The Trials of O'Brien
A flamboyant, Shakespeare-quoting, New York City defense attorney always seems to get into trouble.
- 1965-1966
- 1 season
- CBS
- Drama
A flamboyant, Shakespeare-quoting, New York City defense attorney always seems to get into trouble.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1965 - 1966
Episode 1
Over Defence Is Out
Sat, Sep 18, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien babysits the daughter of a client recently released from prison while he goes to retrieve his long-hidden loot. However, instead of a fortune, the client re-emerges with a murder charge.
Episode 2
Bargain Day on the Street of Regret
Sat, Sep 25, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien wins a boxer in a craps game but is less than thrilled when he finds out the young man is a rotten fighter. Then O'Brien's luck completely runs out after his boxer is arrested for murdering a rival.
Episode 3
Notes on a Spanish Prisoner
Sat, Oct 2, 1965 60 mins
No one believes Oliver Maxwell, an amiable but convicted confidence trickster, when he uses a familiar swindle to raise money for the release of a prisoner in a foreign jail. But this time the story is true - or is it?
Episode 4
Never Bet on Anything That Talks
Sat, Oct 9, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien's English bookie is charged with the death of an accountant, but the person who can clear him is nowhere to be found.
Episode 5
What Can Go Wrong
Sat, Oct 16, 1965 60 mins
After discovering that a man is dating his ex-wife, O'Brien delightedly sets him up as a "pigeon" in order to trap a killer.
Episode 6
Goodbye and Keep Cool
Sat, Oct 23, 1965 60 mins
A woman is accused of murdering her husband and retains O'Brien to defend her.
Episode 7
A Gaggle of Girls
Sat, Oct 30, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien acts as a middleman between a Presbyterian youth center and a strip bar next door both of whom want the other gone. Then a murder complicates the talks.
Episode 8
The Trouble with Archie
Sat, Nov 6, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien investigates the death of a partner in the Seventh Avenue Dress House where his ex-wife works.
Episode 9
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Sat, Nov 13, 1965 60 mins
A "heist artist" who is accused of fatally stabbing a dealer of rare violins is defended by O'Brien.
Episode 10
Charlie's Got All the Luck
Sat, Nov 20, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien becomes tangled up with a dangerous bookie and a dysfunctional family after a young man claims O'Brien is fixing horse races.
Episode 11
Picture Me a Murder
Sat, Nov 27, 1965 60 mins
Glen Daley Claude Akins arrives from Oklahoma at Port Authority Terminal in New York City. He meets film maker Nick Staphos Alan Alda and agrees to have his life filmed for a week.
Episode 12
Dead End on Flugel Street
Fri, Dec 3, 1965 60 mins
A burlesque comedian is involved in murder when his straight man is killed after making advances on the comedian's wife.
Episode 13
No Justice for the Judge
Fri, Dec 10, 1965 30 mins
Is Judge Vincent becoming senile? He hires O'Brien to prove he isn't.
Episode 14
Leave It to Me
Fri, Dec 17, 1965 60 mins
O'Brien tries to have a will declared invalid before three greedy heirs kill each other in a house that's booby-trapped from cellar to attic.
Episode 15
Alarums and Excursions
Fri, Jan 7, 1966 60 mins
A foster father, who is content to keep collecting welfare checks, hires O'Brien to keep seven children with him after an adoption judge takes the youths away from him.
Episode 16
The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole
Fri, Jan 14, 1966 60 mins
O'Brien charges that an assistant district attorney failed to prosecute a broker in the death of an accountant.
Episode 17
A Horse Called Destiny
Fri, Jan 21, 1966 60 mins
O'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose death he has predicted.
Episode 18
The Blue Steel Suite
Fri, Jan 28, 1966 60 mins
Held as a hostage in a jailbreak, O'Brien is asked to take a prisoner's complaint to the public.
Episode 19
The Partridge Papers
Fri, Feb 4, 1966 60 mins
O'Brien suffers a broken leg in a hit-and-run accident. Writer James Partridge, who was with him at the time of the accident, thinks he was the target because of his work for British Intelligence.
Episode 20
The Greatest Game: Part 1
Fri, Mar 4, 1966 60 mins
O'Brien is blackmailed into helping the Macedonian government negotiate the return of a stolen emblem but which of the thieves claiming they have it is real?
Episode 21
The Greatest Game: Part 2
Fri, Mar 11, 1966
As the thieves start getting killed off one by one, O'Brien becomes the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Mrs O'Brien has a cruise booked and is not going to miss it with her husband or without him.
Episode 22
The Only Game in Town
Fri, Mar 18, 1966 60 mins
Taking the bench as an interim judge, O'Brien deals with the case of a seaman accused of murdering a co-worker with a longshoreman's hook. Gene Hackman plays the prosecutor in the case.