Boston Legal

About Boston Legal

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.

Boston Legal is a comedy series that ran on ABC. Its 5 seasons and 101 episodes aired between October 2004 and December 2008.

The series is filed under male friendship, law firm, lawyer, and cheerful. James Spader leads the cast as Alan Shore, William Shatner as Denny Crane, Candice Bergen as Shirley Schmidt, and John Larroquette as Carl Sack.

It comes from 20th Century Fox Television and David E. Kelley Productions. In the United States it streams on Hulu.

Ally McBeal, The Practice, and Franklin & Bash make useful companions to Boston Legal. TMDB voters put it at 7.9 out of 10 across 406 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.