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The Law
Title card
Genre	Crime Drama
Teleplay by	Joel Oliansky
Story by	Joel Oliansky William Sackheim
Directed by	John Badham
Starring	Judd Hirsch John Beck
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	William Sackheim Michael Rhodes
Cinematography	Michael D. Margulies
Editor	Frank Morriss
Running time	124 minutes
Production company	Universal Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 22, 1974 (1974-10-22)

The Law is a 1974 Universal Television made-for-television film directed by John Badham starring Judd Hirsch as defense attorney Murray Stone with John Beck, Bonnie Franklin and Gary Busey.^[1]

Plot

The workings of a big city's legal system are seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.

A 1975 TV miniseries of three further hour-long episodes was created for Hirsch's character, each directed by writer Joel Oliansky:

^ Terry White Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and ...- 2003 0313303010 "Oliansky, Joel, and William Sackheim. The Law. ... Oliansky and Sackheim collaborated on the original story from an original idea. (See the ... Judd Hirsch (as the criminal defense attorney), John Beck, Bonnie Franklin, and Gary Busey."

Films directed by John Badham

Feature films

Television films

1960s

William Spier for "The Unhired Assassin" (1960)
Barry Trivers for "The Fault in Our Stars" (1961)
Howard A. Rodman and Kenneth M. Rosen for "Today the Man Who Kills The Ants is Coming" (1962)
Lawrence B. Marcus for "Man Out of Time" (1963)
Arnold Perl for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)
John D. F. Black for "With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" (1965)
David Ellis for "No Justice for the Judge" (1966)
Harlan Ellison for "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967)
Robert Lewin for "To Kill a Madman" (1968)
Robert Lewin for "An Elephant in a Cigar Box" (1969)

1970s

David W. Rintels for "A Continual Roar of Musketry" (1970)
Herb Bermann & Thomas Y. Drake & Jerrold Freedman & Bo May for "Par for the Course" (1971)
Herman Miller for "King of the Mountain" (1972)
Harlan Ellison for "Phoenix Without Ashes" (1973)
Jim Byrnes for "Thirty a Month and Found" (1974)
Stephen Kandel & Arthur Ross for "Prior Consent" (1975)
Loring Mandel for "Crossing Fox River" (1976)
Mark Rodgers for "Pressure Point" (1977)
Seth Freeman for "Prisoner" (1978)
Leon Tokatyan for "Vet" (1979)

1980s

Stephen J. Cannell for "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" (1980)
Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981)
Michael Wagner for "The World According to Freedom" (1982)
David Milch for "Trial By Fury" (1983)
Steven Bochco & Mark Frost & Karen Hall & Jeff Lewis & David Milch & Michael Wagner for "Grace Under Pressure" (1984)
Georgia Jeffries for "An Unusual Occurrence" / Anthony Yerkovich for "Brother's Keeper" (1985)
Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" / Tom Fontana & John Masius & Bruce Paltrow for "Remembrance of Things Past" (1986)
Georgia Jeffries for "Turn, Turn, Turn" / Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "It's a Wonderful Job" (1987)
Susan Shilliday for "Therapy" / Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick for "Pilot" (thirtysomething) (1988)
Karl Schaefer for "Rolling" (1989)

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

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