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Judd for the Defense Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1967 - 1968

Episode 1

Tempest in a Texas Town

Fri, Sep 8, 196760 mins

In the opening episode, Judd defends a wild, rebellious young man who has exerted a Pied Piper-like influence over a small town's teenagers. The young man is accused of killing two teenage girls although no bodies have been found and they may have run away.

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Episode 2

The Deep End

Fri, Sep 15, 196760 mins

Judd defends a skipper charged with the murder of four people aboard his boat. The only witness is a little girl who was also wounded during the slaughter.

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Episode 3

The Other Face of the Law

Fri, Sep 22, 196760 mins

Judd defends an ex-cop who claims that he was framed for murder after he tried to expose corruption within the department.

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Episode 4

A Civil Case of Murder

Fri, Sep 29, 196760 mins

A football player asks Judd to represent him in fighting his late wife's parents for custody of his son. But soon the case takes on a more serious turn, as the grandparents accuse him of killing their daughter.

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Episode 5

Shadow of a Killer

Fri, Oct 6, 196760 mins

Judd takes the case of a pregnant young woman who was found outside the scene of a burglary and charged with it. She is actually covering for her boyfriend who committed the crime, but after her conviction and giving birth, she decides to name him as the perpetrator so her baby won't be given away for adoption. But Judd learns that the man is on death row for an earlier killing and scheduled to be executed in a few days.

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Episode 6

Conspiracy

Fri, Oct 13, 196760 mins

Judd represents architect Paul Christopher in his suit against a former police chief turned special investigator, who is ruthlessly harassing Christopher in his attempt to prove him guilty of conspiracy in the assassination of a mayor. Judd and Ben also get a taste of the investigator's wrath, which they suspect has a personal motive.

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Episode 7

Confessional

Fri, Oct 20, 196760 mins

The son of an oil tycoon confesses to the murder of a young woman a year and a half earlier. But Judd doesn't believe his confession, and decides to defend him. But why is the young man making the false confession?

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Episode 8

Death from a Flower Girl

Fri, Nov 3, 196760 mins

Judd's client is a young girl who shot her married lover, but claims she mistook him for a burglar. He finds he must defend her "New Morality" life style as well as the murder charge.

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Episode 9

Citizen Ritter

Fri, Nov 10, 196760 mins

Ben's client is charged with killing the abortionist who illegally operated on his daughter and almost killed her. Judd believes the man has a violent streak. Ben uncovers many dark secrets when the case goes to trial.

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Episode 10

The Money Farm

Fri, Nov 17, 196760 mins

An oil company executive is charged with the murder of a man who had been blackmailing him. The defendant says the victim stumbled during a fight and fell off a platform accidentally, but two witnesses insist that he was pushed.

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Episode 11

To Kill a Madman

Fri, Nov 24, 196760 mins

An old classmate of Ben's is accused of the brutal and senseless murder of three young women in a park. Though it is obvious to both Judd and Ben that the man needs psychiatric help, he still insists he is completely innocent of the murders---and so does a psychic friend of his.

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Episode 12

Commitment

Fri, Dec 1, 196760 mins

An escaped convict confronts Judd in a parking lot and demands that he take his case to prove him innocent of the murder he was convicted of six years earlier. Judd motions for a new trial, on the grounds that the man's previous attorney did not provide an adequate defense.

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Episode 13

To Love and Stand Mute

Fri, Dec 8, 196760 mins

Judd and Ben take the case of a deaf-mute couple who want to adopt the foster child they've been taking care of. A complication develops when the child's natural mother shows up and decides to rescind her original decision to give up her baby.

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Episode 14

The Living Victim

Fri, Dec 15, 196760 mins

Judd is representing mobster Walter Whittaker, who is targeted by prosecutor Joseph Flexner. A bomb killed Flexner's wife and despite a lack of evidence he indicts Whittaker for the murder. Judd must battle the stacked odds.

