Shannon's Deal
Season 2
Created by: John Sayles
Network: NBC
Season aired: 1991-03-23
Seasons
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
Episodes · 8
The Bad Beat
Shannon is tempted by his old gambling demons when he volunteers to investigated a girlfriend's gambling ex-husband.
Greed
Cash-poor Jack joins a corporate law firm, neglecting two old men being evicted from his building.
Strangers in the Night (1) [a.k.a. Wrongful Death]
Shannon files a wrongful-death suit after a shootout in which two cops kill a store owner and nearly Lucy as well.
Strangers in the Night (2)
First Amendment
A loud, Arab-baiting TV personality is charged with inciting a young man to kill a Syrian store owner.
The Inside Man
Representing a farm worker burned by illegal chemicals, Shannon discovers his corporate law past is a root cause of the accident.
Matrimony
Shannon dates a prosecutor, and help a pal's cheating wife, who had a hit-and-run accident after a tryst.
Trouble
Neala's rich, troubled pal is unwillingly committed to a mental hospital by her dad, Shannon's old enemy.
