L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff.
The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
![]() | Season 1 Episode 1 Pilot Air Date: 1986-09-15 Duration: 120 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 2 Those Lips, That Eye Air Date: 1986-10-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 3 The House of the Rising Flan Air Date: 1986-10-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 4 The Princess and the Wiener King Air Date: 1986-10-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 5 Simian Chanted Evening Air Date: 1986-10-24 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 6 Slum Enchanted Evening Air Date: 1986-10-31 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 7 Raiders of the Lost Bark Air Date: 1986-11-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 8 Gibbon Take Air Date: 1986-11-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 9 The Venus Butterfly Air Date: 1986-11-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 10 Fry Me to the Moon Air Date: 1986-12-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 11 El Sid Air Date: 1986-12-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 12 Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer Air Date: 1986-12-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 13 Prince Kuzak in a Can Air Date: 1987-01-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 14 The Douglas Fur Ball Air Date: 1987-01-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 15 December Bribe Air Date: 1987-01-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 16 Beef Jerky Air Date: 1987-02-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 17 Becker on the Rox Air Date: 1987-02-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 18 Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover Air Date: 1987-02-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 19 The Grace of Wrath Air Date: 1987-02-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 20 Sparky Brackman RIP ?-1987 Air Date: 1987-03-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 21 Oy Vey! Wilderness! Air Date: 1987-04-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 1 Episode 22 Pigmalion Air Date: 1987-04-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 1 The Lung Goodbye Air Date: 1987-10-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 2 The Wizard of Odds Air Date: 1987-10-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 3 Cannon of Ethics Air Date: 1987-10-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 4 Brackman Vasektimized Air Date: 1987-11-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 5 The Brothers Grimm Air Date: 1987-11-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 6 Auld L'Anxiety Air Date: 1987-11-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 7 Rohner vs. Gradinger Air Date: 1987-12-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 8 Goldilocks and the Three Barristers Air Date: 1987-12-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 9 Divorce with Extreme Prejudice Air Date: 1987-12-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 10 Full Marital Jacket Air Date: 1988-01-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 11 Gorilla My Dreams Air Date: 1988-01-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 12 Hand Roll Express Air Date: 1988-01-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 13 Beauty and Obese Air Date: 1988-02-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 14 Petticoat Injunction Air Date: 1988-02-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 15 The Bald Ones Air Date: 1988-02-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 16 Fetus Completus Air Date: 1988-03-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 17 Belle of the Bald Air Date: 1988-04-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 18 Open Heart Perjury Air Date: 1988-04-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 19 Leapin' Lizards! Air Date: 1988-04-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 2 Episode 20 Chariots of Meyer Air Date: 1988-05-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 1 Hey, Lick Me Over Air Date: 1988-11-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 2 The Son Also Rises Air Date: 1988-11-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 3 Romancing the Drone Air Date: 1988-11-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 4 Sperminator Air Date: 1988-12-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 5 Princess and the Pee Air Date: 1988-12-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 6 Dummy Dearest Air Date: 1988-12-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 7 To Live and Diet in L.A. Air Date: 1989-01-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 8 I'm in the Nude for Love Air Date: 1989-01-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 9 Victor/Victorious Air Date: 1989-01-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 10 The Plane Mutiny Air Date: 1989-02-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 11 Izzy Ackerman or Is He Not? Air Date: 1989-02-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 12 The Accidental Jurist Air Date: 1989-02-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 13 Barstow Bound Air Date: 1989-03-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 14 Leave It to Geezer Air Date: 1989-03-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 15 The Unbearable Lightness of Boring Air Date: 1989-04-06 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 16 His Suit Is Hirsute Air Date: 1989-04-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 17 America the Beautiful Air Date: 1989-05-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 18 Urine Trouble Now Air Date: 1989-05-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 