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Episode 15

Firebrand

Fri, Dec 22, 196760 mins

Judd visits his client, labor leader Gabriel Aguila, in jail for staging an illegal strike. But in a failed escape attempt a police officer is killed and Judd is taken hostage as leverage.

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Episode 16

Everyone Loved Harlan But His Wife

Fri, Dec 29, 196760 mins

Judd defends a woman who admits to killing her invalid husband. She claims she was in fear for her life because of his increasingly violent and erratic behavior, but no one else in her town claims to have seen that side of him.

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Episode 17

Fall of a Skylark: The Trial - Part 1

Fri, Jan 5, 196860 mins

Judd defends the playboy son of a millionaire hotel owner who has been charged with the murder of the hotel's bookmaker, whom he was in debt to.

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Episode 18

Fall of a Skylark: The Appeal - Part 2

Fri, Jan 12, 196860 mins

After his client Bruzzy Burke is convicted, Judd continues to work to try to appeal the conviction, even though he is fired by Bruzzy's millionaire father. His first step is to discredit the witness whose surprise testimony led to the conviction, and to use new witnesses---but one of them winds up dead.

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Episode 19

No Law Against Murder

Fri, Jan 19, 196860 mins

As a member of a national committee of attorneys assigned to civil rights cases, Judd must defend a client he'd prefer not to: a Southern sheriff charged with violating the civil rights of a harassed Northern writer who was found dead shortly after the sheriff was seen taking him away in his car.

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Episode 20

The Grand Old Man

Fri, Jan 26, 196860 mins

Ben defends the son of a grocer who was murdered by the mob. The young man is accused of kidnapping the retired gangster father of the man who is believed to have ordered the killing.

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Episode 21

What You Can Do with Money

Fri, Feb 2, 196860 mins

Judd is called to the home of an assistant to a high-powered millionaire industrialist, where he is shown the body of a man in a boat. He finds that he has a hard time getting to the truth about how the man died, as the industrialist is telling everyone what to say and not say. Eventually the assistant confesses to killing the man, claiming the victim attacked his wife. But Judd feels people are still not telling him the full truth.

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Episode 22

Kingdom of the Blind

Fri, Feb 9, 196860 mins

A onetime film star, hoping for a comeback, asks Judd to represent a scriptwriter to help him get out of a restrictive contract with a Hollywood producer. But the contract is more ironclad than was first realized, and soon that becomes a moot point, as the producer is murdered and the writer is charged with the crime.

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Episode 23

The Devil's Surrogate

Fri, Feb 23, 196860 mins

A headstrong, controversial priest answers a desperate call from one of his students, a young woman who has been obviously smitten with him. She tells him she is going to kill herself unless he comes to her apartment. The priest comes, only to find himself in a situation in which the girl's boyfriend is accidentally shot and killed. Judd defends the priest, but the case is complicated by the emotionally unstable girl's refusal to cooperate and tell the truth.

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Episode 24

Square House

Fri, Mar 1, 196860 mins

A parolee could be sent back to prison for associating with a rehabilitation center for former convicts, as this violates the terms of his parole. Judd defends him, but he soon has worse problems: he is charged with killing an old associate during a robbery attempt.

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Episode 25

The Worst of Both Worlds

Fri, Mar 15, 196860 mins

In Juvenile Court, without benefit of counsel, 17-year-old Kenny Carter, Jr. is consigned to the county Juvenile Home for three years based on the charge of stealing and wrecking a car, for which he vaguely denies guilt. Judd steps in to uphold Carter's full rights under due process, but Carter is reluctant to cooperate, as he is concealing a terrible secret.

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Episode 26

You Remember Joe Maddox

Fri, Mar 22, 196860 mins

Joe Maddox is desperate to find a decent job after being eased out of the editor's position he held for years. But he makes the mistake of confronting the former employer whom he blames for the loss of his job, resulting in the man's death and Maddox being charged with his murder.

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