Ally McBeal (1997)

09/08/1997 (US) • 43m

Drama, Comedy

A series that dares to reveal what's most exciting about a woman's body... her mind.

Overview

Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

Top Billed Cast

Calista Flockhart

Ally McBeal

112 Episodes

Greg Germann

Richard Fish

112 Episodes

Jane Krakowski

Elaine Vassal

112 Episodes

Regina Hall

Corretta Lipp

112 Episodes

Peter MacNicol

John Cage

112 Episodes

Vonda Shepard

Vonda Shepard

112 Episodes

Portia de Rossi

Nelle Porter

112 Episodes

Josh Hopkins

Raymond Millbury

112 Episodes


Last Season

Season 5

2001 | 22 Episodes

The fifth and final season of the television series Ally McBeal commenced airing in the United States on October 29, 2001, concluded on May 20, 2002, and consisted of 22 episodes. The entire season originally aired Mondays at 9pm, just like the seasons before. The fifth season had an average rating of 9.4 million viewers in the United States and was ranked #65 on the complete ranking sheet of all the year's shows. In addition to being the lowest-rated season of Ally McBeal and the grounds for the show's cancellation on April 18, 2002, it was also the only season of the show that failed to win any Emmy or Golden Globe awards.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

roommates

boston, massachusetts

surrealism

lawyer

law firm

workplace romance

legal drama

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