The Young Lawyers
September 21, 1970 - May 5, 1971
The Young Lawyers was the 'Mod Squad' without guns, the story of a group of Boston law students committed to helping those who can't afford real lawyers with their 'Neighborhood Law Office'. Helping those who can't afford real lawyers with their 'Neighborhood Law Office'.
In keeping with Seventies' tradition, the cast was an ethnically diverse one. Aaron Silverman (Zalman King) was the passionate Jewish idealist, Pat Walters (Judy Pace) was the street-wise black, and Lee J. Cobb was their more experienced advisor David Barrett, a successful lawyer who left a prestigious practice to help these young mavericks out. The plots were of the slumlords/police brutality sort at first, then moved into more serious cases mid-season adding new cast member Phillip Clark as conservative student Chris Blake. 'The Young Lawyers' lasted one season.
24. I've Got a Problem b: 24-Mar-1971
gs: Karen Huston (Clove Edwards) Gary Lockwood (Billy Walden) Warren Anderson (Van Dagren) Bruce Kimmel (Walter) Fredd Wayne (Kimber)
This was the final episode of the series
Bruce
Kimmel had this to say about working on the Young Lawyers
My first guest shot was on the show The Young Lawyers in 1970 (well, December of '70, didn't air until March of '71. The show starred Zalman King and Lee J. Cobb. Also guest-starring alongside me was Gary Lockwood. He was great - he took this petrified Jewboy under his wing and taught me things about film acting which were very helpful. We went to lunch several times and he also introduced me to a friend of his, Christopher Connelly, who was also very nice and supportive. I saw Gary over the years and he always remembered me. Most amazingly, I was casting a film which didn't end up getting made, and Connelly was brought in to read - his throat cancer was pretty far along at that point, and he asked if he could not read, if we knew his work well enough. I said, of course, and then was about to tell him I remembered him from meeting him years before, but before I could even get anything out he said, "Do you remember we met when you were doing The Young Lawyers?" I was flabbergasted. Poor Chris died a couple of years later. What a nice guy he was.
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