The Associates (1979)★ 7.6/10
- Comedy
Directed by: Tony Mordente, James Burrows, Charlotte Brown, Tom Trbovich
Written by: James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Charlie Hauck, Michael Leeson, David Lloyd
The working lives of three neophyte lawyers.
- Original title
- The Associates
- Storyline
- Three young law-school graduates have just joined the prestigious firm of Bass and Marshall as associates, beginning their five-to-seven-year trial period. Leslie, daughter of a poor New York family, recently graduated from Columbia and felt for the oppressed. Bass and Marshall did not usually represent the oppressed. Tucker...was a Midwesterner slightly out of step with his Ivy League Colleagues, a little naive, but very charming. Sara was a Boston blueblood, bright as well as sexy. They were all at the mercy of a hierarchy including such oddballs as formidable but slightly dotty Senior Partner Emerson Marshall...and dedicated junior partner Eliot Streeter, who had only one goal: to take over the firm. Counterpointing all this class was Johnny Danko, the 21-year-old mailboy, whose only goal was to make time with beautiful chicks.
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 115
- Companies
- John-Charles-Walters Productions, Paramount Television, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS Media Ventures, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS Paramount International Television
- Release dates
- US September 23, 1979
- NL January 7, 1981
- GB July 15, 1982