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Ally McBeal

FOX · English · 1997–2002

Also known as: Ally · Элли МакБил

Seasons: 5
Episodes: 112
Followers: 0

Meet Ally McBeal, a single lawyer both blessed and cursed with eccentric colleagues, a now-married-to-someone-else childhood sweetheart, and an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

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Season 522 episodes · 2001–2002

Episode 1 · 30 Oct 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
Friends and Lovers
It's a new year at the firm, which means changes - big changes! Still getting over Larry and renewing her faith in love, Ally decides to start fresh and let nothing get in her way. That is until she barrels into a woman on the street with her Razor Scooter.
Episode 2 · 6 Nov 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
Judge Ling
When Ling is sarcastically nice to a stranger, she gets a surprise promotion as a judge. John is still irreparably fraught over thinking that Ally loves him, but he's concerned that only crazy people are attracted to him.
Episode 3 · 13 Nov 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
Neutral Corners
Ally is still divided with her feelings for Glenn and if she should date him or not. Glenn says he's not interested in her, and Raymond asks Glenn if he should date Ally. To make things even better, John decides to confess his feelings for Ally.
Episode 4 · 20 Nov 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
Fear of Flirting
John takes off for parts unknown, which worries the ladies of the firm, especially Nelle. Richard takes it in stride, and takes over John's abandoned hole off of the unisex. Raymond is sued by a former coworker for sexual harassment, and asks Jenny to represent him.
Episode 5 · 27 Nov 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
I Want Love
Jenny's mother comes to hire the firm to take her wrongful termination case. She's being fired from her job for dating a 20 year-old. Jenny wants Ally to purposely lose the case but Ally can't do that.
Episode 6 · 4 Dec 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
Lost and Found
John makes a surprise return and is shocked after hearing from Raymond that Richard threw a party in his "hole". After confronting Richard, John gives the office a speech, in which he reveals the reason why and where he left to.
Episode 7 · 11 Dec 2001 · 02:00 · 60 min
Nine One One
Ally helps a minister who was fired from his church for not believing in God. Ever since his wife was brutally murdered, he has been questioning his beliefs and he asks Ally to talk to his son.
Episode 8 · 8 Jan 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
Playing with Matches
Jenny's mom's wedding is approaching, and Ally is shocked when Tim gives her a certain look that suggests a move. She talks to Jenny, and they decide to test him. Ally makes a move on him, and he offers her to have an affair.
Episode 9 · 15 Jan 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
Blowin' in the Wind
Ally impulsively buys a house, to which Dr. Milter concludes is a way of her to take care of herself, since Ally sees herself as a 'work in progress'. Meanwhile, Ally handles a case of a man who spent too much money buying gifts for his wife until they went bankrupt.
Episode 10 · 22 Jan 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
One Hundred Tears
Ally defends a man who broke into his old house to jump out of his old bedroom window. Harvey Hall believes he can fly using wings he made himself.
Episode 11 · 5 Feb 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
A Kick in the Head
10 year-old Maddie Harrington shows up on Ally's door saying she's her daughter. She's the result of a mixup on the egg bank Ally deposited her eggs ten years ago.
Episode 12 · 12 Feb 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
The New Day
Maddie keeps testing Ally for her patience and love, something that doesn't go through Ally's mind until Victor points it out. Ally, on the other hand, is being way too protective on Maddie, confronting her school principal, teacher and classmates.
Episode 13 · 19 Feb 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
Woman
Ally decided that in order for the firm to get out of the financial crisis it's going through, someone will have to be let go. She chooses Jenny, who between all the lawyers of the firm had the least number of clients and experience. Glenn takes Jenny's dismissal offensively and decides to quit, taking all his clients with him.
Episode 14 · 26 Feb 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
Homecoming
Ally decides to take the DNA test after having recurring dreams where Maddie's real parents show up claiming her. Maddie doesn't take that well and escapes to NY to see her aunt Bonnie. Maddie thinks the test is just Ally's way of having an excuse not to love her, but Ally only wants a proof that Maddie is her daughter so no one can take her away from her.
Episode 15 · 5 Mar 2002 · 02:00 · 60 min
Heart and Soul
Richard and Raymond are hired to represent Serena Feldman, a 16 year-old girl who will die unless Judge Hall consents her a heart transplant from her convicted father, who is the her only match. Serena's aunt is against the transplant because Serena's dad murdered her mother.
Episode 16 · 16 Apr 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
Love is All Around: Part 1
Ally is about to go on her 3rd date, a.k.a. the "sex date", with Victor. Everybody knows about it, but Ally is nervous because on the 2nd date the tension was so high they couldn't even kiss. At the firm, Richard assigns Nelle to a very important case opposite court devil Liza "Lolita" Bump, a bitchy, young and feared attorney. So feared that Richard has to get John Cage for the case.
Episode 17 · 16 Apr 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
Love is All Around: Part 2
The judge forbids the lawyers to interfere on Claire's engagement, and her fiancé decides to call the wedding off. Devastated, Claire goes to Ally for help.
Episode 18 · 23 Apr 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
Tom Dooley
Ally is going to the Bermudas with Victor, and welcomes Liza as the firm's newest attorney. Nelle doesn't like that or the fact that she took John's office. Despite being her first day, Liza hires another lawyer, Wilson Jade, whom she was going to partner with on her own practice, hadn't she joined Cage, Fish & McBeal.
Episode 19 · 30 Apr 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
Another One Bites the Dust
Ally and Victor return from their Bermuda trip. Ally feels their relationship is in crisis because they weren't able to connect without Maddie around. Victor is being sued by his former girlfriend for breach of contract.
Episode 20 · 7 May 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
What I'll Never Do for Love Again
Elaine auditions for "A Chorus Line", but doesn't get a call back. Richard's father seeks for his help. He's being sued by his former secretary for sexual harassment.
Episode 21 · 14 May 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
All of Me
The lawyers at Cage, Fish & McBeal split when both personalities of the same woman hires them to represent each in court. One of her personalities is a strong, decided and bitchy woman that goes by Helena Green. She wants to divorce her husband, who years ago married sweet, warm hearted but weak Helen Green.
Episode 22 · 21 May 2002 · 01:00 · 60 min
Bygones
After Maddie passes out Ally finds out she is suffering from a nervous reaction to all the changes in her life, so Ally decides that the only way she can help her daughter is to move back to New York.