First Years: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Based on the British series This Life, First Years takes a humorous, intimate look at the lives of five first-year law graduates as they struggle to get their careers off the ground in San Francisco. They are handed all of the grunt work and receive none of the glory. To help pay off their student loans, four of them save money by sharing a fixer-upper house together in the Haight-Ashbury district. Anna Weller is a fearless, straight-forward career woman who lives on her own; Warren Harrison is the most stable of the group, but a bit of an outsider; Riley Kessler is someone who is simply normal and loves her longtime boyfriend, Edgar 'Egg' Ross, who has disgraced his Peace Corps family by becoming a lawyer; Miles Lawton is a charming smart guy who rejects his wealthy family background. Sam O'Donnell is the associates' mentor.

Series details

• Title: First Years
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Legal
• Premiere date: 2001-03-19
• Final broadcast date listed: 2001-04-02
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 66242
• IMDb ID: tt0278195
• TVDB ID: 343941

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2001-03-19; final listed air date 2001-04-02; episode order: 9.

Source and licence

Adapted from First Years on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.