Private Practice


Show summary:
Private Practice is a spin-off of the highly popular ABC series, Grey's Anatomy starring Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery, a renowned neonatal surgeon. After realizing that her life isn't advancing at Seattle Grace, Addison packs her bags and heads off to Santa Monica to start a new life. She reunites with her newly divorced med school friends, Naomi (Audra McDonald) and Sam (Taye Diggs), and joins them in their chic private practice.

The series, created by Shonda Rhimes, is produced by ABC Television Studio in collaboration with The Mark Gordon Company and Shondaland Productions. It first aired as an episode of Grey's Anatomy. The episode, titled The Other Side Of This Life, was known as a backdoor pilot. It tested the idea of the show, but also shared the plot with Grey's Anatomy scenes weaving in and out, from which it was spin-off.

Awards

Young Artist Awards

Category: Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actor - Joey Luthman
Year: 2009
Result: Won (Tied with Carlos Knight for "ER")

NAMIC Vision Awards

Category: Drama
Year: 2009
Result: Nominated

People's Choice Award

Category: Favorite New TV Drama
Year: 2008
Result: Nominated , Won the 4th place.

Image Awards

Category: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Taye Diggs
Year: 2009
Result: Won

Category:Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series- Audra McDonald
Year: 2009
Result: Nominated

Category: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series -Taye Diggs
Year: 2008
Result: Nominated

Category:Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series-Audra McDonald
Year: 2008
Result: Nominated

Category:Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series-Shonda Rhimes(In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else)
Year: 2008
Result: Nominated

TV.com Fashion Awards

Category:On Air: Best Overall Fashion - Male - Dr. Sam Bennett
Year: 2008
Result: Nominated

BMI Film & TV Awards

Year: 2008
Result: Won, Tim Bright, Chad Fischer

Year: 2009
Result: Won, Tim Bright, Chad Fischer Season 1

# Episodes : 9 Season Premiere: September 26, 2007- In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else
Season Finale:December 5, 2007 -In Which Dell Finds His Fight
DVD Release: September 16, 2008
Viewers: 11.5 m

Season 2

# Episodes : 22 Season Premiere: October 1st,2008 - A family thing Season Finale: April 30, 2009 - Yours, Mine and Ours
DVD Release: September 15, 2009
Viewers: -

Season 3

# Episodes : -
Season Premiere: October 1st,2009 - A Death in the Family
Season Finale: Spring 2009
DVD Release: -
Viewers: -

When Sam finds his estranged sister in jail under heavy medication and nearly catatonic, he calls on Sheldon for help. Meanwhile, Cooper, Pete and Addison treat a drug addict's baby; Erica begins secret cancer treatments...

Sheldon counsels an Army-veteran friend of Sam's suffering from PTSD who harbors a secret sexual trauma. Meanwhile, Erica and Mason get into in a nonfatal car accident, upsetting Cooper and Charlotte all the more; Pete s...

Pete, Violet, Sam and Addison adjust to their newly unattached status in different ways: Addison questions how much she wants a baby and confides in Jake; Violet considers dating a hot, young paramedic; and Sam and Pete ...

Pete, Violet, Sam and Addison adjust to their newly unattached status in different ways: Addison questions how much she wants a baby and confides in Jake; Violet considers dating a hot, young paramedic; and Sam and Pete ...

Amelia's colleagues stage an intervention for her when she returns from her drug binge, and she reluctantly goes into rehab; Cooper's growing bond with his son is tested by his allegiance to a patient; Pete and Violet's ...

Amelia leaves work with a new fling, writes herself pill prescriptions and has a run-in with police; Addison and Jake must choose between donating a patient's organs and saving her healthy unborn baby; Violet returns to ...

Amelia spirals further out of control, triggering in Charlotte memories of a past tragedy; Addison chooses a sperm donor; Cooper discovers that an ADHD patient is being drugged by his parents; and Pete's inability to tru...

