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The Worst Episodes of Sparks

Every episode of Sparks ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Sparks!

Sparks is an American sitcom
Genre:Comedy
Network:UPN

Worst Episodes Summary

"Pilot" is the worst rated episode of "Sparks". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/26/1996. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Palimony".

  • Pilot
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    #1 - Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/26/1996

    What happens when a bright and beautiful female attorney joins an inner-city Los Angeles law firm run by a ready-to-retire patriarch and his two bickering sons? Sparks! Two polar-opposite brothers manage the law firm of Sparks, Sparks & Sparks, founded by their father Alonzo Sparks While each son is dedicated to the family profession, the flashy, womanizing Maxey is just as interested in the pursuit of beautiful young women as he is in the pursuit of justice, while younger brother Greg is serious, straitlaced and a seeker of the high road. Imagine their surprise when the one thing the brothers find they can agree on is their mutual affection for Wilma Cuthbert, the Stanford Law graduate who Greg has just hired to join Sparks, Sparks and Sparks as the firm's only associate -- after an extensive three-year search. Both brothers vie for her affections, but Wilma -- caught up in the jitters of a stressful new job and an engagement to a high-profile sports figure -- basketball star Jason Ki

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Palimony
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    #2 - Palimony

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/2/1996

    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.

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    Writer: N/A

  • How Papa Got His Groove Back
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    #3 - How Papa Got His Groove Back

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1996

    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: N/A

  • A Day in the Life
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    #4 - A Day in the Life

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1996

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sid, Lies and Videotape
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    #5 - Sid, Lies and Videotape

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1996

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Penal Envy
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    #6 - Penal Envy

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/30/1996

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

    Director: Stan Daniels

    Writer: N/A

  • No Sweat
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    #7 - No Sweat

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1996

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

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    Writer: N/A

  • One on One
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    #8 - One on One

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Good for the Gander
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    #9 - Good for the Gander

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Porky's Revenge
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    #10 - Porky's Revenge

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Maxey Gets the Bird
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    #11 - Maxey Gets the Bird

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's the Gospel
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    #12 - It's the Gospel

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1997

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I Spy
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    #13 - I Spy

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1997

    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: N/A

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor
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    #14 - Won't You Be My Neighbor

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1997

    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: N/A

  • Love Conquers All
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    #15 - Love Conquers All

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1997

    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: N/A

  • Self Defense
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    #16 - Self Defense

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1997

    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: N/A

  • Hoop Schemes
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    #17 - Hoop Schemes

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1997

    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

    Writer: Michael Weinberger, Jake Weinberger

  • The Great Indoors
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    #18 - The Great Indoors

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1997

    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: N/A

  • Love in a Cop
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    #19 - Love in a Cop

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1997

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Hot Not to Cool Down
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    #20 - Too Hot Not to Cool Down

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1997

    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: N/A

  • A Day in the Life II
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    #21 - A Day in the Life II

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1997

    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.

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  • To the Maxey
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    #22 - To the Maxey

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/25/1997

    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: N/A

  • Maxey Loses His Spark
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    #23 - Maxey Loses His Spark

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/1997

    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: N/A

    Writer: Rob Dames

  • Rehearsal of Fortune
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    #24 - Rehearsal of Fortune

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/8/1997

    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: N/A

    Writer: Rob Dames

  • Dog Gone
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    #25 - Dog Gone

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/1997

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

    Director: Stan Daniels

    Writer: N/A