Ally McBeal

The Story

Ally McBeal and Billy Thomas were going steady throughout their childhoods. Ally even followed Billy to Harvard law school despite having no interest in law. But when Billy chose to pursue a career in law away from Ally, their relationship came to an end. In the present, an old classmate of Ally's named Richard Fish gives Ally a job at his law firm, where Billy and his new wife are also working. This puts Ally in a predicament since she still has feelings for Billy which she's laboring to get over. At the office, Ally puts up with a nosy, gossiping secretary named Elaine, and an oddball lawyer named John Cage who never seems to lose a case. At home, Ally's friend and house-mate Renée regularly advises her on her love life. The series follows Ally's trials and tribulations in life through her eyes, and caricaturizes her personal thoughts and fantasies.

Cast

Calista Flockhart .... Ally McBeal
Courteney Thorne-Smith .... Georgia Thomas
Greg Germann .... Richard Fish
Lisa Nicole Carson .... Renee Raddick
Jane Krakowski .... Elaine Vassal
Vonda Shepard .... Vonda Shepard
Portia de Rossi .... Nelle Porter
Lucy Liu .... Ling Woo
James LeGros .... Mark Albert
Bobby Cannavale .... Wilson Jade
Regina Hall .... Corretta Lipp
Julianne Nicholson .... Jenny Shaw
James Marsden .... Glenn Foy
Josh Hopkins .... Raymond Milbury
Hayden Panettiere .... Maddie Harrington
Robert Downey Jr. .... Larry Paul
Peter MacNicol .... John Cage
Gil Bellows .... Billy Thomas
Jon Bon Jovi .... Victor Morrison
Dyan Cannon .... Jennifer 'Whipper' Cone
Taye Diggs .... Jackson Duper
Anne Heche .... Melanie West
Jesse L. Martin .... Dr. Greg Butters
Christina Ricci ... Liza Bump
Tracey Ullman .... Dr. Tracy Clark

Season One

101. Pilot
102. Compromising Positions
103. The Kiss
104. The Affair
105. One Hundred Tears Away
106. The Promise
107. The Attitude
108. Drawing the Lines
109. The Dirty Joke
110. Boy to the World
111. Silver Bells
112. Cro-Magnon
113. The Blame Game
114. Body Language
115. Once in a Lifetime
116. Forbidden Fruits
117. Theme of Life
118. The Playing Field
119. Happy Birthday, Baby
120. The Inmates
121. Being There
122. Alone Again
123. These Are the Days

Season Two

201. The Real World
202. They Eat Horses, Don't They?
203. Fools Night Out
204. It's My Party
205. Story of Love
206. World's Without Love
207. Happy Trails
208. Just Looking
209. You Never Can Tell
210. Making Spirits Bright
211. In Dreams
212. Love Unlimited
213. Angels and Blimps
214. Pyramids on the Nile
215. Sideshow
216. Sex, Lies and Politics
217. Civil War
218. Those Lips, That Hand
219. Let's Dance
220. Only the Lonely
221. The Green Monster
222. Love's Illusions
223. I Know Him By Heart

Season Four

401. Sex, Lies and Second Thoughts
402. Girls' Night Out
403. Two's a Crowd
404. Without a Net
405. The Last Virgin
406. 'Tis the Season
407. Love on Holiday
408. The Man with the Bag
409. Reasons to Believe
410. The Ex-Files
411. Mr. Bo
412. Hats Off to Larry
413. Reach Out And Touch
414. Boys Town
415. Falling Up
416. The Getaway
417. The Pursuit of Unhappiness
418. The Obstacle Course
419. In Search of Barry White
420. Cloudy Skies, Chance of Parade
421. Queen Bee
422. Home Again
423. The Wedding

Season Three

301. Car Wash
302. Buried Pleasures
303. Seeing Green
304. Heat Wave
305. Troubled Water
306. Changes
307. Saving Santa
308. Blue Christmas
309. Out in the Cold
310. Just Friends
311. Over the Rainbow
312. In Search of Pygmies
313. Pursuit of Loneliness
314. The Oddball Parade
315. Prime Suspect
316. Boy Next Door
317. I Will Survive
318. Turning Thirty
319. Do You Wanna Dance?
320. Hope and Glory
321. Ally McBeal: The Musical, Almost

Season Five

501. Friends and Lovers
502. Judge Ling
503. Neutral Corners
504. Fear of Flirting
505. I Want Love
506. Lost and Found
507. Nine One One
508. Playing with Matches
509. Blowin' in the Wind
510. One Hundred Tears
511. A Kick in the Head
512. The New Day
513. Woman
514. Homecoming
515. Heart and Soul
516. Love Is All Around (1)
517. Love Is All Around (2)
518. Tom Dooley
519. Another One Bites The Dust
520. What I'll Never Do for Love Again
521. All of Me
522. Bygones

Quotes

Ally McBeal: I've been dumped before, Renee. This isn't pain I'm feeling, it's nostalgia.

Georgia Thomas: At the end of the day, life is just this big wall of reality that we all crash into.

Ally McBeal: Hi! I'm Ally McBeal, homewrecker. Here's my card.
Georgia Thomas: I already have it, thanks.

Ally: When guys are persistent, it's romantic, they make movies about that. If it's a woman, then they cast Glenn Close.