Ally McBeal is an American comedy series, which aired on FOX from 1997—2002.
About
ALLY McBEAL, played by award-winning Broadway actress Calista Flockhart ("The Birdcage," "Three Sisters"), is remarkably comfortable in the courtroom, but uneasy about various elements of her life outside...many of which will come to life in fantasy sequences, flashbacks and voiceovers.
Ally's single -- after breaking up with her long-time boyfriend, Billy Alan Thomas (Gil Bellows, "Love and A .45," "Law & Order"). Ally and Billy have been on-again, off- again since they were 7-years-old. They played "doctor" as children, became lovers as adults, and jousted over Law Review during school, especially when Ally made it and Billy didn't.
Now, circumstances have forced Ally to join a prestigious Boston firm headed by her law school nemesis, Richard Fish (Greg Germann, "Ned and Stacey"). He's a smarmy, litigious Brahmin who knows a killer lawyer when he sees one. On her first day at the office, Ally meets her new colleague: Billy...the same one! He's now married to the beautiful and engaging Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith, "Melrose Place"), whom Ally wants to dislike -- but can't -- and the two become friends. Ally and Billy now find - themselves thrown into an awkward situation, but neither wants to go away. In fact, their very real, life-long attraction for each other might just start up again.
And in unique and amusing elements, when Ally has a reaction to someone or something, the viewer will see/hear what she's really thinking in fantasy sequences. Her interior life literally comes alive -- and Ally's anything but shy; some of her innermost thoughts and opinions are doozies!
Starring
- Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal
- Lisa Nicole Carson as Renée Raddick
- Courtney Thorne-Smith as Georgia Thomas
- Gil Bellows as Billy Thomas
- Peter MacNicol as John Cage
- Greg Germann as Richard Fish
- Jane Krakowski as Elaine Vassal
- Portia de Rossi as Nelle Porter
- Lucy Liu as Ling Woo
- Taye Diggs as Jackson Duper
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