Boston Legal TV Show Podcast

Boston Legal TV Podcast; Billy Valentine is the vocalist for Boston Legal. He talks about recording the theme song and all the incidental vocal music used in each episode. Billy relates the story of being cast in the episode There's Fire when Denny Crane marries Beverly. We explore Billy's musical career prior to Boston Legal and play songs from his forthcoming CD of American song standards. 80 min.

Boston Legal TV Podcast; Race Ipsa with host Dana Greenlee and Deb Hiett, guest star from the episode; 2x23, airdate April 25, 2006. A story of firing on your therapist, old footage, kissing, walking while black and taking air at the fourth wall. During Denny Crane's therapy session with Dr. Sydney Fields (Peter MacNicol), a verbal showdown between the two results in Denny's shooting the doctor. While Alan Shore defends Denny in court, the law partners discuss whether the time has come to oust Crane from the firm. Meanwhile, Alan runs into Chelina Hall (Kerry Washington) and their old chemistry returns when he enlists her help in a racially charged case. And Brad Chase learns that he can't keep a girl because he's a lousy kisser, so he asks Denise Bauer to give him lessons. 86 min.

Boston Legal TV Podcast; Word Salad Day, pt 2 with host Dana Greenlee and Rob Greenlee; 2x21, airdate March 28, 2006. A story of emptying your bucket,Pillow pants, valuing your melancholy – and needing friendship. It's a rough day in court for Alan Shore when he experiences an inexplicable case of "word salad" - a horrifying condition that causes him to speak unintelligible gibberish. To ease Shore's anxiety, Denny Crane recommends that they enjoy a day at the spa. 53 min.

Boston Legal TV Podcast; Word Salad Day, pt 1 with host Dana Greenlee and co-host cast members Tessa Auberjonois and Adrian LaTourelle, who portray Evette Richardson and Chris Mott in the episode; 2x21, airdate March 28, 2006. A story of emptying your bucket, the family cooperative, Dopamine - the master molecule, passion or addiction, Pillow pants, value your melancholy – and needing friendship. It's a rough day in court for Alan Shore when he experiences an inexplicable case of "word salad" - a horrifying condition that causes him to speak unintelligible gibberish. To ease Shore's anxiety, Denny Crane recommends that they enjoy a day at the spa. Meanwhile, Denise Bauer defends a polygamist whose wives believe their husband has done nothing wrong and are willing to fight for their beliefs. And Brad Chase defends his college buddy's video game company, which is being sued by the mother of a boy who died after playing one of their games for two days straight.

Stick It, part 1 of 2: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of rehab, bad dreams, honoring your grandfather, evading those taxes on principle and Alan versus the Government - again. When Alan Shore’s secretary, Melissa (Marisa Coughlan), is arrested for tax evasion, he takes on the case of this outspoken girl who says her late, patriotic grandfather would be proud of her for challenging the government. Meanwhile, after a blind date with Shirley Schmidt’s nephew goes badly, Denise Bauer hopes her love life will improve when she meets a cute policeman. And Paul Lewiston decides to stage an intervention for his crystal-meth-using daughter, insisting that a reluctant Brad Chase help him.

Stick It, part 2 of 2: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of rehab, bad dreams, honoring your grandfather, evading those taxes on principle and Alan versus the Government - again. When Alan Shore’s secretary, Melissa (Marisa Coughlan), is arrested for tax evasion, he takes on the case of this outspoken girl who says her late, patriotic grandfather would be proud of her for challenging the government. Meanwhile, after a blind date with Shirley Schmidt’s nephew goes badly, Denise Bauer hopes her love life will improve when she meets a cute policeman. And Paul Lewiston decides to stage an intervention for his crystal-meth-using daughter, insisting that a reluctant Brad Chase help him.

Shock and Oww!, part 1 of 2: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of 50,000 volts, a partner at Narcotics Anonymous, fathers and daughters, vigilantes, American Homeowners and Denny finds his bliss again. Denny Crane finds just the right thing to cure his depression after his one-day-old marriage falls apart: The case of a man arrested for electrocuting and paralyzing a burglar. Meanwhile Shirley Schmidt seeks Alan Shore’s help when nude photos of her taken by a famous photographer are put up for auction. And a suspicious Paul Lewiston asks Brad Chase to befriend his daughter to find out if she’s still using drugs.
. Guest co-host Daniel Roebuck also talks about his work in the episode as Russell Blayney, his current production and acting parts and his day spent at the Movieland Wax Museum auction.

