Season 1 Episode Guide
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Season 1, Episode 1 | October 3rd, 2004 Head Cases
When esteemed partner Edwin Poole makes a shocking entrance at the morning meeting, Brad Chase, up from the Washington, DC office, is forced to stay in Boston longer than planned, finding himself instantly... more
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Season 1, Episode 2 | October 10th, 2004 Still Crazy After All These Years
Alan Shore represents an ex-lover who was institutionalized after attempting to murder him, and the partners are concerned by Denny Crane's increasingly erratic behavior. more
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Season 1, Episode 3 | October 17th, 2004 Catch and Release
Denny Crane's long-lost son, Donny Crane (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) — himself an attorney — represents environmental interests against the development of a shopping mall by one of Crane, Poole & Schmidt's... more
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Season 1, Episode 4 | October 24th, 2004 Change of Course
When Edwin Poole escapes from the mental hospital and wanders into a criminal courtroom, he shocks the firm by taking on the pro-bono case of a man accused of murdering a police officer. Brad Chase persuades... more
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Season 1, Episode 5 | October 31st, 2004 An Eye for an Eye
Lori and Sally take on a criminal case defending a man, Jason Binder, who is accused of killing another man at a bar with a martial arts-type punch to the throat, and whose only character witness is his... more
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Season 1, Episode 6 | November 7th, 2004 Truth Be Told
When mayoral candidate Jack Fleming has his bid for Boston's highest office threatened by dirty politics just days before the election, his wife, Samantha, seeks the help of longtime friend Alan Shore…whose... more
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1 Like0 DislikesSeason 1, Episode 7 | November 21st, 2004 Questionable CharactersLori takes the case of Michael Shea, her former informant when she was an A.D.A., who was shot while robbing a convenience store. She faces a legal and moral dilemma when she argues that the bullet not... more
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Season 1, Episode 8 | November 28th, 2004 Loose Lips
In defending a man, Gil Furnald, who was fired from his post as Santa at a local department store for being a transvestite, Shore tries his own hand at pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Meanwhile, Lori finds... more
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Season 1, Episode 9 | December 12th, 2004 A Greater Good
Crane and Shore defend a major pharmaceutical company and are conflicted over what course of action to take when startling events come to light. Meanwhile, Lori faces a moral dilemma when she discovers... more
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Season 1, Episode 10 | December 19th, 2004 Hired Guns
Brad and Lori defend a woman, Susan May, who is accused of killing her husband and his mistress when she catches them in bed. Meanwhile, at the office Christmas party, Alan Shore is introduced to Carmen... more
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Season 1, Episode 11 | January 9th, 2005 Schmidt Happens
Founding Crane, Poole & Schmidt partner Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen) returns to the firm to help bring order to the chaotic office. The firebrand Schmidt proves to be a formidable adversary to Alan... more
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Season 1, Episode 12 | January 16th, 2005 From Whence We Came
One of the members of the firm falls victim to Shirley Schmidt's mandate to clean house and is ordered to leave immediately. Meanwhile Lori, with help from Denny Crane and Shirley Schmidt, defends a school... more
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Season 1, Episode 13 | January 23rd, 2005 It Girls and Beyond
Brad defends a high-profile publicist who is being accused of entering into a lesbian relationship solely for financial and personal gain, all the while hiding her true heterosexuality from her lover.... more
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Season 1, Episode 14 | February 13th, 2005 'Til We Meat Again
Shirley Schmidt and Denny Crane represent a man whose steakhouse is being put out of business as the publicity-hungry mayor has pushed through an ordinance banning red meat for fear of Mad Cow disease,... more
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Season 1, Episode 15 | February 20th, 2005 Tortured Souls
Denny Crane's son, Donny (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), is the opposing counsel in Denny's trial -- an obvious attempt to settle a score with Denny for letting him believe for 25 years that he was his father.... more
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Season 1, Episode 16 | March 13th, 2005 Let Sales Ring
Multi-Emmy Award winner Carl Reiner guest-stars as Milton Bombay, a client of Schmidt and Crane, who is an old adversary and legal legend wishing to be frozen and stored in a cryonics institute. Meanwhile,... more
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Season 1, Episode 17 | March 20th, 2005 Death Be Not Proud
Alan Shore travels to Texas with Chelina Hall to make a last ditch appeal for death row inmate Zeke Borns, a man with diminished mental capacity who was convicted of a crime he does not even remember committing.... more
