The Client: Season 1

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CBS | Season Premiere Date: September 17, 1995

Starring: John Heard, Polly Holliday, Ossie Davis

Summary: A dramatic series based on John Grisham's novel of the same name, as well as the feature film starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. JoBeth Williams and John Heard starred as their television counterparts (Sarandon reportedly offered Miss Williams name as her personal choice to resume the role of Reggie Love). The television seriesA dramatic series based on John Grisham's novel of the same name, as well as the feature film starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. JoBeth Williams and John Heard starred as their television counterparts (Sarandon reportedly offered Miss Williams name as her personal choice to resume the role of Reggie Love). The television series follows Reggie Love, a recovering alcoholic who has lost custody of her own two children, as she battles to win them back, meanwhile redirecting her maternal instincts through her family law practice. Reggie is continuously taking on the most hopeless of cases involving children and fights for them with a vengeance while her practice suffers financial jeopardy, as a result.
Fortunately, as she battles for her clients as well as to win her own life back, Reggie is surrounded by an equally complex and committed cast of other characters presiding over Reggie's courtroom is compassionate Judge Harry Roosevelt (Ossie Davis). Reggie's most ardent opponent and friend is District Attorney Roy Foltrigg (John Heard), her streetwise assistant is Clint (David Barry Gray) and her mother and roommate is Momma Love (Polly Holliday).… Expand

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E21. Money Talks
Air Date: April 16, 1996
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S1:E20. The Good Samaritan
Air Date: April 9, 1996
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S1:E19. Past Imperfect
Air Date: April 2, 1996

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Barry Garron

May 29, 2014

The pilot is plodding at times, the result of a few too many heart-to-heart discussions among the characters. Still, Williams, Holliday and Heard create such fresh, memorable characters that it's impossible to get bored. [16 Sept 1995, p.E7]

Steve Johnson

May 29, 2014

The series shows signs of rising above its airport-bookstore pedigree, and it just happens to boast the best and deepest cast of any autumn newcomer. [17 Sept 1995, p.7C]

Ann Hodges

May 29, 2014

This is hardly a plot to test Hercule Poirot's little gray cells. It is a fairly typical movie-of-the-week type action-lawyer show, and Reggie's a nice change as the strong-woman-hero character. 16 Sept 1995]

Robert P. Laurence

May 29, 2014

The story told in tonight's pilot is more of the same old TV stuff. [17 Sept 1995, p.TV6]

David Bianculli

May 29, 2014

Williams, though, in both Sunday's telemovie and the subsequent Tuesday-night regular episode time-slot at 8, is too reserved and colorless. [15 Sept 1995, p.127]

Lon Grahnke

May 29, 2014

Reggie doesn't need gunshots or explosions when she can talk her foes to death. [15 Sept 1995, p.53]

Howard Rosenberg

May 29, 2014

As TV's gold-hearted Reggie, the capable JoBeth Williams is undermined by a script with plot holes wide enough to drive the Atlanta Braves and their families through. The plodding, convoluted, unnavigable story has her resourceful 11-year-old client -- the court has made her his legal guardian -- gaining possession of $1 million in stolen loot, putting both of them in conflict with some murderous types. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 17, 1995
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  S1:E21. Money Talks
  Air Date: April 16, 1996
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  S1:E20. The Good Samaritan
  Air Date: April 9, 1996
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  S1:E19. Past Imperfect
  Air Date: April 2, 1996
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  S1:E18. The High Ground
  Air Date: March 26, 1996
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  S1:E17. Damn Yankees
  Air Date: March 19, 1996
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  S1:E16. The Morning After
  Air Date: February 6, 1996
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  S1:E15. Winning
  Air Date: January 30, 1996
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  S1:E14. Private Lives
  Air Date: January 16, 1996
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  S1:E13. Motherless Child
  Air Date: January 11, 1996
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  S1:E12. Sympathy for the Devil
  Air Date: January 9, 1996
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  S1:E11. The Way Things Never Were
  Air Date: December 19, 1995
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  S1:E10. Happily Ever After
  Air Date: November 21, 1995
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  S1:E9. Child's Play
  Air Date: November 14, 1995
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  S1:E8. The Prodigal Father
  Air Date: November 7, 1995
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  S1:E7. Dear Harris
  Air Date: October 31, 1995
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  S1:E6. The Burning of Atlanta
  Air Date: October 24, 1995
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  S1:E5. Drive, He Said
  Air Date: October 17, 1995
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  S1:E4. The Peach Orchard
  Air Date: October 10, 1995
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  S1:E3. Them That Has
  Air Date: September 26, 1995
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  S1:E2. A Perfect World
  Air Date: September 19, 1995
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: September 17, 1995
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  S1:E1. True Grit
  Air Date: September 18, 2016