About this season
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.
Episodes (16)
1. Dead Men Don't Make Phone Calls
Aired 27 September 1987 • 92 min
Harry 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.
2. Murder By a Landslide
Aired 6 October 1987 • 46 min
E.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.
3. Mr. Chapman, I Presume
Aired 13 October 1987 • 45 min
Based 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.
4. The Fallen Arrow
Aired 20 October 1987 • 46 min
Maginnis defends a man accused of killing his wife. Harry reluctantly agrees to help even though he doesn't like the man.
5. Rappaport is Back in Town
Aired 27 October 1987 • 60 min
6. She's Not Wild About Harry
Aired 3 November 1987 • 60 min
7. Angela's Secret
Aired 10 November 1987 • 60 min
8. Solve It Again, Harry
Aired 17 November 1987 • 60 min
9. State of the Art
Aired 24 November 1987 • 60 min
10. Yankee Boodle Dandy
Aired 1 December 1987 • 60 min
11. Old Heroes Die Hard
Aired 8 December 1988 • 60 min
12. Gilhooley's is History
Aired 13 January 1988 • 60 min
13. Beware the Ides of May
Aired 20 January 1988 • 60 min
14. Waiting Game
Aired 27 January 1988 • 60 min
15. Harry Does the Hustle
Aired 3 February 1988 • 60 min
16. Maginnis for the People
Aired 10 February 1988 • 60 min