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ktakki
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Boston Legal: Son of the Defender (2007)
The B/W footage...
The black & white flashbacks that Denny Crane experienced had the look of late '50s video rather than film. I'm thinking that these came from a 1957 episode of the Studio One television show entitled "The Defenders":
http://imdb.com/title/tt0394920/
I think the older attorney was Ralph Bellamy, who played the father of Shatner's character:
http://www.nndb.com/people/317/000026239/
The year 1957 fits the BL plot, plus the fact that Bellamy and Shatner played father & son lawyers.
For me, it's interesting to see old Shatner footage: just this past weekend, a local PBS affiliate aired Judgement at Nuremburg (1961), in which Shatner plays a minor supporting role. It's a kick seeing Shatner looking sleek and with a full head of slicked-back Fifties hair. I've always carried the image of him in ST:TOS; by that time he was toupeed and getting a bit paunchy.
k.