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The Best Episodes of L.A. Law Season 6

Every episode of L.A. Law Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of L.A. Law Season 6!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 1 - Something Old, Something Nude
    6.8/10(44 votes)

    #1 - Something Old, Something Nude

    S6:E1

    Facing financial woes, the firm is forced to share office space with an entertainment lawyer; Van Owen's high-profile client is charged with murdering her abusive husband.

    Director:Rick Wallace
    Writer:Patricia Green

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  2. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 2 - TV or Not TV
    7.6/10(44 votes)

    #2 - TV or Not TV

    S6:E2

    Van Owen elicits emotional testimony from Elsa Chandler; the Government's handling of the MIA issue following the Vietnam War comes under fire in a family feud over a presumed-dead Air Force captain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 3 - Do the Spike Thing
    6.8/10(38 votes)

    #3 - Do the Spike Thing

    S6:E3

    Brackman is the unwitting victim in a gay-bashing incident; Kelsey defends a logging-company executive in a case involving a tree-spiking activist; C.J.'s father comes to town on a bender.

    Director:Michael Katleman
    Writer:Carol Flint

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  4. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 4 - Spleen It to Me, Lucy
    7.1/10(45 votes)

    #4 - Spleen It to Me, Lucy

    S6:E4

    Zoey's case threatens to move a death-row schizophrenic closer to an execution date; a splenectomy patient challenges a doctor's right to profit from her donor cells; Bloom bulldozes Roxanne in a battle over office turf.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 5 - Monkey on My Back Lot
    6.4/10(33 votes)

    #5 - Monkey on My Back Lot

    S6:E5

    A tenant at a housing project where guns have been banned sues for the right to defend himself; a recovering addict faces reproductive restrictions; McKenzie arbitrates a divorce between two animal trainers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 6 - Badfellas
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #6 - Badfellas

    S6:E6

    As new D.A. Ruby Thomas takes office, the firm's reputation is tainted when Frank Kittredge defends a mob boss; Markowitz challenges an exhibition-basketball team's firing of its female opponents.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 7 - Lose the Boss
    6.5/10(41 votes)

    #7 - Lose the Boss

    S6:E7

    Brackman's former sister-in-law sues to get the school board to pay for her disabled son's private education; Bloom defends an overweight man accused of assaulting a refreshment-stand owner; an overworked Gwen fights Becker's hypocrisy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 8 - The Nut Before Christmas
    7.0/10(37 votes)

    #8 - The Nut Before Christmas

    S6:E8

    C.J. takes a personal interest in a case involving a friend, a divorcée whose lesbian affair foments a custody battle for her kids; Brackman can't seem to muster staff enthusiasm for the annual holiday party.

    Director:Paul Lazarus
    Writers:Patricia Green, Carol Flint

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  9. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 9 - Guess Who's Coming To Murder?
    7.6/10(48 votes)

    #9 - Guess Who's Coming To Murder?

    S6:E9

    Mullaney is pitted against Zoey in his defense of an accused serial killer and rapist; a client's sanity comes into focus during the handling of a movie deal; Bloom finds evidence of McKenzie's indiscretion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 10 - Back to the Suture
    7.4/10(40 votes)

    #10 - Back to the Suture

    S6:E10

    A patient paralyzed after surgery sues her physician; Benny petitions for custody of a homeless youth; not everyone is supportive of Brackman's courting Veronica.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writers:Steven Bochco, David Milch

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  11. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 11 - All About Sleaze
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #11 - All About Sleaze

    S6:E11

    C.J.'s client accuses the Government of negligence in the rape-murder of his wife; Becker's ego is cut down to size over the airwaves; Mullaney's presence stirs up trouble between Zoey and Rollins.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 12 - I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #12 - I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz

    S6:E12

    Mullaney co-chairs a suit by Honduran farmers who claim U.S. pesticides made them sterile; Zoey helps a co-worker confront her repressed memories; Markowitz meets the actress of his childhood dreams.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 13 - Steal It Again, Sam
    6.8/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Steal It Again, Sam

    S6:E13

    Sifuentes visits the firm and finds that his failed relationship with Van Owen demands his attention; Kittredge takes on a legal dispute involving a perfume queen and her protégé.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 14 - Diet, Diet, My Darling
    6.7/10(37 votes)

    #14 - Diet, Diet, My Darling

    S6:E14

    Flanagan brings suit against her father; McKenzie arbitrates a dispute between a cookbook author and her student; Rollins' dad comes to him for help.

