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Boston Legal (2004)

Comedy · Crime · Drama

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

IMDb rating
8.5 (54,052 votes)
Seasons
5
Streaming (US)
Hulu
Language
EN
Type
TV series
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Seasons

Season 1 (2004)

8.15 avg 17 episodes 8.0 → 8.9 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 896 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 686 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 614 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 575 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 546 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 550 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 527 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 557 votesEp 9: 8.2 · 528 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 582 votesEp 11: 8.3 · 561 votesEp 12: 7.6 · 542 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 513 votesEp 14: 8.2 · 510 votesEp 15: 8.1 · 504 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 490 votesEp 17: 8.9 · 658 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Head Cases8.0896
2Still Crazy After All These Years8.0686
3Catch and Release8.1614
4Change of Course8.1575
5An Eye for an Eye8.0546
6Truth Be Told8.1550
7Questionable Characters8.0527
8Loose Lips8.3557
9A Greater Good8.2528
10Hired Guns8.7582
11Schmidt Happens8.3561
12From Whence We Came7.6542
13It Girls and Beyond8.2513
14'Til We Meat Again8.2510
15Tortured Souls8.1504
16Let Sales Ring7.8490
17Death Be Not Proud8.9658

Season 2 (2005)

8.09 avg 27 episodes 7.8 → 8.4 44 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 539 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 514 votesEp 3: 8.6 · 546 votesEp 4: 7.7 · 457 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 453 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 476 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 462 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 447 votesEp 9: 8.4 · 469 votesEp 10: 8.6 · 468 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 435 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 435 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 420 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 415 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 425 votesEp 16: 7.9 · 421 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 402 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 400 votesEp 19: 8.0 · 410 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 388 votesEp 21: 8.1 · 420 votesEp 22: 7.6 · 396 votesEp 23: 8.3 · 427 votesEp 24: 8.3 · 411 votesEp 25: 7.8 · 413 votesEp 26: 7.8 · 397 votesEp 27: 8.4 · 463 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Black Widow7.8539
2Schadenfreude8.4514
3Finding Nimmo8.6546
4A Whiff and a Prayer7.7457
5Men to Boys7.9453
6Witches of Mass Destruction8.1476
7Truly, Madly, Deeply8.1462
8The Ass Fat Jungle8.1447
9Gone8.4469
10Legal Deficits8.6468
11The Cancer Man Can8.1435
12Helping Hands8.2435
13Too Much Information8.2420
14Breast in Show8.0415
15Smile8.0425
16Live Big7.9421
17...There's Fire!8.1402
18Shock and Owww!8.1400
19Stick It8.0410
20Chitty Chitty Bang Bang7.7388
21Word Salad Days8.1420
22Ivan the Incorrigible7.6396
23Race Ipsa8.3427
24Deep End of the Poole8.3411
25Squid Pro Quo7.8413
26Spring Fever7.8397
27BL: Los Angeles8.4463

Season 3 (2006)

8.19 avg 24 episodes 8.1 → 8.4 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 452 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 450 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 406 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 426 votesEp 5: 8.4 · 423 votesEp 6: 8.5 · 422 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 413 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 413 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 423 votesEp 10: 8.2 · 443 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 391 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 383 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 407 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 396 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 376 votesEp 16: 8.1 · 370 votesEp 17: 8.2 · 406 votesEp 18: 9.1 · 874 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 374 votesEp 20: 8.2 · 376 votesEp 21: 7.6 · 360 votesEp 22: 8.2 · 398 votesEp 23: 8.0 · 371 votesEp 24: 8.4 · 413 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Can't We All Get a Lung?8.1452
2New Kids on the Block8.4450
3Desperately Seeking Shirley8.0406
4Fine Young Cannibal8.3426
5Whose God Is It Anyway?8.4423
6The Verdict8.5422
7Trick or Treat8.1413
8Lincoln8.3413
9On the Ledge8.5423
10The Nutcrackers8.2443
11Angel of Death8.2391
12Nuts8.2383
13Dumping Bella8.0407
14Selling Sickness8.0396
15Fat Burner8.0376
16The Good Lawyer8.1370
17The Bride Wore Blood8.2406
18Son of the Defender9.1874
19Brotherly Love7.6374
20Guise 'n Dolls8.2376
21Tea and Sympathy7.6360
22Guantanamo by the Bay8.2398
23Duck and Cover8.0371
24Trial of the Century8.4413

Season 4 (2007)

7.80 avg 20 episodes 8.3 → 8.1 45 min avg

Ep 1: 8.3 · 457 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 377 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 373 votesEp 4: 7.5 · 382 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 389 votesEp 6: 7.5 · 358 votesEp 7: 7.3 · 371 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 354 votesEp 9: 7.6 · 356 votesEp 10: 7.7 · 341 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 364 votesEp 12: 7.3 · 366 votesEp 13: 7.6 · 364 votesEp 14: 7.2 · 338 votesEp 15: 7.6 · 340 votesEp 16: 8.7 · 453 votesEp 17: 8.8 · 543 votesEp 18: 7.5 · 341 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 367 votesEp 20: 8.1 · 359 votes
Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Beauty and the Beast8.3457
2The Innocent Man8.1377
3The Chicken and the Leg7.7373
4Do Tell7.5382
5Hope and Gory8.0389
6The Object of My Affection7.5358
7Attack of the Xenophobes7.3371
8Oral Contracts7.5354
9No Brains Left Behind7.6356
10Green Christmas7.7341
11Mad About You8.1364
12Roe vs Wade: The Musical7.3366
13Glow in the Dark7.6364
14Rescue Me7.2338
15Tabloid Nation7.6340
16The Mighty Rogues8.7453
17The Court Supreme8.8543
18Indecent Proposals7.5341
19The Gods Must Be Crazy7.9367
20Patriot Acts8.1359

Season 5 (2008)

8.09 avg 13 episodes 7.7 → 9.2 44 min avg

Ep 1: 7.7 · 378 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 347 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 350 votesEp 4: 8.5 · 407 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 328 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 345 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 344 votesEp 8: 7.7 · 335 votesEp 9: 7.5 · 314 votesEp 10: 8.4 · 388 votesEp 11: 8.0 · 345 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 360 votesEp 13: 9.2 · 629 votes
Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Smoke Signals7.7378
2Guardians and Gatekeepers8.0347
3Dances with Wolves7.9350
4True Love8.5407
5The Bad Seed8.1328
6Happy Trails7.6345
7Mad Cows8.1344
8Roe7.7335
9Kill, Baby, Kill!7.5314
10Thanksgiving8.4388
11Juiced8.0345
12Made in China8.5360
13Last Call9.2629

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