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Arliss

Season 5 2000
TV-MA

  • 2000-06-04T04:00:00Z on HBO
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2000-06-04T04:00:00Z

5x01 Creatures of Habit

Season Premiere

5x01 Creatures of Habit

  • 2000-06-04T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-06-11T04:00:00Z

5x02 Making Things Happen

5x02 Making Things Happen

  • 2000-06-11T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-06-18T04:00:00Z

5x03 I Get Involved

5x03 I Get Involved

  • 2000-06-18T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-06-25T04:00:00Z

5x04 Comings and Goings

5x04 Comings and Goings

  • 2000-06-25T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-07-09T04:00:00Z

5x05 It's Who You Know

5x05 It's Who You Know

  • 2000-07-09T04:00:00Z30m

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.""

2000-07-16T04:00:00Z

5x06 The Value of Honesty

5x06 The Value of Honesty

  • 2000-07-16T04:00:00Z30m

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.""

2000-07-23T04:00:00Z

5x07 The Sum of the Parts

5x07 The Sum of the Parts

  • 2000-07-23T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-07-30T04:00:00Z

5x08 Honoring Our Past

5x08 Honoring Our Past

  • 2000-07-30T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-08-06T04:00:00Z

5x09 When Opportunity Knocks

5x09 When Opportunity Knocks

  • 2000-08-06T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-08-13T04:00:00Z

5x10 Last Call

5x10 Last Call

  • 2000-08-13T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-08-20T04:00:00Z

5x11 A Breed Apart

5x11 A Breed Apart

  • 2000-08-20T04:00:00Z30m

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.

2000-08-27T04:00:00Z

5x12 Where There's a Will

5x12 Where There's a Will

  • 2000-08-27T04:00:00Z30m

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.

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.

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