Against the Law

Season

1990

5.7

Simon MacHeath, a brash and firey lawyer, has left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own practice. His reputation for exploding into emotional outbursts during trials has gotten him in to repeated confrontations with judges, but he has a very sincere compassion for his clients, many of whom are victims of an uncaring justice system.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

In the pilot, lawyer Simon MacHeath helps a woman seeking to divorce a mobster; and a teen who confessed to killing a psychiatrist.

S1 • E2

Where the Truth Lies

A poker debt forces MacHeath to defend a snitch whose perjury once cost him a case.

S1 • E3

The Price of Life

MacHeath's opposition in a hospital negligence suit is a man working for his former father-in-law (Fritz Weaver), who consents to a wager when Mac's case appears lost.

S1 • E4

The Women

Yvette tries to make a rape case against a hooker's john; MacHeath fights for---and with---a store owner charged with shoplifting and assault.

S1 • E5

The Second Man

MacHeath feels he's working against his mentor when he defends one of two brothers charged with robbery and murder.

S1 • E6

Requiem in B Flat

MacHeath and Phoebe (Barbara Williams) recall happier times when Mac sprang an ex-con, who's now on death row for the accidental killing of a cop.

S1 • E7

Contempt

MacHeath goes to bat for a comedian busted for obscene language---and goes to jail when he can't get the man to control his mouth in the courtroom.

S1 • E8

A Safe, New World

Mac helps a 16-year-old prodigy gain emancipation from his family, then learns they have mob ties.

S1 • E9

Nature Now

MacHeath is hired by an old flame, now an environmental activist, to defend her after she is accused of a bombing.

S1 • E10

We, the Jury

Mac holds Christmas Eve court in the mayor's home, where a homeless man's hostages are used as the jury in the man's fight against city hall.

S1 • E11

The Indictment

MacHeath is one of several lawyers involved in a civil injury suit against a corporation, but stands alone after being charged with rape.

S1 • E12

Hoops

A basketball coach fights to keep his illiterate star eligible, until he hurts his knee---and loses his scholarship; and diet-powder users want to sue after gaining weight.

S1 • E13

The Union Label

Mac loses his cool when Meigs is hospitalized by union thugs warning him not to challenge their corrupt leader.

S1 • E14

Damages

S1 • E15

Past, Present

S1 • E16

Miss Mass

Mac learns that revealing pictures aren't the only secret in the past of a beauty queen, whose mother objects to his suit against the tabloid that prints them.