Season 1 of the drama series Drop Dead Diva, premiered on July 12, 2009 and concluded on October 11, 2009. It aired on Lifetime and consisted of 13 episodes.
Plot[]
Deb Dobkins 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.
Cast[]
Episodes[]
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Pilot | July 12, 2009 | 01 | ||
| Jane Bingum, a plus-sized lawyer takes a bullet for her boss. Deb Dobkins, a wannabe model gets killed in a car crash. Deb goes to Heaven and gets herself sent back to Earth, and ends up in Jane's body. Deb, with the help of her guardian angel Fred and Jane's brain must now play the role of a lawyer. | |||||
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The F word | July 19, 2009 | 02 | ||
| 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 wants her to give his kidney back. | |||||
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Do Over | July 26, 2009 | 03 | ||
| Jane 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. | |||||
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The Chinese Wall | August 2, 2009 | 04 | ||
| Jane represents Deb's mother, Bobbi, in divorce proceedings. Bobbi originally asked Grayson to represent her, but he is already representing 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, Diedrich Bader. | |||||
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Lost and Found | August 9, 2009 | 05 | ||
| The 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. | |||||
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Second Chances | August 16, 2009 | 06 | ||
| Grayson tries to get an obituary removed from the tabloids that prematurely reports the death of his client. Jane represents a mother who goes to court for a crime committed twenty years earlier. Also, Fred reads an article about playing hard-to-get. | |||||
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The Magic Bullet | August 23, 2009 | 07 | ||
| Jane 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 and Grayson and Terri come to her assistance in disposing of the case. | |||||
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Crazy | August 30, 2009 | 08 | ||
| 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. | |||||
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The Dress | September 13, 2009 | 09 | ||
| 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. | |||||
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Make Me a Match | September 20, 2009 | 10 | ||
| 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. | |||||
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What If | September 27, 2009 | 11 | ||
| 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. | |||||
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Dead Model Walking | October 4, 2009 | 12 | ||
| 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. | |||||
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Grayson's Anatomy | October 11, 2009 | 13 | ||
| Jane risks her place at the firm after she learns that her new case, about an athlete who was injured in his surgery, is actually a fraud. Lastly, Jane finds a surprising visitor in her doorstep. | |||||
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Drop Dead Diva (Launch) Promo