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"Century City" (2004): Season 1: Episode 9 -- When Mr. Bayer's wife is found shot dad by her husband's DNA recognition gun, it seems clear that he killed her - but his clear alibi proves otherwise. Meanwhile, Lee May gets some disturbing news about the prototype she is a part of.
"Century City" (2004): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Marty takes on the case of a woman fighting for possession of her dead husband's computerized likeness. Lee May and Darwin find themselves defending a son whose mother is sabotaging his dating life in order not to lose him.
"Century City" (2004): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Marty and Hannah fight for a father's right to give his son a mind altering antibiotic in order to rid the child of abusive and disturbing memories of his mother. Meanwhile, Lukas finds himself defending a married couple that took advantage of their time
"Century City" (2004): Season 1: Episode 5 -- Hannah, Marty and Tom represent a fertility specialist who, with the help of science, provides couples the opportunity to choose their child
"Century City" (2004): Season 1: Episode 6 -- When a little girl with a ChildSafe tracer implant is abducted and the system fails, her parents seek Lukas and Marty's help to sue the manufacturers. Meanwhile, a couple comes to Darwin asking to amend their prenuptial agreement to state that neither par

Overview

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Creator:
Ed Zuckerman
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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
16 March 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
The future is now in session.
Plot:
In the near future, a law firm handles difficult cases that reflect the time.
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Kinda like L.A. law only with Clones and Holograms. more (12 total)

Cast

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Nestor Carbonell ... Tom Montero (9 episodes, 2004)

Viola Davis ... Hannah Crane (9 episodes, 2004)

Ioan Gruffudd ... Lukas Gold (9 episodes, 2004)
Kristin Lehman ... Lee May Bristol (9 episodes, 2004)
Eric Schaeffer ... Darwin McNeil (9 episodes, 2004)

Hector Elizondo ... Martin Constable (9 episodes, 2004)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
60 min (9 episodes) | USA:60 min (9 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Company:
Universal Network Television more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Nine episodes were made but only four were aired. more
Quotes:
Martin Constable: Cherries without pits, the worlds greatest invention.
Lukas Gold: Cherries had pits?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Tavis Smiley: (2007-01-23)" (2007) more

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Kinda like L.A. law only with Clones and Holograms., 9 April 2004
Author: HyperPup from United States

It is almost pointless to post about Century City now that its cancelled but what the hey. Set 26 years from now in a Los Angeles that has been through a 7.1 quake, and rebuilt itself into a slick, gleaming megacity (still hazed with smog) fraught with all kinds of futuristic legal problems we arrive. Taking a tack from the Minority Report school of design the set pieces look like they came directly from the warehouses of Bang Olafsen, Ikea, and Sony with the typical "computer displays etched onto glass windows and desk display panels made of plexi" type of style. Derivative of Earth tech of the near future in scifi. Great... Anywho this Law Office presented here gets some really cool and creepy cases to litigate, and for the most part they always win.

The pilot episode concerned a man attempting to save his son with the aid of an embryonic clone of said child. The only problem is cloning is illegal in the U.S. and having had the clone manufactured overseas (Crafty Singaporeans), and transported to the states he has committed not just an extrordinary crime but created a ethical situation which will not only hold the life of his son in the balance, but show the darker side of cloning....harvesting of its organs to support its gene donor. Sadly the drama presented was rather complex and emotionally unstable due to the writing and pairing with a second story involving an aging Boy Band that wanted one of its memebers to use a dangerous anagathic (age defying) drug as part of his wellness regimen. What was supposed to be serious came off as silly and contrived and really stole the drama away from the Cloning portion of the story. So basically the first episode was a bit of a dog and unfortunately that taint would come back and haunt the series for a few more episodes.

While it was not a "hyped" scifi show, filled with otherworldly effects and intergalactic intrigue, it did have its moments. One story concerning a virtual rape with nanomachines showed chilly social implications of technology and the future of stalking and psychopathic crimes while another episode dedicated itself to the plight of a man who with the aid of a neural implant that was designed to raise his IQ was facing possible death if he didn't have it removed, and the contentious issue being was he mentally capable of making the decision to change himself back or fight to stay as he was. There was indeed the kernal of great drama and speculative vision housed in the shows writers.

Whatever the future holds for scifi, televsion, and law remains to be seen in another time another place. Century City our best hope for glimpsing a possible "legal" future has met the falling of the gavel and its court is dismissed. Sad? Potentially, as "thinking persons'" televsion is few and far between and this could have been contender.

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