The Law & Harry McGraw

Season 1

The Law & Harry McGraw is an American mystery crime drama television series created by Peter S. Fischer and a spin-off of Murder, She Wrote. The series stars Jerry Orbach as a Harry McGraw, a loudmouthed, uncouth, old school private detective who continually finds himself solving mysteries on behalf of the prim and proper attorney Ellie Maginnis who has an office across the hall.

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16 Episodes

Dead Men Don't Make Phone Calls
E1
Dead Men Don't Make Phone CallsHarry McGraw, the seedy, abrasive, loud, and messy private detective based in Boston, has just opened shop across the hall from criminal attorney Ellie Maginnis, who hires McGraw to look into a publishing partner's death.
Murder By a Landslide
E2
Murder By a LandslideE.J.'s roommate, who was employed as a campaign worker, is murdered. Harry suspects a cover-up involving the rich candidate, who supposedly slept with the roommate.
Mr. Chapman, I Presume
E3
Mr. Chapman, I PresumeBased on a tip from Walter Chapman, Special Agent Eckstein launches a raid to recover stolen plutonium that is about to be shipped out of the country.
The Fallen Arrow
E4
The Fallen ArrowMaginnis defends a man accused of killing his wife. Harry reluctantly agrees to help even though he doesn't like the man.
Rappaport is Back in Town
E5
Rappaport is Back in TownHarry tries to get in a poker game wherein a known poker player whom Harry wants to play with will be in. So he asks Maginnis to help him, so she contacts a restaurateur who will also be at the game to help Harry. He offers to pay Harry's stake saying he wants him to keep an eye on the player because they don't know if he is on the up and up. Later the restaurateur's wife is killed and the suspect is another man who was at the game who left early. The man admits that he and the woman were having an affair but he didn't kill her. Harry thinks the restaurateur had his wife killed and brought Harry to the game to be his alibi. Harry along with the player, who wants to be detective try to prove it.
She's Not Wild About Harry
E6
She's Not Wild About HarryHarry becomes a babysitter for a bookie's precocious granddaughter, while the man is off getting involved with counterfeiting, bogus franchising, and murder.
Angela's Secret
E7
Angela's SecretHarry gets hired by the wife of a mob boss to find her missing brother but he soon gets tied up in rough business, including the death of the mobster's enforcer.
Solve It Again, Harry
E8
Solve It Again, HarryHarry gets himself shot and it causes great changes in his life. He's now neat, polite, and organised. Unfortunately, the wound also has erased his memory completely of the case that he's working on.
State of the Art
E9
State of the ArtAn old ex-con friend of Harry's was in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now accused of stealing art, and Harry has to compete with a hot shot insurance investigator for the case, and to find the real thief.
Yankee Boodle Dandy
E10
Yankee Boodle DandyStrange things are happening in Harry's world. Ellie's client is a rich kid who is in jail for assaulting his girlfriend, and he doesn't want to be set free. Apparently, there's a connection to the body that is sometimes in Harry's trunk and sometimes not.
Old Heroes Die Hard
E11
Old Heroes Die HardHarry's ice hockey friend asks for help when his gambling dad is accused of murdering a loan shark.
Gilhooley's is History
E12
Gilhooley's is HistoryHarry is down in the dumps because a hard nosed developer is about to raze the detective's favourite watering hole Gilhooley's.
Beware the Ides of May
E13
Beware the Ides of MayWhat should be a joyous event, a birthday, is turning out to be a not so happy day for Ellie, who has become the target for someone who wants her dead.
Waiting Game
E14
Waiting GameIt looks like Harry will miss his poker game to help Ellie sway a split jury at the retrial of a case that her late husband lost.
Harry Does the Hustle
E15
Harry Does the HustleHarry gets help out-hustling a pool shark from a broke student while equally broke Ellie puts the little money that she has into what sounds like a scam.
Maginnis for the People
E16
Maginnis for the PeopleEllie is enlisted by the prosecution in a murder trial while Harry goes to work for the defense attorney who has trouble believing their defendant didn't commit the crime.