3 Episode 19 Consumed Innocent Air Date: 1989-05-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 1 The Unsterile Cuckoo Air Date: 1989-11-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 2 Captain Hurt Air Date: 1989-11-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 3 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Air Date: 1989-11-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 4 The Mouse That Soared Air Date: 1989-11-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 5 One Rat, One Ranger Air Date: 1989-11-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 6 Lie Down and Deliver Air Date: 1989-12-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 7 Placenta Claus Is Coming to Town Air Date: 1989-12-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 8 The Good Human Bar Air Date: 1990-01-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 9 Noah's Bark Air Date: 1990-01-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 10 The Pay's Lousy, But the Tips Are Great Air Date: 1990-01-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 11 True Brit Air Date: 1990-01-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 12 On Your Honor Air Date: 1990-02-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 13 Whatever Happened to Hannah? Air Date: 1990-02-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 14 Ex-Wives and Videotapes Air Date: 1990-02-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 15 Blood, Sweat and Fears Air Date: 1990-03-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 16 Bounds for Glory Air Date: 1990-03-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 17 Justice Swerved Air Date: 1990-03-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 18 Watts a Matter? Air Date: 1990-04-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 19 Bang... Zoom... Zap Air Date: 1990-04-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 20 Forgive Me Father, for I Have Sued Air Date: 1990-05-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 21 Outward Bound Air Date: 1990-05-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 4 Episode 22 The Last Gasp Air Date: 1990-05-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 1 The Bitch Is Back Air Date: 1990-10-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 2 Happy Trails Air Date: 1990-10-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 3 Lie Harder Air Date: 1990-11-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 4 Armand's Hammer Air Date: 1990-11-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 5 Smoke Gets in Your Thighs Air Date: 1990-11-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 6 Vowel Play Air Date: 1990-11-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 7 New Kidney on the Block Air Date: 1990-12-06 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 8 God Rest Ye Little Gentleman Air Date: 1990-12-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 9 Splatoon Air Date: 1991-01-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 10 Pump It Up Air Date: 1991-01-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 11 Rest in Pieces Air Date: 1991-01-31 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 12 He's a Crowd Air Date: 1991-02-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 13 Dances with Sharks Air Date: 1991-02-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 14 The Gods Must Be Lawyers Air Date: 1991-02-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 15 The Beverly Hills Hangers Air Date: 1991-03-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 16 Good to the Last Drop Air Date: 1991-03-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 17 Mutinies on the Banzai Air Date: 1991-03-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 18 As God Is My Co-Defendant Air Date: 1991-04-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 19 Speak, Lawyers, for Me Air Date: 1991-04-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 20 There Goes the Judge Air Date: 1991-05-02 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 21 On the Toad Again Air Date: 1991-05-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 5 Episode 22 Since I Fell for You Air Date: 1991-05-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 1 Something Old, Something Nude Air Date: 1991-10-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 2 TV or Not TV Air Date: 1991-10-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 3 Do the Spike Thing Air Date: 1991-10-31 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 4 Spleen It to Me, Lucy Air Date: 1991-11-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 5 Monkey on My Back Lot Air Date: 1991-11-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 6 Badfellas Air Date: 1991-11-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 7 Lose the Boss Air Date: 1991-12-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 8 The Nut Before Christmas Air Date: 1991-12-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 9 Guess Who's Coming to Murder? Air Date: 1992-01-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 10 Back to the Suture Air Date: 1992-01-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 11 All About Sleaze Air Date: 1992-01-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 12 I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz Air Date: 1992-02-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 13 Steal It Again, Sam Air Date: 1992-02-20 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 14 Diet, Diet, My Darling Air Date: 1992-02-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 15 Great Balls Afire Air Date: 1992-03-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 16 From Here to Paternity Air Date: 1992-03-26 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 17 