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| Storefront Lawyers | |
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| Also known as | Men at Law |
| Genre | Legal drama |
| Created by | David Karp |
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| Theme music composer | Morton Stevens |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 23(list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer | Leonard Freeman |
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| Cinematography | Jack Courtland |
| Editor | Ira Heymann |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 48 mins. |
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| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 16, 1970 (1970-09-16) – April 14, 1971 (1971-04-14) |
Storefront Lawyers (also known as Men at Law)[1][2] is an American legal drama that ran from September 1970 to January 1971 and February 1971 to March 1971 on CBS. The series starred Robert Foxworth, Sheila Larken, David Arkin, and A Martinez.[2][3]
David Hansen (Foxworth) is a big-shot lawyer who grew tired of his important and expensive Los Angeles law firm Horton, Troy, McNeil, & Caroll. Hansen left his job to start a non-profit firm called Neighborhood Legal Services based in Century City, California. His associates were Deborah Sullivan (Larken) and Gabriel Kay (Arkin). Roberto (Martinez) is a law student who worked for them as a clerk.
After 13 weeks, CBS decided to take the series in a different direction so that the lawyers could take on rich clients as well. The network retitled the series as Men at Law as the three protagonists went back to work for their former law firm.[3]
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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| 1 | "A Man's Castle" | Lee H. Katzin | Unknown | September 16, 1970 (1970-09-16) | 101 |
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A man invades an exclusive party then singles out one guest. The man shoots him dead. | |||||
| 2 | "The Law Can't Touch Him" | Marvin J. Chomsky | Meyer Dolinsky | September 23, 1970 (1970-09-23) | 102 |
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An abused wife asks the Lawyers' help in divorcing her violent husband. | |||||
| 3 | "Murph Collins vs. Tomorrow" | Marvin J. Chomsky | Alvin Sapinsley | September 30, 1970 (1970-09-30) | 103 |
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Murph Collins loses his job to affirmative action. An explosion happens, and he is the prime suspect. | |||||
| 4 | "The Electric Kid" | Marvin J. Chomsky | Ronald Austin & James D. Buchanan | October 7, 1970 (1970-10-07) | 104 |
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A con artist pulls a big con against his landlord. The landlord's position is shaky at best. | |||||
| 5 | "The Emancipation of Bessie Gray" | Marvin J. Chomsky | Robert Van Scoyk | October 14, 1970 (1970-10-14) | 105 |
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A woman, who cannot hold a job as a nurse's aide, sues the head of the school where she got her training. | |||||
| 6 | "Survivors Will Be Prosecuted" | Marvin J. Chomsky | Arthur Heinemann | October 21, 1970 (1970-10-21) | 106 |
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Unknown | |||||
| 7 | "Easy to Be Hard" | Unknown | Unknown | January 10, 2000 (2000-01-10) | 107 |
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A welfare case agent is accused of raping a woman. | |||||
| 8 | "Where Are You At?" | Unknown | George Bellak | November 4, 1970 (1970-11-04) | 108 |
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Deborah, in defending a man accused of a string of arson fires, falls in love with the ADA prosecuting the case. | |||||
| 9 | "Shadows of Doubt" | Unknown | Alvin Sapinsley | November 11, 1970 (1970-11-11) | 109 |
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Unknown | |||||
| 10 | "This Is Jerry, See Jerry Run" | Unknown | Bill Stratton | November 18, 1970 (1970-11-18) | 110 |
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A young man's dyslexia lands him in financial trouble and makes him unemployable. | |||||
| 11 | "The Pastures of Hell" | Unknown | Harold Gast | November 25, 1970 (1970-11-25) | 111 |
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The pastor of a downtown mission clashes with an activist who frequently bombs the mission. | |||||
| 12 | "Where Were We, Waldo?" | Unknown | E. Arthur Keane | December 9, 1970 (1970-12-09) | 112 |
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An illiterate man's arrest record makes him unemployable. | |||||
| 13 | "First... We Get Rid of the Principal" | Unknown | George Kirgo | January 13, 1971 (1971-01-13) | 113 |
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A student protest results in a dead administrator while a student is on trial for murder. | |||||
| 14 | "The Climate of Doubt" | Unknown | Bill Stratton | February 3, 1971 (1971-02-03) | 114 |
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A college student suspected of bludgeoning a police officer to death during a campus riot. | |||||
| 15 | "Marathon" | Unknown | Unknown | February 10, 1971 (1971-02-10) | 115 |
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A student dives his car off a pier and drowns. The widow hires the lawyers to sue the psychiatrist involved. | |||||
| 16 | "The Dark World of Harry Anders" | Unknown | Unknown | February 17, 1971 (1971-02-17) | 116 |
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A heavy-handed financier takes over a movie studio and uses various means, lawful and unlawful, to compel the studio to turn a motion-picture project into a porn project. | |||||
| 17 | "Hostage" | Unknown | Unknown | February 27, 1971 (1971-02-27) | 117 |
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While a woman on trial for planting a fatal bomb, the boyfriend takes Deborah hostage in the firm's law offices. | |||||
| 18 | "The Truth, the Whole Truth - And Anything Else That Works" | Unknown | Unknown | March 3, 1971 (1971-03-03) | 118 |
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A man comes home from work one day to find detectives in his house accusing him of being a serial sex murderer. | |||||
| 19 | "Let the Dier Beware" | Unknown | Unknown | March 17, 1971 (1971-03-17) | 119 |
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When the clinic chief physician winds up dead, a woman that took her father out of a controversial clinic is the lead suspect. | |||||
| 20 | "The View from the Top" | Unknown | Unknown | March 24, 1971 (1971-03-24) | 120 |
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A rich man hires the Lawyers after a security guard at a hotel finds him walking away from a dead woman. | |||||
| 21 | "Yesterday Is But a Dream" | Unknown | Unknown | March 31, 1971 (1971-03-31) | 121 |
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After a husband drugs his wife, the Lawyers defend the wife who shot her husband while in a drug-induced daze. | |||||
| 22 | "This Money Kills Dreams" | Unknown | Unknown | April 7, 1971 (1971-04-07) | 122 |
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Unknown | |||||
| 23 | "One American" | Unknown | Unknown | April 14, 1971 (1971-04-14) | 123 |
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A small group of passionate young men protest war and find themselves behind bars. | |||||
In the book, The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, "The Storefront Lawyers featured two men and one woman, all WASPS, but the presence of a woman was a departure at the time when women still constituted less than five percent of the profession."[4] "The Storefront Lawyers emphasizes that passivity, suggesting lawyers do nothing unless called upon. Given anxiety over lawyers trolling for clients, this portrayal suggests there is nothing to worry about. From the viewer's perspective such things simply do not happen."[5]
In his Time magazine interview, critic Richard Burgheim lumped the new CBS legal series together with another of the network's bids at "revelvance," noting "The Storefront Lawyers (CBS) and The Interns (CBS) both exploit Mod Squad's multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing."[3]
