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Newton's Law volume 1
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At a hearing for an alleged pyromaniac, consulting solicitor Josephine Newton runs into her old friend Lewis, who offers her a new job at a high-powered firm. A catastrophic event forces Josephine to consider his offer, but she worries about leaving behind her former clients turned colleagues, Helena and Johnny.
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Newton's Law volume 6
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English
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An elderly hospital volunteer accused of kidnapping a Syrian asylum seeker demands Josephine take her high-profile case. Callum comes to Josephine with a co-parenting issue but later needs her and Lewis's legal help combating an assault charge.
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Newton's Law volume 4
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English
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When a bomb threat causes a stampede at a furniture store that injures a customer, Josephine and Lewis defend the store's CEO. Office cleaner Zareb requests Helena's legal assistance after being charged with resisting arrest, but Helena is distracted by calls from her estranged husband.
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Newton's Law volume 5
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English
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Helena recommends a restorative-justice approach to a friend of Johnny's to mitigate his assault charges. As the firm's secretary, Jackie, tries to get Josephine in trouble for her involvement with Chatterjee's downstairs office, Josephine defends her boss, who is embroiled in a custody battle for the family dog.
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An extremely strange girl called Lucy Brewer (Joyce Jameson) finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and the dead man's daughter - or is she? One of the best of the Burke's Law TV episodes. Loaded with guest stars as suspects including Burgess Meredith (Penguin on BATMAN) in this classic detective series.
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Newton's Law volume 7
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English
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Lewis defends a young man facing a burglary charge for breaking into his friend's house and stealing his sneakers. Josephine and Helena receive a surprise call from the man they believe burned down their old office.
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Newton's Law volume 3
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English
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Josephine and Lewis defend a woman accused of murdering her personal trainer after the fitness studio denied her request to break her contract. Insurance investigator Skye visits Helena's downstairs office in need of a lawyer for her father, but Helena is afraid to take the case to court.
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Newton's Law volume 2
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English
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Josephine is livid when her daughter, Lydia, is arrested for criminal damage at an environmental protest organized by Lydia's father, Callum. Meanwhile, Josephine represents a transgender teen undergoing hormone treatment against her parents' wishes.
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Newton's Law volume 8
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English
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Josephine and Lewis organize a class-action lawsuit for the participants of a prescription drug trial who suffered dangerous side effects. But with seven plaintiffs and a complicated case, Josephine needs to enlist both the upstairs and downstairs teams to take on the pharmaceutical company.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 1
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English
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The bickering Hubbards and Buells are stunned when their kids return from a night out announcing they’re engaged. After arguments about the wedding plans are finally settled (amid the kids’ breaking up over a fight about whose mother is right), the kids wind up eloping with another couple, while their parents are trying to rescue Kaye’s beloved grand piano, set up in the Hubbards’ back yard for the next morning’s nuptials, from a midnight...
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Mothers-in-Law volume 27
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English
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The men side with Jerry’s decision to play poker with the guys, so the women plan an all-girl night out for Suzie.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 4
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English
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Going to a store to return a duplicate wedding gift for the kids, the mothers, who have been banned from their own phones for continually calling the honeymooning couple, spend $15.70 talking to them on a payphone, unknowingly getting locked in the store when it closes. With only one dime left, they accidentally reach a sleeping bullfighter in Barcelona, whom they beg to relay their SOS to their husbands. Madness ensues when a security guards finds...
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Mothers-in-Law volume 10
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English
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Eve and Kaye tackle the care and feeding of a motley menagerie when they take over for Suzie, who has become a pet-sitter for extra money. Problems increase rapidly, as most of the critters are expecting.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 22
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English
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Eve and Kaye turn Herb’s office into a model of inefficiency when they take over for his sick secretary.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 7
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English
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When Roger and Herb admit that they would date Liz Taylor if given the chance, their wives console each other at the Buell house, leaving their befuddled husbands to go it alone next door.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 5
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English
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Checking out the place that the kids have rented, the mothers return their deposit and fix up the Hubbards’ garage apartment for them. After their snooping gets them caught hiding in the kids’ shower, they promise not to interfere, but their curiosity gets to them when they see friends arriving for a dinner party. Peeking in the electric garage door windows, they wind up spending the evening lying atop the horizontal door after Jerry opens it...
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Mothers-in-Law volume 11
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English
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A physical-fitness kick has the Hubbards and Buells joining a cycling club, and they wind up lose in the desert.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 24
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English
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Kaye borrows a blonde wig from Eve, and Roger’s romantic reaction succeeds only in depressing Kaye, who’s convinced that he now prefers blondes.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 15
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English
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A heated argument leads to Roger challenging Herb to a duel at dawn. While they practice with fencing foils, their wives conspire to stop the showdown.
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Mothers-in-Law volume 6
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English
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The newlyweds try a devious diversion to get free of Eve and Kaye's meddling: They send for their mothers' mothers-in-law, who run the women ragged.
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