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Sara McKenna (Geena Davis) is a single lawyer in San Francisco. In the pilot, she rejects her boyfriend's marriage proposal. Rozalyn Dupree (Alfre Woodard), Marty Lang (Bill Maher), and Dennis Kemper (Bronson Pinchot) are the other lawyers in the struggling law office. Helen Newcomb (Ronnie Claire Edwards) is their secretary going to law school. Stuart Webber (Mark Hudson) and his son Jesse Webber (Matthew Lawrence) are her neighbors.

This is a great cast filled with future stars. I keep racking my brain to remember another show or movie where Geena Davis and Alfre Woodard play best friends. They have such great chemistry together. This is a good workplace sitcom. I do not like the pilot especially with the boyfriend. It's a downer and also they reveal that he made her take the law classes. Being a lawyer is not something she strives to be. I rather have the pilot center around a case where she shows her commitment to the law and her heart for the downtrodden. This lasted 13 episodes. The great cast kept it interesting.

Sara McKenna's a young lawyer just out of law school and without a job. So she takes a job at a legal aid clinic in San Francisco. Her boss is a down-and-out Southern belle turned booze hound, her coworkers include Dennis, a gay lawyer, and other wacky characters at her law office, and then there's her best friend, played by Mark Hudson of the '70s comedy team the Hudson Brothers, whose five-year-old son, Matthew Lawrence, is constantly trying to set them up. Why? His father's single, she's single, and he thinks she'd make a good wife for his father.

Sara is a well-cast workplace sitcom with a charming script. Having been released in the '80s, expect the cliched synth dominated theme, the greased hair, the innocent humour, and the chipboard wall enclosed sets. This is inevitable and perhaps distasteful. Yet, there are comedy series that aired on television many years later with the same sympathy-garnering production value that are somehow miraculously considered great entertainment. And these shows did not enrich the world of humour but, instead, imbued it with crassness and stupidity. Their scripts haven't been made more elaborate and engaging, but instead have been made with even simpler and more immature themes.

The intellectual acuity of audiences who find The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, The Office, etc. Entertaining is questionable.

Sara is a show with content that will no longer be present in contemporary television; because humour must be crude, and scripts must be scandalous, and visuals colourful.

This show was made at a time when people could write jokes and plots that entertained, without letting down standards of decency.