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Michael J. Fox is heading back to the small screen.
The actor, who bowed out of Spin City in 2000 to focus on his family and his battle with Parkinson's disease and has only made a handful of TV appearances since, will turn up later this season on ABC's Boston Legal.
He has already started shooting his three-episode arc on the dark-humored David. E. Kelley series about the unconventional legal firm Crane, Pool and Schmidt.
Fox's character is Daniel Post, described in the official press release as "a charismatic and dynamic CEO with an affection for gallows humor who manages to charm everyone he meets." He also has terminal lung cancer.
Post apparently rigged a promising anti-cancer drug study to make sure he was not among those given a placebo. The discovery of this leads another participant to sue Post and the drug company. While being represented by the Boston lawyers, Post becomes "personally involved" with one of the attorneys, Denise Bauer (Julie Bowen).
"We couldn't be more excited," Kelley says of Fox. "His comedic and dramatic strengths make him a natural for this series."
Fox, now 44, has been one of Hollywood's most popular and successful stars since his early years as lovable, but ambitious Alex Keaton on the 1980s hit sitcom Family Ties and his subsequent roles as time traveler Marty McFly in the Back to the Future franchise and as the voice of the titular rodent in the Stuart Little trilogy. He revealed his Parkinson's diagnosis in 1998, after suffering symptoms for many years.
Since exiting Spin City, Fox has devoted most of his time to his family and the fight to help find a cure for his debilitating illness. The Canadian-born actor wrote an autobiography, Lucky Man, and was said to be developing a sitcom about a hockey player forced into early retirement. He has only occasionally guested on series--in 2001, he made a few return appearances as Mike Flaherty on Spin City, before it was canceled, and had a two-part drop-in last year as a surgeon suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder on NBC's Scrubs.
Now its second season, Boston Legal has won two Emmys apiece for its stars William Shatner, as outrageous Denny Crane, and James Spader, as the equally ethically challenged Alan Shore, both characters that originated on Kelley's more serious Emmy-winning legal drama The Practice.
Fox's Boston Legal episodes are scheduled to air in December and early January in the series' new Tuesday, 10 p.m. ET/PT time slot.
He becomes the second major TV star to appear on the show this season. Heather Locklear, who was Fox's costar on Spin City, and starred opposite Shatner in his 1980s crime series T.J. Hooker, guest-starred at the start of this season, playing a glamorous enigmatic woman who may or may not have killed her elderly husband.
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