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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Sparks Season 1 Episode 2 - Palimony
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    #1 - Palimony

    S1:E2

    The Sparks try to defend a client who is being sued for palimony by his former live-in mate of 12 years. Their case begins to fall apart when Maxey has one of his ""bright ideas"", and tries to lay a trap for the lyrically endowed woman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Sparks Season 1 Episode 3 - How Papa Got His Groove Back
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    #2 - How Papa Got His Groove Back

    S1:E3

    After learning that another one of his old classmates from school has passed away, Alonzo goes into a deep slump. The gang decides that he needs a woman in his life to make him feel alive again & get his groove back. Wilma offers to play matchmaker for Alonzo with her aunt Clea. But Clea has different ideas after she's left alone with Maxey.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Sparks Season 1 Episode 4 - A Day in the Life
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    #3 - A Day in the Life

    S1:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Sparks Season 1 Episode 5 - Sid, Lies and Videotape
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    #4 - Sid, Lies and Videotape

    S1:E5

    Maxey faces jail unless he can find his prison-bound client.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Sparks Season 1 Episode 6 - Penal Envy
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    #5 - Penal Envy

    S1:E6

    Wilma gets a doozy of a malpractice case after griping about her workload.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Sparks Season 1 Episode 7 - No Sweat
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    #6 - No Sweat

    S1:E7

    The firm represents a sweet but sweaty man accused of robbery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Sparks Season 1 Episode 8 - Pillow Talk
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    #7 - Pillow Talk

    S1:E8

    When a beautiful paralegal walks into the office looking for a job, Maxey is immediately smitten. He asks her out, and they begin a very close personal relationship. But before long, the team realizes that information regarding the firm's cases is somehow being leaked to opposing counsel. Could the new love interest in Maxey's life be the culprit?

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Sparks Season 1 Episode 9 - One on One
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    #8 - One on One

    S1:E9

    Maxey is challenged to a quick game of basketball by the judge who dislikes Maxey as a lawyer, and who Maxey wants to get on his good side. During the heated game, the judge keels over dead on the court, and Maxey feels that he is responsible, and decides to resign from the profession.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Sparks Season 1 Episode 10 - Good for the Gander
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    #9 - Good for the Gander

    S1:E10

    Maxey gets his comeuppance after he tries to play up to a judge who's gay during a case involving a burglary suspect, and Alonzo takes on the case of a rapper with a contract dispute.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Sparks Season 1 Episode 11 - Porky's Revenge
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    #10 - Porky's Revenge

    S1:E11

    Alonzo's enthusiasm for his Federal Court case is quashed when he learns that his courtroom opponent is a law-school professor who once humiliated him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Sparks Season 1 Episode 12 - Maxey Gets the Bird
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    #11 - Maxey Gets the Bird

    S1:E12

    Maxey is caught in a sting operation trying to solicit clients in front of a hospital emergency room, and must appear before a review board. But the surprise is on him when he finds out the chairman of the board is none other than his own father. The two then have to put aside their differences at the family's Thanksgiving dinner, where Maxey is supposed to bring the Thanksgiving Turkey.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Sparks Season 1 Episode 13 - It's the Gospel
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    #12 - It's the Gospel

    S1:E13

    Maxey thinks he's hit the big time when a large corporation hires him as counsel on an inner-city development project. But he soon realizes that he's been duped into evicting a community church.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Sparks Season 1 Episode 14 - I Spy
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    #13 - I Spy

    S1:E14

    Maxey recruits Darice and private eye Floyd Pitts to entrap the cheating husband of his client, but the plan backfires when the man reveals his true feelings about his wife---on audiotape.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Sparks Season 1 Episode 15 - Won't You Be My Neighbor
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    #14 - Won't You Be My Neighbor

    S1:E15

    Greg gets rid of his roommate and moves into his own apartment. Alonzo praises him for going out on his own, ends up selling his house and moves in across the hall. Alonzo becomes a major intruder in Greg's life, and it's up to Maxey to help him.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Sparks Season 1 Episode 16 - Love Conquers All
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    #15 - Love Conquers All

