The BEST episodes of Ally McBeal season 1
Every episode of Ally McBeal season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ally McBeal season 1!
Ally McBeal is a young attorney who joins a prestigious law firm with a highly sexual environment and whose staff includes Ally's ex-boyfriend. The series contains fantasy sequences, flashbacks and voiceovers to reveal what Ally is really thinking. Many episodes contain an appearance by singer Vonda Shepard, who performed the show's theme song.
#1 - The Dirty Joke
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1997
The delivery girl sues the firm for sexual harassment; Ally tries to prove she's no goodie-two-shoes by learning how to appreciate, and tell, dirty jokes.
#2 - Alone Again
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1998
Cage defends a long-time convict who used a trampoline to break out of prison a month before his release; a woman intends to sue her ex-fiancé for leaving her at the alter.
#3 - Boy to the World
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1997
Ally defends and befriends a young transvestite prostitute; Fish sues for the right to discuss his dead uncle's prejudices in a eulogy; and Cage ponders dating Ally.
#4 - Being There
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1998
Cage defends Renee against assault charges; a home pregnancy test reveals that Georgia is pregnant.
#5 - Ally McBeal
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1997
Young lawyer Ally McBeal experiences emotional turmoil when she takes a job at a firm where her childhood sweetheart and first love also works.
#6 - Silver Bells
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1997
As Elaine plans the firm's musical Christmas party, a case involving a man with two wives causes Ally, Billy, and Georgia to examine their relationship; Fish deals with Whipper's holiday marriage blues; and Cage asks Ally out.
#7 - Body Language
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1998
Ally comes up with a "creative" strategy to convince a prison superintendant that an inmate should be allowed to marry; Whipper breaks up with Fish; and Cage undergoes "smile therapy."
#8 - These Are the Days
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/1998
Bobby Donnell asks for the firm's help when two men seek an operation to switch hearts. Cage's cousin is arrested for assaulting "happy people" with a paddle.
#9 - Once in a Lifetime
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/1998
Representing an artist who can't forget his dead wife conjures up ghosts of once-in-a-lifetime love for Ally and Billy; Cage worries about kissing Ally as their first date looms.
#10 - Forbidden Fruits
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/1998
The firm represents a U.S. Senator accused of breaking up his wife's former marriage; Ally's legal arguments about true love get her into trouble with Georgia and Billy.
#11 - The Attitude
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1997
Ally clashes with a client's rabbi and dates a handsome District Attorney while Georgia considers suing her law firm for sex discrimination.
#12 - Drawing the Lines
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1997
The firm helps the wife of a rich man negate a prenuptial agreement; Elaine's sexual harassment complaint comes to a head; and Ally and Billy negotiate personal boundaries in their still-tenuous friendship.
#13 - Cro-Magnon
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1998
As the firm's men plan to view a big boxing match, Ally dates a male art model with one large attribute, fights a sexual attraction to a 19-year-old client accused of assault... and is haunted by hallucinations of a dancing baby.
#14 - The Kiss
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1997
Ally has a confusing first date with client Ronald Cheanie... and teams up with Georgia to represent a television anchorwoman fired because of her age and sex.
#15 - The Playing Field
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/1998
Ally faces off against a child prodigy-attorney; a woman claims she is the victim of harassment because, unlike her female co-workers, she refused to use sex as a means of advancing her career.
#16 - Theme of Life
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/1998
Ally defends a doctor accused of transplanting a pig's liver into a woman without her permission; Ally and Georgia square off in a kickboxing match; and Whipper dumps Fish for toying again with Janet Reno.
#17 - The Inmates (1)
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/27/1998
The firm joins forces with Bobby Donell and his staff when a client is accused of killing her husband; Renee is arrested for assault; a waiter alleges he was fired because he isn't gay. (Crossover event - The Practice - 2x26 - Axe Murderer (2))
#18 - Compromising Positions
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1997
Ally meets the firm's other founding partner when she defends him on charges of soliciting a prostitute, and feels like a prostitute herself when Fish asks her to date a prospective client.
#19 - The Promise
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1997
Ally saves an obese man's life, only to become the object of his affection.
#20 - Happy Birthday, Baby
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1998
Ally is mortified when her friends throw her a surprise birthday party. A man with a foot fetish refuses to use insanity as a defense.
#21 - The Blame Game
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1998
As Ally, Cage and Georgia try a case about liability in an airplane crash, Ally is reunited with male model Glenn, her recent one-night-stand, who makes her feel guilty about using him as a sexual object.
#22 - One Hundred Tears Away
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1997
Ally is arrested for tripping a woman in a supermarket, then faces a Bar Association hearing on her emotional competence to practice law.
#23 - The Affair
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1997
The widow of Ally's former law professor asks Ally to speak at his funeral, not knowing she once had an affair with him.