Storefront Lawyers

Season

1970

USA

6.1

David Hansen was a big-shot lawyer who grew tired of his important and expensive Los Angeles law firm. Hansen left his job to start a non-profit firm called Neighborhood Legal Services based in Century City, California. His associates were Deborah Sullivan and Gabriel Kay. Roberto was a law student who worked for them as a clerk. After 13 episodes, the show's format was changed, as Hansen, Sullivan and Kay went to work for Devlin McNeil at the firm which Hansen had quit in the first place.

Episode List

S1 • E1

A Man's Castle

An elderly man invades an exclusive party, singles out one guest, and shoots him dead. When The Storefront Lawyers visit him in jail, he says only, "I killed him because he stole my house." The man turns out to be correct, after a fashion.

S1 • E2

The Law Can't Touch Him

An abused wife asks the Lawyers' help in divorcing her violent husband. The problem: she can't prove how violent he can be.

S1 • E3

Murph Collins vs. Tomorrow

Murph Collins, iron cutter, loses his job to affirmative action. Against the Lawyers' advice, he visits his last job site. That night, the site blows up, and he is the prime suspect.

S1 • E4

The Electric Kid

The former Electric Kid, a con artist, pulls a big con against his landlord after one thing too many goes wrong in his apartment. But the landlord's own legal position is even weaker.

S1 • E5

The Emancipation of Bessie Gray

A middle-aged black woman, failing to hold a job as a nurse's aide, sues the head of the "Expert Training School" where she got her training.

S1 • E6

Survivors Will Be Prosecuted

A Mexican farm laborer is found dead and clerk Roberto Alvarez is jailed for her murder. David Hansen begins his own investigation to free his employee and uncovers a illegal operation involving alien agricultural workers.

S1 • E7

Easy to Be Hard

A welfare case agent, after throwing a woman off the welfare rolls, commits rape against her. Or did he?

S1 • E8

Where Are You At?

Deborah Sullivan, in defending a Hispanic man accused of a string of arson fires, falls in love with the ADA prosecuting the case.

S1 • E9

Shadows of Doubt

S1 • E10

This Is Jerry, See Jerry Run

A young man's dyslexia, never suspected, much less addressed, lands him in financial trouble and makes him unemployable.

S1 • E11

The Pastures of Hell

The white pastor of a downtown mission clashes with a black activist who frequently bombs the mission. Then someone kidnaps the activist's son. Who, after his rescue, accuses the pastor of the kidnapping.

S1 • E12

Where Were We, Waldo?

An illiterate man's arrest record makes him "hard-core unemployable." Even the Lawyers can't help him until he gets a grip on his emotions.

S1 • E13

First... We Get Rid of the Principal

A secondary-school student protest results in a dead administrator and a student on trial for murder.

S1 • E14

The Climate of Doubt

Devlin McNeil takes the former Storefront Lawyers under his wing in a case involving a college student suspected of bludgeoning a police officer to death during a campus riot.

S1 • E15

Marathon

A marathon encounter session goes awry, leading one student to dive his car off a pier and drown. The widow hires Devlin McNeil to sue the psychiatrist involved--and Devlin lays his life on the line by joining the still-ongoing session.

S1 • E16

The Dark World of Harry Anders

A heavy-handed financier takes over a movie studio and uses various means, lawful and unlawful, to compel the studio to turn a motion-picture project into a porn project.

S1 • E17

Hostage

The boyfriend of a girl on trial for planting a fatal bomb, takes Deborah Sullivan hostage in the firm's law offices.

The Truth, the Whole Truth - And Anything Else That Works

S1 • E18

The Truth, the Whole Truth - And Anything Else That Works

Family man Schuyler Yates comes home from work one day to find detectives in his house accusing him of being a serial sex murderer. Nor does it help when the survivor of the last attack identifies him by voice.

S1 • E19

Let the Dier Beware

A woman goes to take her father out of a controversial clinic. Days later, the clinic chief physician winds up dead, and she is suspect.

S1 • E20

The View from the Top

Ultra-rich Cole Deland hires Devlin McNeil after a security guard at one of his hotels, finds him walking away from a dead woman. Was that his wife? Or is his alibi actually evidence of a real crime he committed?