Addison begins in vitro fertilization treatments with Jake's help, unbeknownst to Sam, Amelia is deeply conflicted when her terminally-ill friend, Michelle, asks her assistance in her suicide, and Sam and Violet contend ...

Cooper receives the surprise of his life when a woman from his past arrives at the practice; Addison consults her patient, Jodi, who is eight and half months pregnant and suffering from severe memory loss after a traumat...

Addison and Jake work with a patient who wants to have a baby even though she doesn't have a uterus; Amelia, back in AA and seemingly back on track, treats a Parkinson's Disease patient who habitually cheats on her husba...

The Oceanside Wellness doctors interview potential replacements for Naomi, including Jake Reilly, and no one understands Addison's resistance to hiring him; Cooper breaks the law and crosses his wife, Charlotte, in an ef...

Sam, Cooper, Charlotte and Amelia team up to save the life of their friend Pete after he suffers a heart attack, while Violet, who was in the middle of leaving Pete and LA, is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Addison's de...

Season 4 finale: Oceanside Wellness faces an existential crisis as a result of its vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, Addison has a new admirer (Benjamin Bratt), who makes her a tempting offer; and Charlotte is assigned a case ...

The Pacific Wellness doctors investigate Betsey's foster family after Dell's daughter needs ER treatment for the second time. Meanwhile, Amelia's drinking problem gets worse; and Naomi makes a life-changing family decisi...

Charlotte and Cooper's wedding day arrives, but not everyone is happy about it. Meanwhile, an investigator is looking into Violet's breach-of-confidentiality case. It's a situation in which her interests and those of Oce...

Violet must defend her book after Katie Kent (Amanda Foreman) threatens to sue her after reading about herself in it; and Cooper suspects that Charlotte isn't entirely over her ex-husband.

Pete's brother (Kyle Secor) brings their mother (Louise Fletcher) in for a consultation; Violet catches Sheldon asking her archenemy for a date; Cooper treats a young music prodigy who has a brain tumor.

Sheldon falls for the critic who panned Violet's book; a patient is caught in a love triangle with her brother-in-law and sister; Cooper and Sam try to convince a family to put a boy's health above his wrestling career.

A woman and her husband want to harvest their unborn baby's eggs; a woman threatens suicide if she tests positive for Huntington's disease; Fife returns to share his feelings with Naomi.

Cooper and Charlotte try to forgive each other after revealing secrets in couples therapy; one of Sheldon's patients claims to have multiple personality disorder; Naomi and Sam treat a pregnant teen who has Down syndrome...

When Addison goes home to Connecticut to deal with a family tragedy, Sam and her friends decide to tag along; Sheldon and Violet fight over a death row patient's confession.

Charlotte's attacker (Nicholas Brendon) arrives at the hospital in need of urgent care; Bizzy begs Addison for help when Susan's health deteriorates.

Addison tries to keep her distance from flirtatious Dr. Rodriguez (Cristián de la Fuente); Sam worries about the care a patient is receiving; Sheldon refers Charlotte to a friend for psychiatric help.

Addison's mom demands she do whatever it takes to keep her partner alive.

Cooper gets bad news about Charlotte's sexual assault case; a case involving a pregnant drug addict hits Addison hard.

Charlotte chooses to suffer in silence as she tries to deal with the emotional aftermath of the attack, as Addison struggles to keep the events of that night a secret, while Cooper and the doctors of Oceanside Wellness f...

Sam and Addison disagree over the treatment of a comatose patient who becomes pregnant; Charlotte and Pete face an ethical dilemma when a patient with HIV is in a serious car accident.

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Summary: Pete and Violet prepare for their wedding day; things take a surprising turn with Addison and Sam; despite disagreements, the doctors come together to mourn the loss of Dell.

Maya and her unborn baby are fighting for their lives on the operating table, and Addison, Amelia and Fife try everything humanly possible to save them. Meanwhile, Sam operates on an incoming crash victim and later makes...

