Season 1 (1996)

Pilot
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August 26, 1996 • 30m

What happens when a bright and beautiful female attorney joins an inner-city Los Angeles law firm run by a ready-to-retire patriar...Read more

Palimony
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September 2, 1996 • 30m

The Sparks try to defend a client who is being sued for palimony by his former live-in mate of 12 years. Their case begins to fal...Read more

How Papa Got His Groove Back
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September 9, 1996 • 30m

After learning that another one of his old classmates from school has passed away, Alonzo goes into a deep slump. The gang decide...Read more

A Day in the Life
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September 16, 1996 • 30m

Episode 4 of Season 1 premiered on September 16, 1996

Sid, Lies and Videotape
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September 23, 1996 • 30m

Maxey faces jail unless he can find his prison-bound client.

Penal Envy
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September 30, 1996 • 30m

Wilma gets a doozy of a malpractice case after griping about her workload.

No Sweat
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October 14, 1996 • 30m

The firm represents a sweet but sweaty man accused of robbery.

Pillow Talk
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November 4, 1996 • 30m

When a beautiful paralegal walks into the office looking for a job, Maxey is immediately smitten. He asks her out, and they begin...Read more

One on One
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November 5, 1996 • 30m

Maxey is challenged to a quick game of basketball by the judge who dislikes Maxey as a lawyer, and who Maxey wants to get on his g...Read more

Good for the Gander
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November 11, 1996 • 30m

Maxey gets his comeuppance after he tries to play up to a judge who's gay during a case involving a burglary suspect, and Alonzo t...Read more

Porky's Revenge
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November 18, 1996 • 30m

Alonzo's enthusiasm for his Federal Court case is quashed when he learns that his courtroom opponent is a law-school professor who...Read more

Maxey Gets the Bird
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November 25, 1996 • 30m

Maxey is caught in a sting operation trying to solicit clients in front of a hospital emergency room, and must appear before a rev...Read more

It's the Gospel
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January 13, 1997 • 30m

Maxey thinks he's hit the big time when a large corporation hires him as counsel on an inner-city development project. But he soon...Read more

I Spy
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January 20, 1997 • 30m

Maxey recruits Darice and private eye Floyd Pitts to entrap the cheating husband of his client, but the plan backfires when the ma...Read more

Won't You Be My Neighbor
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February 3, 1997 • 30m

Greg gets rid of his roommate and moves into his own apartment. Alonzo praises him for going out on his own, ends up selling his h...Read more

Love Conquers All
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February 10, 1997 • 30m

Maxey represents an old friend of Alonzo's who has written a very successful advice book about old-fashioned, honest love, Love Co...Read more

Self Defense
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February 17, 1997 • 30m

Maxey is sent to jail for refusing to produce privileged documents in court. One of his cellmates is a former client seeking reven...Read more

Hoop Schemes
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February 24, 1997 • 30m

Actress and singer Nell Carter guest stars as the mother of a high school basketball whiz who may be headed straight for the NBA. ...Read more

The Great Indoors
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April 28, 1997 • 30m

The Sparks are accused of being slumlords after Maxey accepts the deed to an apartment complex---sight unseen---as payment from a ...Read more

Love in a Cop
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May 5, 1997 • 30m

Wilma tries to help La Marr win back his ex, and Maxey takes a case against a fertility-clinic doctor who's impregnating patients with his own sperm.

Too Hot Not to Cool Down
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May 12, 1997 • 30m

Maxey's intimate relationship with the beautiful opposing counsel affects his legal objectivity, as well as his behavior in the co...Read more

A Day in the Life II
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May 19, 1997 • 30m

Just as Maxey and his girlfriend Deidre are about to leave town for a getaway, Alonzo gives him a dog of a case involving a family...Read more