Storefront Lawyers
David Hansen was a big-shot lawyer who grew tired of his important and expensive Los Angeles law firm. Hansen left his job to start a non-profit firm called Neighborhood Legal Services based in Century City, California. His associates were Deborah Sullivan and Gabriel Kay. Roberto was a law student who worked for them as a clerk. After 13 episodes, the show's format was changed, as Hansen, Sullivan and Kay went to work for Devlin McNeil at the firm which Hansen had quit in the first place.
- 1970-1971
- 1 season
- CBS
- Drama
David Hansen was a big-shot lawyer who grew tired of his important and expensive Los Angeles law firm. Hansen left his job to start a non-profit firm called Neighborhood Legal Services based in Century City, California. His associates were Deborah Sullivan and Gabriel Kay. Roberto was a law student who worked for them as a clerk. After 13 episodes, the show's format was changed, as Hansen, Sullivan and Kay went to work for Devlin McNeil at the firm which Hansen had quit in the first place.
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1970 - 1971
Episode 1
A Man's Castle
Wed, Sep 16, 1970 60 mins
An elderly man invades an exclusive party, singles out one guest, and shoots him dead. When The Storefront Lawyers visit him in jail, he says only, "I killed him because he stole my house." The man turns out to be correct, after a fashion.
Episode 2
The Law Can't Touch Him
Wed, Sep 23, 1970 60 mins
An abused wife asks the Lawyers' help in divorcing her violent husband. The problem: she can't prove how violent he can be.
Episode 3
Murph Collins vs. Tomorrow
Wed, Sep 30, 1970 60 mins
Murph Collins, iron cutter, loses his job to affirmative action. Against the Lawyers' advice, he visits his last job site. That night, the site blows up, and he is the prime suspect.
Episode 4
The Electric Kid
Wed, Oct 7, 1970 60 mins
The former Electric Kid, a con artist, pulls a big con against his landlord after one thing too many goes wrong in his apartment. But the landlord's own legal position is even weaker.
Episode 5
The Emancipation of Bessie Gray
Wed, Oct 14, 1970 60 mins
A middle-aged black woman, failing to hold a job as a nurse's aide, sues the head of the "Expert Training School" where she got her training.
Episode 6
Survivors Will Be Prosecuted
Wed, Oct 21, 1970 60 mins
A Mexican farm laborer is found dead and clerk Roberto Alvarez is jailed for her murder. David Hansen begins his own investigation to free his employee and uncovers a illegal operation involving alien agricultural workers.
Episode 7
Easy to Be Hard
Wed, Oct 28, 1970 60 mins
A welfare case agent, after throwing a woman off the welfare rolls, commits rape against her. Or did he?
Episode 8
Where Are You At?
Wed, Nov 4, 1970 60 mins
Deborah Sullivan, in defending a Hispanic man accused of a string of arson fires, falls in love with the ADA prosecuting the case.
Episode 9
Shadows of Doubt
Wed, Nov 11, 1970 60 mins
The storefront law office is rocked by accusations from the defendant in a robbery case. Found guilty, Luke Porter demands a motion for mistrial, charging that David Hansen asked $2500 to arrange a suspended sentence with the DA's office.
Episode 10
This Is Jerry, See Jerry Run
Wed, Nov 18, 1970 60 mins
A young man's dyslexia, never suspected, much less addressed, lands him in financial trouble and makes him unemployable.
Episode 11
The Pastures of Hell
Wed, Nov 25, 1970 60 mins
The white pastor of a downtown mission clashes with a black activist who frequently bombs the mission. Then someone kidnaps the activist's son. Who, after his rescue, accuses the pastor of the kidnapping.
Episode 12
Where Were We, Waldo?
Wed, Dec 9, 1970 60 mins
An illiterate man's arrest record makes him "hard-core unemployable." Even the Lawyers can't help him until he gets a grip on his emotions.
Episode 13
First... We Get Rid of the Principal
Wed, Jan 13, 1971 60 mins
A secondary-school student protest results in a dead administrator and a student on trial for murder.
Episode 14
The Climate of Doubt
Wed, Feb 3, 1971 60 mins
Devlin McNeil takes the former Storefront Lawyers under his wing in a case involving a college student suspected of bludgeoning a police officer to death during a campus riot.
Episode 15
Marathon
Wed, Feb 10, 1971 60 mins
A marathon encounter session goes awry, leading one student to dive his car off a pier and drown. The widow hires Devlin McNeil to sue the psychiatrist involved--and Devlin lays his life on the line by joining the still-ongoing session.
Episode 16
The Dark World of Harry Anders
Wed, Feb 17, 1971 60 mins
A heavy-handed financier takes over a movie studio and uses various means, lawful and unlawful, to compel the studio to turn a motion-picture project into a porn project.
Episode 17
Hostage
Wed, Feb 24, 1971 60 mins
The boyfriend of a girl on trial for planting a fatal bomb, takes Deborah Sullivan hostage in the firm's law offices.
Episode 18
The Truth, the Whole Truth - And Anything Else That Works
Wed, Mar 3, 1971 60 mins
Family man Schuyler Yates comes home from work one day to find detectives in his house accusing him of being a serial sex murderer. Nor does it help when the survivor of the last attack identifies him by voice.
Episode 19
Let the Dier Beware
Wed, Mar 17, 1971 60 mins
A woman goes to take her father out of a controversial clinic. Days later, the clinic chief physician winds up dead, and she is suspect.
Episode 20
The View from the Top
Wed, Mar 24, 1971 60 mins
Ultra-rich Cole Deland hires Devlin McNeil after a security guard at one of his hotels, finds him walking away from a dead woman. Was that his wife? Or is his alibi actually evidence of a real crime he committed?
Episode 21
Yesterday Is But a Dream
Wed, Mar 31, 1971 60 mins
Devlin and the Storefront team defend a woman who shot her husband while in a drug-induced daze--that the husband put her in.
Episode 22
This Money Kills Dreams
Wed, Apr 7, 1971 60 mins
Episode 23
One American
Wed, Apr 14, 1971 60 mins
Personal protests against war by a small group of misunderstood, passionate young men, finds the militants behind bars.