    S1:E16

    Maxey represents an old friend of Alonzo's who has written a very successful advice book about old-fashioned, honest love, Love Conquers All. Wilma comes to work still dressed in the evening gown from the previous night's date, but absentmindedly changes her clothes in front of Maxey, driving him to fall madly in love with Wilma. As they continue to work together, Maxey gets converted to the ways of the book. His efforts to try and woo Wilma meet with hilarious results.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Sparks Season 1 Episode 17 - Self Defense
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    #16 - Self Defense

    S1:E17

    Maxey is sent to jail for refusing to produce privileged documents in court. One of his cellmates is a former client seeking revenge from the lawyer who lost his case - Maxey!! He puts Maxey on trial in front of a mock jury composed of the cellmates.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Sparks Season 1 Episode 18 - Hoop Schemes
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    #17 - Hoop Schemes

    S1:E18

    Actress and singer Nell Carter guest stars as the mother of a high school basketball whiz who may be headed straight for the NBA. Maxey uses his masculine wiles on the mother in hopes of representing the young would-be superstar. What Maxey doesn't know, is that he is also being used to entice her admirer (watching from afar) into making a commitment.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writers:Michael Weinberger, Jake Weinberger

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  18. Sparks Season 1 Episode 19 - The Great Indoors
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    #18 - The Great Indoors

    S1:E19

    The Sparks are accused of being slumlords after Maxey accepts the deed to an apartment complex---sight unseen---as payment from a client. Meanwhile, Wilma's left in charge of the office when the trio is forced to spend 24 hours in one of their dilapidated units.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Sparks Season 1 Episode 20 - Love in a Cop
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    #19 - Love in a Cop

    S1:E20

    Wilma tries to help La Marr win back his ex, and Maxey takes a case against a fertility-clinic doctor who's impregnating patients with his own sperm.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Sparks Season 1 Episode 21 - Too Hot Not to Cool Down
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    #20 - Too Hot Not to Cool Down

    S1:E21

    Maxey's intimate relationship with the beautiful opposing counsel affects his legal objectivity, as well as his behavior in the courtroom handling the divorce of an old pal; Floyd Pitts is called in to investigate items missing from the office.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Sparks Season 1 Episode 22 - A Day in the Life II
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    #21 - A Day in the Life II

    S1:E22

    Just as Maxey and his girlfriend Deidre are about to leave town for a getaway, Alonzo gives him a dog of a case involving a family friend who has 36 chihuahuas and a court order telling her to get rid of 32 of them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Sparks Season 2 Episode 1 - To the Maxey
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    #22 - To the Maxey

    S2:E1

    In the second-season opener, Wilma thinks she'll have to reveal her unattached status at a grand family bash in honor of her grandmother's birthday, but Maxey steps in and pretends to be her fiance, a prominent plastic surgeon. Meanwhile, Darice still can't shake off ardent suitor Zack, who's been hired to paint the office.

    Director:Kim Friedman
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Sparks Season 2 Episode 2 - Maxey Loses His Spark
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    #23 - Maxey Loses His Spark

    S2:E2

    When Maxey & Wilma break off their relationship, it has a profound and unseen effect on Maxey. While having a romp with 5 sexy females, (every man's dream), Maxey realizes that his ""spark"" is gone, and he is unable to rise to the occassion. Later he realizes that his feelings for Wilma went deeper than he realized.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Rob Dames

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  24. Sparks Season 2 Episode 3 - Rehearsal of Fortune
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    #24 - Rehearsal of Fortune

    S2:E3

    When Maxey's elderly neighbor dies, her estate goes to Maxey. But the dead woman's family, convinced he manipulated her, decides to sue, and Wilma agrees to be his lawyer and be a character witness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Rob Dames

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  25. Sparks Season 2 Episode 4 - Dog Gone
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    #25 - Dog Gone

    S2:E4

    Maxey fights his first death penalty case, representing a dog that's in danger of being euthanized.

    Director:Stan Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Palimony" is the worst rated episode of "Sparks". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/2/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "How Papa Got His Groove Back".