6.6/1038 votes#1 - Something Old, Something Nude
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1991
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
7.6/1039 votes#2 - TV or Not TV
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1032 votes#3 - Do the Spike Thing
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1991
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
7.2/1037 votes#4 - Spleen It to Me, Lucy
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1028 votes#5 - Monkey on My Back Lot
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1032 votes#6 - Badfellas
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/1991
As new DA 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1036 votes#7 - Lose the Boss
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1030 votes#8 - The Nut Before Christmas
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1991
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
Writer: Patricia Green, Carol Flint
7.5/1042 votes#9 - Guess Who's Coming To Murder?
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1034 votes#10 - Back to the Suture
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/1992
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
Writer: Steven Bochco, David Milch
7.2/1034 votes#11 - All About Sleaze
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/30/1992
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: N/A
7.3/1033 votes#12 - I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 2/13/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1035 votes#13 - Steal It Again, Sam
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1033 votes#14 - Diet, Diet, My Darling
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/1992
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
Writer: Anne Kenney, Alan Brennert, Judith Feldman, Sarah Woodside Gallagher
7.2/1036 votes#15 - Great Balls Afire
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1033 votes#16 - From Here to Paternity
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/26/1992
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
Writer: Carol Flint, Steve Brown, Alan Brennert
7.4/1032 votes#17 - P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 4/16/1992
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
Writer: Paul Manning, Anne Kenney, Alan Brennert
7.2/1032 votes#18 - Love in Bloom
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 4/23/1992
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
Writer: Carol Flint, Robert Crais, Judith Feldman
7.1/1030 votes#19 - Silence of the Lambskins
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/1992
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
Writer: Paul Manning, Alan Brennert
7.5/1030 votes#20 - Beauty and the Breast
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/1992
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
Writer: Paul Manning, Carol Flint, Charles H. Eglee
7.5/1029 votes#21 - Double Breasted Suit
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/1992
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
Writer: Anne Kenney, Judith Feldman
7.2/1031 votes#22 - Say Goodnight, Gracie
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1992
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
Writer: Alan Brennert, Charles H. Eglee
The Best Episodes of L.A. Law Season 6
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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 6.6/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by Rick Wallace and written by Patricia Green, it aired on 10/10/1991. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "TV or Not TV".