August 18, 1998 • 1h
Present: Mary Elizabeth Sims, a Birmingham wife, mother, and aspiring writer, reaches out to her estranged childhood friend Rene ...Read more
August 25, 1998 • 1h
Present: Rene represents a woman whose rapist is suing her for shared custody and visitation rights to the child conceived during...Read more
September 1, 1998 • 1h
Present: Rene falls for the reporter assigned to do a story on her for the ""Birmingham Daily"" while turning down both Garrett a...Read more
September 8, 1998 • 1h
Present: Approaching their 26th wedding anniversary, M.E. and Colliar are at odds and they each seek out Rene for answers about t...Read more
September 15, 1998 • 1h
Rene helps plan a ceremony honoring her father. She asks M.E. to write a biography of her father to present at the event. In doing...Read more
September 29, 1998 • 1h
Present: When an old family friend who is now a city councilman asks Rene to defend him against corruption charges, Rene agrees a...Read more
October 6, 1998 • 1h
Present: After M.E. finds an empty beer bottle in the living room the morning after Kelly's party, she grounds her daughter for t...Read more
October 13, 1998 • 1h
Mary Elizabeth solicits the help of her family and Rene in caring for her aging Grandma Otis. Meanwhile, Rene is asked to represen...Read more
October 20, 1998 • 1h
Rene is representing the parents of a child who has died of AIDS. M.E. tries bringing her friends and Rene's friends together. Pa...Read more
October 27, 1998 • 1h
Present: Rene represents a white couple prevented from adopting their black foster daughter; M.E. has an ectopic pregnancy which ...Read more
November 3, 1998 • 1h
Rene represents a lesbian couple who are forbidden to marry on public property. M.E. suspects that Colliar is having an affair. P...Read more
December 1, 1998 • 1h
When Rene defends a black family that has been kicked off their property, she must confront the Alabama law that states that inter...Read more
December 8, 1998 • 1h
Present: Rene gets fixed up with a man who turns out to be a stalker; Teresa visits Mary Elizabeth and Colliar, and things go awr...Read more
December 15, 1998 • 1h
Rene's stalker is still around and she has to get a restraining order. M.E. and Colliar are beginning their own construction busin...Read more
January 5, 1999 • 1h
Rene is reunited with her cousin who has spent the past 20 years passing for a white man. M.E. and Colliar bid on a construction c...Read more
January 12, 1999 • 1h
Rene represents a white man who was beaten by the police. When Kelly brings home her black boyfriend, M.E. and Colliar react. Pas...Read more
January 19, 1999 • 1h
After Rene agrees to hire a youth whom her boyfriend Bill mentors, she discovers that Bill is not divorced - only separated. M.E. ...Read more
January 26, 1999 • 1h
Tully, a childhood friend of Rene and M.E.'s, offends Rene when he takes part in a bigoted, tasteless prank during a parade. M.E. ...Read more
February 9, 1999 • 1h
Rene sends some of M.E.'s stories to a publisher friend in New York. When the publisher visits M.E. on a trip to a Southern women'...Read more
February 16, 1999 • 1h
Mary Elizabeth and Colliar deal with Davis's suspension from school for ""sexual misconduct,"" and try to raise a son and a daught...Read more
March 2, 1999 • 1h
Mary Elizabeth and Rene go to Los Angeles to visit Mary Elizabeth's sister Teresa, whom they must help come to terms with her fian...Read more
March 9, 1999 • 1h
Mary Elizabeth helps Rene prepare to meet Bill's kids. Each year Mary Elizabeth debates whether or not to plan a birthday party fo...Read more