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"Boston Legal" (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• The show often contains dialog that "breaks the fourth wall" or lets the audience believe they know it's a TV show. At the end of episode "Squid Pro Quo", Denny ends the episode by saying, "I can't wait until next week." Alan Shore also notes that the show used to be on Mondays, and one time mentioned to Denny that "I've hardly seen you this episode." Melissa, Alan's assistant, once warns him against falling for a woman, citing, "She's only a guest-star".
  
  
• Denny Crane was married six times (including his "one-hour marriage" in season 2).
  
  
• Denny Crane has never lost a trial. According to Season One episode "From Whence We Came" he has won 6043 trials (and lost 0) in 45 years.
  
  
• Lake Bell quit the show during season 1 to star in "Surface". After the show was cancelled, Bell did some guest appearances in Season 3.
  
  
• Before becoming a regular cast member, Rene Auberjoinos guest starred in most episode of the first half of season one.
  
  
• Nearly all episodes (except "Spring Fever" and several others in the first season) end with Denny and Alan sitting in the balcony, having a drink and smoking a cigar and discussing the events in the episode.
  
  
• The series was initially advertised as being titled "Fleet Street". These advertisements were seen during commercial breaks for "The Practice" which had several episodes that acted as a sort of pilot for the new series.
  
  
• Regular cast members William Shatner Rene Auberjonois, and John Larroquette have all appeared in the Star Trek franchise. A number of other former Star Trek cast members have guest-starred in the show: Armin Shimerman, Jeri Ryan,Ethan Phillips and Scott Bakula.
  
  
• James Spader (Alan Shore) and William Shatner (Denny Crane) are the only actors in all 101 episodes of the series.
  
  

• SPOILER: At the end of season two Denny Crane has shot 4 people.(1) The man who threatened to kill Alan, because he helped his ex-wife not to have their children kidnapped by him,(2) the rapist, who killed a girl,(3) the homeless man, who threw a rock at him and (4) his therapist. Actually He shot his therapist twice, once in a session when he threatened to kill him and once in the courtroom when he was again threatening to kill him.
  
  

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