L.A. LAW {LA LAW}: GOOD TO THE LAST DROP (TV)
Summary
One in this series of legal dramas set in the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie Brackman. In this episode, the abrasive Rosalind Shays makes a memorable exit from the series as the other lawyers confront an overloaded legal system, an unethical hospital policy, and civil disobedience directed at the I.R.S. Zoe Clemmons finds herself overextended as she prosecutes two trials simultaneously, outmaneuvered by a vicious young child killer in the first and unable to properly concentrate on the second. Victor's personal beliefs interfere with legal ethics in his prosecution of an opportunistic doctor specializing in unnecessary hysterectomies. Stuart represents an outraged citizen who refuses to pay taxes that subsidize government waste. C.J. courts an envoy of German automobile executives, impressing them with her command of their language. The episode's famous highlight is the permanent departure from the series of Rosalind Shays: Rosalind, distracted by the emotional tension between herself and Leland, steps into an empty elevator shaft and falls to her doom. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: March 21, 1991 Thursday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:17
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:30567
- GENRE: Drama, legal
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, legal
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1986-1994
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Rick Wallace … Executive Producer
- David E. Kelley … Executive Producer, Writer
- Alice West … Coordinating Producer
- Patricia Green … Supervising Producer, Writer
- Robert Breech … Producer
- Elodie Keene … Producer
- James C. Hart … Producer
- Alan Brennert … Producer, Writer
- Monica Wyatt … Associate Producer
- Menachem Binetski … Director
- Steven Bochco … Created by
- Terry Louise Fisher … Created by
- Mark Post … Music by
- Harry Hamlin … Cast, Michael Kuzak
- Susan Dey … Cast, Grace Van Owen
- Corbin Bernsen … Cast, Arnie Becker
- Jill Eikenberry … Cast, Ann Kelsey
- Alan Rachins … Cast, Douglas Brackman, Jr.
- Michele Greene … Cast, Abby Perkins
- Jimmy Smits … Cast, Victor Sifuentes
- Michael Tucker … Cast, Stuart Markowitz
- Susan Ruttan … Cast, Roxanne Melman
- Blair Underwood … Cast, Jonathan Rollins
- Larry Drake … Cast, Benny Stulwicz
- Amanda Donohoe … Cast, C.J. Lamb
- John Spencer … Cast, Tommy Mullaney
- Richard Dysart … Cast, Leland McKenzie
- Diana Muldaur … Cast, Rosalind Shays
- Cecil Hoffmann … Cast, Zoe CLemmons
- Van Dyke, Elizabeth … Cast, Noreen Carter
- Daniel Benzali … Cast, Judge Donald T. Phillips
- James Randolph … Cast, Edward Johanson
- Linda Gehringer … Cast, Kate Recklaw
- James Karen … Cast, Dr. Everett Kyle
- Niles Brewster … Cast, Upton Weeks
- Mitch David Carter … Cast, Billy Michaels
- Karen Radcliffe … Cast, Joanne Byers
- Clement Von Franckenstein … Cast, Krug
- Ron House … Cast, Schmidt
- Bernard Rehhaut … Cast, Krieger
- Carl Held … Cast, West
- Michael Kinney … Cast, the Funeral Director
- Jean Sakata … Cast, Foreperson #1
- Bob Farley … Cast, Foreperson #2
- Joe Banks … Cast, the Clerk
- Merry Lee Traum … Cast, Reporter #1
- Steve Tietsort … Cast, Reporter #2
- Denis Arndt … Cast, Jack Sollers
- John Hancock … Cast, Judge Richard Armand
- Michael Chiklis … Cast, Jimmy Hoffs
- Robert Walker … Cast, Attorney
- James Sutorius … Cast, Lyman Hatcher
- Roy Brocksmith … Cast, IRS Agent Marv Fletcher
- Mark La Mura … Cast, Nick Klein
- Andrew Gorman … Cast, Mr. Recklaw, Kate's Husband
- Philip Moon … Cast, John
- Susan Berman … Cast