Sparks - Season 1

Sparks - Season 1

Season 1

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Datesaoût 26, 1996 - mai 19, 1997
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Episodes

Pilot
Season 1Episode 130 min

Pilot

What happens when a bright and beautiful female attorney joins an inner-city Los Angeles law firm run by a ready-to-retire patriarch and his two bickering sons? Sparks! Two polar-opposite brothers manage the law firm of Sparks, Sparks & Sparks, founded by their father Alonzo Sparks While each son is dedicated to the family profession, the flashy, womanizing Maxey is just as interested in the pursuit of beautiful young women as he is in the pursuit of justice, while younger brother Greg is serious, straitlaced and a seeker of the high road. Imagine their surprise when the one thing the brothers find they can agree on is their mutual affection for Wilma Cuthbert, the Stanford Law graduate who Greg has just hired to join Sparks, Sparks and Sparks as the firm's only associate -- after an extensive three-year search. Both brothers vie for her affections, but Wilma -- caught up in the jitters of a stressful new job and an engagement to a high-profile sports figure -- basketball star Jason Ki
août 26, 1996
Palimony
Season 1Episode 230 min

Palimony

The Sparks try to defend a client who is being sued for palimony by his former live-in mate of 12 years. Their case begins to fall apart when Maxey has one of his ""bright ideas"", and tries to lay a trap for the lyrically endowed woman.
sept. 2, 1996
How Papa Got His Groove Back
Season 1Episode 330 min

How Papa Got His Groove Back

After learning that another one of his old classmates from school has passed away, Alonzo goes into a deep slump. The gang decides that he needs a woman in his life to make him feel alive again & get his groove back. Wilma offers to play matchmaker for Alonzo with her aunt Clea. But Clea has different ideas after she's left alone with Maxey.
sept. 9, 1996
A Day in the Life
Season 1Episode 430 min

A Day in the Life

sept. 16, 1996
Sid, Lies and Videotape
Season 1Episode 530 min

Sid, Lies and Videotape

Maxey faces jail unless he can find his prison-bound client.
sept. 23, 1996
Penal Envy
Season 1Episode 630 min

Penal Envy

Wilma gets a doozy of a malpractice case after griping about her workload.
sept. 30, 1996
No Sweat
Season 1Episode 730 min

No Sweat

The firm represents a sweet but sweaty man accused of robbery.
oct. 14, 1996
Pillow Talk
Season 1Episode 830 min

Pillow Talk

When a beautiful paralegal walks into the office looking for a job, Maxey is immediately smitten. He asks her out, and they begin a very close personal relationship. But before long, the team realizes that information regarding the firm's cases is somehow being leaked to opposing counsel. Could the new love interest in Maxey's life be the culprit?
nov. 4, 1996
One on One
Season 1Episode 930 min

One on One

Maxey is challenged to a quick game of basketball by the judge who dislikes Maxey as a lawyer, and who Maxey wants to get on his good side. During the heated game, the judge keels over dead on the court, and Maxey feels that he is responsible, and decides to resign from the profession.
nov. 5, 1996
Good for the Gander
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Good for the Gander

Maxey gets his comeuppance after he tries to play up to a judge who's gay during a case involving a burglary suspect, and Alonzo takes on the case of a rapper with a contract dispute.
nov. 11, 1996
Porky's Revenge
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Porky's Revenge

Alonzo's enthusiasm for his Federal Court case is quashed when he learns that his courtroom opponent is a law-school professor who once humiliated him.
nov. 18, 1996
Maxey Gets the Bird
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Maxey Gets the Bird

Maxey is caught in a sting operation trying to solicit clients in front of a hospital emergency room, and must appear before a review board. But the surprise is on him when he finds out the chairman of the board is none other than his own father. The two then have to put aside their differences at the family's Thanksgiving dinner, where Maxey is supposed to bring the Thanksgiving Turkey.
nov. 25, 1996
It's the Gospel
Season 1Episode 1330 min

It's the Gospel

Maxey thinks he's hit the big time when a large corporation hires him as counsel on an inner-city development project. But he soon realizes that he's been duped into evicting a community church.
janv. 13, 1997
I Spy
Season 1Episode 1430 min

I Spy

Maxey recruits Darice and private eye Floyd Pitts to entrap the cheating husband of his client, but the plan backfires when the man reveals his true feelings about his wife---on audiotape.
janv. 20, 1997
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Won't You Be My Neighbor

Greg gets rid of his roommate and moves into his own apartment. Alonzo praises him for going out on his own, ends up selling his house and moves in across the hall. Alonzo becomes a major intruder in Greg's life, and it's up to Maxey to help him.
févr. 3, 1997
Love Conquers All
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Love Conquers All

Maxey represents an old friend of Alonzo's who has written a very successful advice book about old-fashioned, honest love, Love Conquers All. Wilma comes to work still dressed in the evening gown from the previous night's date, but absentmindedly changes her clothes in front of Maxey, driving him to fall madly in love with Wilma. As they continue to work together, Maxey gets converted to the ways of the book. His efforts to try and woo Wilma meet with hilarious results.
févr. 10, 1997
Self Defense
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Self Defense

Maxey is sent to jail for refusing to produce privileged documents in court. One of his cellmates is a former client seeking revenge from the lawyer who lost his case - Maxey!! He puts Maxey on trial in front of a mock jury composed of the cellmates.
févr. 17, 1997
Hoop Schemes
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Hoop Schemes

Actress and singer Nell Carter guest stars as the mother of a high school basketball whiz who may be headed straight for the NBA. Maxey uses his masculine wiles on the mother in hopes of representing the young would-be superstar. What Maxey doesn't know, is that he is also being used to entice her admirer (watching from afar) into making a commitment.
févr. 24, 1997
The Great Indoors
Season 1Episode 1930 min

The Great Indoors

The Sparks are accused of being slumlords after Maxey accepts the deed to an apartment complex---sight unseen---as payment from a client. Meanwhile, Wilma's left in charge of the office when the trio is forced to spend 24 hours in one of their dilapidated units.
avr. 28, 1997
Love in a Cop
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Love in a Cop

Wilma tries to help La Marr win back his ex, and Maxey takes a case against a fertility-clinic doctor who's impregnating patients with his own sperm.
mai 5, 1997
Too Hot Not to Cool Down
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Too Hot Not to Cool Down

Maxey's intimate relationship with the beautiful opposing counsel affects his legal objectivity, as well as his behavior in the courtroom handling the divorce of an old pal; Floyd Pitts is called in to investigate items missing from the office.
mai 12, 1997
A Day in the Life II
Season 1Episode 2230 min

A Day in the Life II

Just as Maxey and his girlfriend Deidre are about to leave town for a getaway, Alonzo gives him a dog of a case involving a family friend who has 36 chihuahuas and a court order telling her to get rid of 32 of them.
mai 19, 1997

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