Shock and Oww!, part 2 of 2: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of 50,000 volts, a partner at Narcotics Anonymous, fathers and daughters, vigilantes, American Homeowners and Denny finds his bliss again. Denny Crane finds just the right thing to cure his depression after his one-day-old marriage falls apart: The case of a man arrested for electrocuting and paralyzing a burglar. Meanwhile Shirley Schmidt seeks Alan Shore’s help when nude photos of her taken by a famous photographer are put up for auction. And a suspicious Paul Lewiston asks Brad Chase to befriend his daughter to find out if she’s still using drugs.

Live Big, part 1 of 2: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of fathers, daughters, partners, a new beginning, a final end, old flames, reconciliation, forgetting your life and living big. While trying to woo her back, Shirley Schmidt's ex-husband, Ivan Tiggs (Tom Selleck), wants her to be his 'best man' at his upcoming wedding with an annoyingly perky woman. Meanwhile, Paul Lewiston's estranged daughter, Rachel, who he claims blindly stole from him to feed her drug and alcohol habits, comes back into his life after seven years. And Alan Shore defends a man who said he was only complying with his wife's wishes when he assisted in ending her life.

Live Big, part 2 of 2: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of fathers, daughters, partners, a new beginning, a final end, old flames, reconciliation, forgetting your life and living big. While trying to woo her back, Shirley Schmidt's ex-husband, Ivan Tiggs (Tom Selleck), wants her to be his 'best man' at his upcoming wedding with an annoyingly perky woman. Meanwhile, Paul Lewiston's estranged daughter, Rachel, who he claims blindly stole from him to feed her drug and alcohol habits, comes back into his life after seven years. And Alan Shore defends a man who said he was only complying with his wife's wishes when he assisted in ending her life. Guest co-host Georgia Murray also talks about her performance in the episode, filming Finding Nimmo at her families Nimmo Bay resort and her music

Breast in Show: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of contraception, private institutions rules and Barry Manilow the cat. Alan Shore files a discrimination suit against a private school that refuses to admit a gifted nine-year-old girl with nerve damage that makes it impossible for her to smile. Since Brad Chase’s attempt to bribe Denny Crane’s fiancée, Beverly Bridge (Joanna Cassidy), failed miserably, she threatens to tell Denny what happened unless Brad can find a legal loophole to save her sickly cat from her ex-husband, who wants to take it off of life support. Meanwhile, Shirley Schmidt and Denise Bauer defend a teenaged girl who was brutally raped and is now pregnant. The girl wants to sue the Catholic hospital where she was treated because they refused to provide her with emergency contraception.

Too Much Information: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of Catherine-Get Your Gun! bribery, Internet privacy and tie flambé! Alan Shore bails out Catherine Piper (Betty White) after she goes on a spree of convenience store holdups with a rubber gun. Alan, feeling guilty for not hiring her as his assistant after Shirley fired her, tries to make it go away. Meanwhile, Denise Bauer, consulting Alan, assists Emely Hayden in suing an HMO for inadequate internet security that led to the brutal murder of Emely's mother -- all the while trying to get through to her hospitalized boyfriend, Daniel Post (Michael J. Fox), who won't take her phone calls. And, as the partners begin to see Beverly Bridge's influence on Denny Crane, Brad Chase makes her a proposition and tries to convince her to leave Denny.

The Cancer Man Can: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of partners, coat rooms, influence and finally becoming harmonic. The law firm represents Daniel Post (Michael J. Fox), a CEO battling terminal lung cancer who used his status with a pharmaceutical company to ensure that he receive the non-placebo in a promising anti-cancer drug test. Now, another participant in the test study is suing him. During one of Post's visits to Crane, Poole & Schmidt, the charismatic man meets and becomes romantically involved with the firm's Denise Bauer. Meanwhile, Denny Crane is attracted to Beverly Bridge (Joanna Cassidy), a fifty-year-old attractive predator trolling for a husband amongst her high-net-worth peers. And Alan Shore advocates on behalf of "Hands" (Christian Clemenson), a fellow quirky employee in his quest for partnership at Crane, Poole & Schmidt.

