Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Men At Law' from 1970-1982:
- Robert Foxworth as David Hansen (1970-1971)
- Sheila Larken as Deborah Sullivan (1970-1971)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Men At Law':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
D: Lee H. Katzin
With David Arkin (Gabriel Kaye), A Martinez (Roberto Alvarez), Dean Jagger (Karl Holder), Edward Andrews (Joseph Carlson), Barry Morse (Holly Chapman), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Thatcher), Bill Zuckert (Judge), Carmen Mathews (Mrs. Holder). Dramatic series in which three aspiring lawyers provide free neighborhood advice to needy clients while working for a big law firm in Los Angeles. The trio of law school graduates deals in cases ranging from the high-rise corporation halls of Century City to the ghetto level in Watts. In the first episode they are asked to defend a 73-year-old dispossessed homeowner accused of having killed a financier.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Meyer Dolinsky
With Melinda Dillon (Connie Swann), Jim McMullan (Steve Swann), Bill Quinn (Judge Hayes), Robert Dowdell (Philip Evers), Frederic Downs (Dr. Martine). Attorney Hansen suspects that his client is withholding information when she repeatedly changes her mind about divorcing her estranged husband.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Alvin Sapinsley
With James Stacy (Murph Collins), Harrison Page (Radley Binns), Ramon Bieri (Lance Ravetch), Lonny Chapman (Jacobs), Mariclare Costello (Nancy Collins), Joan Shawlee (Aunt Sadie). A construction worker loses his job to a minority worker and then is charged with a destructive explosion at the building site.
Season 1, episode 4
W: James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin
With Leon Ames (Oscar Mazey), Joyce Van Patten (Ella Mazey), Mark Kearney (Pat Mazey), Dana Elcar (H.L. Sloane), Diana Eden (Secretary), J. Pat O'Malley (Illinois Red), William Sargent. A likeable oldtime con man puts his slickest skills at work to swindle an unprincipled apartment house owner who's trying to evict him and his family.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Robert Van Scoyk
With Claudia McNeil (Bessie Gray), Rupert Crosse (Clifford Johnson), Paul Stewart (Alvin Greener), Gordon Jump (Norm Rollins), Walker Edmiston (Judge), Elda Malda (Aunt Luisa). The lawyers take on the case of an elderly domestic who charges that a training school has taken $500 and failed to deliver the medical lab job promised her.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Arthur Heinemann
With William Conrad (Kornedi), Murray Hamilton (Harrison), Lloyd Gough (Austin Troy), Frank Ramirez (Manuel Lopez), Robert Cornthwaite (Judge), Edith Diaz (Mrs. Sartuche), Roberto Contreras (Pepe Gonzales). The search for a missing Mexican alien gets clerk Alvarez thrown in jail and triggers an investigation into illegally obtained farm laborers in a small agricultural community.
Season 1, episode 7
With Sharon Farrell (Donna Brooks), Lou Antonio (Walter Babson), Ned Glass (Fred Goldstein), David Arkin (Gabriel Kaye), Isabel Cooley (Mattie), Maidie Norman (Mrs. Kingman). An attractive divorcee on relief convinces Hansen she has been assaulted by her welfare worker.
Season 1, episode 8
W: George Bellak
With Tony Roberts (Jack Halbert), Joaquin Martinez (Paco Melendez), Bill Zuckert (Judge Conrad), Stacy Keach Sr. (Arthur Wellman), Kenneth Tobey (Lt. Everton), Robert Padilla (Busarra), Richard Anders (Sgt. Ferris). A defense attorney finds herself in an embarrassing position when her militant Mexican-American client finds her entertaining her legal adversary, the deputy district attorney, during an adjournement in the trial.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Alvin Sapinsley
With Anne Archer (Annette Porter), Jonathan Lippe (Luke Porter), Lloyd Gough (Austin Troy), Bill Quinn (Judge Gaunt), Charles H. Gray (John Monoghan). Hanson's job is jeopardized when a client accuses him of bribery.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Bill Stratton
With Lloyd Bochner (Phil Kennedy), David Doyle (Cogweiler), Kurt Russell (Jerry Patman), Patricia Smith (Mrs. Patman), John Kidd (Dr. Marcallo). The storefront lawyers defend a disturbed teenager who is jailed for assualt on an attorney.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Harold Gast
With Steve Ihnat (Rev. Dana), James McEachin (Melton Ames), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Thatcher), Beverly Atkinson (Leora Ames), Harry Hickox, Tony Martinez. A renegade minister running a midnight mission in the ghetto is accused of kidnapping a Black Power leader's son and comes to the storefront for legal help.