Summary: Naomi begs Fife to use his still experimental treatment to help William's advanced ALS. Violet and Amelia treat a woman with a brain tumor, while Sheldon decides to vie for Charlotte's affections.

Summary: After Violet files for joint custody of Lucas, an embittered Pete voraciously fights back by hiring a tough attorney for the trial, forcing their fellow friends and co-workers to choose sides and have their per...

After her open-ended escape to Costa Rica, Violet has finally returned home and to the practice. Everyone treads a little lightly around her, especially Pete and Addison who have mixed feelings about Violet's desire to ...

Summary: When a famed neurosurgeon and her team visit St. Ambrose, Addison is surprised to see Derek's younger sister on the team; Charlotte and Cooper try to figure out how to work together.

A husband's decision to pull the plug on his pregnant wife is overruled by a judge, forcing the hospital to keep her on life support until the fetuses she is carrying as a surrogate are able to survive. Meanwhile, Naomi ...

When Addison's patient and the life of the three unborn babies she is carrying as a surrogate hang in the balance, Sam's new girlfriend, Vanessa, and Addison are sharply divided on the course of treatment. Meanwhile Coop...

Summary: Addison, Pete and Sam must work together on a complicated case involving a father-to-be who comes down with tuberculosis; Sheldon's helps one of Violet's patients get over her fear of flying.

Summary: As Violet continues to help Sam with Maya's wedding, Naomi refuses to take part as she works with Addison and Pete to save the life of a 25-week-old premature baby. Meanwhile, Cooper suspects that Charlotte's n...

Summary: As tensions between Sam and Addison rise, she turns to Pete for comfort.

Summary: Addison and Cooper are counseling a couple who must pick a child to save with their newborn's cord blood. Meanwhile Dink wants to marry Maya.

Summary: Maya shocks Sam and Naomi, while Pete and Fife disagree on patient care.

Summary: Addison and Mark head back to Ocean Wellness to help his pregnant daughter. Naomi and Dell can't agree how to raise their children together and Violet and cooper can't agree on patient care.

Summary: An explosion at Dell's house lands Betsey and Heather in the hospital. everyone is pushed to the limit in trying to save their lives. The tensions between Addison and The Captain rise even more when her mother,...

Summary: Addison performs a complex utero surgery, proving not only her talents to her father but giving them some common ground. Sam and Naomi deal with have a family crisis when they discover Maya is growing up way to...

Summary: Addison is thrown by the arrival of her father to Los Angeles. Cooper is arrested when he refuses to cooperate in a case involving a patient. Pete fights to keep a terminally ill patient alive long enough for h...

Addison and Sam go for a hike in Malibu, they come across an expecting couple trapped in their car after an accident, they then perform urgent field care. Charlotte, Cooper and Violet treat a newlywed who, on his wedding...

The doctors venture into controversial territory when an unexpected new hire at Pacific Wellcare causes Naomi to struggle with the idea of genetically designing babies and Violet makes a sudden decision to try electric s...

Summary: A serious complication threatens the fetuses of two of Naomi's former patients; Violet is asked to testify against her attacker; Charlotte tries to join the Oceanside Wellness Group.

Addison, Sam and Cooper treat the sick child of a homeless teen mother (Lucy Hale) they met while volunteering. Meanwhile Violet has trouble relating to her baby when her feelings about her attack resurface during counse...

Summary: Miranda Bailey brings a kidney transplant patient to Los Angeles, and Addison and especially Sam is pleased to see her. Addison's consequences of her emotional affair with Noah catch up with her. Sheldon and P...

Violet is physically recovering from her violent attack at home, but the emotional trauma she suffers from isn't going away, despite her friends best efforts. Meanwhile, Addison and Naomi try to mend their tension-filled...

Summary: Season 3 opener: Addison and Naomi struggle in the ER to save Violet, whose baby is still missing, as is her attacker (Amanda Foreman). Meanwhile, flashbacks recall Pete and Violet's first meeting, which took p...

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