Robert Wuhl
Director
Arli$$ (1996)
Season 5
A behind-the-scenes look at the glitzy, big-money world of professional sports following the eternally optimistic and endlessly resourceful L.A. sports agent Arliss Michaels whose Achilles' heel is his inability to say “no” to clients and employees.
Released Aug. 10, 1996
Episode 29 min
17+
Keywords: tmdb.sports, tmdb.sitcom, imdb.talent-agent, imdb.basketball, imdb.sitcom-comedy, imdb.forename-as-series-title, imdb.sitcom + 4 more, imdb.character-name-as-series-title, imdb.sex-scene, imdb.football, imdb.baseball
Production Companies: Tollin/Robbins Productions, HBO
Network: HBO
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - Creatures of Habit
Arliss buys a rare piece of memorabilia, and sends a client to a hypnotist to help him quit chewing tobacco. When treatment appears to work, Arliss sends Kirby there to quit gambling. Meanwhile, Rita tries to keep an LPGA client from falling off the wagon.
June 4, 2000, midnight
S5E2 - Making Things Happen
Arliss learns that a good friend and client, who is about to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, is being charged with domestic abuse. Meanwhile, Rita's activist friend sides with the client's wife.
June 11, 2000, midnight
S5E3 - I Get Involved
Arliss has to walk the fence when two clients, both teammates, are dating the same girl. Rita plays Cyrano for one of the clients, and a TV reporter shows up to do a ""Where Are They Now?"" segment on Kirby.
June 18, 2000, midnight
S5E4 - Comings and Goings
Arliss must help a client bury his mother. Meanwhile, Stanley's having a run of bad luck that threatens his chess game, so he goes looking for a ""slumpbuster."" And Kirby comes face-to-face with his own slumpbuster from 18 years ago, and must face the consequences.
June 25, 2000, midnight
S5E5 - It's Who You Know
Arliss tries to talk the ""pot dealer to the NBA"" out of retiring by offering to get his kid into a fancy private school. Meanwhile, Rita plays a relationship with a physical trainer by ""The Rules.""
July 9, 2000, midnight
S5E6 - The Value of Honesty
Arliss has an affair with a WNBA coach, but his client (also the coach's star player) wants her fired. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of a wild birthday celebration, Kirby and Rita suspect they may have ""done it.""
July 16, 2000, midnight
S5E7 - The Sum of the Parts
A baseball client needs a kidney, and Arliss tries to convince the player's minor-league brother to donate his. Meanwhile, a soccer client scores a goal for the opposing team, causing him to take refuge at Rita's apartment while Kirby goes into hiding.
July 23, 2000, midnight
S5E8 - Honoring Our Past
When one of his boxing clients enlists in the Army, Arliss tries to figure out a way to get him out. Meanwhile, Stanley and a native-American tribal chief attempt to get a football team to change its ""offensive"" mascot.
July 30, 2000, midnight
S5E9 - When Opportunity Knocks
Arliss, Rita and Stanley must deal with Kirby's absence when he leaves the agency to join a fledgling football league run by a flashy TV producer.
Aug. 6, 2000, midnight
S5E10 - Last Call
Arliss tries to get a dotcom millionaire team owner to re-sign an aging broadcaster who may be losing his touch. Rita ghostwrites a column for Arliss, and Kirby helps discipline Stanley's unruly dog.
Aug. 13, 2000, midnight
S5E11 - A Breed Apart
Arliss pursues popular mascot Reggie the Rooster, using a fundraiser Stanley has organized for another mascot, who was injured in the line of duty. Rita takes up boxing after a series of obscene phone calls.
Aug. 20, 2000, midnight
S5E12 - Where There's a Will
Arliss is named executor of a superstar jockey's will, which leaves everything to his wife - but he had two wives. Kirby discovers that his former coach is now homeless.
Aug. 27, 2000, midnight
S5E13 - You Can Pick Your Friends...
Arliss' ne'er-do-well brother Archie uses his name to further a scam. Kirby and Stanley plot their own scam on a stadium concession millionaire. Stanley purposely swallows a ring that turned up in a burger.
Sept. 3, 2000, midnight
HBO
29 min/ep
2321 min
Aug. 10, 1996
Sept. 8, 2002, midnight
Ended
TV-MA / 17+
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