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The Trials of O'Brien Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

22 Episodes 1965 - 1966

Episode 1

Over Defence Is Out

Sat, Sep 18, 196560 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.

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Episode 2

Bargain Day on the Street of Regret

Sat, Sep 25, 196560 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.

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Episode 3

Notes on a Spanish Prisoner

Sat, Oct 2, 196560 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?

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Episode 4

Never Bet on Anything That Talks

Sat, Oct 9, 196560 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.

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Episode 5

What Can Go Wrong

Sat, Oct 16, 196560 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.

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Episode 6

Goodbye and Keep Cool

Sat, Oct 23, 196560 mins

A woman is accused of murdering her husband and retains O'Brien to defend her.

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Episode 7

A Gaggle of Girls

Sat, Oct 30, 196560 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.

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Episode 8

The Trouble with Archie

Sat, Nov 6, 196560 mins

O'Brien investigates the death of a partner in the Seventh Avenue Dress House where his ex-wife works.

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Episode 9

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

Sat, Nov 13, 196560 mins

A "heist artist" who is accused of fatally stabbing a dealer of rare violins is defended by O'Brien.

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Episode 10

Charlie's Got All the Luck

Sat, Nov 20, 196560 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.

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Episode 11

Picture Me a Murder

Sat, Nov 27, 196560 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.

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Episode 12

Dead End on Flugel Street

Fri, Dec 3, 196560 mins

A burlesque comedian is involved in murder when his straight man is killed after making advances on the comedian's wife.

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Episode 13

No Justice for the Judge

Fri, Dec 10, 196530 mins

Is Judge Vincent becoming senile? He hires O'Brien to prove he isn't.

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Episode 14

Leave It to Me

Fri, Dec 17, 196560 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.

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Episode 15

Alarums and Excursions

Fri, Jan 7, 196660 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.

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Episode 16

The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole

Fri, Jan 14, 196660 mins

O'Brien charges that an assistant district attorney failed to prosecute a broker in the death of an accountant.

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Episode 17

A Horse Called Destiny

Fri, Jan 21, 196660 mins

O'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose death he has predicted.

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Episode 18

The Blue Steel Suite

Fri, Jan 28, 196660 mins

Held as a hostage in a jailbreak, O'Brien is asked to take a prisoner's complaint to the public.

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Episode 19

The Partridge Papers

Fri, Feb 4, 196660 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.

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Episode 20

The Greatest Game: Part 1

Fri, Mar 4, 196660 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?

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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.

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Episode 22

The Only Game in Town

Fri, Mar 18, 196660 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.

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