Drop Dead Diva Season 1 (2009)

Drop Dead Diva

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Legal Drama
Stars: Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho and Jackson Hurst
Country of origin: United States
Language: English

Plot: A vapid aspiring model killed in a car crash gets brought back to life as an intelligent, overweight lawyer, hoping to find the meaning of inner beauty.

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Season 1 (2009) Episode List:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Drop_Dead_Diva_episodes#Season_1:_2009

Date Airing: July 12 - 2009 October 11, 2009
Episodes: 13

1 - Pilot
Jane Bingum, a plus-sized lawyer, gets shot by a cuckolded man aiming for her boss at her law firm. Deb Dobson is a slim model and living the good life when she is killed in a car crash. Deb goes to Heaven but is accidentally sent back to Earth just as Jane dies in the hospital. Deb's soul ends up in Jane's heavyset body and now Deb (with Jane's knowledge of law) must play the role of the lawyer. She finds herself conflicted between her superficial past and her new responsibility-ridden life. To make matters more difficult, Deb's grieving boyfriend, Grayson Kent, is now working at the same law firm. Deb's Guardian Angel, named Fred, watches over her but only he and Deb's friend, Stacy, know who Jane really is on the inside.

2 - The F Word
Jane takes on the case of a waitress who was fired from her job after gaining 50 pounds. Grayson and Kim work on the case of a man who's getting divorce from his wife and want his kidney back.

3 - Do Over
Jane/Deb learns that Jane's past has caught up with her when a case from the previous year is up for retrial. Kim and Grayson sue a psychiatrist who "cured" their client's husband of his multiple personalities, but got rid of the wrong one. Rosie O'Donnell guest stars as a judge.
4 - The Chinese Wall

Jane/Deb represents Deb's mother, Bobbi, in divorce proceedings. Bobbi originally asked Grayson to represent her, but he represents Deb's dad. Meanwhile, Jane and Kim defend a dog-owner who believes a pet cloning company did not give the dog owner a prize winning dog like the dog from which it was supposedly cloned. Featuring guest stars Sharon Lawrence, Mark Moses and Diedrich Bader.
5 - Lost and Found
Twenty-four year-old Deb celebrates Jane's 32nd birthday while defending a client who was wrongfully imprisoned and freed a decade later. Kim and Grayson take on the case of a man who developed a web site that offers married men a way to cheat on their wives.

6 - Second Chances
Grayson tries to get an obituary removed from the tabloids that prematurely reports the death of his client. But as Grayson hopes that will make his client happy, he discovers that his client may need to be satisfied in some other way. Meanwhile, Jane/Deb represents a mother who goes to court for a crime committed twenty years earlier. Also, Fred reads an article about playing hard-to-get. Stacy realizes that she likes Fred and at the end of the episode, Fred shows up at Stacy and Jane's doorstep. Stacy kisses him and they go off on a date.

7 - The Magic Bullet
Jane/Deb represents a mother who believes her daughter became ill while following a diet, and is suing diet guru Jillian Ford. Kim is hit with a sexual harassment suit by her former assistant; Grayson and Terri come to her assistance in disposing of the case. Fred is sent back to Heaven after kissing Stacy.

8 - Crazy
Jane/Deb must attend Jane’s high school reunion. Also, she (as Jane) has to prove that her client is competent enough to go to trial. Meanwhile Kim and Grayson aren’t exactly sure what to do when they represent a bride-to-be suing her maid of honor after the bride discovered her in bed with her fiancé.

9 - The Dress
Kim represents Jane on the case of a boutique store that doesn't sell plus sized clothing. Grayson represents the daughter of Parker's friend who agreed to appear in a porn video.

10 - Make Me a Match
Judge Madeline Stone has been looking for some romance with the help of a match-making service, but Jane/Deb soon discovers that they are also committing fraud. Meanwhile, Kim and Grayson must see if they can figure out why two sisters who are both psychics wouldn't want to share in the family business. Fred returns from heaven and becomes human so that he could still see Stacey.

11 - What If
Jane/Deb takes on an interesting case of a woman who feels she was switched at birth as her mom hopes to straighten out some of these issues and figure out why the client was led to believe she was switched at birth. Parker is about to go back in the court room again for the first as a lawyer for one of his oldest friends but before doing so he will need help in not being so nervous.

12 - Dead Model Walking
Jane represent Deb's favorite model, Christy Talbot, when she's held at a department store for assaulting a salesclerk. But the case gets more complicated after Christy is accused of murdering her husband. Grayson and Kim take a pro bono case for a widow who won't sell her house because there are too many memories of her late husband. However, the woman have something to hide.

13 - Grayson's Anatomy
Jane risks her place at the firm after she learns that her new case, about an athlete who was injured in his surgery, it's actually a fraud. Lastly, Jane finds a surprising visitor in her doorstep.