During a routine air patrol, a Navy Tomcat has a catastrophic engine failure which destroys the fighter. The pilot and the RIO are able to eject in time. However, when a passing Hind helicopter make strafing run on the parachuting pair, the fighter's wingman shoots down the helicopter. The Wingman is also the carrier's Commander of the Air Group (the CAG). Cmdr. Rabb and Lt. Austin must investigate whether the shoot down was justified. They soon feel the pressure to charge the CAG for the shoot down, and force him from the Navy. The CAG doesn't make their job any easier, either.

JAG Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - A New Life (1)
• s01e02 - A New Life (2)
• s01e03 - Shadow
• s01e04 - Desert Son
• s01e05 - Deja Vu
• s01e06 - Pilot Error
• s01e07 - War Cries
• s01e08 - Brig Break
• s01e09 - Scimitar
• s01e10 - Boot
• s01e11 - Sightings
• s01e12 - The Brotherhood
• s01e13 - Defensive Action
• s01e14 - Smoked
• s01e15 - Hemlock
• s01e16 - High Ground
• s01e17 - Black Ops
• s01e18 - Survivors
• s01e19 - Recovery
• s01e20 - The Prisoner
• s01e21 - Ares
• s01e22 - Skeleton Crew

JAG Show Summary

After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.

Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.

Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.