    Director:Michael Fresco
    Writers:Alan Brennert, Judith Feldman, Anne Kenney, Sarah Woodside Gallagher

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  15. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 15 - Great Balls Afire
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #15 - Great Balls Afire

    S6:E15

    A Jewish philanthropist halts funding for a medical researcher who is using data from Nazi experiments; the Markowitzes anticipate the worst from a girl claiming to be Stuart's daughter; Becker's fidelity is put to the test by Julie.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 16 - From Here to Paternity
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    #16 - From Here to Paternity

    S6:E16

    The partners disagree about Van Owen's defending a celebrity baseball player on rape charges; DePalma becomes embroiled in a sting operation on a corrupt judge; Markowitz offers Sarah a job at the firm despite Kelsey's reservations, then tries too hard to win her affections; Roxanne moves out after Rayburn deceives her about Becker's fidelity.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writers:Carol Flint, Alan Brennert, Steve Brown

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  17. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 17 - P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    #17 - P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead

    S6:E17

    Becker's shrink drops dead; the Brackmans use Alexander to call one another's bluff; Kelsey fires Ned after he makes a pass at her; McKenzie chastises DePalma for how he participated in the sting operation, but comes to the young attorney's aid when a member of the bench exacts his own punishment for DePalma's role in exposing Kelton; during Susan Bloom's wedding, Alexander and Sam get into trouble, and Gwen and Kittredge get closer; Kelsey is taken into custody when she protests the I.N.S. arrest of Matthew's new nanny; Becker tries to regain Roxanne's trust.

    Director:Win Phelps
    Writers:Alan Brennert, Paul Manning, Anne Kenney

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  18. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 18 - Love in Bloom
    7.2/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Love in Bloom

    S6:E18

    A multimillionaire tries to buy his way out of a murder charge; parental concerns compound for the Brackmans and Benny when Alexander and Sam end up in juvenile court; and an INS review interrupts Bloom's marital bliss.

    Director:Paul Lazarus
    Writers:Robert Crais, Carol Flint, Judith Feldman

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  19. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 19 - Silence of the Lambskins
    7.2/10(35 votes)

    #19 - Silence of the Lambskins

    S6:E19

    Mullaney works with a feisty young prosecutor when he takes an out-of-town assignment as the lead prosecutor in the case of a missing woman presumed murdered by her co-worker during a theft from the bank where they both worked; Markowitz represents a condom manufacturer whose flag-emblazoned wares were seized by Customs under federal obscenity laws; Becker's representation of a woman with Alzheimer's whose daughter is vying for conservatorship rights with her mother's much-younger new husband gets torpedoed by Frank Kittredge when he leaks Gwen's pillow talk about the case to the woman's daughter, with whom he's also having an affair; Zoey wonders about the future of their relationship when Jonathan considers whether to accept the offer of a short-term appointment to the city council that could lead to a long-term future in politics.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writers:Alan Brennert, Paul Manning

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  20. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 20 - Beauty and the Breast
    7.4/10(36 votes)

    #20 - Beauty and the Breast

    S6:E20

    Frank is fired for his role in destroying Becker's case; C.J. represents a movie executive who's being sued by an actress for insisting that she get breast implants that later proved faulty; Zoey faces off against a jailhouse lawyer in the trial of a convict accused of murdering another inmate, and unwittingly helps to shape her adversary's future; Sarah comes running to her father when she has an argument with Karen over her new, older boyfriend, leading to fireworks among the women in Markowitz's life; Bloom hides her true feelings about the future of her marriage from her new groom.

    Director:Tom Moore
    Writers:Carol Flint, Paul Manning, Charles H. Eglee

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  21. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 21 - Double Breasted Suit
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #21 - Double Breasted Suit

    S6:E21

    A widower sues a psychic, claiming he was bilked; C.J. grows friendly with the opposing cousel in the breast-implant case.

    Director:Win Phelps
    Writers:Judith Feldman, Anne Kenney

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  22. L.A. Law Season 6 Episode 22 - Say Goodnight, Gracie
    7.5/10(40 votes)

    #22 - Say Goodnight, Gracie

    S6:E22

    Jonathan dumps Zoey; the Brackmans decide to reconcile and remarry; Victor Sifuentes returns to reclaim Van Owens' hand; Zoey's decision to advance her career by perjuring herself on the stand has tragic consequences when her testimony tips the scales in the case of a former inmate who sues the federal prison system after he contracts AIDS from a prison rape; Roxanne learns a hard lesson about Becker's selfishness and lack of responsibility when they discover that one of his former lovers is dying from AIDS.

    Director:Rick Wallace
    Writers:Alan Brennert, Charles H. Eglee

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Something Old, Something Nude" is the best rated episode of "L.A. Law" season 6. It scored 6.8/10 based on 44 votes. Directed by Rick Wallace and written by Patricia Green, it aired on 10/10/1991. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "TV or Not TV".