P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead Air Date: 1992-04-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 18 Love in Bloom Air Date: 1992-04-23 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 19 Silence of the Lambskins Air Date: 1992-04-30 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 20 Beauty and the Breast Air Date: 1992-05-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 21 Double Breasted Suit Air Date: 1992-05-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 6 Episode 22 Say Goodnight, Gracie Air Date: 1992-05-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 1 L.A. Lawless Air Date: 1992-10-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 2 Second Time Around Air Date: 1992-10-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 3 Zo Long Air Date: 1992-11-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 4 Wine Knot Air Date: 1992-11-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 5 My Friend Flicker Air Date: 1992-11-19 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 6 Love on the Rox Air Date: 1992-12-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 7 Helter Shelter Air Date: 1992-12-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 8 Christmas Stalking Air Date: 1992-12-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 9 Odor in the Court Air Date: 1993-01-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 10 Spanky and the Art Gang Air Date: 1993-01-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 11 Bare Witness Air Date: 1993-02-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 12 Parent Trap Air Date: 1993-02-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 13 Hello and Goodbye Air Date: 1993-02-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 14 Where There's a Will Air Date: 1993-02-25 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 15 F.O.B. Air Date: 1993-04-01 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 16 Cold Shower Air Date: 1993-04-08 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 17 That's Why the Lady Is a Stamp Air Date: 1993-04-15 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 18 Come Rain or Come Schein Air Date: 1993-04-22 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 19 Vindaloo in the Villows Air Date: 1993-04-29 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 20 Testing, Testing, 1...2...3...4 Air Date: 1993-05-06 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 21 Bourbon Cowboy Air Date: 1993-05-13 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 7 Episode 22 Hackett or Pack It Air Date: 1993-05-27 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 1 Book of Renovation, Chapter 1 Air Date: 1993-10-07 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 2 Leap of Faith Air Date: 1993-10-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 3 How Much Is That Bentley in the Window? Air Date: 1993-10-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 4 Foreign Co-Respondent Air Date: 1993-10-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 5 The Green, Green Grass of Home Air Date: 1993-11-04 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 6 Safe Sex Air Date: 1993-11-11 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 7 Pacific Rimshot Air Date: 1993-11-18 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 8 Eli's Gumming Air Date: 1993-12-09 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 9 Rhyme and Punishment Air Date: 1993-12-16 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 10 He Ain't Guilty, He's My Brother Air Date: 1994-02-03 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 11 McKenzie, Brackman, Barnum & Bailey Air Date: 1994-02-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 12 Cold Cuts Air Date: 1994-02-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 13 Age of Insolence Air Date: 1994-02-24 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 14 God Is My Co-Counsel Air Date: 1994-03-10 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 15 Three on a Patch Air Date: 1994-03-17 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 16 Whose San Andreas Fault Is It, Anyway? Air Date: 1994-03-24 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 17 Silence Is Golden Air Date: 1994-04-14 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 18 Dead Issue Air Date: 1994-04-21 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 19 Tunnel of Love Air Date: 1994-04-28 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 20 How Am I Driving? Air Date: 1994-05-05 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 21 Whistle Stop Air Date: 1994-05-12 Duration: 60 min |
![]() | Season 8 Episode 22 Finish Line Air Date: 1994-05-19 Duration: 60 min |
Writing | Sarah Woodside Gallagher | Writer |
Writing | Tom Fontana | Writer |
Writing | Michele Gallery | Writer |
Writing | Judith Parker | Writer |
Production | Mark Tinker | Producer |
Production | Gregory Hoblit | Producer |
Production | William M. Finkelstein | Producer |
Production | John Masius | Producer |
Production | Don Behrns | Producer |
Production | Robert Breech | Producer |
Production | Alan Brennert | Producer |
Production | Carol Flint | Producer |
Production | James C. Hart | Producer |
Production | Elodie Keene | Producer |
Production | John Hill | Producer |
Production | Alice West | Producer |
Production | Michael M. Robin | Producer |
Production | Michele Gallery | Producer |
Production | Phillip Goldfarb | Producer |
Production | Scott Goldstein | Producer |
Production | Judith Parker | Producer |
Production | Terry Louise Fisher | Producer |
Production | Ellen S. Pressman | Producer |
Production | Steven Bochco | Executive Producer |
Production | David E. Kelley | Executive Producer |
Production | Rick Wallace | Executive Producer |
Production | Patricia Green | Executive Producer |