"Boston Legal" Oral Contracts (2007)

Director:

Mike Listo

Writers:

David E. Kelley (creator) and
David E. Kelley (writer)

TV Series:

"Boston Legal" (2004)

Original Air Date:

4 December 2007 (Season 4, Episode 8)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

Plot:

Alan defends Denny after he is charged with soliciting gay sex in a bathroom stall. Shirley defends a shock jock in a First Amendment case, and Katie begins investigating Lorraine's background. |

Plot Keywords:

Eccentric | Civil Law | Boston Massachusetts | Law Firm | City Name In Title

Cast

James Spader	...	Alan Shore
John Larroquette	...	Carl Sack
Christian Clemenson	...	Jerry Espenson (credit only)
Gary Anthony Williams	...	Clarence / Clarice Bell
Tara Summers	...	Katie Lloyd
Saffron Burrows	...	Lorraine Weller
Taraji P. Henson	...	Whitney Rome
Candice Bergen	...	Shirley Schmidt
William Shatner	...	Denny Crane
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rene Auberjonois	...	Paul Lewiston
Jill Brennan	...	Gracie Jane
Steven Culp	...	A.D.A. Norman Wilson
Loretta Devine	...	Judge Victoria Thomson
Meredith Eaton	...	Bethany Horowitz (as Meredith Eaton-Gilden)
Henry Gibson	...	Judge Clark Brown
Laura Henry	...	Clerk #2
Liz Laird	...	Jury Foreperson (as Elizabeth Laird)
Joel McCrary	...	Guy Flanders
Michael Patrick McGill	...	Officer Brian Whistler (as Michael P. McGill)
Brad Wilson	...	Clerk #1
Robert Wuhl	...	Bob Binder

Runtime:

Ireland:48 min (including commercials) | Argentina:60 min

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

David E. Kelley Productions

Trivia:

At the beginning of this show, Denny is arrested for allegedly soliciting gay sex in the men's room. As he flips open his cell phone to make a phone call to Alan, the phone makes a ‘Star Trek’ communicator chirping sound.

Quotes:

Alan Shore: We're actually sitting in a court room, wasting tax dollars, because my client had gas. He was constipated, he went to remedy his problem, in a bathroom, imagine that, where low and behold, three undercover police officers were lurking, waiting, to interpret a tapping foot as a call for gay sex. Now, maybe Larry Craig deserved his fate, thrown in front of the very bus he helped to build, but Denny Crane doesn't deserve this, all he was trying to do was take a crap.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Star Trek" (1966)