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Boston Legal is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American dramedy television series that began airing on ABC on October 3rd, 2004. The show is a spin-off of the long-running legal drama The Practice. The series, like its predecessor, was created by David E. Kelley. It follows attorney Alan Shore (a character introduced during the last season of The Practice, played by James Spader) to his new law firm, Crane, Poole & Schmidt. It also stars veteran television actors Candice Bergen and William Shatner.
Main Cast and Characters for Season Four (2007/08):
- James Spader as Alan Shore
- John Larroquette as Carl Sack
- Christian Clemenson as Jerry Espenson
- Gary Anthony Williams as Clarence Bell
- Tara Summers as Katie Lloyd
- Saffron Burrows as Lorraine Weller
- Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt
- William Shatner as Denny Crane
Former/Recurring Cast and Characters:
- Mark Valley as Brad Chase
- René Auberjonois as Paul Lewiston
- Julie Bowen as Denise Bauer
- Constance Zimmer as Claire Simms
- Lake Bell as Sally Heep
- Monica Potter as Lori Colson
- Rhona Mitra as Tara Wilson
- Henry Gibson as Justice Clark Brown
- Michael J. Fox as Daniel Post
- Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Donny Crane
- Betty White as Catherine Piper
- Al Sharpton as Himself
- Craig Bierko as Jeffrey Coho
- Shelley Berman as Justice Robert Sanders
- Larry Miller as Edwin Poole
- Tom Selleck as Ivan Tiggs
- Leslie Jordan as Bernard Ferrion
- Meredith Eaton-Gilden as Bethany "The Badger" Horowitz
James Todd Spader, born on February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as sex, lies, and videotape (for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival), Stargate, and Secretary, as well as his role as the lead character in the TV series Boston Legal.
Known for his mastery of the smarmy, sexually deviant yuppie, Spader got his start in Pretty in Pink. He also played Alan Shore, leading the mostly-new cast which creator David E. Kelley put in place in 2003 for ABC's The Practice (for which he won an Emmy Award) and was given a leading role in that show's spin-off, Boston Legal for which he won an Emmy in 2005, one of the few actors to win consecutive Emmys for playing the same character in two different series, another being co-star William Shatner.
Before the show's premiere, it had a working title of Fleet Street, an allusion to the real street in Boston where the fictitious Crane, Poole & Schmidt had its offices. The working title was later modified to The Practice: Fleet Street, but this title was dropped in favor of Boston Legal before the show premiered.
Awards Won:
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series James Spader (Emmys 2005)
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series William Shatner (Emmys 2005)
- Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series Craig Hunter, Peter Kelsey, Clark King, William Butler (Emmys 2006)
- Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Christian Clemenson (Emmys 2006)
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series James Spader (Emmys 2007)
US airdate: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 on ABC.
4.18, "Indecent Proposals"
Denny Crane falls hard for cattle rancher Sunny Fields (Christine Ebersole), who hires him to sue the FDA in order to stop the sale of cloned meat. Meanwhile, when Shirley Schmidt's nephew - a pledged delegate - informs her that he's going to vote for another presidential candidate than the one his state voted for, she enlists the aid of Alan Shore to take him and the Democratic National Party to court.
AU airdate: 10:30PM February, 2008 on 7.
4TH SEASON PREMIERE:
4.01, "Beauty and the Beast"
Denny may be heading to jail - yet again - and Shirley brings in new senior partner Carl Sack to help, agitating both Denny and Clarence. With Alan sitting in, Jerry "Hands" Espenson and new attorney Katie Lloyd take the case of a man charged with murder, but Katie takes the lead before Judge Weldon, seeing something in her client that no one else does. Alan takes on academic research studies on the environment funded by oil companies. Judge Gloria Weldon makes a startling request of Alan.
Creator: David E. Kelley
Broadcasters:
In the US on ABC, Tue 10:00PM.
In Australia on Seven, Mon 10:30PM and W., Sun 8:30PM.
In the UAE and the Arab World on One TV, Sun 9:00PM.
Denny with the Rabbi he just shot in the eye with a paperball, the Rabbi's lawyer, and Bethany, in episode 3.16, The Good Lawyer:
Denny: You people have an overreacting problem, you do know that?
Lawyer: [offended] "We people?"
Denny: Yeah, same thing in Lebanon. They grab a few soldiers, you respond with overkill. And that's a problem.
Bethany: Are you saying Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself?
Denny: Well, of course, they do! But you can't blow up a country just because you get mad! Only the United States enjoys that privilege. We're a superpower; God is on our side.
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