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Judging Amy (1999)
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
Seasons & episodes
Amy Madison Gray struggles to adjust to the new circumstances in her life as she separates from her husband and becomes a single mother to…
Short calendar day drops 54 cases on Amy's docket, and the long day stretches into night when she's forced to make a life and death decisio…
Sitting in for a friend who's undergoing chemotherapy, Amy presides over her first jury trial and clashes with a former law school classmat…
Amy must determine if a comatose boy who is believed to have healing powers is being abused by his grandmother; Maxine clashes with her sup…
A death threat, coupled with Maxine's disapproval, puts a crimp in Amy's blossoming relationship with Tracy; Vincent begins to feel like he…
A woman fights for custody of her son after the boy's father claims that her practice of the Wiccan religion makes her an unfit mother; Vin…
Maxine fights to keep a deaf boy in the care of his teenage brother after they are orphaned; Bruce disagrees with Amy's decision in an inte…
Amy presides over the sentencing hearing of an emotionally immature teenager convicted of the murder of a ten year old girl during a drive-…
Amy juggles preparing Thanksgiving dinner, being on call, and coping with a surprise announcement from Michael; Gillian asks Maxine for hel…
Amy hears the case of an extremely abused, mentally ill teenager who has stabbed a teacher; Vincent's agent finds him a publisher who will…
Amy takes it personally when Stuart appeals her decision to overturn the jury's verdict; Maxine arrives at a creative solution in placing a…
Amy threatens to remove a young boy from the custody of a father who asserts his right to beat his son regularly with a belt, leaving welts…
Michael's insistence upon joint custody of Lauren after Amy requests an increase in child support payments dooms the divorce mediation proc…
Amy must decide if a young boy accused of shaking his infant sister to death is guilty of murder; Maxine fights to keep a 10 year old girl…
Amy is assigned to a Judicial Conduct Commission panel which will decide the fate of a judge accused of demanding sexual favors from a pros…
Amy gears up for the custody battle over Lauren; Vincent takes a job at the local newspaper to help him overcome a severe case of writer's…
Amy must decide if a brain-injured woman is fit to be a mother; Maxine discovers that a teenaged client is being abused by his therapist; L…
Amy presides over a custody case between a young girl's stepfather and her biological father, whose severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Dis…
Heeding the request of counsel to deliver one of her ""rants"" at a sentencing hearing, Amy lectures a young drug dealer whose mother has m…
Amy decides the fate of two teenagers arrested for possession of a date rape drug; Greta returns to work with a newfound appreciation of he…
Maxine gets a new supervisor at D.C.F.; Donna becomes stressed when Oscar's attorneys petition to have his conviction reversed; Amy and Max…
After going on the date from hell with a Yale professor, Amy has one last fling with Michael the day their divorce becomes final; Maxine re…
Vincent is injured in an explosion when he attempts to dissuade an old friend threatening to blow up the court house after he loses custody…
Cast
Amy BrennemanAmy Gray
Richard T. JonesBruce Van Exel
Dan FuttermanVincent Gray
Jessica TuckGillian Gray
Marcus GiamattiPeter Gray
Jillian ArmenanteDonna Kozlowski
Timothy OmundsonSean Potter
Tyne DalyMaxine Gray

















