Franklin & Bash
TV Show · Comedy · Drama

In Franklin & Bash, two young, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants street lawyers cause a seismic culture clash when they join a legendary, button-down law firm. Breckin Meyer is Jared Franklin, who loves sticking it to authority every chance he gets, while Mark-Paul Gosselaar plays Peter Bash, who has a knack for connecting with jury and judge.

2011 · 43m
  • 15+
Starring Breckin Meyer, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Malcolm McDowell

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Pilot
    Winning a high profile case leads streetwise lawyers Peter Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Jared Franklin (Breckin Meyer) to join Stanton Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) at his corporate law firm. While representing a prostitute who claims that she and her “client” were actually in a relationship, the brash attorneys defend a heroic airline pilot from being undermined by a scheming company executive. Guest starring Kathy Najimy.
    42m
  • EPISODE 2
    She Came Upstairs to Kill Me
    Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) enlists Peter (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Jared (Breckin Meyer) to help defend Isabella Kaplowitz (guest star Natalie Zea) against charges that she used sex to kill her elderly billionaire husband. But when their attempt to disqualify the judge for wagering on the case fall flat, Franklin and Bash enlist the late billionaire’s best friend (guest star Fred Willard) to prove Isabella’s innocence.
    40m
  • EPISODE 3
    Jennifer of Troy
    Franklin & Bash’s (Breckin Meyer and Mark Paul Gosselaar) lawsuit on behalf of Jennifer Putnam (guest star Jillian Bell), a woman who claims she was fired for being too sexy, is complicated when they discover that she is quite plain. Meanwhile, Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) appeals to a powerful Chinatown business council to salvage the reputation of Peter and Jared’s irreplaceable computer maven.
    39m
  • EPISODE 4
    Bro-Bono
    As Jared (Breckin Meyer) and Carmen (Dana Davis) team up in a divorce case to undercut millionaire adventurer Rick Paxton’s (guest star Harry Hamlin) playboy image, Peter’s (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) drunken driving defense exposes high school classmate Danny Dubois’s secret life. But when an elderly witness is discredited by revelations of her shady past, it’s an outrageous courtroom stunt by Jared that exonerates Danny.
    40m
  • EPISODE 5
    You Can't Take It With You
    A family feud over a renowned World Series home run ball owned by Duncan Morrow (guest star Robert Pine) lands Jared (Breckin Meyer) in court against his dad, superstar lawyer Leonard Franklin (guest star Beau Bridges); Peter (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Hanna represent Ronny Streppi, (guest star Tom Arnold) a reality TV star who claims the show’s producers unfairly portrayed him as a bad parent.
    39m
  • EPISODE 6
    Big Fish
    After agreeing to help a reviled and terminally ill financier Carter Lang (guest star Jason Alexander) repay the investors he defrauded, Franklin & Bash (Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar) face an ethical thicket when he changes his mind after his diagnosis is found to be a mistake. Meanwhile, Karp and Hanna use Pindar to persuade an eccentric multimillionaire businesswoman (guest star Sarayu Rao) to hire their law firm.
    40m

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Cast & Crew

  • Breckin Meyer
    Jared Franklin
  • Mark-Paul Gosselaar
    Peter Bash
  • Malcolm McDowell
    Stanton Infeld
  • Dana Davis
    Carmen Phillips
  • Kumail Nanjiani
    Pindar Singh
  • Reed Diamond
    Damien Karp
  • Heather Locklear
    Rachel King
  • A‌O
    Anthony Ordonez
    Dan Mundy
  • Toni Trucks
    Anita Haskins
  • Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon
    Hanna Linden
  • Jamie Tarses
    Producer

About

Franklin & Bash

Comedy

In Franklin & Bash, two young, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants street lawyers cause a seismic culture clash when they join a legendary, button-down law firm. Breckin Meyer is Jared Franklin, who loves sticking it to authority every chance he gets, while Mark-Paul Gosselaar plays Peter Bash, who has a knack for connecting with jury and judge.

15+

COMMON SENSE

Buddy lawyers make a tepid case for bad-boy antics.

Information

Studio
TNT
Released
2011
Rated
TV-14
Region of Origin
United States
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