Arrest and Trial

Episode 1

Call It a Lifetime

Sun, Sep 15, 1963 75 mins

Steve Jared, a down on his luck truck driver, accidentally kills a motorcycle cop while he himself is chasing thugs who boosted his goods. After a tough pursuit in the Utah desert, Sgt Anderson is convinced there's more to the story than just a straight cop killing and he persuades lawyer pal Egan to try to save Jarrett from the gas chamber.

Episode 2

Isn't It a Lovely View?

Sun, Sep 22, 1963 75 mins

A crippled woman who witnessed a murder refuses to admit it, and the authorities begin to suspect that her husband may have committed the crime because he was being blackmailed.

Episode 3

Tears from a Silver Dipper

Sun, Sep 29, 1963 75 mins

A young Hispanic soldier is nabbed stealing drugs from an army base. He soon becomes a suspect in a murder, but racial prejudice appears to be affecting the outcome of his court-martial.

Episode 4

A Shield Is for Hiding Behind

Sun, Oct 6, 1963 75 mins

Young, clean-cut Deke Palmer appears to most people as a polite, well-mannered teenage boy, but he's really a punk who's a member of a gang of burglars and also the vicious killer of a patrolman. When Anderson pursues him, Deke shoots at him, Anderson fires back and kills him. Palmer's influential father demands that the cop be brought before a trial board. Anderson asks Egan to represent him.

Episode 5

My Name Is Martin Burnham

Sun, Oct 13, 1963 75 mins

An engineer intent on committing suicide accidentally kills a co-worker while trying to jump from a high-rise site, and is charged with murder. At his trial he offers no defense, hoping that he will get the death penalty.

Episode 6

A Flame in the Dark

Sun, Oct 20, 1963 75 mins

Anderson forms an attachment with a young boy who may have shot and killed his mother by accident, but the boy's aggressive, bellicose father has a strong reaction to what he consider's the detective's "interference".

Episode 7

Whose Little Girl Are You?

Sun, Oct 27, 1963 74 mins

A tool-and-die craftsman is devastated by the loss of his dexterity and coordination, especially after he learns that his company is going to let him go. He winds up killing the obnoxious and abusive machinist who is going to replace him.

Episode 8

The Witnesses

Sun, Nov 3, 1963 73 mins

A schoolteacher witnesses a murder, and when the wrong man is arrested for the crime, she wrestles with her conscience about coming forward--she was with a married man at the time, and if that became known, it could ruin her reputation and result in her losing her job.

Episode 9

Inquest Into a Bleeding Heart

Sun, Nov 10, 1963 75 mins

A little girl is run over and seriously injured by a motorcycle. A disgraced doctor who has had his medical license revoked rushes over and performs emergency surgery on her to try to save her life, but she dies anyway. Soon the doctor finds himself charged with practicing medicine without a license.

Episode 10

The Quality of Justice

Sun, Nov 17, 1963 75 mins

A little girl is smothered to death, and it's discovered that she was killed by a surprised burglar. The man arrested for the crime turns out to be the mentally challenged neighbor of the girl. The question is, is the young man capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong.

Episode 11

We May Be Better Strangers

Sun, Dec 1, 1963 75 mins

A young hoodlum beats two men nearly to death and also engages in some unusual acts of vandalism. Egan agrees to defend the boy on the charges, but he soon begins to wonder about the boy's strange obsession with a prominent Superior court judge.

Episode 12

Journey into Darkness

Sun, Dec 8, 1963 75 mins

A dockworker who fancies himself as an author kills the man who repossessed his typewriter, then befriends investigating detective Anderson in an odd bid to divert suspicion away from him.

Episode 13

Some Weeks Are All Mondays

Sun, Dec 15, 1963 75 mins

A famous playwright is murdered, and Egan defends the man's wife who's charged with the crime, but he begins to suspect the woman's daughter of being the real killer.