Legal Deficits: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of felonies and misdeamenors, handcuffs, bingo, hands, necessity and being a hoot. Brad Chase pushes for an immediate trial after he is arrested for impersonating an FBI officer and assaulting a priest during the rescue of a kidnapped child. Shirley Schmidt is worried about how this case may reflect on the firm and is reluctant to consent to Brad's request for the erratically-behaving Denny Crane to be the lead attorney. Meanwhile, Alan Shore tries to bail out his secretary, Melissa (Marisa Coughlan), who is in serious credit card debt, and seeks the assistance of the firm's quirky but brilliant bank and finance genius, "Hands" Espenson (Christian Clemenson).

Gone: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of paint ball, Mannix, a cat, giving the finger and 37 mil living below the poverty line. While Denise Bauer shops with her housekeeper and the woman's four-year-old son, the unthinkable happens when the boy is kidnapped by a known pedophile. An FBI special agent tells them that technicalities prevent the Bureau from getting involved, but he strongly suggests that, as private citizens, Denise and Brad Chase conduct their own investigation. Their frantic search eventually takes them to Father Ryan (Richard Fancy), a priest who refuses to help since he can't break his confessional seal. Meanwhile, a homeless man throws a rock at Denny Crane for not acknowledging his request for money and Denny shoots him - with a paintball gun. When the man shows up at Crane, Poole & Schmidt for compensation, Denny adamantly refuses to consider his request, but Alan Shore takes the man's case, pitting the friends against each other.

Ass Fat Jungle: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of sleepovers, fat lips, hit-and-remember and having your best friends head examined. Alan tries to find someone to sleep with him when he sleepwalks and almost falls off his balcony railing, but given his reputation, this is no easy task. Shirley, Denny and Paul represent Jason Matheny (16), accused of running over an old man. Denise defends Dr. Glouberman, accused of injecting women's lips with fat cells from his own buttocks against their knowledge. Denny gets tested for Alzheimer's.

Truly, Madly, Deeply: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary; A story of cows, clowns, courage, criminals and the imitable Mayor Crane. Denny Crane is appalled that he should have to do pro bono work for a non-repentant man who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl, so he goes to extremes to get off the case - an effort that lands him in jail. Meanwhile, Alan Shore and Brad Chase defend a TV station that has fired Zozo the Clown (Joel McKinnon Miller) for talking to his young viewers about environmental issues. During the trial, Brad is surprised to learn that Alan's childhood fear of clowns prevents him from addressing Zozo in court. And, when a long-time client comes to Shirley Schmidt to stop his wife's action to annul their 23-year marriage, Schmidt is taken aback when she learns how the man cheated on his wife.

Witches of Mass Destruction: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: A story of stop-loss, dissent v. disloyalty, Wiccans, Christians, being harmonic and
flamingos somewhat pretty in pink. Shirley Schmidt and Denise Bauer represent two groups of parents, one Christian and the other Wiccan -- a pagan religion -- who are suing to get rid of a school's Halloween pageant for its wicked witch. The Christians feel their faith is being marginalized by a satanic symbol, and the Wiccans claim that Halloween images stereotype them - especially after the school's principal gives a riveting demonstration of her cackling, green witch. Meanwhile, Garrett Wells takes Cassie (Tamara Feldman), the paralegal with whom he's involved, to see Alan Shore and ask him to represent her in suing the U.S. government, to vindicate the death of her brother, killed in the Iraq war. Shore takes on the unconventional case, but his friendship with Denny Crane is threatened since Crane strongly feels that one shouldn't criticize the military while the country is at war. The strained friendship threatens the annual office Halloween party, where they both were to dress up as giant flamingoes .

Men To Boys: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: A story of loose belt buckles, being Schmidt-canned, lonely chubbyists, Trouble in River city and six years to $1.7m. Check, please! When an old case she neglected comes up for trial, Denise Bauer frantically prepares for her defense against an auto manufacturer whose defective pick-up truck caused a fire that killed a terminally ill woman. Garrett Wells' research trip to the file room of the opposing law firm turns steamy when he meets Cassie (Tamara Feldman), an audaciously outspoken paralegal. Meanwhile Alan Shore, still trying to get over Tara Wilson, takes Sara Holt to dinner and embarrasses her by giving his own public service announcement to a crowded restaurant. And when Lori Colson (Monica Potter) files an internal complaint against Denny Crane for sexual harassment, Shirley Schmidt insists that he apologize, leading Denny from the frying pan into the fire .

