Family Law

Premiering on CBS in late 1999, Family Law is a series about a divorce lawyer (Kathleen Quinlan) who finds out her husband (Christopher McDonald) is bailing on her. He's cleaned out the office, he’s taken all her clients, and now she’s left to start again. Oh, did I mention she’s now a single working mother? Well she is. Some feel that this critically acclaimed and audience-friendly legal drama ‘jumped the shark’ in 2000 with the addition of Tony Danza to the cast, and I can’t say I disagree. Casting Tony Danza in anything is like saying, “You know what our legal drama needs? It needs The Fonz. ” You’d be laughed out of your corner office for uttering such words. And in 2002, that’s exactly what happened to the producers of this show. They work at Wendy’s now. They get a discount on the food. Life is now good for them.