Episode 14

Run, Little Man, Run

Sun, Dec 22, 1963 73 mins

During a stick-up at a church bazaar, a woman with a heart condition is literally scared to death. An investigation leads the police to a small-time hood, who is arrested after he is identified by the dead woman's husband, who was there. However, the more scrutiny the case comes under, the more suspicions are raised that things aren't quite as open-and-shut as they seem.

Episode 15

Funny Man with a Monkey

Sun, Jan 5, 1964 74 mins

A heroin-addicted nightclub comic is arrested on a drug-related homicide, and at his trial he intends to challenge the state's anti-narcotic laws.

Episode 16

Signals of an Ancient Flame

Sun, Jan 12, 1964 75 mins

A building contractor admits that he cheated on his invalid wife, but that he didn't fatally poison her. Egan agrees to defend him and soon begins to suspect the couple's daughter of the murder.

Episode 17

Onward and Upward

Sun, Jan 19, 1964 75 mins

Corporate lackey Larry Tavener agrees to dispose of the body of his boss' s mistress after she fatally overdoses at a wild party, but when he winds up arrested for murder, he calls on Egan to defend him.

Episode 18

An Echo of Conscience

Sun, Jan 26, 1964 73 mins

Anderson is one of the few people who's willing to stand up for his drunken ex-partner, now a private detective, but he soon discovers that the man is involved in the accidental death of a blackmail.

Episode 19

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

Sun, Feb 2, 1964 75 mins

A young woman who helped out lost souls is found dead in her apartment, which had also been ransacked. Her brother, a minister, asks Egan to defend the girl accused of the murder.

Episode 20

People in Glass Houses

Sun, Feb 9, 1964 75 mins

Two robbery suspects bolt from the courthouse before their trial and wind up robbing a supermarket and taking a pregnant woman hostage. Kirby also winds up becoming a hostage.

Episode 21

The Best There Is

Sun, Feb 16, 1964 75 mins

An overworked Egan asks his mentor to take over the defense of a poor Hispanic man charged with robbery and murder, but his mentor's senility has a serious impact on the man's defense.

Episode 22

A Roll of the Dice

Sun, Feb 23, 1964 75 mins

A young gambling addict embezzles money from his job to finance a junket to Las Vegas.

Episode 23

The Black Flower

Sun, Mar 1, 1964 75 mins

A man is paroled from a long prison sentence for 2nd degree murder, from which the man served out 7 years. But the paroled man cannot easily adjust to being thrown back out on the streets, even though he has a beautiful loving wife.

Episode 24

A Circle of Strangers

Sun, Mar 8, 1964 75 mins

A pair of young lovers plot to run away to avoid scorn from their feuding families, but wind up becoming fugitives from justice when they're involved in a murder.

Episode 25

Modus Operandi

Sun, Mar 15, 1964 75 mins

Anderson believes that a series of strong-arm robberies are the work of one man, whose M.O. is to use a vicious dog to threaten his victims, but the man's wife insists that he's innocent.

Episode 26

Tigers Are for Jungles

Sun, Mar 22, 1964 75 mins

An old-school mobster wants to retire, but a young buck that he was grooming for a high mob position decides to take him out instead, leading to a shoot-out where an innocent girl is killed.

Episode 27

The Revenge of the Worm

Sun, Mar 29, 1964 74 mins

A truck driver finds himself deep in debt after he's forced to borrow money from a loan shark. When he can't pay the outrageous interest, the hood threatens to kill his family if he doesn't come up with the money. Enraged at the threat to his family's life, the trucker decides to take matters into his own hands.

Episode 28

He Ran for His Life

Sun, Apr 5, 1964 75 mins

A desperate man kidnaps his son from his former wife and her new husband. Egan agrees to defend him and begins to suspect that the stepfather has issues with the boy.

Episode 29

Those Which Love Has Made

Sun, Apr 12, 1964 75 mins

Episode 30

Birds of a Feather

Sun, Apr 19, 1964 74 mins

John Egan defends wealthy Kit Patterson, who with the aid of her boyfriend, stole some of her own land deeds in order to con a rich Texan into buying the remaining worthless deeds.