As of July 2026, L.A. Law Season 1 aired in 1986 with 22 episodes — streaming now on Hulu. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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L.A. Law Season 1

1986 22 Episodes Drama · War & Politics ⭐ 7/10

L.A. Law Season 1 is currently streaming on , and it earns its set pieces rather than just delivering them. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 79 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Corbin Bernsen is the obvious draw, but the supporting cast gives the action its context. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, L.A. Law Season 1 is worth clearing space for. L.A. Law Season 1 moves fast and earns its action sequences rather than just delivering them. Season 1 of L.A. Law includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1986 to April 1987. Corbin Bernsen and Harry Hamlin lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1986. What separates L.A. Law Season 1 from disposable action entertainment is character work that survives the explosions. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For viewers who want their entertainment to move fast and not waste a scene, L.A. Law Season 1 respects your time. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Corbin Bernsen anchors the chaos with real screen presence. Every set piece here is doing more than one job at once.

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🎬 L.A. Law Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Pilot
1986-09-15
Becker begins the day dealing with some irate clients and finds himself at the wrong end of a gun; Melman discovers a dead partner; Kuzak finds a creative way to see that justice is done when he defends an unsavory client accused of rape and assault on a terminally ill woman; Brackman challenges Kel...
E2
Those Lips, That Eye
1986-10-03
Kuzak pursues a very attractive deputy district attorney, Grace Van Owen, even though she's engaged to marry the man managing her campaign for a seat on the bench; Perkins is beaten by her drunken husband after she files for divorce and sole custody of their son; Kelsey continues to clash with Brack...
E3
The House of the Rising Flan
1986-10-10
Sifuentes is outraged when he learns that the motive behind an invitation to dinner at the Brackman house was to enlist his aid in perpetrating an immigration fraud; Kuzak continues to pursue Van Owen; Perkins is devastated when her ex-husband kidnaps their son, and quickly becomes frantic when it a...
E4
The Princess and the Wiener King
1986-10-17
McKenzie's disappointment in the greedy law school students whose class he addresses leads him to offer a clerkship to a student who appears to be more socially responsible; in defending a young teenager who murdered her abusive brother, Sifuentes suspects that the abuse may have begun with the girl...
E5
Simian Chanted Evening
1986-10-24
Kuzak fights for his terminally ill client's right to be cryogenically preserved after death; Becker whets his appetite for entertainment law when he brokers an extremely favorable divorce settlement for his movie producer client; Markowitz and Kelsey are offered partnerships in the firm; Melman tak...
E6
Slum Enchanted Evening
1986-10-31
Van Owen faces hairy jokes from her colleagues and the anger of her ex-fiance after bailing out on her wedding; Kuzak represents a television news anchor suing for sex discrimination and wrongful termination when her employer fires her after having second thoughts about the series of reports on her ...
E7
Raiders of the Lost Bark
1986-11-07
Kuzak slyly sticks Sifuentes with a dog of a case, but it's Sifuentes who's sitting pretty after he discovers the teeth in the matter, and pulls out an unexpected win; Abby rebuffs an admirer; Becker's gamble on the Mishkin fee agreement pays off financially but dooms the relationship; after Kuzak w...
E8
Gibbon Take
1986-11-14
Van Owen's ex-fiance gets his revenge by humiliating her during a campaign appearance, thus sabotaging her race for the bench; when Kelsey shakes a trust's money tree to benefit the homeless, she also creates a windfall for the firm and herself; an ugly divorce case hits too close to home when Abby ...
E9
The Venus Butterfly
1986-11-21
Becker, Markowitz and Kelsey bicker over who will inherit Chaney's office; Van Owen prosecutes a man charged with the mercy killing of his terminally ill lover; to Kelsey's undying gratitude, Markowitz learns the secret of a serial bigamist's success with women as Becker and Markowitz represent the...