A Whiff and a Prayer: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: A story of Minutemen, losing your head in court, atoning sins and sewer fishing. Forced by a client to put Denny Crane on the case, Shirley Schmidt reluctantly enlists his help to defend a Democratic Congressman being sued for not keeping a campaign promise to pass a ban on assault weapons. The right-wing Crane is an unlikely defender from the start, but Schmidt really wonders if she made the right decision when he goes missing the day of his closing. Meanwhile, Alan Shore, still reeling from Tara's exit, focuses on defending Catherine Piper (Betty White), accused of murdering his client, Bernard Ferrion. And Reverend Diddum (Kurt Fuller), Denise Bauer's ex-husband's lawyer, threatens to report Sara Holt and Garret
Wells to their superiors for their ruse to get him to drastically reduce his client's alimony -- but he'll forget the whole matter if Sara gives in to a sexually perverse request

Finding Nimmo: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: Reeling over his break-up with Tara, Alan Shore heads to Nimmo Bay in British Columbia with Denny Crane for some fly fishing and male bonding in an effort to cure his pain. When they learn that the salmon population is being threatened by sea lice produced by fish farms, Shore and Crane feel compelled to act. Catherine Piper drops a bombshell on Shirley Schmidt when she confesses to killing Bernard Ferrion by whacking him over the head with a skillet. Sara Holt and Garrett Wells go to extremes to convince Reverend Diddum, the divorce attorney for Denise Bauer's husband, to decrease the alimony settlement she is required to pay him.

Schadenfreude: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: In the midst of a media circus, the murder trial of Kelly Nolan (Heather Locklear), AKA 'The Black Widow,' gets underway with defense team Alan Shore, Brad Chase and Denny Crane. Can they pull off an acquittal in this seemingly un-winnable case, with the media playing judge and jury and a defendant who is unapologetically cold as ice? Meanwhile Denise Bauer, intent on avoiding alimony payment to her soon-to-be-ex-husband, enlists the help of junior associates Garrett Wells and Sara Holt to challenge the constitutionality of no-fault divorce; Holmes (Rupert Everett) convinces Tara (Rhona Mitra), who's desperately trying to avoid his charming advances, to help represent his client, Johnny Damon (Russell Andrews) -- Damon, singer Edwin Starr's nephew, wants to be allowed to sing his late uncle's trademark song, "War," at a club where the owner has deemed the song un-American -- and a frightened Catherine (Betty White) goes to the police when Bernard (Leslie Jordan) calmly tells her that he fantasizes about committing another murder.

The Black Widow: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: Alan Shore and Brad Chase represent Kelly Nolan (Heather Locklear), a splashy, exotic murder defendant dubbed by the media "The Black Widow," on trial for poisoning her much older husband. Denny Crane lusts after Mrs. Nolan and begs Shore to let him lend a hand in any way possible. Denise Bauer enlists junior associates Garrett Wells and Sara Holt to assist her on a case involving a Jewish man who feels his civil rights were violated when his Christian co-workers held Bible readings in the workplace. To complicate matters, Denise's husband serves her with divorce papers in front of them. Meanwhile, Shirley Schmidt and Tara Wilson (Rhona Mitra) defend a respected surgeon accused of sexually assaulting a mute woman, who ultimately testifies by very unconventional means. Shore is taken aback when he finds out that opposing counsel on the case is Tara's former lover, Malcolm Holmes (Rupert Everett).

Til We Meat Again: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: Shirley Schmidt and Denny Crane represent a man whose steakhouse is being put out of business as the publicity-hungry mayor has pushed through an ordinance banning red meat for fear of Mad Cow disease, and in the process of trying the case, Crane wins over Schmidt's respect as an attorney. Meanwhile, what begins as an evening out for Alan Shore and Tara Wilson ends in a barroom brawl, with Shore arrested for conspiracy to commit assault and battery.

From Whence We Came: Boston Legal TV Show Radio Podcast Commentary: One of the members of the firm falls victim to Shirley Schmidt's mandate to clean house and is ordered to leave immediately. Meanwhile Lori, with help from Denny Crane and Shirley Schmidt, defends a school superintendent being sued by two science teachers who were fired for refusing to teach creationism. And Bernard Ferrion, Alan Shore's client who killed his mother by whacking her with a skillet, finds himself in need of legal help once again, but Shore refers the case to Tara, as he cannot hide his disappointment in his former client. And Shore is genuinely surprised when he learns his assistant, Nora Jacobs, is offended by his inappropriate advances.