Season 1, episode 12
W: E. Arthur Kean
With Anthony Zerbe (Waldo Bowers), Jacqueline Scott (Dixie Hines), Paula Victor (Mrs. Eustice), Fran Ryan (Mrs. Kenton). A man whose criminal record disqualifies him for the Second Start program becomes the object of a class action.
Season 1, episode 13
W: George Kirgo
With Sheldon Collins (Nick Bonilla), Carmen Zapata (Teresa Bonilla), Nancy Burnett (Julie Loomis), Valentin de Vargas. The lawyers come to the defense of a junior high school student who has been expelled for petitioning to oust the principal.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Bill Stratton
With Dennis Redfield (Art Landers), Daniel J. Travanti (Joe Burland), David Jolliffe (Jeff Donaldson), Ricky Kelman (Don Harper), Logan Ramsey (Jordan Mills), John Lasell (Carlton Harper). The senior partner of a major law firm is asked to defend a college militant accused in the death of a policeman.
Season 1, episode 15
With Jack Cassidy (Dr. William Parkman), Sue Lyon (Bunny Phillips), Nina Foch (Barbara Masters), Greg Mullavey, Glynn Turman. A marriage counselor's questionable techniques make him the target of a malpractice suit.
Season 1, episode 16
With Harry Guardino, Lane Bradbury, Jeanne Cooper, John McLiam. A blind attorney friend of McNeil's who has retired is accused of murder when the gun trap rigged in his trailer discharges, killing a man whose wife was friendly with him.
Season 1, episode 17
With Meg Foster (Barbara Millett), John Rubinstein (Ron Martin), Arthur Franz (Henry Millett), Felice Orlandi (Arthur Burelli), Ford Rainey (Judge Hemming), John S. Ragin (Attorney). McNeil agrees to defend an old client's daughter who is charged with homicide in an explosion triggered by a revolutionary group.
Season 1, episode 18
With David Wayne (Schuyler Yates), Cloris Leachman (Marcy Yates), Jean Hale (Angelica Wells), Nina Benjamin (Terry Yates). A mild-mannered insurance salesman becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre sex murders when a key witness identifies him by his voice.
Season 1, episode 19
With William Windom (Dr. Simon Branby), Jessica Walter (Kate Callendar), Pippa Scott (Marabelle), Lloyd Gough (Austin Troy), Paul Fix (Jebediah), Larry Linville. A faith healer's questionable methods lead to violence -- an heiress assaults him when he refuses to release her grandfather from his clinic -- and provide attorneys McNeil and Hansen with a client.
Season 1, episode 20
With Steve Forrest (Cole Deland), Kay Medford (Grace Deland), Marilyn Maxwell (Reyna Michaels), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Devlin McNeil), Lane Bradford, Jean Byron (Judge), Ramon Bieri (Harris), Lew Brown (Sergeant), Wayne Rogers (D.A. Tom Yorba), Noah Keen (Dr. Briscoe). McNeil and Hansen find themselves saddled with a tough defense of a multi-millionaire land developer who is accused in the apparent homicide of his wife.
Season 1, episode 21
With Lee Grant (Jennifer Carlyle), John Vernon (Martin Carlyle), Ivor Francis (Dr. Shadwick), Garry Walberg (Lt. Bradford), John S. Ragin (Spencer Pawling), Melendy Britt (Tina Edwards), Adele Bellroth (Ingrid Jacobsen). When a pill-popping housewife becomes the chief suspect in the mysterious wounding of her husband, attorneys McNeil and Hansen have a rough time defending her because of her hazy memory.
Season 1, episode 22
W: George Bellak
With Tom Skerritt (Paul Marek), Katherine Justice (Norma Andrews), Fritz Weaver (John Tilton), Woodrow Parfrey (Max Goodwin), Jack de Mave (Larry Fairbanks), Martin E. Brooks (Kendrick), Laurence Haddon (Ralph Bellman), Connie Mason (Joan Blake), Herman Poppe (Kenny Morrison). An outside investor with apparent syndicate connections moves in to change the concept of a film being made by a producer and he appeals to attorneys McNeil and Hansen for legal help.
Season 1, episode 23
With William Shatner (Lt. Col. Randolph), Jan-Michael Vincent (Cpl. Kehoe), Ron Hayes (Sgt. Griffin), Brenda Dickson (Nancy). A Vietnam hero faces court-martial for assaulting a sergeant and needs the civilian counsel of attorneys McNeil and Hansen. (Last show of the series.)