Review of Season 1.

I was entertained throughout this season by the knowledge that public defender Billie Young (played by Ellen Foley - who stayed with the show only one season) is the female lead singer in Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" - which was a formative song in my life, but is probably unimportant to people not of my generation.

The pattern is set: there's always some case or problem that Harry Stone (Harry Anderson) solves through his humanist outlook, usually stretching through most of the episode. Surrounding that, there's Harry's goofiness, Dan's lustfulness and avariciousness, Billie's occasional dramatics, Mac's deadpanning and unflappability, Bull's inconsistent thick-headedness, and Selma's world-weariness. And of course the bizarre characters who show up in the courtroom.

It remains more than funny enough to continue watching. And they managed to end the season on one of their strongest jokes of the year. It wasn't high-class humour (it appears someone split the seam of their pants), but it was very funny.