E10
Fry Me to the Moon
1986-12-04
Kuzak gets nightmares over handling an appeal for a man sentenced to death; Van Owen helps Gilliam get a reprieve for Appleton; Melman comforts Becker when his parents try to put him in the middle of their divorce dispute; Sifuentes resigns after McKenzie sandbags his representation of a woman who c...
E11
El Sid
1986-12-11
An increasingly unstable Hershberg asks Kuzak to take over the case of a woman who shot a police officer; Rogoff reassigns Van Owen to night court as punishment for helping Appleton; Perkins makes a deal with the devil to have her son returned to her safely; things get heated in another court when t...
E12
Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer
1986-12-18
La Rosa digs up the ammunition Kelsey needs to succeed in representing an inventor in a contract dispute over patent royalties; Kuzak is horrified as he witnesses a severely depressed Hershberg commit suicide in court; Becker gets caught in a compromising position when he's propositioned by a clien...
E13
Prince Kuzak in a Can
1987-01-08
Overburdened with Hershberg's caseload, and haunted with guilt over his death, Kuzak snaps at his colleagues, pays a heavy price for the way he handles a manslaughter case, and ruins Van Owen's plans for the weekend; Sifuentes's whiz kid client develops a crush on Melman as he fixes the firm's malfu...
E14
The Douglas Fur Ball
1987-01-15
McKenzie gets Kuzak sprung from jail; after Brackman's wife discovers his infidelity and serves him with divorce papers, he begs her to take him back when he discovers that she's represented by Lisa Weston, who intends to go after a share of the partnership's profits in the settlement; Sifuentes con...
E15
December Bribe
1987-01-22
The partners consider whether they should merge with a large New York firm; Kuzak and Van Owen bemoan the scheduling difficulties that keep them apart; McKenzie negotiates a sweetheart deal for Hood with the district attorney's office and the ethics board, but runs into opposition from his headstron...
E16
Beef Jerky
1987-02-05
Van Owen prosecutes a case of seminal importance; Becker comes to regret pushing a client beyond her limits after confronting her with her husband's infidelity despite her protests; in civil court, Sifuentes and Perkins represent a family nearly destroyed by the death of a child in a car accident; w...
E17
Becker on the Rox
1987-02-12
When a pharmaceutical firm employs a jury consulting firm to assist him in a product liability suit, Kuzak becomes engaged in a contest of style over substance until he enlists Sifuentes's help in showing the client the error of not settling the case out of court; Melman and Becker come to a parting...
E18
Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover
1987-02-19
Becker is enthralled by the beautiful, but somewhat incompetent, secretary who's temping while Melman is on jury duty until he discovers that their relationship will never be anything but professional; Van Owen contemplates buying a gun after a gangbanger shoots her in the court house hallway in ret...
E19
The Grace of Wrath
1987-02-26
Sifuentes tries to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat by responding to the advances made by an attractive juror after his elderly pot smoker client is found guilty, but soon comes to realize that his losing streak with women is continuing when she reveals her true colors; Brackman considers we...
E20
Sparky Brackman, R.I.P.
1987-03-26
Kuzak faces a tough opponent in civil court when he represents a college student suing for damages after being raped; the ongoing conflict between Brackman and his litigious neighbor escalates after Perkins successfully represents Brackman in a nuisance suit over Sparky's behavior, leading to Sparky...

🎭 Cast of L.A. Law Season 1

Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen
Arnie Becker
Harry Hamlin
Harry Hamlin
Michael Kuzak
Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry
Ann Kelsey
Susan Dey
Susan Dey
Grace Van Owen
Alan Rachins
Alan Rachins
Douglas Brackman
Michael Tucker
Michael Tucker
Stuart Markowitz
Susan Ruttan
Susan Ruttan
Roxanne Melman
Michele Greene
Michele Greene
Abby Perkins
Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits
Victor Sifuentes
Richard Dysart
Richard Dysart
Leland McKenzie

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