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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!

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by...
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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 6.7/10 based on 36 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".

  • Something Old, Something Nude
    6.7/1036 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

  • TV or Not TV
    7.7/1037 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

  • Do the Spike Thing
    7.2/1031 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

  • Spleen It to Me, Lucy
    7.3/1036 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

  • Monkey on My Back Lot
    6.6/1027 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

  • Badfellas
    7.6/1030 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

  • Lose the Boss
    6.8/1035 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

  • The Nut Before Christmas
    7.2/1029 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

  • Guess Who's Coming To Murder?
    7.6/1041 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

  • Back to the Suture
    7.6/1033 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

  • All About Sleaze
    7.3/1033 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

  • I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Markowitz
    7.3/1032 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

  • Steal It Again, Sam
    6.9/1033 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

  • Diet, Diet, My Darling
    6.9/1031 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: Judith Feldman, Sarah Woodside Gallagher, Anne Kenney, Alan Brennert

  • Great Balls Afire
    7.2/1034 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

  • From Here to Paternity
    7.4/1032 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: Steve Brown, Carol Flint, Alan Brennert

  • P.S. Your Shrink Is Dead
    7.5/1030 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

  • Love in Bloom
    7.2/1031 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: Judith Feldman, Robert Crais, Carol Flint

  • Silence of the Lambskins
    7.2/1029 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

  • Beauty and the Breast
    7.7/1029 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

  • Double Breasted Suit
    7.5/1028 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: Judith Feldman, Anne Kenney

  • Say Goodnight, Gracie
    7.3/1030 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: Charles H. Eglee, Alan Brennert