous artist, who is battling his heirs to regain control of his estate. Ally and ...Read more

Forbidden Fruits
6.0

March 2, 1998 • 43m

A high-profile case opens up for Cage and Fish when a jilted spouse plans to sue a U.S. Senator for "interfering with happy marita...Read more

Theme Of Life
0.0

March 9, 1998 • 43m

Ally, Georgia and Renee sign up for a kick boxing class to relieve stress. Ally and Georgia wind up having to fight each other bec...Read more

The Playing Field
0.0

March 16, 1998 • 43m

Ally is a passenger in a car accident with the firm's client Greg Butters, a handsome doctor to whom she finds herself attracted. ...Read more

Happy Birthday Baby
0.0

April 6, 1998 • 43m

Ally is in denial about her birthday but her co-workers aren't. Elaine orchestrates a party at the bar and asks Dr. Greg Butters t...Read more

The Inmates
0.0

April 27, 1998 • 43m

A wealthy client is brutally murdered and the wife is implicated. Her only defense when caught red-handed is that she has no recol...Read more

Being There
8.0

May 4, 1998 • 43m

Cage prepares Ally for Renee's trial. Renee is fast becoming a basket-case because she's convinced Cage's untraditional tactics ar...Read more

Alone Again
8.0

May 11, 1998 • 43m

John Cage must confront the cowardice of his convictions when he comes face to face with an ex-law school classmate who is coincid...Read more

These Are The Days
9.0

May 18, 1998 • 43m

Cage must represent his second cousin, a harmless but eccentric man with a Cupid Complex. His cousin was brought up on assault cha...Read more