MURDER ONE: CHAPTER ONE, YEAR TWO {SECOND SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
One in this serial drama series focusing, in its second season, on three major cases of attorney Jimmy Wyler and his associates. In this episode, highly-regarded prosecuting attorney Jimmy Wyler is passed up for a promotion by his boss, the sleazy district attorney Roger Garfield, a candidate for governor of California. Weary of his financial woes and of Garfield's petty politics, Wyler quits to go into private practice as a defense attorney. In short order, the governor of California is assassinated and Wyler finds his first client: Sharon Rooney, the young woman arrested for the shooting murders of the governor and the young woman in bed with him. After accepting Wyler's pro bono representation, Rooney -- a former mistress of the governor -- flatly informs him that she indeed committed the crime. Soon after, Wyler is approached by the lawyers of Hoffman & Associates with an offer to take over as head of the firm. The ambitious young lawyers have found themselves without a "marquee player," since Teddy Hoffman's departure, and consequently, without cases. Wyler accepts and soon finds himself up against the hostilities of his former associates at the D.A.'s office, who feel betrayed by his defection to the other side. He also finds himself at odds with lawyer Chris Docknovich after he appoints Justine Appleton as second chair on the Rooney case, and later hires a new partner, Aaron Mosley, without consulting the partners. In other developments, Wyler is visited by the treacherous mogul Malcolm Dietrich, who wants to retain him; and Wyler's formidable mother suggests over her birthday dinner that Dietrich is responsible for Wyler's father's death. Later, Sharon Rooney attempts suicide in her cell, and Wyler implores her to have faith in him. Includes commercials, promos, and public service announcements.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Bell Atlantic Foundation, 1998.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: October 10, 1996 Thursday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:56:57
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:46378
- GENRE: Drama, legal
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, legal; Drama, mystery/suspense; Drama, police/detective; Murder
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1995-1997
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "The Chamber" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (feature films)
- TV - Commercials - Acura RL automobiles
- TV - Commercials - All laundry detergent
- TV - Commercials - Boost with Protein drink
- TV - Commercials - Burlington Coat Factory clothing stores
- TV - Commercials - Dodge Stratus and Ram automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Extra Strength Tylenol pain reliever
- TV - Commercials - Kodak film and photo paper
- TV - Commercials - L'Oreal Feel Perfecte makeup
- TV - Commercials - McDonald's restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Oldsmobile Eighty Eight automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Revlon Age Defying makeup
- TV - Commercials - Saturn automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Sprint long distance service
- TV - Commercials - Tylenol PM pain reliever
- TV - Commercials - Visa Gold credit cards
- TV - PSA - Partnership for a Drug-Free America
- TV - Promos - "ABC Monday Night Football"
- TV - Promos - "ABC News 20/20"
- TV - Promos - "ABC News Turning Point"
- TV - Promos - "Coach"
- TV - Promos - "Common Law"
- TV - Promos - "Dangerous Minds"
- TV - Promos - "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"
- TV - Promos - "NYPD Blue"
- TV - Promos - "Relativity"
- TV - Promos - "Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17"
CREDITS
- Steven Bochco … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Charles H. Eglee … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Michael Fresco … Executive Producer, Director
- Joe Ann Fogle … Co-Executive Producer
- Nick Harding … Supervising Producer
- Geoffrey Neigher … Supervising Producer, Writer
- Marc Buckland … Producer
- Gigi Coello-Bannon … Supervising Associate Producer
- Chad Savage … Associate Producer
- Channing Gibson … Created by
- Doug Palau … Writer
- Mike Post … Music by
- Anthony LaPaglia … Cast, James Wyler
- Mary McCormack … Cast, Justine Appleton
- Michael Hayden … Cast, Chris Docknovich
- J.C. MacKenzie … Cast, Arnold Spivak
- DB Woodside … Cast, Aaron Mosely
- Barbara Bosson … Cast, Miriam Grasso
- Clayton Rohner … Cast, Vince Biggio
- Jack Kehler … Cast, Frank Szymanski
- Ralph Waite … Cast, Malcolm Dietrich
- Gregory Itzin … Cast, D.A. Roger Garfield
- Eileen Heckart … Cast, Frances Wyler
- John Fleck … Cast, Louis Heinsberger
- Missy Crider … Cast, Sharon Rooney
- Neal McDonough … Cast, Kyle Rooney
- Jessica Tuck … Cast, Laura Crimmins
- Markus Redmond … Cast, Mark Washington
- Arthur Rosenberg … Cast, Judge Horton
- Dale Raoul … Cast, Judge Biship
- Michael Ensign … Cast, Leonard Bluth
- Glenn Morshower … Cast, Officer Ladich
- Diana Morgan … Cast, the Newscaster
- Kim Johnston Ulrich … Cast, Mallory Hudson
- Murray Rubinstein … Cast, the Reporter
- Leo Garcia … Cast, Roberg Vargas
- Toni DeRose … Cast, Angela Rosetti
- Todd Jeffries … Cast, the Guard
- Eduardo Migre … Cast, the Waiter
- Carlease Burke … Cast, the Female Guard