As of July 2026, The Guardian Season 1 aired in 2001 with 22 episodes — streaming now on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
The Guardian Season 1 poster
← Back to The Guardian

The Guardian Season 1

2001 22 Episodes Drama ⭐ 7/10

The Guardian Season 1 has built a devoted audience on and among viewers who want their drama to earn its emotional beats. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. With 58 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Watch it for Simon Baker — one of the stronger performances out there right now. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

The Guardian Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The Guardian Season 1 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 1 of The Guardian includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 2001 to May 2002. This season stars Simon Baker, Dabney Coleman and Alan Rosenberg. Simon Baker and Dabney Coleman lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2001. The Guardian Season 1 resists tidy resolutions in a way that respects how messy real consequences actually are. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, The Guardian Season 1 delivers. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Simon Baker is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.

📡 Where to Watch The Guardian Season 1

🇦🇺 Australia
🇺🇸 United States
🇳🇿 New Zealand
TV Butler Pro app
🎩 TV Butler Pro
You find it. Your history remembers it.

🎬 The Guardian Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Pilot
2001-09-25
Nick Fallin, a high-powered, high-priced attorney living the good life is brought down to earth when he has to pay the price for his indulgent lifestyle. Busted for drugs, he must now perform 1,500 hours of community service and so Nick juggles his white-collar world of litigation with the not-for-p...
E2
Reunion
2001-10-02
Nick brings a lawsuit again the pharmaceutical company, Bendaprine, on behalf of Hunter Reed and his mother's estate for 10 million dollars. But, when Alvin Masterson gets wind of it he insists that Nick drop the case, being that it is a conflict of interest. Nick is quick to point out that Alvin to...
E3
Paternity
2001-10-09
Nick is given the case of a wheelchair-bound boy who is about to be placed in a group home while his mother does time for prostitution. The boy, Lawrence, wants to live with his stepfather, but the man has a criminal record. The state wants him to live at St. Riley's, but Lawrence doesn't want to li...
E4
Lolita?
2001-10-16
Nick is taken off of the Hunter Reed case and assigned a case about a fifteen-year-old girl, April Santos, who claims to have been raped by her stepfather, a cop. Nick arranges for her maternal aunt to have guardianship, but Nick soon finds out that all is not what it appears to be and he must go to...
E5
The Men from the Boys
2001-10-23
Nick encounters problems with his 16-year-old gay gay client, who had been arrested for solicitation, when trying to place the boy with a gay couple rather than in a shelter.
E6
Indian Summer
2001-10-30
Nick is duped into representing a young woman who lied to him after they spent the night together. After Nick picks up a young woman named Dina at The Incline, they go back to his place for the night. The woman then reveals herself to be an orphaned, underaged girl whose younger sister is about to ...
E7
Feeding Frenzy
2001-11-06
Now that CLS has expanded its circle of operation to include all people needing legal aid, not just minors, Nick is given a case surrounding a retarded man, Malcolm Dempsy, who wants to remain living on his own. Though his mother fears for his safety, his next door neighbor and friend is a drug deal...
E8
Heart
2001-11-20
Nick Fallin finds himself the advocate for a 12-year-old girl, Lesley, who needs to be adopted by foster parents immediately in order to receive a heart transplant. Laurie Solt, a social worker for Legal Services (LS), is having trouble placing her due to the many demands of caring for a child with ...
E9
The Funnies
2001-11-27
Alvin asks Nick to help Barbara after her teenage son is arrested for drug possession. After Barbara's son, Russell, is arrested for drug possession, the charge changes to manslaughter when the teen who was with Russell is found dead from an overdose of the badly manufactured drugs. Now, as Russel...
E10
Loyalties
2001-12-11
Nick defends an Arab American man who appears to be the victim of a hate crime. Wendy Moniz ("Nash Bridges") and James B. Sikking ("Brooklyn South") guest star. Nick gets a new boss at Legal Aid, Louisa "LuLu" Archer (Moniz), and their first case together involves the vandalism of a restaurant own...
E11
Home
2001-12-18
Nick, now working at another law firm, is reinstated as the guardian of young Hunter Reed, his first case. Polly Draper ("thirtysomething") guest stars Both Nick and his child advocacy boss, Alvin, face Nick's father, Burton, in court. Nick, who is now working for Burton's competitors, Kirk and ...
E12
Causality
2002-01-08
E13
Privilege
2002-01-22
After a rough turn of events at Kirk & McGee, Nick is back at Fallin & Assoc. just as Burton is looking into the case of Susan Newberg, deceased daughter of longtime client and family friend Frank Newberg. What begins as an investigation into Susan's widower Ray Harper, and the $11 million estate le...
E14
Family
2002-02-05
Nick's Aunt Liz visits Burton & Nick and tells them she is dying.
E15
In Loco Parentis
2002-02-26
Nick thinks a woman he helped get her kids, may still use drugs.
E16
Solidarity
2002-03-05
A case that Nick took at Legal Services creates a conflict of interest, James tries to help his nephew.
E17
The Divide
2002-03-12
Nick tries to help 2 brothers get adopted, the foster parents want the "gifted" brother. Jake tries to save his dad from losing his house to a loan shark.
E18
Mothers of the Disappeared
2002-03-26
When a mother of a missing child shows up in Nick Fallin's office at Legal Services, he finds himself in the middle of an emotional struggle for closure and justice. Prior to the disappearance of her daughter Grace, Janine McGregor was in a car accident with her for which they were awarded a large s...
E19
Lawyers, Guns and Money
2002-04-09
Trouble gets very deep for Dale (Nick's Parole officer asks for help from Nick. Later LuLu's husband to be is arested. Nick can't tell LuLu. Burton wonders if his son will be on the federal bench.
E20
Shelter
2002-05-07
Nick and LuLu find teenagers in her house, after they hear a girl screaming giving birth. They want to keep the baby and soon end up in foster care.

🎭 Cast of The Guardian Season 1

Simon Baker
Simon Baker
Nick Fallin
Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman
Burton Fallin
Alan Rosenberg
Alan Rosenberg
Alvin Masterson
Raphael Sbarge
Raphael Sbarge
Jake Straka
Charles Malik Whitfield
Charles Malik Whitfield
James Mooney

📋 All Seasons of The Guardian

Season 2Season 3

Never Lose Track of The Guardian

TV Butler Pro lets you search every streaming service in seconds, tracks what you've watched, and works completely free. No app download needed.

🎩 Try TV Butler Pro Free