Ally McBeal (1997)

Comedy · Drama · Romance

Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

IMDb rating: 6.9 (39,323 votes)
Seasons: 5
Streaming (US): Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1997)

7.36 avg 23 episodes 7.5 → 7.5 60 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.5	517
2	Compromising Positions	7.2	380
3	The Kiss	7.4	364
4	The Affair	7.3	345
5	One Hundred Tears Away	7.4	339
6	The Promise	7.4	325
7	The Attitude	7.3	313
8	Drawing the Lines	7.2	315
9	The Dirty Joke	7.3	306
10	Boy to the World	7.9	383
11	Silver Bells	7.3	289
12	Cro-Magnon	7.5	315
13	The Blame Game	7.1	275
14	Body Language	7.2	282
15	Once in a Lifetime	7.3	279
16	Forbidden Fruits	7.5	269
17	Theme of Life	7.6	270
18	The Playing Field	7.2	263
19	Happy Birthday, Baby	7.3	267
20	The Inmates	7.3	267
21	Being There	7.3	267
22	Alone Again	7.3	256
23	These Are the Days	7.5	250

Season 2 (1998)

7.36 avg 23 episodes 7.4 → 7.1 60 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Real World	7.4	257
2	They Eat Horses, Don't They?	7.5	247
3	Fools Night Out	7.5	250
4	It's My Party	7.7	250
5	Story of Love	7.0	237
6	Worlds Without Love	7.2	222
7	Happy Trails	7.4	261
8	Just Looking	7.3	223
9	You Never Can Tell	7.2	214
10	Making Spirits Bright	7.4	230
11	In Dreams	7.0	231
12	Love Unlimited	7.4	246
13	Angels and Blimps	8.0	281
14	Pyramids on the Nile	7.2	244
15	Sideshow	7.2	243
16	Sex, Lies and Politics	7.3	210
17	Civil War	7.5	217
18	Those Lips, That Hand	7.8	232
19	Let's Dance	7.2	215
20	Only the Lonely	7.5	196
21	The Green Monster	7.2	213
22	Love's Illusions	7.3	207
23	I Know Him by Heart	7.1	204

Season 3 (1999)

7.31 avg 21 episodes 7.5 → 6.8 60 min avg

Bad finale

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Car Wash	7.5	245
2	Buried Pleasures	7.4	221
3	Seeing Green	7.4	219
4	Heat Wave	7.1	206
5	Troubled Water	7.2	215
6	Changes	7.1	206
7	Saving Santa	6.9	212
8	Blue Christmas	7.6	219
9	Out in the Cold	7.3	204
10	Just Friends	7.1	196
11	Over the Rainbow	7.8	215
12	In Search of Pygmies	7.2	200
13	Pursuit of Loneliness	7.3	211
14	The Oddball Parade	7.2	204
15	Prime Suspect	7.4	198
16	Boy Next Door	8.4	317
17	I Will Survive	7.2	212
18	Turning Thirty	7.0	203
19	Do You Wanna Dance?	7.2	198
20	Hope and Glory	7.4	183
21	Ally McBeal: The Musical, Almost	6.8	256

Season 4 (2000)

7.38 avg 23 episodes 7.6 → 7.8 60 min avg

Rebound

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sex, Lies and Second Thoughts	7.6	220
2	Girls' Night Out	7.4	218
3	Two's a Crowd	7.2	197
4	Without a Net	7.3	229
5	The Last Virgin	7.5	216
6	Tis the Season	7.5	225
7	Love on Holiday	7.7	224
8	The Man with the Bag	7.6	201
9	Reasons to Believe	7.5	200
10	The Ex-Files	7.5	207
11	Mr. Bo	7.3	192
12	Hats Off to Larry	7.4	220
13	Reach Out and Touch	7.3	190
14	Boy's Town	7.2	195
15	Falling Up	7.1	187
16	The Getaway	7.5	203
17	The Pursuit of Unhappiness	7.1	192
18	The Obstacle Course	7.1	186
19	In Search of Barry White	7.6	201
20	Cloudy Skies, Chance of Parade	7.9	242
21	Queen Bee	6.8	203
22	Home Again	6.9	183
23	The Wedding	7.8	237

Season 5 (2001)

7.06 avg 22 episodes 6.9 → 7.7 59 min avg

Big finale

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Friends and Lovers	6.9	190
2	Judge Ling	6.9	184
3	Neutral Corners	6.9	179
4	Fear of Flirting	6.6	173
5	I Want Love	7.0	174
6	Lost and Found	7.0	168
7	Nine One One	7.6	218
8	Playing with Matches	7.0	200
9	Blowin' in the Wind	7.0	181
10	One Hundred Tears	6.6	184
11	A Kick in the Head	7.0	192
12	The New Day	6.9	174
13	Woman	7.0	188
14	Homecoming	7.0	171
15	Heart and Soul	7.2	187
16	Love Is All Around: Part 1	7.4	189
17	Love Is All Around: Part 2	7.2	184
18	Tom Dooley	7.1	177
19	Another One Bites the Dust	6.7	180
20	What I'll Never Do for Love Again	7.3	176
21	All of Me	7.3	179
22	Bygones	7.7	261