Season 1 (Private Practice)

The first season of Private Practice premiered on September 26 2007 on ABC, following the success of the back-door pilot on Grey's Anatomy, the season 3 episodes, The Other Side of This Life Part 1 and Part 2.

ABC originally ordered 9 episodes and after monitoring the ratings, ordered another 13 episodes, pushing the total episode count for the first season to 22 episodes. Due to the Writer's Guild of America strike, only 9 episodes were produced.

Storyline
Addison Montgomery, having given in her resignation at Seattle Grace Hospital, takes up a job offer at the Oceanside Wellness Center, run by her old friend from medical school, Naomi Bennett.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the staff at Oceanside Wellness, Addison joins the practice as their new staff OB/GYN and after much debate and an inspirational speech from Addison, they decide she can stay.

Addison now begins her new life in LA, and tries to adjust to a calmer life than that of the surgical floor, without husbands, mistresses and self confessed 'dirty ex-mistresses', including working without an surgical team or an OR, pushing her well outside of her comfort zone.

Episodes
'''In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else Written By: Shonda Rhimes / Directed By: Mark Tinker / Original Air Date: September 26, 2007 '''In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor Written By: Mike Ostrowski / Directed By: Tony Goldwyn / Original Air Date: October 3, 2007 '''In Which Addison Finds the Magic Written By: Shonda Rhimes and Marti Noxon / Directed By: Mark Tinker / Original Air Date: October 10, 2007 '''In Which Addison Has a Very Casual Get Together Written By: Andrea Newman / Directed By: Arvin Brown / Original Air Date: October 17, 2007 '''In Which Addison Finds a Showerhead Written By: Shonda Rhimes & Marti Noxon / Directed By: Julie Ann Robinson / Original Air Date: October 24, 2007 '''In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole Written By: Jenna Bans / Directed By: David Solomon / Original Air Date: October 31, 2007 '''In Which Sam Gets Taken For a Ride Written By: Emily Halpern / Directed By: Jeff Melman / Original Air Date: November 14, 2007 '''In Which Cooper Finds a Port In His Storm Written By: Lauren Schmidt / Directed By: Mark Tinker / Original Air Date: November 21, 2007 '''In Which Dell Finds His Fight Written By: Ayanna Floyd / Directed By: Wendey Stanzler / Original Air Date: December 5, 2007