Season 2 of American series Ally McBeal aired on FOX television network. Between the airing of episodes 16 and 17 there was a TV special of The Life and Trials of Ally McBeal hosted by Bill Maher.
Synopsis
Cast
- Starring
- Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal
- Courtney Thorne-Smith as Georgia Thomas
- Greg Germann as Richard Fish
- Lisa Nicole Carson as Renée Raddick
- Jane Krakowski as Elaine Vassal
- Portia de Rossi as Nelle Porter
- Lucy Liu as Ling Woo (21/23 episodes)
- with Peter MacNicol as John Cage
- and Gil Bellows as Billy Thomas
- Recurring
- Vonda Shepard as Herself (13 episodes)
Special Appearances By
- Jesse L. Martin as Dr. Greg Butters (9 episodes)
- Dyan Cannon as Whipper Cone (6 episodes)
- Tracey Ullman as Dr. Tracey Clark (2 episodes)
- John Ritter as George Madison (2 episodes)
- Richard T. Jones as Matt Griffin (2 episodes)
- Al Green as Himself (2 episodes)
- Wayne Newton as Harold Wicks ("They Eat Horses, Don't They?")
- David Ogden Stiers as Judge Andrew Peters ("They Eat Horses, Don't They?")
- Rob Schneider as Ross Fitzsimmons ("Happy Trails")
- Mark Linn-Baker as Sheldon Maxwell ("Making Spirits Bright")
- Haley Joel Osment as Eric Stall ("Angels and Blimps")
- Barry White as Himself ("Those Lips, That Hand")
- Tony Shalhoub as Albert Shepley ("Those Lips, That Hand")
- Rosie O'Donnell as Dr. Hooper ("Let's Dance")
- Michael Gross as Mr. Volpe ("Only The Lonely")
- SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ("Let's Dance")
Recurring Cast
- Albert Hall as Judge Seymore Walsh (7 episodes)
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Episodes
# | EPISODE |
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1 | The Real World |
Ally finds herself attracted to an eighteen-year-old while Cage & Fish considers hiring an attorney whom Cage finds attractive | |
2 | They Eat Horses, Don't They? |
A client sues a radio shock jock for contributing to sexual harassment at her workplace while Cage defends a restaurateur who fed a customer horse meat. | |
3 | Fools Night Out |
Ally plays mediator when a minister breaks up with his church’s choir singer. Ling sues a plastic surgeon’s nurse for misrepresenting her natural breasts as implants. | |
4 | It's My Party |
A judge holds Ally in contempt when she disregards his instructions not to wear short skirts in court. An editor for a feminist magazine is fired for being of the Baptist faith. | |
5 | Story of Love |
Ally defends a woman who threw her best friend into a garbage canister after learning she had stolen away her boyfriend. An accident befalls Cage’s beloved frog. | |
6 | Worlds Without Love |
A nun sues for damages after she is fired for breaking her vow of celibacy. Renée reconnects with someone from her past. Cage’s once-thought-dead frog reappears. | |
7 | Happy Trails |
The attorneys learn that Judge Boyle suddenly drops dead. A woman with orange-colored skin sues her employer for wrongful termination. Elaine urges Ally to give a persistent and unwanted suitor "the dump." More bad luck besets Stephan the frog. | |
8 | Just Looking |
Cage and Fish go undercover at Ling’s mud wrestling club while Ally gets stuck in the unisex toile and Georgia finds herself attracted to a man she once dated. | |
9 | You Never Can Tell |
As Thanksgiving approaches, Ling sues an employee for having sexual thoughts about her. Ally goes to court with her fingers stuck in a bowling ball. | |
10 | Making Spirits Bright |
As Christmas approaches, Fish's biggest client is fired from his job after he sees a unicorn while Renee and Matt's relationship heats up. | |
11 | In Dreams |
An ailing woman who prefers living in her dreams seeks a court order that would force a hospital to place her in a coma. Ling informs Fish that Nelle has tired of Cage’s lack of sexual aggressiveness. | |
12 | Love Unlimited |
Ally represents a woman whose husband wishes to annul their marriage on the grounds that he is a 'sexaholic' and was incompetent when he agreed to go through with the wedding. Meanwhile, Nelle goes to the extremes to convince John to make love to her. | |
13 | Angels and Blimps |
A young leukemia sufferer wishes to sue God. Fish and Cage defend a client accused of attempted murder. | |
14 | Pyramids on the Nile |
A company fires two employees for breaking its "date and tell" office policy. Billy grows jealous when he sees Greg and Ally kissing. Ling asks Fish to hire her as counsel. | |
15 | Sideshow |
Ally consults Tracy for advice now that she and Billy have kissed. | |
16 | Sex, Lies and Politics |
Cage and Ling represent a bookstore owner who was driven out of business by a politician who claimed that the store sold pornography. Ally and Billy deal with the aftermath of their kiss. | |
17 | Civil War |
Ally and Cage face off against Fish and Georgia when the firm represents both sides of a date rape case; Nelle represents a sweaty client in trouble with the IRS. | |
18 | Those Lips, That Hand |
Ally defends a man accused of murdering his wife by cutting off her hand. Billy and Georgia represent a life insurance salesman who lost his job because of his bad comb-over. | |
19 | Let's Dance |
Cage, Fish and Nelle defend a law firm that allegedly withheld a female employee’s partnership offer after she became pregnant; Ling substitutes for Elaine’s partner in a dance contest; Billy and Georgia attend therapy. | |
20 | Only the Lonely |
A slightly overweight woman claims her employer’s policy of allowing workers to wear bathing suits to work amounts to sexual harassment. Elaine is accused of stealing the idea for the face bra from a dead cousin. | |
21 | The Green Monster |
Ally hires a male escort in hopes of making Greg jealous; Fish and Cage represent a woman who destroyed her husband’s most cherished possessions after she discovered he was having an affair. Billy objects to Georgia’s revealing attire. | |
22 | Love's Illusions |
Ally’s fantasies interfere with her lawyering, prompting fears that she may be losing her mind; a man who believes his wife never loved him sues for fraud. Fish experiences impotency as he and Ling are about to make love. | |
23 | I Know Him by Heart |
Ally decides to take a more aggressive approach in her search for a mate; a lesbian who wants to have a baby sues her insurance company when it refuses to cover the fertilization process; Nelle feels threatened by the relationship Cage shares with Ally. |
Media
- ‘Ally’ Returns to All That Attention (LA TIMES • SEPTEMBER 1998)