Ally McBeal

Episodes

Season 1 · 23 episodes

• E1 Ally McBeal
  Sep 8, 1997 45 min

  Young lawyer Ally McBeal experiences emotional turmoil when she takes a job at a firm where her childhood sweetheart and first love also works.

• E2 Compromising Positions
  Sep 15, 1997 45 min

  Ally meets the firm's other founding partner when she defends him on charges of soliciting a prostitute, and feels like a prostitute herself when Fish asks her to date a prospective client.

• E3 The Kiss
  Sep 22, 1997 45 min

  Ally has a confusing first date with client Ronald Cheanie... and teams up with Georgia to represent a television anchorwoman fired because of her age and sex.

• E4 The Affair
  Sep 29, 1997 45 min

  The widow of Ally's former law professor asks Ally to speak at his funeral, not knowing she once had an affair with him.

• E5 One Hundred Tears Away
  Oct 20, 1997 45 min

  Ally is arrested for tripping a woman in a supermarket, then faces a Bar Association hearing on her emotional competence to practice law.

• E6 The Promise
  Oct 27, 1997 45 min

  Ally saves an obese man's life, only to become the object of his affection.

• E7 The Attitude
  Nov 3, 1997 45 min

  Ally clashes with a client's rabbi and dates a handsome District Attorney while Georgia considers suing her law firm for sex discrimination.

• E8 Drawing the Lines
  Nov 10, 1997 45 min

  The firm helps the wife of a rich man negate a prenuptial agreement; Elaine's sexual harassment complaint comes to a head; and Ally and Billy negotiate personal boundaries in their still-tenuous friendship.

• E9 The Dirty Joke
  Nov 17, 1997 45 min

  The delivery girl sues the firm for sexual harassment; Ally tries to prove she's no goodie-two-shoes by learning how to appreciate, and tell, dirty jokes.

• E10 Boy to the World
  Dec 1, 1997 45 min

  Ally defends and befriends a young transvestite prostitute; Fish sues for the right to discuss his dead uncle's prejudices in a eulogy; and Cage ponders dating Ally.

• E11 Silver Bells
  Dec 15, 1997 45 min

  As Elaine plans the firm's musical Christmas party, a case involving a man with two wives causes Ally, Billy, and Georgia to examine their relationship; Fish deals with Whipper's holiday marriage blues; and Cage asks Ally out.

• E12 Cro-Magnon
  Jan 5, 1998 45 min

  As the firm's men plan to view a big boxing match, Ally dates a male art model with one large attribute, fights a sexual attraction to a 19-year-old client accused of assault... and is haunted by hallucinations of a dancing baby.

• E13 The Blame Game
  Jan 19, 1998 45 min

  As Ally, Cage and Georgia try a case about liability in an airplane crash, Ally is reunited with male model Glenn, her recent one-night-stand, who makes her feel guilty about using him as a sexual object.

• E14 Body Language
  Feb 2, 1998 45 min

  Ally comes up with a "creative" strategy to convince a prison superintendant that an inmate should be allowed to marry; Whipper breaks up with Fish; and Cage undergoes "smile therapy."

• E15 Once in a Lifetime
  Feb 23, 1998 45 min

  Representing an artist who can't forget his dead wife conjures up ghosts of once-in-a-lifetime love for Ally and Billy; Cage worries about kissing Ally as their first date looms.

• E16 Forbidden Fruits
  Mar 2, 1998 45 min

  The firm represents a U.S. Senator accused of breaking up his wife's former marriage; Ally's legal arguments about true love get her into trouble with Georgia and Billy.

• E17 Theme of Life
  Mar 9, 1998 45 min

  Ally defends a doctor accused of transplanting a pig's liver into a woman without her permission; Ally and Georgia square off in a kickboxing match; and Whipper dumps Fish for toying again with Janet Reno.

• E18 The Playing Field
  Mar 16, 1998 45 min

  Ally faces off against a child prodigy-attorney; a woman claims she is the victim of harassment because, unlike her female co-workers, she refused to use sex as a means of advancing her career.

• E19 Happy Birthday, Baby
  Apr 6, 1998 45 min

  Ally is mortified when her friends throw her a surprise birthday party. A man with a foot fetish refuses to use insanity as a defense.

• E20 The Inmates (1)
  Apr 27, 1998 45 min

  The firm joins forces with Bobby Donell and his staff when a client is accused of killing her husband; Renee is arrested for assault; a waiter alleges he was fired because he isn't gay. (Crossover event - The Practice - 2x26 - Axe Murderer (2))

• E21 Being There
  May 4, 1998 45 min

  Cage defends Renee against assault charges; a home pregnancy test reveals that Georgia is pregnant.

• E22 Alone Again
  May 11, 1998 45 min

  Cage defends a long-time convict who used a trampoline to break out of prison a month before his release; a woman intends to sue her ex-fiancé for leaving her at the alter.

• E23 These Are the Days
  May 18, 1998 45 min

  Bobby Donnell asks for the firm's help when two men seek an operation to switch hearts. Cage's cousin is arrested for assaulting "happy people" with a paddle.