The Law & Harry McGraw Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Dead Men Don't Make Phone Calls, Part 1

Sun, Sep 27, 1987 60 mins

Episode 2

Dead Men Don't Make Phone Calls, Part 2

Sun, Sep 27, 1987 60 mins

Episode 3

State of the Art

Tue, Sep 29, 1987 60 mins

Harry (Jerry Orbach) competes with a slick insurance-company investigator to solve an art theft pinned on an old friend, a felon who happened to be casing the premises at the time. Packard: Peter Reckell. Victor LeConte: Ed Winter. Ellie: Barbara Babcock. George Bellamy: Roy Thinnes.

Episode 4

Beware the Ides of May

Tue, Oct 6, 1987 60 mins

Ellie (Barbara Babcock) feels miserable on what should be a very happy birthday, and someone's trying to make her feel worse---maybe even dead. Harry: Jerry Orbach. Henry Carrington: Robert Reed. Millicent Carrington: Katherine Moffat. Walter: Gregg Henry.

Episode 5

Mr. Chapman, I Presume

Tue, Oct 13, 1987 60 mins

Harry (Jerry Orbach) is mistaken for an extortionist currently shaking down a criminal who doesn't take kindly to blackmail. Ellie: Barbara Babcock. Blake Devaroe: David Hedison. Trent: Richard Lynch. Agent Eckstein: David Spielberg. E.J.: Juli Donald.

Episode 6

The Fallen Arrow

Tue, Oct 20, 1987 60 mins

Ellie (Barbara Babcock) is defending a gigolo accused of murdering his wealthy wife, and her interest seems more than professional. Harry: Jerry Orbach. Alec Harris: Alex Cord. Drew Adams: Merritt Butrick. Cindy Grimes: Jill Whelan. Judith: Marj Dusay.

Episode 7

Rappaport Is Back in Town

Tue, Oct 27, 1987 60 mins

Harry (Jerry Orbach) sits in on a big-league poker game involving a legendary player and a wealthy restaurateur, whose cheating wife is murdered while hubby plays. Erwin C. Rappaport: Herbert Edelman. Damian Cox: Jack Bannon. Ellie: Barbara Babcock.

Episode 8

Angela's Secret

Tue, Nov 3, 1987 60 mins

A mob kingpin's wife (Kaye Ballard) hires Harry (Jerry Orbach) to find her long-lost brother, which involves Harry in nasty business---like the murder of the mobster's enforcer. Ellie: Barbara Babcock. Albert Calucci: Carmine Caridi. Vinnie: George Clooney.

Episode 9

Old Heroes Never Lie

Tue, Nov 10, 1987 60 mins

The gambler father of Harry's ice-hockey buddy becomes a murder suspect when the loan shark he was indebted to gets iced. Harry: Jerry Orbach. Rudy Udovic: Don Stroud. Victor Udovic: Dick O'Neill. Andrew Paxton: Larry Linville. Wendell: David Knell.

Episode 10

Yankee Boodle Dandy

Tue, Dec 1, 1987 60 mins

A corpse that appears and disappears from Harry's trunk has a connection with Ellie's client, a rich kid who is jailed for assaulting his girl friend and who wants to stay put. Jerry Orbach. Woody: Ken Olandt. General Buckram: Richard Herd. Metzger: Joshua Bryant.

Episode 11

Solve It Again, Harry

Tue, Nov 17, 1987 60 mins

A gunshot wound leaves Harry (Jerry Orbach) a changed man: neat, organized, polite---and unable to remember a thing about the urgent case he was working on for Ellie (Barbara Babcock). Magda Dreyfuss: Ruta Lee. Siggy Dreyfuss: Shecky Greene.

Episode 12

Murder by a Landslide

Tue, Dec 8, 1987 60 mins

Harry (Jerry Orbach) smells a cover-up in the murder of E.J.'s roommate, a fellow campaign worker for a wealthy candidate with whom she apparently spent the night. Ellie: Barbara Babcock. Jack Stillman: Morgan Stevens. Augusta Stillman: Jane Greer. Mickey: Peter Fox.

Episode 13

Gilhooley's Is History

Wed, Jan 13, 1988 60 mins

It looks like Harry's favorite saloon is about to become history, thanks to a developer who won't take no for an answer. Harry: Jerry Orbach. Patrick Gilhooley: Alan Hale. Geoffrey Jerome: Robert Desiderio. Ellie: Barbara Babcock. Lamonica: Michael Constantine.

Episode 14

She's Not Wild About Harry

Wed, Jan 20, 1988 60 mins

A bookie trying to keep custody of his feisty granddaughter (Soleil Moon Frye) leaves her in Harry's care as he becomes involved with funny money, a phony franchiser and murder. Jerry Orbach, Barbara Babcock. Spinelli: Harry Guardino. Gwen: Kathleen Lloyd.

Episode 15

Waiting Game

Wed, Jan 27, 1988 60 mins

A split jury deliberates at the retrial of a case Ellie's late husband lost, and it's in the cards that Harry (Jerry Orbach) will miss his poker game to give Ellie (Barbara Babcock) support. Maginnis: Charles Hallahan. Halldorson: Matthew Faison. O'Brien: Bruce Fairbairn.

Episode 16

Harry Does the Hustle

Wed, Feb 3, 1988 60 mins

Harry (Jerry Orbach) enlists a financially strapped student to out-hustle a pool shark, and a financially strapped Ellie invests in a fund that sounds too good to be true. Derek Fosby: Brian L. Green. Peter Bergmann: Jack Colvin. Danko: Barry Doe.

Episode 17

Maginnis for the People

Wed, Feb 10, 1988 60 mins

A murder case finds Ellie (Barbara Babcock) working for the prosecution and Harry (Jerry Orbach) for the defense---with a lawyer who can't believe the defendant might be innocent. Isobel McKechnie: Juliet Mills. Ross McKechnie: Joe Dorsey. Randolph: Ed Nelson.