Kate McShane
originally aired on CBS
Kate McShane was the first series to feature a female lawyer in the lead role. A two-hour pilot film aired April 11, 1975. Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller's son, then almost 10, is listed on an 8/14/1975 Call Sheet in the “Little Bit of Knowledge” episode (episode 11)
Kate McShane is an Irish American lawyer who gets help from her dad, an ex-cop, and her brother, a priest and a law professor.