EPISODE
SEASON
L.A. Law - Season 1
The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm.
16 November 1951, USA
30 August 1954, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
18 January 1940
9 July 1957
July 23, 1934 in USA
18 February 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
28 July 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
January 20, 2021
Sometimes the show does get too gritty for its own good. But it also has fine writing, good acting, snappy direction, generous imagination and daring irreverence.
January 20, 2021
L.A. Law is the kind of show on which fine writing and acting combine to produce drama that is better than either of the two elements alone. If you watch only one new show this season, this should be it.
January 20, 2021
L.A. Law is realistic, witty, cynical, sexy and unabashed. If that's not enough to attract you, it is also startling, touching, fast-moving and mature. It is, among many other virtues, the best TV show I have ever seen about the legal profession.
January 20, 2021
At its best, the new NBC series is adult, thoughtful and funny, though it strains too hard for eccentricity and has an irritating way of letting characters off the hooks on which it so merrily hoists them.
January 21, 2021
The best series of the year, perhaps the decade (yes, even better than Hill Street [Blues]).
January 21, 2021
What sets it apart is the writing. The technical touches may not wow us as they once did, but the writing was really quite astonishing. Not just what was said, but what was left unsaid.
January 20, 2021
Make no mistake: This is the TV show of 1986, one that instantly joins NBC's St. Elsewhere as a series worth committing to every week.
January 21, 2021
L.A. Law is slick, smart and sexy -- sometimes too sexy.
January 20, 2021
Just as the cop show could never be the same after Hill Street Blues, the lawyer show will never be the same after L.A. Law.
January 20, 2021
The complex series, sometimes outrageously funny -- if you like black humor -- is a human drama filled with pathos, courtroom hijinks and a spattering of romance.
January 20, 2021
Series television rarely gets better than this... Bochco has been able to maintain the cliché-breaking surprises he has become famous for.
January 21, 2021
The sharp script provides a safety cushion of sentimentality, and the acting is as dazzling as the office clothes and '80s morality.