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Shannon's Deal
Overview
Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who lost his family and his job to a compulsive gambling habit. The saga of Shannon, who leaves a prestigious law firm after years of becoming unhappy with the legal system and being forced to take his clients to court, and whom subsequently opens his own low-rent practice
Key Crew
Top Cast
Jamey Sheridan
Jack Shannon
Elizabeth Peña
Lucy Acosta
Richard Edson
Wilmer Slade
Jenny Lewis
Neala Shannon
Seasons
Season 1 (1990)
No overview available.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Words to Music
1990-04-16A country singer claims a music-publishing syndicate stole her song.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Inside Straight
1990-04-23Shannon anticipates working for a paying client, a contractor whose employee is charged with manslaughter.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Art
1990-04-30An art-loving burglar asks for a light sentence but ends up the target of a mob hit; Shannon has a blind date with a blabby lush.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Custody
1990-05-07Shannon gets involved in a small town child-custody dispute in which grandparents have taken a 6-year-old from the aunt attempting an adoption.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: Hitting Home
1990-05-14Shannon's estranged father seeks justice for a disgruntled dockworker friend arrested in a shootout after learning he was cheated out of his union pension.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: Sanctuary
1990-05-21
Season 2 (1991)
No overview available.
8 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Bad Beat
1991-03-23Shannon is tempted by his old gambling demons when he volunteers to investigated a girlfriend's gambling ex-husband.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Greed
1991-04-09Cash-poor Jack joins a corporate law firm, neglecting two old men being evicted from his building.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Strangers in the Night (1) [a.k.a. Wrongful Death]
1991-04-16Shannon files a wrongful-death suit after a shootout in which two cops kill a store owner and nearly Lucy as well.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Strangers in the Night (2)
1991-04-16Episode 5: First Amendment
1991-04-23A loud, Arab-baiting TV personality is charged with inciting a young man to kill a Syrian store owner.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: The Inside Man
1991-04-30Representing a farm worker burned by illegal chemicals, Shannon discovers his corporate law past is a root cause of the accident.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Matrimony
1991-05-14Shannon dates a prosecutor, and help a pal's cheating wife, who had a hit-and-run accident after a tryst.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: Trouble
1991-05-21Neala's rich, troubled pal is unwillingly committed to a mental hospital by her dad, Shannon's old enemy.
Runtime: N/A min
